Language
Our teacher is Ms Franks and Mrs Norris is the teaching assistant in our class.
Summer Term 2019-2020
A VERY IMPORTANT LETTER FOR RUBY PARENTS. PLEASE READ AND RESPOND ASAP- Thank you!
NOTICE- We are hoping to post a school update on/after the Bank holiday. We kindly ask that you keep an eye for updates on the website and Facebook. - Thank you.
Circus Day- Friday 21st the children in school are having a circus day and If you would like to do the same here are some activities for you to try
Popcorn box Circus activities Design sheet Colouring Wordsearch colouring 2
CHOCOLATE !!! Cadburys has kindly donated Easter Eggs to school. Please come to school by the end of tomorrow to collect 2 eggs per pupil from the ICT window “hatch” - Thank you.
As tomorrow would have been an INSET day, there will be no home learning set. Take some time to enjoy the day and relax!
A day of stars!
Well done all of you for your very clever Titanic models and pictures.
Sammy, Olivia, Riley Skye and Cassie - They are fantastic!
Home learning Thursday 21st 2020
Reading Spelling Writing Maths Maths Time game UK Map UK Flowers
Star of the day is...Oliver W
What a fun way to practise your spellings Oliver! It is brilliant you are still having a go at them as they are so important for your writing. I think we should try shaving foam in school!
Home Learning Wednesday 20th May 2020
Reading Spelling Maths Maths time sheet Titanic sheet
Home learning Tuesday 19th May 2020
Reading Spelling Writing Maths Maths Time Bingo
Geography powerpoint wordsearch pictures
Star of the Day...Skye
For reading and using the instructions to make her favourite sandwich and for Shamrock hunting in the garden.
Sam ....for a great shamrock design
Home Learning Monday 18th May 2020
Reading Spelling Writing Maths Time Power point
Geography power point hexagon sheet
Star of the Day ...Olivia
For all your work but especially for serving breakfast for Mum and Dad!
Home learning Friday 15th May 2020
Reading Spelling Writing Maths Maths Months and Seasons Geography Shamrock
Star of the Day - Jack
Super work in all areas Jack...keep it up!
Home Learning Thursday 14th May 2020
Reading Spelling Writing Instructions power point Maths Months Fact cards Geography sheet
Eggs! Eggs! Eggs!
Easter may have been and gone but we have over 400 Peter Rabbit Easter eggs in school!
Cadburys has kindly donated them to bring a little sweetness to children in these difficult times. If you would like to pop up to the school between 9am and 12pm, one morning when you are passing, making sure to maintain 2m social distancing, you can collect 2 eggs per pupil from the ICT window “hatch”
Star of the Day is Evie
What a super Nessie Evie!
Home Learning Wednesday 13 May 2020
Reading Spelling Maths Maths Time Flag labels Flag
Star of the Day - Sophie
For using the reading comprehension task to inspire her to play marbles- Brilliant! Plus all your super reading writing and maths work too Sophie.
Home learning Tuesday 12 May 2020
Reading Spelling Maths Maths - Calendar Nessie
Star of the Day - Reuben H-C
Great spellings and handwriting Reuben. Plus your Welsh cakes looked delicious and the Welsh dragon looked great!
Home Learning Monday 11 May 2020
Reading Spelling Writing sheet Maths Maths -Days of the Week
Scotland Fact cards Scotland sheet
Please take a look on the Our children page - from all of us!
Star of the Day is Olivia ... for her wonderful Welsh flag using collage. I am so impressed that you drew the dragon yourself too!
Home learning Thursday 7th May 2020
Spelling Maths Wales quiz Wales facts
We are really sad that we haven’t been able to celebrate VE Day as a whole school community this year. We were really looking forward to getting the bunting out and having an afternoon tea! We hope you have a good day if you are celebrating though. Take care and stay safe.
Star of the Day is Alfie
Alfie, I was really pleased to see all your work and how hard you are working- keep it up!
Home Learning Wednesday 5th May 2020
Reading Spelling Maths Geography
Stars of the Day are Indie and Sammy
You have both written some fantastic poems and I loved seeing you performing them.
Well Done
Home Learning Tuesday 5th May 2020
Reading Spelling Writing Maths Maths Alternative True or False
Star of the Day is Ella
Ella you did so well in all your home learning but especially your Maths!!
Home Learning Monday 4th May 2020
Reading Spelling Writing powerpoint Writing Maths Alternative maths Maths True or False
Geography Fact cards Geography sheet
NB Please do not feel that the power point or fact cards (or any sheets)need to be printed. They are for information and learning only.
Keeping Safe during Home Schooling
Dear Parents/Carers
During this time of home schooling due to COVID-19, many tasks involve online activities. Here are some areas of guidance and links to support your online safety.
Please check the following
- If you have any problems or queries with work set, please email the class teacher on the address at the top of the class page.
- Ensure your child has a good balance of online activities, physical and creative activities.
- Ensure parental controls are set on the devices used.
- Ensure internet filters are on.
- Check any websites being used, to ensure they are appropriate for your child – especially if they are different to those mentioned on the school plans.
- Remind your child to apply their online safety learning and always check with an adult before sharing any information.
If you do experience any of the following issues or would like advice, here are just a few links to guidance and support websites.
- Harmful or Upsetting content -you can contact the UK Safer Internet centre at https://reportharmfulcontent.com/
- Bullying or Online Abuse – you can contact the National Crime Agency website at https://www.ceop.police.uk/safety-centre/ or the Anti Bullying Alliance at
https://www.anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/tools-information/if-youre-being-bullied
- Mental Health and Wellbeing - you can contact https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/
As during normal school days, please do inform us of any online safety issues so that we are able to keep a record of potential problems.
Further links and guidance / support can be found on our Parents Online page on the school website: https://www.puritonprimaryschool.org.uk/Parents/Parents-Online/
Star(s) of the Day are Oliver and Cassie
Well done both of you for your fantastic facts on your Tower Bridges. They look amazing!
I also love your wonderful words tree Cassie. It's great to see your verbs and adjectives on your own tree..just like the one we did in Ruby class!
Home Learning Friday 1st May 2020
Reading Maths Challenge sheet Spelling sheet Writing sheet Snakes and ladders
Our Star of the Day is Darcey
Super cooking to make her chocolate chip muffins and then great halves and quarters too. I love your London bus from today also.
Home Learning Thursday 30th April 2020
Reading Maths sheet spelling Writing London domino London Wordsearch
Our Star of the Day is Sammy
A super local area map Sammy. I loved the way you used photos from your daily walk and labelled lots of different places, including your friends house!
Home Learning Wednesday 29th April 2020
Reading Maths sheet Spelling sheet Geography Slides
Please do keep emailing us, letting us know how you are getting on and share photos of your work.We will be awarding a virtual ‘Star of the Day’ award on the class pages of the website each day. It might be for an amazing piece of writing, artwork, maths or for showing one of our core values.
Home learning Tuesday 28th April 2020
Reading Maths sheet Spelling sheet Writing sheet Geography - London slides
Home Learning Monday 27th April 2020
Reading Maths sheet Spelling sheet Writing sheet Geography Slides
Don't forget the new Phonics Letters and Sounds website lessons begin today !!
Click on the Parent letter link and it provides a link to the website.
Hello everyone and I hope you all had a great Easter break in the lovely sunshine. We are going to be starting a new topic -just like we would have if we were all in class together. It is based around a Geography theme (Parents- please could you make sure your child/children understands what 'Geography' means. (It's a great question to ask as I've had some rather unusual answers when I've asked before!!) Thank you Ms Franks
Home Learning Monday 20th April 2020
Home Learning Tuesday 21st April 2020
UK letters sheet Tuesday 21st April UK Map Tuesday 21st April Maths sheet Tuesday 21 April
Home learning Wednesday 22nd April 2020
Home Learning Thursday 23rd April 2020
Math sheet Thursday 23rd April 2020
Home Learning Friday 24th April 2020
Phonic sheet Reading sheet Math sheet
Please note on the Maths Challenge is says that the Year 1 questions are questions 1 and 2 but they are welcome to challenge themselves further if they feel they can :)
Parents/Carers - Letters and Sounds Phonics Parents Letter
Please could you take a moment to read the above link which tells you about a new website linked to the Letters and Sounds phonic program we use in school. There are daily lessons which you can access for Reception and Year 1.
Hi -just in case anyone was having trouble with the phonics/spelling sheet- the object was 'seed' :)
I am attaching a different one here to see if that is any clearer. PLEASE do email me if it is not clear as I am happy to help.
Spring Term 2019-2020
Hello there everyone
I hope you all had a good Easter and got some Easter eggs. Just to say thank you for Easter competition entries and a big well done to you all
Ruby Class Winner - Olivia M
Ruby Class Runner up - Oliver W
Prizes can be collected in due course but we will keep them for the time being.
Easter Booklets
Hi Everyone
I've just added a few Easter themed booklets you might like to have fun with! Hope you are all well.
Easter Activities
Hi there Ruby class
I hope you are all staying safe and well and looking after your families. Here are some activities you might like to try over Easter. The challenges for the Easter Bunny project are now included below also. I have loved looking at your photos and comments on the emails so please do keep them coming. Enjoy it and don't eat too many Easter Eggs!
Hi if you have decided to do the Easter Bunny challenge your challenges have now been posted! Good Luck
Week 2
Home Learning Friday 3rd April 2020
Hi if anyone is having any difficultly seeing the Writing task for Thursday 2nd April please do not worry and just ask the children to write sentences with nouns /verbs /adjectives that seem unconnected eg horse creeping stripy
I'm sure they will make some imaginative sentences!
Home Learning Thursday 2nd April 2020
Home Learning Wednesday 1st April 2020
Home Learning Tuesday 31 March 2020
Home Learning Monday 30 March 2020
Week 1
Well Done Ruby class - our first week of a very unusual time and I hope you are all well and working hard. Thank you so much to those children and Mums and Dads who have emailed with great photos of the work that's been done. I've also enjoyed the pictures of you having fun in the sunshine! Keep up all the great learning and stay safe love Ms Franks.
Home Learning Friday 27 March 2020
Home Learning Thursday 26 March 2020
Home Learning Wednesday 25 March 2020
Home Learning Tuesday 24 March 2020
home learning Monday 23 March 2020Term 4 week 4
What a week! So sad to say goodbye to you all on Friday but take care of each other, keep working hard on your learning and hopefully we can all meet up again soon.
On Monday we will be posting your home learning sheet so look out for it and have fun too.
Term 4 Week 3
On Wednesday we had our class trip to Bristol zoo to help us learn about our topic animals. We had a workshop with Amy and got to see Meerkats, Gorillas and Penguins up close. It was great fun and we learnt a lot. Amy, our workshop leader said we were amazing at sharing our learning and perfect!
This week we have been learning about measurement. We have been using classroom items to compare them and use the correct vocabulary such as taller, shorter, longer.
We are now writing our own stories based on the Snail and Whale. We are trying to include great adjectives, capital letters and full stops and question marks too!
We enjoyed our turn in the whole school skipping activity too!
Term 4 Week 2
This week we have been using the story of The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson -our class author. In our whole class reading, we have been reading the story and adding capital letters and full stops to sentence extracts. We have also been using it to spot good adjectives. This prompted good discussions about the meanings of the adjectives and interesting phrases. Our focus in GPS this week has been adjectives so we are going to try to add them to our sentences.
It has also linked to the brilliant time we had on World Book Day where we came dressed as words and many of these were adjectives too! We used our wonderful words to put them in alphabetical order, to play head to head Guess my word games and to write clues to our words too.
Our maths focus of counting in 2's 5's and 10's has continued this week also.
Term 4 Week 1
Hi everyone. Hope you had a great half term despite some rotten weather!
it may have been good for the characters in our story though, as we have been learning about the Snail and the Whale by our class author-Julia Donaldson. We have enjoyed listening to the story, acting it out and then beginning to retell it in our own words. It has also helped us look at interesting vocabulary.
Our maths learning has focused around counting in 2s and 5s. We have been making amounts in different ways practically first then looking for patterns such as odd and even numbers.
A huge thank you to all our lovely adults who came to our Inspire morning where we made moving pictures. We based our pictures on our Hot Claws Cold Paws animals. We shared our pictures with our friends in class and explained how we made each of the moving sections...they were brilliant!
Term 3 Week 5
Poems and rhymes are everywhere in Ruby class this week. We have read and performed finger rhymes to our class and also looked at how we make words rhyme. We looked at word endings and then used the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty to create our own versions. Working in pairs, we wrote and edited our work on whiteboards first to make sure we liked them. We have also begun to use another rhyme-Hickory Dickory Dock to develop our ideas even further.
In Maths we are beginning our focus on Place Value to 50. We have counted to 50 forwards and backwards and partitioned numbers into tens and ones in different ways.
In RE we have listened to the story of The Lost Coin and thought about what it means for caring for everyone.
We have also used the Beebots in our ICT learning. To develop our programming skills we thought about how we could make a set of instructions all linked together and program them into the Beebot to make it move between toys. At first we used one instruction at a time and then learnt how to add the instructions together to create a sequence. It was fun, if a little confusing at first! We soon got the hang of it though!
Term 3 Week 4
Wow our reports look amazing! We have finally completed our first Learning experience to write animal reports. After all our hard work finding facts and putting them under headings we have now stuck them on to colourful sheets and added photos and labelled pictures. Phew a lot of hard work but Ms Franks is very proud of our work and so are we!
In Maths we have begun to use the bar model to help us add and subtract and find the four related facts for our calculation.
In PE we really enjoyed creating our our dance moves for our Zumba learning.
We have also made Spring time cards ready to give to David next week for our friends in the OLC school. We hope they like them.
Term 3 Week 3
This week we have sorted all our information about our focus animals into sections for our reports. We used questions to create heading after we learnt about question words and question marks earlier on in the week. Ms Franks also got us to write independently about all the fact we are learning as we go along-she was very pleased about all the facts we were able to recall! It has also helped that we learnt how to group animals in different ways such as mammals, reptiles, insects, fish, birds and amphibians. We looked at the features and also thought about our own animals. We also began to learn about herbivores and carnivores who eat plants and meat and omnivores who eat both.
In RE today we also heard the story of Creation from the Bible and used Godly play to discuss the features of the world. We had to think why Christians are told by God to take care of the world and how they should do this.
During our PE lessons we are really enjoying being very active doing Zumba and short work outs. It is tiring but lots of fun. We also got to make up our own small groups shapes using our bodies.
Term 3 Week 2
We have begun our first learning experience in which we are going to write a report about our chosen animal. First we looked at the features of a report and then using different non-fiction books we found these features and others such as contents and index. We have also been using the laptops to research our animals. In this way we developed our laptop skills such as turning it on and off, selecting an icon, using a mouse pad and a scroll bar. We also used a search engine called Kiddle to help us find information that was aimed at children. It helped us discuss Online safety also.
In maths we have been focusing on using different ways to to learn our number bonds to 20. We used practical items such as ten frames, numicon and cubes, then we also used numberlines.
In PE we are enjoying our Zumba exercises and in class we are using a new five minute workout too- we are enjoying moving and being active!
Term 3 Week 1
Welcome back after the Christmas break. we hope you had a good one!
This week we have been learning about our new theme of learning. It is Science based and focused on animals. We are going to be learning about different animals in different environments around the world. It is called 'Hot Claws Cold Paws'. We learnt we will be focusing on penguins and polar bears from cold places and gorillas and meerkats from warmer climates.
During our WOW day we had to find ways to free a animal frozen in an ice cup! We used toothbrushes, wooden knives, scourers, and then had to think about other ways we could release the animals. It was great fun but made our hands really cold!! We also had craft activities to make paper cup penguins, nodding meerkats and gorilla masks. It was really good fun and we learnt a lot of DT skills too.
We also found out that our new author was Julia Donaldson. We put a lot of her books into our class author box and have enjoyed reading them already. As a special treat (it was Ms F's birthday that day too!) we also got to watch the Stick Man DVD too.
Autumn Term
Term 2 Week 6
This week we have focused a lot on assessments. The children have really enjoyed showing their learning in different ways. They were able to write independently about Edgar the Dragon and use their GPS skills to write given sentences. It also helped us to show our phonic skills.
In our RE activities we thought about the story of the Nativity which linked well to our Christmas play. We read the story and wrote about it in different parts.
We all really enjoyed performing the play to the different audiences. I think our funny sheep, gentle angels, pushy townspeople and animals including the clever camels, all acted their parts well. We really hoped you enjoyed it if you came to watch us!
Term 2 Week 5
It was lovely to be back after feeling unwell last week but its been very busy! We have completed our Castle building in our last learning experience and really enjoyed painting them and making sure we had a moving part. It was also lovely to to get to share them with our families at the Celebration of Learning. Thank you to all our families for coming to support us.
In maths we have continued with our place value to 20 focus and especially finding one more and one less. We recapped the signs < > and = to help us. In our English work we learnt about nouns. We named items and learnt that this was the noun and then we sorted them into common and proper nouns. We learnt you need a capital letter for proper nouns.
We have also spent time rehearsing the KS1 nativity play and we look forward to wearing our costumes and performing for our families and friends next week.
Term 2 Week 3
We have begun to rehearse our KS1 play and we are very busy learning the songs. Its called The Midwifes Crisis and tells the story of the Nativity.
We have also begun our focus on traditional tales in English and we are learning the story of the Gingerbread Man. We have acted it out, made story maps and re-told the story trying to add story language such as 'Once upon a time' and also the repeated phrases.
We have learnt all about 3d shapes in our Maths activities and used our 2d shapes knowledge to help us describe them. We also sorted them using different properties.
Term 2 week 2
In our English activities this week we have focused on the Traditional tales and Fairy stories. We are reading lots but have decided to focus on the story of The Gingerbread Man. We really enjoyed acting out the story and thinking about our character voices and actions.
We have also focused a lot on 2d shapes this week, learning all about their names and properties. We had to decide our own criteria to sort them too. Using the picture called Castle and Sun by Paul Klee we found the different shapes and we talked about how we could create our own shapes pictures. Also we had great fun using a maths story to remind ourselves of our subtraction skills. Using the story of the Centipedes 100 shoes we used our our feet and shoes to make physical subtractions. Then we used our small toy insects to create our own subtraction stories eg Spider had 10 shoes and beetle took 4 so how many were left?
We REALLY enjoyed our whole school treat of the pantomime. It made us laugh and we sang all the songs really well.
Term 2 Week 1
What a very busy four days we have had! We have worked hard on our subtraction skills. We have used practical items and numberlines to help us solve problems.
We also had a great time with Opal class to develop our Enterprize project. we enjoyed making the poster and particularly working in our classes to make biscuits. Altogether we made 350! A HUGE thank you to everyone who bought some as the profit will go to the OLC.
Week 8
Another busy week doing assessments and learning lots! We have enjoyed learning about Knights from the past including one called William Marshall and we learnt there are knights today. We also learnt about a 'Sir' called Sir David Attenborough. He doesn't wear armour though!
In Science we have thought about the different types of plants we know and we learnt to identify different ones such as dock leaves and say why they are important.
We also had a great time watching Opal class perform their Circus show. There were clowns, acrobats and jugglers. It was lots of fun and learnt about being a good audience....and we got popcorn as a treat!!
Week 7
A super week of Knights yet again. We have learnt all about Pages, squires and Knights and we have made up our own sets of rules to create Codes of Chivalry. It was fun thinking about the rules and writing them trying to use capital letters, spaces and full stops. Then we stained paper with coffee to make it look like an old scroll and wrote our Code of Chivalry in pen. We think they look good.
Then yesterday we travelled to another country -Wales!- and went to Caldicot castle on our class trip.It was a super sunny day so we even got to eat our lunch outside. We learnt lots about the castle and its features such as the bailey walls, the keep, the tower and the cannon. We all especially enjoyed going into the storeroom to look into the deep dungeon.....but we were so amazing we didn't need to go in it!!
Week 6
This week we have continued to use the story of Small Knight and George to help us sequence a story. First we put pictures in order and then we wrote sentences to match. It helped us to develop our learning of capital letters, spaces and full stops. We are beginning to get the hang of it already!!
In maths we used the + and = signs to create calculations and write them. It was fun using the cubes to help us look for patterns.
In our second learning experience we learnt about being a page and squire before you could be a knight. It was fun learning about what they had to do. Then today we finally got the better weather so we were able to do the cross country run which we all enjoyed. Then we also had lots of fun at our class gem party this afternoon when we had snacks, drinks and we got to watch Zog the movie.
Week 5
Our acting skills came into play this week! In English we have been using the book -Small Knight and George by Ronda Armitage- to help us learn about stories. We had lots of fun acting out all the characters and sequencing the events in order. We thought about the different characters and tried to use our actions and voices to show them. Using a story map we then thought about a story beginning, middle and end.
In Maths we have begun to focus on addition and subtraction. We used part part whole boards to help us partition numbers and then add them back to create the whole number.
We also really enjoyed our Inspire activities and especially having our families to work with us. Our dragon puppets and shield designs were great and all very different! A huge thank you to all who came to help us.
Week 4
Knights everywhere! It was really good fun this week in Ruby class when we all brought in our teddies from home (including Ms Franks with George) and create a 'suit of armour' for them. We used our DT skills to cut and join card in different ways and we use fabric to make our tabards. We designed a picture or logo to go on the front also. Then we added labels and captions to our teddy Knights. it was great fun but helped us in our first learning experience which used History, DT and English skills.
Our maths continued to focus on place value and we introduced the signs of < and > and = when comparing numbers. We were able to select number cards and roll dice to help us compare and show which amount was greater or fewer and those that were equal.
We have continued to focus on the alphabet and have used it in our handwriting practice too.
Week 3
We have had lots of fun and lots of learning about Autumn this week. Using the school grounds we went on a science walk to look for any of the signs of autumn that we had thought about in our class discussions. Although it's still lovely and sunny we found lots of signs that Autumn has begun! We all enjoyed finding the apples and pears growing alongside berries for birds and we particularly enjoyed finding leaves that were changing colour.
We are continuing our maths learning using place value and have been counting forwards and backwards and also problem solving 1 more and 1 less.
As our first learning experience is about labelling and identifying the Knights armour we have used textease to select a picture and add labels. This helped us with our laptop skills too.
Week 2
Knight Knight everyone! Yes we have started our History themed topic where we are learning about Knights and Castles. We have received a scroll from Lady Red and Lady Yellow who have sent us 10 challenges to show we are ready to become Knights of Ruby class. It has been fun starting them.
In our English learning we have focused on labels and lists this week using the book called Dangerous by Tin Warnes. We loved the story and used the ideas to label our class toys too. It helped us to think about labels when we used the BeeBots to label the knights suit of armour.
Our maths learning is focused on place value to 10. We have ordered and counted out amounts and shown them in different ways. We are also learning the match the number and the number word.
We have also really enjoyed using our DT skills to create a whole class castle using large boxes...especially when we got to go inside it!
Week 1
What a super start to our first week in Ruby class. We have all been exploring around the class to find out where our resources are and very importantly the lovely toys!!
We have made our class rules and signed the contract to say we will keep them.
We have done a lot of assessments this week including 40 spellings and 20 additions plus lots of phonics, sentence writing, counting and sorting and reading. We have particularly enjoyed our new reading area with the comfy cushions and bean bag! Is been very busy and we are looking forward to starting our topic next week.
