Kingfishers

Welcome to Kingfishers!

We are Year 4/5 children. Our teacher is Mrs Cairns and our Teaching Assistant is Mrs Langham.

k.cairns@bishopmonkton.n-yorks.sch.uk

v.langham@bishopmonkton.n-yorks.sch.uk

Autumn term 2020

Homework given Friday 4th Dec - to be completed by Friday 11th Dec 

Spellings - Learn Week 6 spellings ready for test on Friday 11th - Year 4 (words with k sound spelt ch), Year 5 (hyphens).   

CGP Grammar, spelling and punctuation book -  Year 4 pages 6 & 7 (Verbs & Adverbs); Year 5 page 9, 10 & 11 (Adverbs) 

MyMaths - Multiplying by 10 and 100

Reading - Please listen to them read and sign their planner.  

Times Tables - TT Rockstars - Please complete a 'Soundcheck' and record your child's score out of 25 in their planner. 

Remember - to wear black (or navy) leggings/joggers with PE house colour t-shirt on Tuesday for our dance lesson - thank you! 

Homework given Friday 27th Nov - to be completed by Friday 4th Dec 

Spellings - Learn Week 5 spellings ready for test on Friday 4th - Year 4 (adding suffixes beginning with a vowel), Year 5 (words ending with -ible).   

CGP Grammar, spelling and punctuation book -  Year 4 page 64, 65 & 66 (Paragraphs); Year 5 page 90 & 91 (Words with Silent Letters) 

MyMaths - Year 4 'Estimate and Inverse operations' & '6 times tables';  Year 5 - 'More addition and subtraction' 

Reading - Please listen to them read and sign their planner.  

Times Tables - TT Rockstars - Please complete a 'Soundcheck' and record your child's score out of 25 in their planner. 

Homework given Friday 20th Nov - to be completed by Friday 27th Nov 

Spellings - Learn Week 4 spellings ready for test on Friday 27th - Year 4 (adding the vowel suffixes -er, -ed or -ing), Year 5 (words with silent letters).   

CGP Grammar, spelling and punctuation book -  Year 4 page 67 (Headings and Subheadings); Year 5 page 67 (Headings and Subheadings) 

MyMaths - 'More written methods' 

Reading - Please listen to them read and sign their planner.  

Times Tables - TT Rockstars - Please complete a 'Soundcheck' and record your child's score out of 25 in their planner. 

ON TUESDAY 24TH NOVEMBER, PLEASE WEAR NORMAL SCHOOL POLO SHIRT WITH YOUR PE KIT INSTEAD OF COLOURED PE T-SHIRT. GIRLS WEAR NAVY LEGGINGS OR TIGHTS AND BOYS WEAR NAVY OR BLACK PE SHORTS. YOU CAN WEAR JOGGING PANTS OVER THE TOP BUT NEED SHORTS FOR THE DANCE! 

Homework given Friday 13th Nov - to be completed by Friday 20th Nov 

Spellings - Learn Week 3 spellings ready for test on Friday 20th - Year 4 (adding the prefix -il), Year 5 (words with silent letters).   

CGP Grammar, spelling and punctuation book -  Year 4 pages 10 & 11 (Possessive Pronouns); Year 5 page 6 & 7 (Modal verbs).

MyMaths - Revision of column subtraction - 2 tasks set this week because it is a recap of previous learning. 

Reading - Please listen to them read and sign their planner.  

Times Tables - TT Rockstars - Please complete a 'Soundcheck' and record your child's score out of 25 in their planner. 

Homework given Friday 6th Nov - to be completed by Friday 13th Nov 

Spellings - Learn Week 2 spellings ready for test on Friday 13th.   

CGP Grammar, spelling and punctuation book -  Year 4 pages 8 & 9 (Pronouns); Year 5 page 12 & 13 (Pronouns & Relative Pronouns).

MyMaths - Revision of column addition - 2 tasks set this week because it is a recap of previous learning. Extra addition challenge (see below!) for anyone who would like to have a go! 

Reading - Please listen to them read and sign their planner.  

Times Tables - TT Rockstars - Please complete a 'Soundcheck' and record your child's score out of 25 in their planner. 

Homework given Monday 2nd Nov - to be completed by Friday 6th Nov 

Spellings - Learn Week 1 spellings ready for test on Friday. There are now two different spelling lists depending on if your child is in Year 4 or Year 5. We are concentrating on spelling rules each week and I have added 3 of the National Curriculum Statutory spellings to learn too. Please encourage your child to practise their spellings often.     

CGP Grammar, spelling and punctuation book -  No CGP homework this week. 

MyMaths - No MyMaths homework this week. 

Reading - Please listen to them read and sign their planner.  

Times Tables - TT Rockstars - Please complete a 'Soundcheck' and record your child's score out of 25 in their planner. We will be doing this every week this term as part of their homework tasks - Soundcheck only takes 2.5 minutes to complete so quite a quick task! As I will be monitoring the scores over the half term, it is important that your child completes the task independently without any help with the answers.  

When pupils play Soundcheck, they are asked 25 questions, each with a 6-second time limit. The questions are multiplication only and evenly weighted in terms of difficulty each time they play - exactly the same as the Multiplication Tables Check. Players earn 5 coins per correct answer.

Homework given 16th Oct - to be completed by Thursday 22nd Oct 

Spellings - children will have a test on a selection of all of the spellings they have been learning this half term - please note spelling test will be on Thursday 22nd Oct because we have a training day on Friday 23rd Oct 

CGP Grammar, spelling and punctuation book -  Year 4 pages 16 and 17 (noun phrases); Year 5 page 8 (adjectives) and page 14 (determiners). Please mark the homework with your child (answers in the back) and sign their planner next to where they have written the page numbers. Children do not need to bring their CGP book back in to school.  

MyMaths - Y4 - introducing negative numbers; Y5 - do introducing negative numbers first, then if confident have a go at the other negative number task

Reading - Please listen to them read and sign their planner. 

Times Tables - TT Rockstars - 

Homework given 9th Oct - to be completed by Friday 16th Oct

Spellings - week 4 spellings - children will be tested on Friday 16th.

CGP Grammar, spelling and punctuation book -  Year 4 pages 82 and 83 - words ending in sure and ture; Year 5 pages 4 and 5 - nouns and verbs. Please mark the homework with your child (answers in the back) and sign their planner next to where they have written the page numbers. Children do not need to bring their CGP book back in to school.  

MyMaths - Place value - hundreds, thousands 

Reading - Please listen to them read and sign their planner. 

Times Tables - TT Rockstars

Homework given 2nd Oct - to be completed by Friday 9th Oct

Spellings - week 3 spellings - children will be tested on Friday 9th.

CGP Grammar, spelling and punctuation book -  Year 4 pages 36 and 37 - capital letters and full stops; Year 5 pages 36 and 37 - capital letters and question marks. Please mark the homework with your child (answers in the back) and sign their planner next to where they have written the page numbers. Children do not need to bring their CGP book back in to school.  

MyMaths - Y4 - working with thousands, Y5 - counting (5)

Reading - Please listen to them read and sign their planner. 

Times Tables - TT Rockstars

Homework given 25th Sept - to be completed by Friday 2nd Oct

Spellings - week 2 spellings - children will be tested on Friday 2nd.

CGP Grammar, spelling and punctuation book - Punctuating speech - Year 4 pages 62 and 63; Year 5 pages 64-65. Please mark the homework with your child (answers in the back) and sign their planner next to where they have written the page numbers. Children do not need to bring their CGP book back in to school.  

MyMaths - login details in planner - please do 'Solving problems by rounding' activity

Reading - your child should have brought home a reading book. Please listen to them read and sign their planner. 

Times Tables - TT Rockstars

Homework given 18th Sept - to be completed by Friday 25th Sept

Spellings - week 1 - children will be tested on Friday 25th.

CGP Grammar, spelling and punctuation book - Punctuating speech - Year 4 pages 60 and 61; Year 5 pages 62-63. Please mark the homework with your child (answers in the back) and sign their planner next to where they have written the page numbers. Children do not need to bring their CGP book back in to school.  

MyMaths - see letter with login details in planner - please do 'Rounding' activity

Reading - your child should have brought home a reading book. Please listen to them read and sign their planner. 

Times Tables - I've set up a Y4 v Y5 battle on TT Rockstars- starts 4pm Friday 18th Sept and finishes 6pm Wed 23rd Sept. Enjoy! 

Weekly message 13th July 2020

Hello Kingfishers!

I hope you are all well and have enjoyed a lovely, sunny weekend. Well done again for your excellent home learning last week and congratulations to you all for your well-deserved 'Class Teachers Award' last week.

So we are starting Week 15 of our home learning and yes, this is our FINAL week of home learning before the summer holiday! When Boris Johnson said all of those weeks ago that schools were to close (apart from to the Key Worker children) I never dreamed that it would be for so long and that you'd have to do 15 weeks of home learning. But hey, you've done it, it's not been easy but you've done it so well done for being so resilient and hard-working over the past 15 weeks - you have made Mrs Langham and I so, so proud - you really are all SUPERSTARS! We are both looking forward to seeing you all and welcoming you back properly after the summer holiday. 

This week the theme for the home learning is 'Transport' so you'll be finding out about different modes of transport, transport in the past, the science behind transport, road safety, how to be safe wound water and completing transport themes arts and craft activities.

Your maths learning is again, Oak Academy. Thank you to those of you who have given feedback on the Oak Academy - I'm glad you're finding it challenging and a change to the MyMaths. For those of you who haven't tried it yet, just click on the daily link on the learning plan. I've also included a couple of new maths mystery puzzles as I know so many of you really enjoy them! MyMaths is still there for those of you who have any lessons still to do - please try to complete all of the MyMaths lessons when you have time so you are prepared and ready for next year. 

Have a great final week Kingfishers! Mrs Langham and I hope that you have a fabulous summer holiday break and can't wait to see you in September when some of you will be in Eagles with Mrs Handslip and some of you will be with us again in Kingfishers (Mrs Langham and I are counting on you to be fabulous role models to the new Kingfishers and we know that you will do a brilliant job!)  

Take care,

Mrs Cairns & Mrs Langham 

k.cairns@bishopmonkton.n-yorks.sch.uk

v.langham@bishopmonkton.n-yorks.sch.uk

Mrs Coupland's joke....

Why didn't the dog want to play football?

Because he was a boxer. 

Mrs Langham's joke....

Why did Mrs Cairns put on her sunglasses?

Because her pupils were so bright!! 😎

Thomas J’s joke.....

How do trees get on the internet?

They log on! 

Lily M’s joke…

What kind of cheese does a bear eat?

Camon bear

Eloise's joke...

Why did the kid throw his clock out the window?

Because he wanted to see time fly. 

17th May

A new TT Rockstars battle will start at 9am on Monday 18th May and will end on Sunday 24th May at 6pm!

This week it is a whole school houses tournament

(Wensleydale v Nidderdale and Swaledale v Wharfedale)! 

Will YOU be awarded the 'Most Valuable Player' certificate this week? 

Good luck! 

11th May

A new TT Rockstars battle will start at 9am on Monday 4th May and will end on Sunday 10th May at 6pm!

This week it is..... Kingfishers v Eagles! 

Will YOU be awarded the 'Most Valuable Player' certificate this week? 

Good luck Kingfishers! 

4th May

A new TT Rockstars battle will start at 9am on Monday 4th May and will end on Sunday 10th May at 6pm!

This week it is..... Boys v Girls! 

Will YOU be awarded the 'Most Valuable Player' certificate this week? 

Good luck Kingfishers! 

27th April 

A new TT Rockstars battle will start at 9am on Monday 27th April and will end on Sunday 3rd May at 6pm!

This week it is..... Boys v Girls! 

Will YOU be awarded the 'Most Valuable Player' certificate this week? 

Good luck Kingfishers! 

17th April

A new TT Rockstars battle will start at 9am on Monday 20th April and will end on Sunday 26th April at 6pm!

This week it is..... Year 4 v Year 5!

Can Year 4 possibly beat Year 5 this week?? Come on Year 4, I know you can do it!!

Will YOU be awarded the 'Most Valuable Player' certificate this week? 

Good luck Kingfishers! 

30th March 

A new TT Rockstars battle has started and will end on Sunday 5th April at 6pm!

This week it is..... Year 4 v Year 5!

Who will win? Can Year 4 possibly beat Year 5?? Will YOU be awarded the 'Most Valuable Player' certificate this week? 

Good luck Kingfishers 

TT Rockstars Tournaments

I will be setting up weekly TT Rockstar Battles running from Monday morning through to Sunday at 6pm.

23rd March - This weeks battle is girls v boys. 

Please try your best to have a go! Good luck. The winners will be announced on Monday! 

Mrs Cairns 

  Maths Shed & Spelling Shed  NEW! 

Good morning Kingfishers!

I hope you are all well! To help you to practise spellings and maths skills at home we have taken out a subscription to Maths Shed and Spelling Shed. There are lots of games and fun activities to play whilst obviously still learning! To access the website simply go to https://play.edshed.com/ and then enter your username and password. I will text your parents your username and password this morning.

Any problems, or if you just want to say hello and tell me how you're doing, you can email me on k.cairns@bishopmonkton.n-yorks.sch.uk

I hope you enjoy exploring Spelling Shed and Maths Shed! 

Take care,

Mrs Cairns x 

Links to Physical Activities

It is crucial that children remain active for at least one hour per day. Here are some links to websites used in school to promote physical activity. 

Cosmic Yoga

https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga

Go Noodle

https://www.gonoodle.com/good-energy-at-home-kids-games-and-videos/

Joe Wicks - the Body Coach

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz0go1pTda8 (Joe Wicks will be streaming a live daily PE lesson at 9am)

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resources/twinkl-move/joe-wicks-twinkl-move

Jump Start Johnny

https://www.jumpstartjonny.co.uk/home

www.jumpstartjonny.co.uk/free-stuff

Supermovers

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers

Live Lessons!

Joe Wicks, the Body Coach, will be streaming live PE lessons every morning from 9am. 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ

Gareth Metcaffe maths lessons - Gareth has been teaching since 2004 and is a former Assistant Headteacher. Currently he is working in a range of schools, teaching classes from Nursery-Y6, helping schools to put reasoning and problem-solving at the heart of learning. I See Maths enables children to be intellectually and emotionally engaged by mathematics. 

http://www.iseemaths.com/home-lessons/

The author Oliver Jeffers will read one of his books every day at 2pm, then archive the reading on his website.

WHEN AND WHERE: Via Instagram every day at 2pm 

MATHS - The White Rose Maths Team  has prepared a series of five maths lessons for each year group from Year 1-8. They will be adding five more each week for the next few weeks. Every lesson comes with a short video showing you clearly and simply how to help your child to complete the activity successfully. 

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/

A message from Mrs Di Silvestro

Exciting news this morning! Bishop Monkton Primary are joining the 2.6 challenge.

This is a lockdown challenge and can be anything involving the numbers 2.6 and 26. We are hoping as many pupils, siblings and parents can join us. I am working with the 2 charities to make this challenge as big as we can. Please get in touch if you would like more details. Also it would be great if you could let me know your plans and if you're happy for me to mention you in any media publications.

Thank you for your support.

Home Learning 

Dear all,

The children have all been given a home learning book. This is available for them to record any learning they wish, in any way they wish (although well-presented please). We hope the suggested timetable will help you and your children to continue with their education effectively.

Each child has been given a My Maths log in and the tasks have been set for the weeks ahead. These tasks can be found on the weekly learning plans. I can see their progress and may offer feedback.

If we close and remain closed for a prolonged time, please do encourage the children to email with their successes. I'd love to hear.

k.cairns@bishopmonkton.n-yorks.sch.uk

The weekly learning is set from today (18/3/20).  Even if you are at school, you are more than welcome to use these learning plans at home. 

The plans are flexible for your situation. I hope that they prove helpful.

I wish health and happiness to you all.

Mrs Cairns and Mrs Langham 

Did you know your local library has thousands of ebooks and audiobooks?

You can borrow them, instantly, for free, using just the device in your hand.

All you need is a free library card; to download the app and then away you go!

https://www.overdrive.com/apps/libby/

On Thursday 5th March we shall be joining the country in their quest: 'sharing a million stories'. We believe that reading is power and we want to bring 'reading for pleasure' back! So there'll be no dressing up...this is back to books. We want you to bring in an extract from your favourite book; you can bring the whole book if you'd like, perhaps even the whole series...oh blow it, you can bring your library if you have a mind to! We shall be sharing these throughout the day; exploring passionate, peculiar poetry; playing with picture books and working wondrously with words.

Each class will spend time exploring the powerful message of kindness offered by these books:

Perhaps you could take a sneaky peek, if you haven't already.           Reading is Power!

NSPCC Maths Day 

We had lots of fun dressing as digits and taking part in lots of Maths related activities all day including an ‘Escape Room’ game which we did outside. We also took part in an Inter-house TT Rockstars competition - Nidderdale won! 

This half term sees a new theme in our library: SPORT!

Thanks go to ‘The Black Panthers’ who created the adventure themed library last half term. Tomorrow, our new year 6 team will be finishing the final touches to their library display. So, if you like sport, there are inspirational books on display for you to borrow. Families...come and explore after school and let’s kick off a great half term of reading.

Our Year 4, 5 and 6 Production this year is......What a Knight!

You have all been given a copy of the script and song words. Please practise your lines and song words as much as possible over the next few weeks. 

THE EVENING PERFORMANCES WILL BE ON MON 1ST JULY AND TUES 2ND JULY AT 6PM. PLEASE LET US KNOW ASAP IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO ATTEND EITHER OF THESE PERFORMANCES. 

Thank you,

Mrs Cairns and Mrs Handslip.

Please note: Mad Hair Day date change due to swimming. Thursday 23rd May.

Cakes will be on sale after school.

Please give generously for the year 5 and 6's enterprise challenge initiative to raise money for Craft Aid International.

Puberty talk for YR 5 and YR6 pupils Wednesday 5th June 9:30-10:45

Letter attached with links to the films.

Mad Hair Day! Friday 24th May

Year 5 and 6 invite you to come to school in your normal uniform but with mad MAD HAIR!

There will be a prize given to the maddest hair in each year. 

We have not gone MAD. Please bring a pound donation as we are taking part in 'The Primary Pounds Enterprise Project' , supported by St Aidan's High School. We are raising money for  Craft Aid International. Please take time to have a look at their website to see the fabulous work they do with 'differently abled' people in both Harrogate and Ecuador.

http://www.craftaidinternational.org/

There will be a cake sale after school too!

Have a lovely, relaxing Easter holiday! 

Homework needs to be handed in on Friday 3rd May 

Year 4 - maths pages 32-33, Spag pages 40 - 41

Year 5 - maths pages 32-33, Spag pages 28-29

Spellings - continue to practise the year 3/4 or y5/6 list 

Ain’t no mountain high enough

If you need me, call me,
No matter where you are,
No matter how far,
Don’t worry, brother.

Just call out my name,
I’ll be there in a hurry,
You don’t have to worry,
’Cos baby there

Ain’t no mountain high enough,
Ain’t no valley low enough,
Ain’t no river wide enough
To keep me from getting to you, babe.

Remember the day,
You set me free,
I told you you could
Always count on me.

From that day on,
I made a vow,
I’ll be there when you want me,
Somewhere, somehow.
’Cos baby there 

Ain’t no mountain high enough,
Ain’t no valley low enough,
Ain’t no river wide enough
To keep me from getting to you, babe,
To keep me from getting to you! 

Friday 5th April - homework

Year 4 CGP - SPAG - page 46 and 47, Maths - page 30 and 31 (adding and subtracting fractions)

Year 5 CGP - SPAG - page 52 and 53, Maths - page 30 and 31 (adding and subtracting fractions)

All children will be tested on the 'Statutory spellings' on Wed, Thurs and Fri next week.

Year 4 will be tested on the Year 3/4 statutory spelling list and Year 5 will be tested on the Year 5/6 spelling list. These lists were handed out at the beginning of the year and again mid-year but I have sent another copy home with them today. 

Please practise these spellings over the next few days. 

This week's spellings to be tested on Friday 5th April: suffix -ly added to words ending in 'y', 'le' and 'ic'

deeply

gladly

happily

angrily

sleepily

gently

simply

basically

frantically

magically

Homework CGP pages:

Year 4 Spag - p80 -81, Maths - p29

Year 5 Spag - p84-85, Maths p.28