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Hello and welcome back to the Spring at Carr Mill Primary School. Over the last week the children and I have been busy getting to know each other and the other staff who support our learning; Mr Gardner.
Homework and reading expectations
Every week, children should read at home at least 4 times and have this recorded in their reading records (one of these sessions should be Reading Plus). Reading records will be checked on a Wednesday. The children should record what they have read, and then write 2 sentences about this. All entries will need to be signed by an adult.
Homework is given out at the beginning of each new learning challenge. A topic sheet with several homework activities will be stuck in the home learning journal.
Each week the children can choose one activity they prefer to do in their journal and hand this in as normal. There will also be a spelling sheet sent home; this indicates which spellings the children will be focusing on each week. For Maths we are asking the children to go onto TT Rockstars. The expectation is 10 minutes per week on the games.
Key information
PE sessions for Class 7 are Monday afternoon (outdoor) and Thursday afternoon (swimming). Please ensure that the children have the correct PE kit in school (for outdoor PE, children will need plain jogging bottoms, a plain jumper and trainers).
Thank you for your continued support, Miss Lenton.
Latest News from Class 7EL – Year 5/6
Y5/6 Home Learning 24.4.20
Date: 24/04/2020
Maths
Today we will be looking at line graphs. Please log onto SeeSaw to see the 4 questions that have been set.
Y5/6 Home Learning 23.4.20
Date: 23/04/2020
Maths
Continuing from yesterday, you will be constructing tally charts and bar charts. Your work is set on SeeSaw for you to view.
Y5/6 Home Learning 22.4.20
Date: 22/04/2020
Please click on the preview button to access files to download.
Maths
We are now moving on to looking at graphs. Please complete the work on SeeSaw for questions 1 and 3 and in your Home Learning books for question 2.
Graphs 22.4.20
Writing
Look at Seesaw for your writing activity for the next 3 days – write your own journal entries.
Reading
Look at Seesaw for instructions of today’s task.
Year 5/6 Home Learning 21.4.20
Date: 21/04/2020
Please click the preview button in order to download files.
Maths
Carrying on with negative numbers, can you answer the questions from the sheet below, choosing either Set A to complete or Set B. Then write a negative number problem for me to solve and send it on SeeSaw (make sure you know the answer!!)
Negative Numbers Worksheet 21.4.20
Writing/ grammar
Complete the work set on contractions on SeeSaw. There is a video there to help if you get stuck.
Reading
Read over the text again from yesterday. ‘Who Let the Gods Out’ and answer the questions on SeeSaw.
#lockdownlife Project Work
This activity is your project work for this week. Do as many as you can and upload your evidence on Seesaw. This can be done as a photo, video or writing. Be as creative as you can! Your work needs to be uploaded to Seesaw no later than Thursday of this week because we are starting out VIP awards again each week. VIP award will be awarded this week to one pupil from each class who has completed the best pieces of project work about life in ‘lockdown’. Winners will be announced on here and on our school Facebook page. Have fun!!
Year 5/6 Home Learning 20.4.20
Date: 20/04/2020
Please click the ‘Preview’ button in order to download the files below.
Maths
Negative numbers work sheet. Please show us your completed work by sending an image of it or an explanation about how easy/ difficult you found negative numbers on SeeSaw. Additional instructions and help can be found on SeeSaw under activities.
Maths 20.4.20
Maths 20.4.20
Reading
Who Let the Gods Out. By Maz Evans
Read chapter 1 – pdf link below
Who-let-the-Gods-Out-Extract-Chapter-1
Go on SeeSaw and answer the questions set for you.
Spelling Practice
See activity on Seesaw for this week’s spellings and guidance.
Spanish
Date: 07/04/2020
Señorita Isabelle has sent a letter containing some links if you would like to carry out some Spanish home learning tasks during the Easter holidays. this can be accessed using the link below. Enjoy!
Battle of the Bands
Date: 07/04/2020
A battle of classes has been set on TTRockstars. Login and play as much as possible to be the winning class! The battle is on!
Date: 05/04/2020
Date: 05/04/2020
Easter Egg Competition.
Date: 04/04/2020
We are looking forward to seeing your creations.
Create a time capsule!
Date: 03/04/2020
A parent has sent in this today! What a great idea for a time capsule! You can print off and we would love for you to send us your pictures of you doing it. Click the link below.
Home Learning Y5/6 Friday 3rd April 2020
Date: 03/04/2020
Y6 Maths: Section Five. Area, Perimeters and areas.
Y6 Reading: Write a book review for your favourite book.
Y6 Writing: Section Six. Spelling tricky words.
Y5 Maths: Write a maths quiz for someone at home. Make sure you know the answers too!
Y5 Reading: Write a book review for your favourite book.
Y5 Writing: Kids Classroom Secrets: Year 5 Recognising and Using the Future Perfect Form
Optional Learning Challenge task: What is the Dream sculpture in St Helens? Why is it significant?
Home Learning Y5/6 Thursday 2nd April 2020
Date: 02/04/2020
Y6 Maths: Section Five. Units and conversions, time and money.
Y6 Reading: 1 Reading Plus lesson.
Y6 Writing: Section Six. Homophones, silent and unstressed letters.
Y5 Maths: Twinkl Go! SH6178 (lesson 2.4.20)
Y5 Reading: Twinkl Go! SH6178
Y5 Writing: Kids Classroom Secrets: Year 5 Recognising and Using Past Perfect Form
Optional Learning Challenge task: Draw a map of the local area and mark on your way to school.
Y5/6 World Autism Awareness Day
Date: 01/04/2020
As part of Carr Mill celebrating World Autism Awareness Day, we would like you to watch the 2 videos through the links below then design a poster to show how we can be autism aware every day. Make your poster as bright as possible!
Home Learning Y5/6 Wednesday 1st April 2020
Date: 01/04/2020
Y6 Maths: Section Four. Number sequences.
Y6 Reading: Read a chapter of a book you enjoy and summarise it.
Y6 Writing: Section Five. Word families, synonyms and antonyms.
Y5 Maths: Sequences (chose a level that will challenge you!) https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/42/sequences
Y5 Reading: Read a chapter of a book you enjoy and summarise it.
Y5 Writing: Kids Classroom Secrets: Year 5 Present Perfect Form
Optional Learning Challenge task: Find out 5 interesting facts about coal mining in St. Helens.
Home Learning Y5/6 Tuesday 31st March 2020
Date: 31/03/2020
Y6 Maths: Section Four. Ratio, proportion and unequal sharing, scaling.
Y6 Reading: 1 Reading Plus lesson.
Y6 Writing: Section Five. Prefixes, suffixes.
Y5 Maths: Diagnostic Questions – Millionaire – Time.
Y5 Reading: Reading Plus
Y5 Writing: Kids Classroom Secrets: Year 5 Past or Present
Optional Learning Challenge task: Find out 5 interesting facts about glass making in St. Helens.
Home Learning Y5/6 Monday 30th March 2020
Date: 30/03/2020
Y6 Maths: Section Four. Formulas and combinations, finding missing numbers.
Y6 Reading: Section One. Mixed Practice – Poem.
Y6 Writing: Section Four. Adding extra information, hyphens and bullet points.
Y5 Maths: Diagnostic Questions. Rounding to 10, 100, 1000.
Y5 Reading: Reading Plus
Y5 Writing: Kids Classroom Secrets: Year 5 Creating and Writing Concise Noun Phrases
Optional Learning Challenge task: Can you find out who Coaly and Paney are?
Home Learning Y5/6 Friday 27th March 2020
Date: 27/03/2020
Y6 Maths: Section Four. Ratio, proportion and unequal sharing, scaling.
Y6 Reading: Section One. Mixed Practise – Story.
Y6 Writing: Section Four. Colons, semi-colons and dashes.
Y5 Maths: Diagnostic Questions: Place Value Y5/6
Y5 Reading: Reading Plus
Y5 Writing: Kids Classroom Secrets: Year 5 Autumn Revision
Optional Learning Challenge task: Create a word bank of important words about the circulatory system.
Carol Vorderman Maths
Date: 26/03/2020
In more maths news, Carol Vorderman has made her Maths website free! It usually costs about £2 a month so it is definitely worth a try while it’s free! It is an on-line Maths School for ages 4-11 that offers maths lessons, games and more!
https://www.themathsfactor.com/
Happy Maths!
Stay safe, #TeamCarrMill
#MathsParty
Date: 26/03/2020
Good morning everyone! What better way to start off a Thursday than with a #MathsParty! Here’s how to access it via White Rose and how to play along. It all gets going at 10am which gives you plenty of time to have some breakfast and get those brains into gear! Good luck! #MathsParty #MathsEveryoneCanAtHome #AintNoPartyLikeAMathsParty #MissHamptonWillBeProud
Home Learning Y5/6 Thursday 26th March 2020
Date: 26/03/2020
Y6 Maths: Section Three. Fractions, decimals and percentages, mixed practice.
Y6 Reading: Section One. Mixed practice – non-fiction.
Y6 Writing: Section Four. Apostrophes, inverted commas.
Y5 Maths: Twinkl Go SH5890 (lesson 26.3.20)
Y5 Reading: Twinkl Go SH5890
Y5 Writing: Twinkl Go SH5890
Optional science task: Devise an exercise programme to keep us fit and healthy while indoors.
Learning From Home Y5/6 Wednesday 25th March 2020
Date: 25/03/2020
Y6 Maths: Section Three. Dividing fractions, equivalent fractions and decimals
Y6 Reading: Section One. Comparing.
Y6 Writing: Section Four. Punctuating sentence, commas.
Y5 Maths: Kids Classroom Secrets: Year 5 Multiplying and Dividing by 10, 100 or 1,000 Game
Y5 Reading: Reading Plus
Y5 Writing: Kids Classroom Secrets: Year 5 Creating and Writing Concise Noun Phrases
Optional science task: What can we do to keep our heart healthy?
Learning From Home Y5/6 Tuesday 24th March 2020
Date: 24/03/2020
Y6 Maths: Section Three. Multiplying fractions, adding and subtracting fractions.
Y6 Reading: Section One. Choice of language.
Y6 Writing: Section Three. Standard and non-standard English.
Y5 Maths: Kids Classroom Secrets: Year 5 Arithmetic Test Practice 1
Y5 Reading: Kids Classroom Secrets: Year 5 Non-Fiction Reading Comprehension The Circulatory System
Y5 Writing: Kids Classroom Secrets: Year 5 Creating and Writing Concise Noun Phrases
Optional science task: Can you find out how the heart and circulatory system works?
TT Rockstars
Date: 23/03/2020
Fantastic effort today by Natalie, Oliver, Jack K and Mckenzie for being one of the 480,000 children who played TT Rockstars today! I have sent you all a challenge – see if you can beat me!
Learning From Home Y5/6 Monday 23rd March 2020
Date: 23/03/2020
Y6 Maths: Section Three. Fractions, comparing fractions.
Y6 Reading: Section One. Structure.
Y6 Writing: Section Three. Tenses, formal and informal language.
Y5 Maths: Twinkl Go SH6438 (lesson 23.3.20)
Y5 Reading: Twinkl Go SH6438
Y5 Writing: Twinkl Go SH6438
Optional science task: Draw and label a diagram of the heart and lungs.
Daily maths lessons by I See Maths
Date: 20/03/2020
Starting Monday 23rd March, Gareth Metcalfe, a leading practitioner in primary mathematics education, will be posting daily lessons (Monday-Friday) to aid your child with their learning of mathematics whilst at home.
This is not compulsory, but may help those children and parents who are struggling for ideas, or need someone to talk them through the steps of more complex mathematics.
At 9am each morning, a video will be posted on his blog: http://www.iseemaths.com/home-lessons/
Please watch this video, where Gareth will introduce himself and you can find out about what these lessons will entail.
Year 5/6 Twinkl Go Test
Date: 18/03/2020
In preparation for any possible home learning, please try out this activity on TwinklGo (https://www.twinkl.co.uk/go)
PIN: EL1652
Please let us know if you experience any difficulties accessing this page! 🙂
Year 5/6 Spring Term 1 Homework
Date: 24/01/2020
Here is the current homework for Spring Term 1 for Year 5/6.
Class 7 Assembly
Date: 24/01/2020
An amazing well done to all of Class 7 for their performance on World War 1 today! You all did amazingly well, speaking with such confidence and intonation. You should all be incredibly proud of yourselves.
Our class assembly celebrated all the things that we have learnt about WW1 in geography (maps and changing borders), history (what happened during the war), English (reciting the Christmas Truce poem to music) and music (singing those fantastic traditional WW1 songs).
Year 5/6 Homework Autumn 2
Date: 08/11/2019
Here is the current homework for Autumn 2 term. Children must complete both sets of spellings and a piece of learning challenge homework. Don’t forget, reading should be completed 3 times a week and an additional session of ReadingPlus should also be done.
Class 7 go to Chester Zoo
Date: 28/10/2019
To celebrate all the work that we have done with Chester Zoo in our learning challenge “Can Carr Mill Save the Songbirds?”, the whole school took a trip to Chester Zoo. We took part in a workshop that told us all the dangers that the songbirds of Indonesia face and saw some of the songbirds that we’ve been learning about up close!
Harvest Flowers
Date: 28/10/2019
After our harvest assembly, the candidates who put themselves forward for Head Girl and Head Boy went and delivered flowers to the local residents of Carr Mill. These flowers had been kindly donated by the children, parents and carers of our school.
Y6 Leavers
Date: 24/07/2019
Shakespeare Festival 2019
Date: 25/03/2019
Here is some of the fabulous art work produced by our pupils during Shakespeare Festival 2019.
The children in Foundation Stage made fairy wands, fairy gardens and fairy layered pictures.
Key Stage 1 children created an amazing patchwork quilt inspired by Romeo and Juliet. Showcasing their textiles skills.
In Years 3 and 4 Julius Caesar was the inspiration. The pupils each designed and made a printing block. These prints were combined with a sculpture to represent the theme ‘Revenge’.
Years 5 and 6 were studying Hamlet and as well as some sketches to represent the story, they also created multi media images.
Each class were challenged to create an exploding book for their play to celebrate World Book Day.
Please have a look at the photos below.
Class 7 Hamlet Digital Literacy
Date: 22/03/2019
Class 7 have been looking at re-telling the story of Hamlet in different ways.
Year 5/6 Spring homework 2
Date: 15/03/2019
Y5/6 Homework
Date: 29/01/2019
Spring homework – up to and including February half term.
Y6 Residential
Date: 29/01/2019
Y6 had lots of fun ghyll scrambling, mountain climbing, kayaking, canoeing and orienteering during their week away in Coniston.
Christmas choir
Date: 19/12/2018
Carr Mill’s Christmas Choir Wow audiences!
Enterprise
Date: 30/11/2018
Congratulations to classes 7, 8 and 9 who came 2nd in the Enterprise competition to regenerate Goodison Park! A team of 8 children went to Goodison Park to present their ideas infront a panel of judges. All children were an absolute credit to school and we could not be more proud. As a result, the children will have a training session in the new year with coaches from Everton.
Year 5 Crucial Crew
Date: 30/11/2018
Remembrance Service Lowe House
Date: 14/11/2018
Classes 7, 8 and 9 went to Lowe House for a Remembrance Service, paying respect to the soldiers who have bravely fought for our country.
150 Years of St Helens Celebration
Date: 11/11/2018
St Helens is celebrating it’s 150th birthday this year. We have joined a group of St Helens schools to create an art gallery in the town centre celebrating our town.
Artist Dave Bixter worked with a group of children in school to produce some stunning collaborative art work.
The children learned new drawing and sketching techniques such as continuous line drawing and using a pin hole viewfinder to look very closely at what they are drawing.
The artwork is currently being displayed in St Helens town centre in the shop windows along Church Street and inside Parish Church. Please take the time to visit and have a look!
Well done to those children whose work is exhibited, the results of your work are outstanding!
Class 7 Assembly
Date: 02/11/2018
Class 7 – well done! You gave an amazing performance this week to show everyone what we have been learning about the Egyptians. I am so proud with how well you all did.
Thank you to everyone who came to watch and then take part in crafts and quizzes afterwards.
If you missed the performance or would like to watch it again, the link can be found underneath.
Date: 01/11/2018
Here is the homework for classes 7, 8 and 9 for Autumn 2 term. This will run from 2.11.18 until Christmas.
Maths – finding prime numbers
Date: 11/10/2018
Some children were set the task of finding out if a number was a prime number or not. They did this by seeing if they could make rectangles with that number of cubes. Here they are, hard at work.
Years 5 and 6 visit Clonter Opera Theatre
Date: 30/09/2018
The children from Years 5 and 6 had the opportunity to visit Clonter Opera Theatre in September for a musical theatre workshop.
They had an amazing time working on their skills with the actors and then watching a live performance.
Here are some of the things our pupils had to say about this experience:
•”We got to meet some real singers and dancers!”
•”It inspired me to work on instruments.”
•”My favourite part of the trip was the performance”
•”It inspired me to sing along with the songs I didn’t know”
•”It inspired me for the future to become a singer”
•”I enjoyed it because they had different pitched voices for singing”
•”I enjoyed the rainforest noises in groups”
Look at the photos below!
