Our blogs
Class Assembly, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 8th May 2017 @ 3:29pm
I was a super proud teacher last week as the giraffes put on their class assembly for their parents. The children worked amazingly well to research their given area, write a script and make some of the props they were going to need. They spoke clearly and were very informative. Well Done Giraffes.
James & Issac Blog No.19, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 8th May 2017 @ 3:12pm
Sorry if we didn't get to inform you on Friday, we couldn't get on the IPad we tried all the other options but it didn't work we are happy to inform you now! In year 4,we did a German recap on days of the week and Monday is Montag etc.We practiced our violin and it was definitely fun! We had to get our violins out and stood up and played to the rhythm it was cool! In English, we wrote poems and they were fun and cool! We listened to Michael Rosens Introduction Song and laughed out loud! In Science, we learned about solids ,liquids and gases.
We have had fun and can't wait for the further week!😀🐯
The Week Ahead, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 7th May 2017 @ 7:49pm
The Bongos have got a busy week ahead of them. We are going to start our check up week on Monday and aim to have all of the assessments done by Friday. However we will monitor how things are going and if needs be we will complete the check ups next week.
In between our check up activities we will be going over fractions, shape and measure in maths. We will be going over lots of areas of grammar in our special grammar books. In spelling we will be looking at words with or after w. Writing this week will see the children writing explanations of the seasons and weather in Britain and an animal themed story.
We will continue to learn about Sikhism in RE and to work on our Henri Rousseau inspired collages.
Trip week😄, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 7th May 2017 @ 2:04pm
Hope everybody enjoyed the glorious weather today let's hope it stays for Thursday!
This Week In:
English - Miss Priestley will be inspiring the children with poetry, learning about some different styles of poems
Maths - our learning will involve finding fractions of amounts and formal written ways to divide, yeah chunking!
Science - the children to work with Miss Priestley continuing to investigate solids, liquids and gases
Geography - we will be learning about the water cycle and of course our trip on Thursday to observe the river Lostock firsthand. Please make sure the children are appropriately dresses for the weather
DT - we will be practising our sewing skills and making patterns for our wallets and purses
We will of course keep our 15 minutes of movement going every day
Another busy but fun week planned!
The Week Ahead - Monday 8th May 2017, by Miss Adamson
Date: 6th May 2017 @ 5:31pm
This is what the Penguins will be working on this week:
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Maths |
We are learning to identify, name and describe the properties of 2D and 3D shapes. |
| English |
We are focusing upon non-fiction texts again. We are reading another Barnaby Bear big book about badgers and then making our own baddgers booklets. |
| Phonics |
We are applying all the graphemes for each of the vowel sounds that we know in reading and writing. This is in preparation for our Phonics Screening Check. There was a letter and parent mail about this. If you have not received it, please let me know! |
| Grammar |
We are learning about different sentence types: command, statement, question and exclamation. |
| Class Assembly |
We are preparing for our class assembly. Well done to all the children who have already learned all of their lines! We are enjoying preparing for the assembly. |
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Handwriting |
We are practising zig-zag letters. |
| Move a Mile |
We are continuing to do our daily Move a Mile in the afternoons. Last week, we enjoyed running in the sunshine on the field! |
I hope that you enjoy the remainder of your weekend and look forward to seeing you all on Monday!
Miss Adamson
Scene painting, by Miss Adamson
Date: 6th May 2017 @ 10:06am
In preparation for our class assembly we have painted our cloudy sky backdrop.
Longton with Barnaby, by Miss Adamson
Date: 6th May 2017 @ 10:04am
We read a Barnaby Bear book to learn a little about a village in Norway. We compared the Norwegian village with Longton. Wonderful collaborative work!
Number bonds to 5 and beyond!, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 5th May 2017 @ 4:30pm
Today we have been thinking of all the different ways to make 5. We looked inside Dora's bag and she had put lots of groups of objects in 5s. Then we added spots to mini beasts and then we had a go at writing a number sentence. Some children made number bonds to 10 and some children even knew how to count in 2s and called it their 2 times table. We are all working very hard.
Artists at work, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 5th May 2017 @ 1:41pm
Today the Bongos are hard at work creating collage backgrounds in the style of the French painter Henri Rousseau.
Before they started their work they went outside to investigate the shapes, sizes and colours of grasses and leaves on the bog garden.
French food , by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 4th May 2017 @ 3:43pm
This week we have been visiting France and speaking French in class. Today we tasted some French food.
Woodland Wednesday, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 3rd May 2017 @ 8:55pm
Princess Fairybelle sent the Meerkats a letter asking them to try out three woodland activities. They had fun in their groups learning together.
James and Nathaniel Blog No.18, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 3rd May 2017 @ 2:57pm
This going Week has been Amazing! In our math we made math dominos and we all had fun playing and making our dominoes! In D&T (Design and technology) we were looking at our own wallets and purses to design our own wallets or purses. In our geography, we have finished our colages of rivers which look AWSOME! (They were made out of paper). Today in our science lesson, we made some goop ! It was so weird and we will show you some pictures. We are learning about solids,liquids and gases and other particals. The middle of the the week has been great and we can't wait for the rest of the week! We have a trainee teacher in our class called Miss Preistly! (Just to let know she's learning from us!) (Edge Hill university)
By James (The Writer) and Assistant Nathaniel (Co. Writer) 🐯😀 P.S Thanks for everyone who came in we made £96.24p
Week beginning 2nd May, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 2nd May 2017 @ 5:42pm
Welcome back feels like we have all had a little holiday , hope you all enjoyed the bank holiday.
This Week our learning will be:
English - completeing our Mousehole Cat story and having a go at writing our version 🐱
Maths - decimals and fractions in the context of measures, converting between measures, problem solving, matching decimals to fractions
Science - introducing our topic ,solids liquids and gases
Music - violin lessons continue🎵🎶
PSHE - circle games
DT - designing our wallets
PE - working with coach Dillon
We are very pleased to welcome Miss Priestley to the Tigers , a trainee teacher working with us for the next 8 weeks.
The children should all have bought a letter home today about our trip to Cuerden Valley exploring rivers, any questions do not hesitate to ask,🚍
😄Mrs Pratten🐯
The Week Ahead - Tuesday 2nd May, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 1st May 2017 @ 9:28pm
I hope you have all had a fantastic Bank Holiday weekend.
We have a busy week in school, preparing for our assembly on Thursday morning. The children will be busy finishing off writing their own material to present and preparing some props. I'm sure you will be as proud of them as I am. They have been keen to go off and research their parts for the assembly and put together a passage to read or perform or to make a prop.
Our spelling activities this week will continue to focus on suffixes. Adding less / ness / ful / ed / in / es / s to root words. We will be continuing to practice words from the Year 3 and 4 statutory word list. Please practice these at home. Several children received their Golden Bike certificates in assembly on Friday. Well done. Don't forget to practice using Spellodrome.
English - To complete our unit on Play scripts we will be writing a play script to go with a silent film clip we have been watching called Dum Spiro. Starting with the dialogue and then adding in the stage directions before the children will have the opportunity to write their own mini play script - a story of their own, or a scene from a story they know well.
Maths - we will continue to develop our understanding of subtraction word problems and methods before moving on to multiplication and division word problems.
Art - we will begin to design our own mosaics and think about different methods we could use to create them.
R.E. - Sikhism. We will be learning about Guru Nanak.
Play scripts , by Mrs Catterall
Date: 1st May 2017 @ 9:10pm
We have been continuing to develop our characterisation through drama in preparation for our writing next week.
DEWA Roman Experience, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 1st May 2017 @ 9:05pm
We had a great day on Monday in Chester. The weather stayed fine for the afternoon as we walked to the Ampitheatre and tried out our battle techniques.
We learnt lots of facts about the Romans. We don't want to give too much away, you can find out all about it during our assembly.
Bongos- The week ahead, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 1st May 2017 @ 12:49pm
I hope all of the Bongos have had a fun Bank Holiday weekend.
This week in English the Bongos will be doing both fiction and non fiction comprehension activities. They will be taking part in grammar challenges and in writing will be writing instructions linked to the activities they have been doing with Mr Pearson on plants. Spelling this week will focus on words including al and all, ar after w and the suffixes ment and ness
Maths this week will be focussing on using inverse opertations to find missing numbers, multiplication, division and more reasoning activities.
In RE we will be continuing to learn about Sikh Gurdwara's.
Art- begin to create the backgrounds for our Henri Rousseau pictures
We will be moving a mile everyday too.
Please remember to bring your reading books to school tomorrow along with your completed homework.
Also remember to use Spellodrome- only a handful of Bongos have been using it and it really is a great way to improve spelling whilst having fun !
See you all tomorrow
The Week Ahead - Tuesday 2nd May 2017, by Miss Adamson
Date: 30th Apr 2017 @ 2:26pm
This week we are preparing for our class assembly on Friday 12th May!
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English |
We are learning about Barnaby Bear's travels and making our own information booklet about Longton for him. |
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Maths |
We are learning about capacity and reading scales in litres and millilitres. We will also be practising addition and subtraction including missing number questions. |
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Phonics and GPS |
Mrs Gray's group are reading and writing polysyllabic words. Miss Adamson's group are learning about homophones. |
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Handwriting |
We are continuing to work our way through groups of letters. |
| Move a mile |
We are continuing to practise our move a mile daily. |
| Class Assembly |
We are using our time in the afternoons to prepare for our class assembly. |
I hope that you enjoy the rest of the bank holiday weekend!
Look forward to seeing you on Tuesday,
Miss Adamson
James and Samuel Blog No.17 , by Mrs Pratten
Date: 28th Apr 2017 @ 3:06pm
This Week In Year 4,we have started to play the violin! Anyway, in Geography we have been studying rivers and looking at how they form. We had a demonstration on Wednesday and it was fun! We played a game about matching river defenations and the words together correctly. Today, we brung In wallets and purses to think about our designes for our own wallets and purses we are going to make in the future! We tried to finish our river collages (in Geography) that we started yesterday but we didn't get to finish them!
By James (The Writer) and Samuel (The Idea Giver)😀🐯
Friday fun!, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 28th Apr 2017 @ 2:52pm
We have had a great week thinking about the United Kingdom. We have visited England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Next week we hop across the sea by ferry to France and we may visit Spain on our travels.
Have a lovely bank holiday weekend and see you on Tuesday x
Bubbles, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 28th Apr 2017 @ 1:03pm
Today the title of our writing is Bubbles. To help fire up our ideas we watched a short cartoon about a boy who floated away in a bubble. We also went outside and blew some bubbles and as they floated away imagined what adventure's we would have if we could float away inside a big bubble.
Homework, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 27th Apr 2017 @ 9:15pm
Homework this week is to complete the grammar pack, read at least 4 times and use Spellodrome. I will be updating the word lists over the weekend.
James and Hannah Blog No.16, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 26th Apr 2017 @ 2:36pm
Year 4 have been working hard on trying to advertise our enterprise to the school! We have had lots of guests in to help us with our cooking! We baked pizza cookies,fruit kebabs,cheese and bacon rolls and wraps. (The selection of wraps are ham,chicken,cheese,cucumber peppers and spicy chicken) The fruit kebabs are rainbow coulerd a.k.a strawberry=red orange=orange pineapple=yellow etc. The pizza cookie cost 50p a slice. The cheese and bacon whirls are £1.00 each. The wraps are £1.00 each and the fruit kebabs cost 50p a stick
Hope You Enjoy! 😁 (Many thanks to the people who helped us bake!)
(the pizza cookies have lots of different sweets on them a.k.a jelly tots,jelly babies,jelly beans.)
Cake making for the step outside open day, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 25th Apr 2017 @ 6:45pm
Today we have been chefs making cakes and homemade lemonade for the open day tomorrow. We have worked really hard.
the underpants rule, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 24th Apr 2017 @ 8:07pm
We have a busy week ahead as we travel around the UK by train. Today we talked about the UK and we vivited London with Barnaby Bear. Throughout the week we will be stopping off at Scotland Ireland and Wales - we are true jetsetters! On Wednesday it is the Step Outside Open Day with lots of fun activities planned and a chance for you to come into school and join your child in the great outdoors.
As part of our PSHE we had a circle time today about the 'underpants rule'. It is all about keeping ourselves safe and being able to say no confidently.
We used the NSPCC resources which are very child friendly and tell children information in a fun but sensible manner. You can watch the short animation about pantosaurus online.