St Joseph's

A superb effort from Katie and Eva over the half term to create these magnificent projects.

This week we have planted either broad beans, radish or lettuce green leaves to observe the changes in growth over the next seven weeks!

We enjoyed a day full of Jubilee activities and here are the winners of our competitions!

On Thursday 9th June, Miss Anderson (Assistant Head) from St Mary's came to visit our Year 6 children!

Unbelievably proud of the Year 6 children for their attitude towards their SAT week. Little superstars, each and every one of them! Well done!

We were extremely lucky on Thursday 9th June as we had a visitor from STEM in our class. The children were able to ask about many different aspects of Science from a very knowledgeable woman. It was a good experience!

To end SATs week, both Year 5 and 6 completed an art project exploring mixing different substances to create textures and effects. The art was linked to our Science with the theme of 'Living Things'. The kids were true artists!

• Y5-6 Autumn 1.docx
• Y5-6 Autumn 2.docx
• Y5-6 Spring 1.docx
• Y5-6 Spring 2.docx
• Y5-6 Summer 1.docx

Opportunity to revise some of those tricky skills or to refresh your memory!

• Year 6 Algebra Knowledge Organiser.pdf
• Year 6 Ratio Knowledge Organiser.pdf
• Year 6 Position and Direction Knowledge Organiser.pdf
• Year 6 Four Operations Knowledge Organiser.pdf
• Year 6 Perimeter Area and Volume Knowledge Organiser.pdf
• Year 6 Decimals Knowledge Organiser.pdf
• Year 6 Number and Place Value Knowledge Organiser.pdf
• Year 6 Properties of Shape Knowledge Organiser.pdf
• Year 6 Fractions Knowledge Organiser.pdf
• Year 6 Statistics Knowledge Organiser.pdf
• Year 6 Percentages Knowledge Organiser.pdf
• Year 6 Converting Units Knowledge Organiser.pdf

Useful cards to support securing the key definitions of our learning for SPAG this year.

• G5 - Punctuation Definitions.pdf
• SPAG term examples.pdf
• G3 - Combining Words, Phrases and Clauses Definitions.pdf
• G2 - Functions of Sentences Definitions.pdf
• G1 - Grammatical Terms and Word Classes Definitions.pdf
• G6 - Vocabulary Definitions.pdf
• G4 - Verb Forms, Tense and Consistency Definitions.pdf
• G7 - Standard English and Formality Definitions.pdf

Please find all the spellings covered by the end of Spring, Week 2. These spelling rules should be continuously recapped to embed learning. A resource document is also provided for different activities.

• Unit 1 - Silent b.docx
• Unit 3 - able.docx
• Unit 5 - ibly and ably.docx
• Unit 2 - ible.docx
• Unit 4 - Silent t.docx
• Unit 6 - ent.docx
• Unit 7 - ence.docx
• Unit 8 - ei.docx
• Unit 9 - ance, ant, ancy.docx
• Unit 11 - tious.docx
• Unit 10 - shus spelt cious.docx
• Unit 12 - cial or tial.docx
• Orange Word List.doc
• Spelling Resources.pdf

At the end of April, Year 5 had the opportunity to go on a residential with Miss Martin and Mr Oldfield. I am so proud to hear you were all incredibly well-behaved and enjoyed your experiences on the prayer residential. Take a look at some of the fun memories created...

We raised money for Good Shepherd by donating cookies and then purchasing them back!

Money raised for Good Shepherd Appeal!

A fantastic day spent sharing our 'Love for reading'. The children were amazing participants in the fancy dress, they all took a book home from school, we shared our favourite characters and even watched a production of 'The Hobbit'. Memories to cherish!

To begin the time of Lent, our class made a display to share our Lenten promises and Lenten prayers. In our RE lesson this half term, our topic is Reconciliation. We have started our topic through exploring positive and negative consequences, as a class we then created a virtues jigsaw to help lead us to positive consequences.

This half term, we are learning about our body parts. We have started our topic by learning and performing 'Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes' in FRENCH!

Miss Collier LOVES to showcase the class work! I am always super proud of everything the children achieve whether it is Maths, Reading, History, French, Science, Art, DT and so on... Just take a look at just SOME of the magnificent pieces.

In Spring 1, we explored our knowledge of sound and had lots of fun!

Incredibly proud of our Year 6 children for participating in all the activities available on residential. The children were a credit to our school. We hope the children made memories to last a lifetime. Here are MANY photos to show you just SOME of the fun!

Incredibly proud of our Year 6 children for participating in all the activities available on residential. The children were a credit to our school. We hope the children made memories to last a lifetime. Here are MANY photos to show you just SOME of the fun!

Incredibly proud of our Year 6 children for participating in all the activities available on residential. The children were a credit to our school. We hope the children made memories to last a lifetime. Here are MANY photos to show you just SOME of the fun!

Incredibly proud of our Year 6 children for participating in all the activities available on residential. The children were a credit to our school. We hope the children made memories to last a lifetime. Here are MANY photos to show you just SOME of the fun!

Incredibly proud of our Year 6 children for participating in all the activities available on residential. The children were a credit to our school. We hope the children made memories to last a lifetime. Here are MANY photos to show you just SOME of the fun!

Incredibly proud of our Year 6 children for participating in all the activities available on residential. The children were a credit to our school. We hope the children made memories to last a lifetime. Here are MANY photos to show you just SOME of the fun!

Incredibly proud of our Year 6 children for participating in all the activities available on residential. The children were a credit to our school. We hope the children made memories to last a lifetime. Here are MANY photos to show you just SOME of the fun!

• Ingleborough Hall.ppt

Absolutely amazing work from these 12 children. In Autumn term, we created mechanisms for a moving sail on a Viking Ship. The Christmas holiday challenge was to create the frame of the ship using different materials. Take a look at the outstanding job they've made!

Musical bumps, movie, dancing and more...!

Our DT this week involved making a mechanism. We used our measuring skills, our NEW sawing skills, our gluing skills and our mechanical skills! Our Christmas project challenge is to make the cam and follower mechanism into an actual VIKING boat. Competition Time!

Hanna was nominated for the school 'Virtue Cross'. Hanna is a role model of the virtue 'hope' because she always guides and supports others through their work, giving them 'hope' to achieve. Nominated by Isabelle.

Thank you to the parents that attended one of our two reading sessions. We understand it was a quick tour of our reading progression in year 5 and 6, however hopefully the documents below will support you further. If you did not manage to attend one of our meetings, please use the documents provided for guidance including the powerpoint from the evening. Any further questions, please do not hesitate to send an email. Thank you.

• Literacy VIPERS Reading Progression.docx
• Vipers Style Book Review Y5 and Y6.docx
• Literacy Parent Meeting.pptx
• Y5 and 6 Books.pdf

In St Margaret's class, we dressed up as one of someone we believe is an 'everyday' hero...

With great pleasure, I announce that our two school council members are Sammy and Zac!

During our science topic this half term, children developed their knowledge and understanding of properties and materials. In our topic, we explored our learning through a range of activities and experiments. This included a class experiment on solubility and a group experiment on conductivity.

Our Geography topic this half term involved understanding of the resources distribution. rnrnThe case studies included: recognising different settlements using Leeds; identifying economy developments using Salford Media City; exploring trade links using Liverpool Docks and understanding renewable and non-renewable sources using Fraisthorpe Wind Farm. Throughout the topic, we ensured we used our map skills to support our learning.

In Year 5 and 6, we have been using our body language and hand gestures to support our French conversations. Successfully, we have learnt to greet, introduce ourselves, ask how others are feeling, give instructions and learn about school in French.

Thanks to FOSJ, Upper Key Stage 2 had a fantastic day den building even if some were very wet at the end!

During Harvest Festival week, St Margaret class developed their knowledge and understanding of Fair Trade. Fair Trade is a worldwide organisation that aims to ensure equality for workers, better working conditions, fair pay, opportunities for training, partnerships between traders, protecting the environment and developing the independence of developing countries to live happier and healthier lives. St Margaret class explored the term ‘co-operative’. Becoming ‘co-operative’ has enabled farmers in developing countries to positively grow. Farmers have learnt to work together, have been provided with education and developed the importance of understanding methods to support their businesses independently, allowing them to live higher quality lives.

• Spelling Resources.pdf

Year 6 have explored their understanding of the Islamic religion this week.

Today, the children worked extremely hard in pairs to create a presentation to understand an aspect of 'culture' for our three countries we are studying at the moment in Geography: Italy, the UK and Brazil.

Today, Year 6 had a wonderful time using their creative skills to make a whole class mosaic for St Joseph. Enjoy the pictures of our class working hard.

Fabulous outfits from our favourite books in Year 6!

A little message from me to my wonderful class on the 4th January 2021.

• Read me!

On Tuesday 1st December, Year 6 had a Victorian workshop. The children participated in a Victorian classroom, where the children followed a range of activities, including: using slates, chalk, slate pens, ink pens, abacus, charcoal drawings, explored with Victorian toys and games and more...

This week, the children in Year 6 have created their own Advent calendar with ideas about 'kindness' over the upcoming weeks. Each day has been designed by one of the children to represent how their actions can show 'kindness'. The children also reflected on their own behaviour and actions to create an Advent Promise, which has created our own class wreath.

WOW - Year 6 have truly progressed in their writing skills. This half term, Year 6 have been working on developing their diary entry writing as the character Jim from our book, 'Street Child'. The children are thoroughly enjoying our novel linked to our topic of Victorians. Overall, the children have written SIX diary entries each based on different parts of the story. Every single child has developed and shown improvements! Here are six examples of work. Diary 1 - Amber B, Diary 2 - Theo, Diary 3 - Isla K, Diary 4 - Michael, Diary 5 - Maeve, Diary 6 - Noah.

On Friday 27th November, Year 6 spent part of their 'Victorian Education' topic lesson experiencing a Victorian PE Drill. The children were brilliant and we really enjoyed this practical activity together.

On Thursday 22nd, those children who were able to be in school received their homework for the half term. Here is a copy of the Maths Booklet and 'The Baking Battle' reading challenge (Page 1-10) in case anyone requires an extra copy. All the work provided this half term includes only aspects of learning we have covered this half term. Good luck! Remember enjoy the half term and stay safe!

• Autumn Half Term Maths Booklet.pdf
• Page 1.pdf
• Page 2.pdf
• Page 3.pdf
• Page 4.pdf
• Page 5.pdf
• Page 6.pdf
• Page 7.pdf
• Page 8.pdf
• Page 9.pdf
• Page 10.pdf

Beautiful Handwriting...
Congratulations to all those children who have shown their wonderful handwriting this half term and received a handwriting pen. This includes: Alex, Annabelle, Jennifer, Maeve, Maisie, Frankie, Orla and Olivia! I'm excited to see who will be next, could it be you?

For homework this week, Year 6 were asked to explore their understanding of Harvest through links with famine and CAFOD. I was overwhelmed by the effort many children put in towards creating posters, poems, songs and more. To include all their effort, I combined a range of work together - everything was from someone's homework (some phrases were swapped from different pieces to edit others). Today - 22nd October - Year 6 performed their piece to the whole school and parents at the Harvest Festival on zoom!

• Harvest.pdf

This week (w/c 19th October), Year 6 have worked extremely hard to develop their knowledge of 'Light'. The class are able to describe: How we see! Reflection! Refraction! Spectrum of Colour! They even managed to complete a science investigation, thinking about different variables!

Super proud of Year 6's work these past two days. They've worked tremendously hard to understand the importance of editing and up-levelling their work. Well done!

Year 6 really enjoyed demolishing their cakes today whilst raising awareness for the charity Macmillan. Thank you for all the donations!

09.10.2020 - This week the children have explored their understanding of Haworth and Leeds further through a range of activities.

Please find below our newsletter for this half term which tells you what we will be covering until October half term.

• Yr 6 newsletter Autumn 1.pdf
• Autumn 2 2020 year 6.pdf

Today (2nd October 2020), Year 6 had a live stream mass with Father Peter. Frankie and Maeve had the opportunity to go to Church and read at the Mass.

Every half term, there will be new books in our favourite five section. Here we share our favourite five boxes with you. Take the opportunity to take a book from this section and have a read yourself.

In our second week back at work, our class focussed on the values of curiosity and faith. We used the book, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe to support our understanding of virtues and vices. As a class, we wrote a speech to share with the school.

This half term, our RE topic is Called to Serve. These pieces of creative work simply had to be shared!

These first few weeks, the children have been exploring their understanding of vocabulary and are now beginning to up-level their work to create effective sentences!

This half term children have discovered the rhymes: Never Eat Shredded Wheat or Naughty Elephants Squirt Water to help them remember their compass points. The children have also worked extremely hard this work using Ordnance Survey maps with four-figure AND six-figure grid references! Well done Year 6!

VIPERS book reviews are a great way Year 6 are showing their knowledge about the text they've read. Here is a fantastic example from Jennifer!