Our blogs
Our Easter Holidays, by Miss Adamson
Date: 21st Apr 2017 @ 5:10pm
I was so impressed by the children's effort when they wrote about their Easter holidays!
Run a Mile, by Miss Adamson
Date: 21st Apr 2017 @ 5:06pm
We had lots of fun on our run and enjoyed the smoothies too! Thank you for your support!
James and William Mc No.15, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 21st Apr 2017 @ 3:05pm
Welcome to a new term! In Year 4, we have a new topic in Geography, Rivers! We are now learning about the River Ribble. We have also started running a mile a day. Yesterday, we had some nice slushes mixed with smoothies! Today, we did a fun run on the field. We had a good time and everyone enjoyed it. We did 3-Legged races,Running, Hula hooping, dribbling with a football and wheelbarrows! We had a Realy good time and we can't wait for next week!
By James And William Mc (Writers and developers of the Blog) 😀🐯
Art, by Miss Leigh
Date: 21st Apr 2017 @ 2:04pm
The front of school is looking rather beautiful so instead of drawing flowers from a vase, we ventured out and sketched what we saw. We focused on drawing what we could see and trying to show depth in our sketches.
It's been a busy week., by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 21st Apr 2017 @ 1:49pm
Well what a busy week! It's been four jam packed days of fun and learning. The Bongos have come back after their Easter break ready to impress with their behaviour for learning. Highlights of the week have been the assembly by Isaac Towers, the smoothies, move a mile, acting out emotions as we come through a door, telling Mrs Fletcher that she has 47 fingers !!!!
The children have worked hard in maths this week showing just how amazing their place value knowledge is - well done everybody 😀
The children have also impressed me with their work on past and present tense and have been showing off their knowledge of grammar and punctuation in today's writing lesson.
Don't forget to have a go on Spellodrome over the weekend .
What an action packed day! , by Mrs Catterall
Date: 20th Apr 2017 @ 9:45pm
Today has been an exciting day in lots of ways.
We spent the first half an hour this morning sat in our newly extended room, taking in our new surroundings, being excited by the space and the freshly painted walls. Then the move started. The children were extremely sensible carrying the tables and moving all our belongings into our room. We are still in the process of putting everything back in its place so photos will follow next week.
After play we had a special assembly as we welcomed Isaac into school. Isaac Towers is 18 years old and a paralympian athlete who competed in Rio last year. He explained his bike to us and we got to see his medals, they were quite heavy!
This afternoon we completed our move for 15 mins. There were some very red faces at the end, I don't think they realised that running for 15 mins without stopping was going to be so tough. Everyone got into the spirit and we had some skipping and hopping as well. We finished off with our delicious smoothies.
As well as Art and History it has certainly been a fantastic action packed day.
Monday's times table practise., by Mrs Catterall
Date: 20th Apr 2017 @ 9:25pm
On Monday we had great fun making a quick game to help us practise our 4x and 8x tables. We wrote the calculation on one side of a piece of card and the answer on the other. We showed our partner the calculation and they recalled the answer to win the card. The second time around the person was shown the answer and they had to recall the calculation. There was hardly a sound in class as they all concentrated hard to win the cards. Many of the children chose to take their game home to continue practising.
Space - hooray!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 19th Apr 2017 @ 9:14pm
We moved back into our classroom today , hooray, we love it!!!
What a wonderful day., by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 18th Apr 2017 @ 9:31pm
Well the sun was shining, the children were full of excitement about their Easter holidays and as usual we were outside.
This Week - Tuesday 18th April 2017, by Miss Adamson
Date: 18th Apr 2017 @ 8:47pm
Happy Easter!
I hope that you have had a wonderful time over the Easter break!
This is what the Penguins are doing this week.
| Maths |
We are learning about number and place value. We are reviewing the difference between tens and ones and finding ten more and ten less. |
| English |
We are reading Percy the Park Keeper stories, writing questions, learning about the main character and planning our own story. |
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Phonics and GPS |
Mrs Gray's group and Miss Adamson's group are revising alternative spellings. Miss Adamson's group are also practising spelling words with double consonants and contractions and revising different word types which we learned about before the holidays. |
| Handwriting |
We are practising letter formation of different groups of letters (curly caterpillars, ladder letters, zig-zag monsters and one-armed robots. |
| PE |
We are learning about catching. |
| Science |
We are beginning to learn about objects as part of our materials topic. |
Curriculum letter will come home in book bags this week. I'll pop an electronic copy on the class page.
Warm regards,
Miss Adamson
Welcome back, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 18th Apr 2017 @ 7:22pm
Hope you all had a great Easter, had a good rest and are ready for more exciting learning!
This week in English we are starting our new class book 'The Mousehole Cat' . We are looking at the characters and using lots of descriptive language for the setting.
In spelling the focus is on words spelt with 'sc' which make the sound 's' e.g. Scent
Maths this week is looking at at continuous data graphs, collecting our own data and drawing graphs. We are also revising adding 4 digits.
Geography work will be looking at what a river is and locating local rivers and other water features e.g. lakes,canals,seas using ordanance survey maps.
We will start thinking about our DT projects, this week ,which is to designate wallet/ purse. Our first lesson will be looking at a selection of different wallets and purses to see how they fasten, what material they are made from. Bring in your favourite wallet/ purse for us to look at.
It is our turn for the enterprise challenge next week, if you have any ideas for a savoury snack we could make,or would like to come in and help us cook, you are more than welcome, please let me know.
The most exciting news for us us that we can move back into our new and improved classroom, we can't wait!
Wecome back to the Summer Term , by Miss Leigh
Date: 18th Apr 2017 @ 3:09pm
Welcome back and I hope you've had a chocolatly visit from the Easter Bunny and had plenty of great adventures in the 2 weeks off. Today has been a wonderful start to the Summer term with the sun welcoming us to a very exciting week ahead.
Our theme this term is Amazon Adventure
English - We will be writing descriptions of tropical rainforests and begining to read our class novel. Journey to the River Sea.
Guided Reading - this week will be slightly different with us focusing on whole class reading activities. We will be using Kensuke's Kingdom to do this.
Maths- Mean, Mode and Median followed by exploring decimals and application of decimals in context.
Art: We will be looking at and sketching different kinds of leaves
PE: Will be Gymnastics and we will be working on ABC with Dylan.
Science: We will begin our work on life cycles, starting with plants.
Geography : We will learn about the 2 different kinds of Rainforest as well as where they are located and how they are different.
I have also sent home thi terms curriculumn outline.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.
Miss Leigh
The Week Ahead - Tuesday 18th April 2017, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 17th Apr 2017 @ 9:36pm
I hope you have all enjoyed a relaxing Easter break and are looking forward to the Summer Term. Hopefully the weather will become warmer.
Each week I will be posting an overview of the sorts of things we will be learning about over the week.
Maths We will be developing our understanding and speed in recalling times table and related division facts.
2x 3x 4x 5x 8x 10x. We will look at multiplying larger numbers by 50 or 100. This will include using the grid method and solving problems using data from tables and graphs.
English Our unit for the next few weeks will be 'Play scripts'. There will be lots of opportunities to work in a group to read and perform some scenes as well as looking at the layout and features of a playscript text.
GPS This week our focus is on spelling words with the suffix ed, ing, s, es, identifying adverbs in sentences and continuing to look for examples of main and subordinate clauses.
P.E. Our unit for this half term is Games, we will be developing skills in sending a receiving a ball and moving into a space to recieve a pass.
History This half term we are learning about The Romans. We will begin by learning about how the Romans came to Britain and about the story of Boudicca's rebellion against the Romans.
Art We will be looking at examples of Roman Mosaics.
R.E. This week we will be exploring 'leaders'. Who are leaders in our local community, the country, the world? What/Who do they lead? How do they lead?
I look forward to seeing you all tomorrow and finding out about your Easter adventures.
Mrs Catterall
The Week Ahead, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 17th Apr 2017 @ 5:26pm
I hope everybody has had a good holiday and that the Easter Bunny visited you all.
Here is a brief outline of some of the things we will be getting up to over the next few days.
English Maths
- guided reading estimating the position of numbers on number lines
- past and present tense counting on and back in 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s
- prediction partitioning numbers in different ways
- inference using = < and > to compare numbers
- spelling words ending in el and le
- sory writing- Through The Door
RE think about the significance of doors and the feelings they instil in us when they are opened or closed. Talk about different doors we know and use.
Music learn Paul McCartney's song Little Willow
As well as thiese activities the children will be doing English, Maths, ICT,PE and Science with Mr Pearson on Thursday.
I am looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow morning, with Jury Service and the holidays it seems a long time since I was with you all. I have missed you all.
Journeys around the world and more....., by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 17th Apr 2017 @ 11:32am
Hope you have all had a lovely Easter holiday and a good rest ready for the last full term of being in Reception. This half term we are learning about different places around the world and using different forms of transport to get there. A curriculum letter will be sent out in the first week.
Week commencing 18th April we will be thinking about our Easter holidays and what Easter means to us, this is a great start to our half term as children have had experience of Easter and so will be able to share some ideas with their friends. We will also be looking at a story called the naughty bus. This is a great link for PSHE and thinking about friendships and behaviour. The naughty bus will get up to all kinds of mischief. Next week we will then think about travelling around the UK by train and that is where our journey will begin with a story called the train ride and then we will think about the UK.
See you all on Tuesday.
A few more hats...., by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 30th Mar 2017 @ 8:54pm
What a lot of wonderful Easter bonnets, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 30th Mar 2017 @ 8:48pm
Take a look.....
Easter fun, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 30th Mar 2017 @ 8:34pm
As always a busy fun filled week. We've been busy trying to make some Easter goodies. We are looking forward to seeing lots of you at church on Friday for the Easter Assembly.
After the holidays I have planned an outdoor open day for Wednesday 26thApril from 2pm onwards. All reception parents and grandparents will be very welcome to come along and have a look at what we have been doing outside. More info will follow....hope everyone has a lovely Easter x
Easter Bonnet Parade, by Miss Adamson
Date: 30th Mar 2017 @ 6:10pm
all of the Easter bonnets were incredible. What a lot of hard work! Thank you for your amazing effort! We had the parade indoors this year to keep the bonnets dry. Sorry that the photos are quite blurry.
Speedy maths, by Miss Leigh
Date: 30th Mar 2017 @ 1:52pm
Sometimes you get that excited about maths you just have to grab the nearest thing you can so that you can solve the problem. Great work Bears! 
Mrs. Pratten's Blog 1, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 29th Mar 2017 @ 4:39pm
The Tigers had fun in the sun working on their maps and also painting their peppers. They have really enjoyed researching and planning their chronological reports which are looking good!
Toys Trip, by Miss Adamson
Date: 29th Mar 2017 @ 8:11am
Here are the photos I didnt manage to upload the first time. Oops!
Bring yer wellies, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 28th Mar 2017 @ 5:32pm
Wow the weather was fab, the venue was fun and the children were amazing!
Painting Doilies, by Miss Adamson
Date: 28th Mar 2017 @ 3:43pm
These will be transformed into lovely Easter eggs!
Toys Trip, by Miss Adamson
Date: 28th Mar 2017 @ 3:38pm
We had a wonderful time at The Harris Museum today. We made a toy timeline, made a peg doll, played with some old toys and drew pictures so that we remember what we learned.
