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Hello and welcome back to the Spring term at
Carr Mill Primary and C8AW.
PE: P.E. sessions will be taught on Tuesday and Thursday each week.
Thursday will be an outdoor lesson which will require an outdoor PE kit. Please ensure that the children have the correct PE kit in school (black jogging bottoms, white T-shirt, sweatshirt and trainers).
Homework: This is sent home on a topic overview, which will be for a
number of weeks to match the topic the children are studying, each week the children should choose one activity to complete . In addition to this, spelling practice should be done weekly: focus spelling rules and Y5/6 words. These are listed on the spelling map which is stuck into
homework books. We will also send home some basic arithmetic to complete each week.
Reading diaries: These will be checked every Monday morning to ensure that the children have read a minimum of 4 times. The children can
record what they have read, and then write 2 sentences about this. All entries will need to be signed by an adult.
Reminders: Please ensure that your child brings a labelled water bottle to school every day.
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Useful Links
Latest from Class 8
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?
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.
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.
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
St Helens Youth Open Art Competition 2019
Date: 07/05/2019
Five Carr Mill Pupil’s artwork was selected to be exhibited in the St Helens Youth Open Art Competition at The World of Glass this year.
A special congratulations to Cameron in Class 1 who won the KS1 category with his model of The Titanic!
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.
Year 5/6 Spring homework 2
Date: 15/03/2019
Spring Newsletter
Date: 29/01/2019
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!
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.
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!
Date: 02/05/2018
In Class 8 over the Summer term we will focusing on the following learning challenges:
Were the Vikings vicious or valiant? (History)
How does the heart really work? (Science– Animals including humans)
Programming, control and instructions (Computing)
Athletics and hockey (P.E.)
In maths we will be focusing on the following areas:
Numbers including calculations-use rounding to check answers to calculations. Use estimation to check answers with an appropriate degree of accuracy.
Geometry-angles: along a straight line, around a point, different types of angle, calculating missing angles.
Geometry-revision of 2D and 3D shape.
Fractions, decimals and percentages-fractions of amounts, percentage problems, decimals – money problems.
Measures– problem solving project involving area, perimeter and volume.
Statistics– interpret information from a range of specialist tables and charts.
In English we are focusing on these texts:
- How Dogs Really Work by Alan Snow
- King Kong by Anthony Browne
- Erik the Viking by Terry Jones
- Holes by Louis Sachar
We will be writing an explanation text based on How Dogs Really Work, a short story and a newspaper report based on Goldilocks.
Key information and dates |
| Aspirations Week begins: 30.04.18. Celebration assembly 04.5.18 |
| May Day 07.05.18: school closed |
| KS2 SATs Week 14.05.18 (Monday-Thursday tests) |
| Y5 Tests: 18.05.18 and wk beginning 21.05.18 |
| Teacher Training Days 25.05.18 & 04.06.18: school closed |
| Health and Fitness Week begins: 18.06.18. Celebration assembly 22.6.18 |
| Sports Day: 20.06.18 |
| Cowley High Y5 Taster Afternoon: 19.06.18 (1-3pm) |
| Junior Chef Days: 25.06.18 & 26.06.18 |
| Carr Mill 60th Birthday Celebration Week: 02.07.18 |
| Y6 Residential Trip to Hinning House: 18.07.18-20.07.18 |
| Y6 Leaver’s Production: 23.07.18 @ 1:30pm & 24.07.18 @ 9:30am |
| End of Year Awards Assembly: 25.07.18 |
How did the ancient Egyptians make mummies?
