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Walking Bus, brake charity awareness, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 13th Jun 2018 @ 1:45pm

Thank you very much to all the children and parents/grandparents who joined us on our walking bus this morning, it was lovely to see you all there.  We certainly made a long bus this morning. 

It was a lovely start to the day, the opportunity to chat with a friend, enjoy the lovely weather as well as a bit of exercise.  Remember we walk every day from booths, leaving at 8:30.

Here are a few photos.

Fathers day, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 12th Jun 2018 @ 9:41pm

Dance from the heart, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 12th Jun 2018 @ 9:38pm

We had so much fun x

Welcome back, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 11th Jun 2018 @ 6:26pm

Hi and welcome back, I can’t believe we are in our last half term.Hope everyone had a fabulous break and managed to enjoy the amazing weather.

Today in Maths we were learning about reading scales in measures. We recapped the different ways we can measure and focussed today on measuring the temperature. Our challenge was to find the coldest temperature (the shade) and the hottest temperature ( in the sun)  on the playground. We are going to be completing this every day this week and making comparisons. We had to wait patiently for the thermometer to settle so we could read the temperature.

In English we are learning a poem to perform for you in our assembly (which is coming up next week)

We also did our first move it time , keeping active for 15 minutes it was harder than we thought!

 

Week Beginning Monday 11th June 2018, by Mrs Coxhead

Date: 9th Jun 2018 @ 11:18am

Hello :)

I hope you have had a wonderful holiday.

Here is the plan for next week:

Phonics

This week the Meerkats will be completing the national phonics check. The checks will be administered on Tuesday and Wednesday. On Monday we will spend time reviewing all we've learned in phonics so far.

English

We are going to review our holidays and write a recipe for a perfect holliday.

Maths

We are reviewing telling the time and solving problems involving earlier and later.

Jigsaw

We are beginning our Chaning Me topic. This week's lesson is about is about human and animal life cycles. 

PE

We are practising running and throwing in athletics. 

Enterprise

We are preparing for our class enterprise afternoon which will be on Wednesday 20th June.

History

We will begin to learn about the life of Grace Darling.

I look forward to seeing you all on Monday!

Mrs Coxhead

The week ahead - 11th June, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 7th Jun 2018 @ 10:56pm

I hope you have had a wonderful relaxing holiday.  The weather has been amazing, let's hope it continues. 

This week we will be a busy one, we have dance from the heart on Tuesday, Fathers Day lunch on Tuesday and Wednesday, also on Wednesday we will be thinking about road safety as part of the charity Brake. On Friday it is non-uniform day to bring in items for the Summer fair next week.

In class 

English.  We are starting a Paddington themed unit this week.  When I've discussed it with the children I will send more details of our plans. This will link into writing instructions this week.

Maths - our focus will be on Place Value this week. Adding and subtracting 1,10,100. Ordering and comparing numbers.  Problem solving and reasoning tasks related to these aspects. 

P.E. tennis skills, we will also be starting our daily mile run/walk.  Over the holidays a special track has been created around the field, if finished we will be able to give it a go this week. 

R.E. our unit this half term is Church as a community, leading others.  This week our focus will be on the work and lives of Desmond Tutu and Martin Luther King.

Art - we will be creating some cards for Father's Day. 

PSHE - Jigsaw.  We will be finishing off last terms unit by focusing our relationships with the world in regarding to supporting charities. Our focus will be on the work of UNICEF

DT - On Thursday we have hoping to do some baking to link with our English work on following instructions. 

On Friday of this week we will be devoting the whole day to our topic work.  The children will be in a group of 6 and carry out a number of tasks linked to one of our topic curriculum areas - History, Geography, DT, Art, Science.  Over the next 5 weeks they will experience a day for each of the topic areas.

Mrs Catterall 

 

Arts Week - Barbados Day, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 7th Jun 2018 @ 10:38pm

Our theme was Barbados.  We carried out activities to find out about this Commonwealth Country.

We used the iPads to research; the flag, size of the country, population, capital city, animals that could be found there as well as other interesting facts.

We found out about the important festival known as he 'Crop Over', which celebrates the end of the sugar cane harvest.  At the end of this they have a huge carnival style parade. We made bright and colourful masks like they might wear.

We also looked at the work of another artist who creates scenes of the colourful beach side huts. 

The children really focused and concentrated, some of the designs were very detailed. 

We finished off the day learning a dance from Barbados.  It was fantastic, Mrs Catterall joined in and had a great time. 

 

Dance From The Heart Video Link, by Miss Leigh

Date: 5th Jun 2018 @ 10:59am

https://vimeo.com/259562475 

Here is the link to this years Dance From The Heart if you would like to rehearese at home.  

 

Arts week day 5, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 25th May 2018 @ 4:14pm

Today we enjoyed working with Peter Bourne completing  poppies on the front of school and painting fishes. We also made our own stampers and enjoyed printing patterns.

Hope everyone enjoyed Arts week and have a fab holiday!☀️👍🏖😎

Arts week day 4, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 25th May 2018 @ 4:10pm

Yestaerday we travelled over to New Zealand and learnt about Maoris and the artist Raewyn Harris. She uss the Koru leaf as inspiration for her artwork.It looks like a a curled up fern and is a traditional symbol with meaning for the Maori people. It symbolises new life, strength, peace and growth.

We went outside and enjoyed sketching English leafs.

Commonwealth Composing, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 25th May 2018 @ 10:53am

This morning the children finished composing their Commonwealth songs/raps. We have videoed them for you to enjoy . 

 

Scottish Dance, by Mrs Coxhead

Date: 24th May 2018 @ 6:18pm

We learned a Scottish Dance this afternoon.

Ndebele Houses, by Mrs Coxhead

Date: 24th May 2018 @ 6:17pm

We looked at some of the Ndebele house painting in South Africa and created our own versions.

Diva lamp painting, by Mrs Coxhead

Date: 24th May 2018 @ 6:15pm

Once our clay had dried we painted our lamps and added some glitter to catch the light.

Production Time!, by Miss Reynolds

Date: 24th May 2018 @ 3:18pm

As I'm sure many of you already have found out, our class production this year is Robin and The Sherwood Hoodies. Everyone has had their parts now and we've started having a little read through of the script, so we have some ideas what our characters are like. Our production isn't until early July, but I thought it would be best if we got a headstart on learning our lines and sourcing bits for costumes while we've got this nice long break. Everyone has got a full script because it was much easier than copying individual lines  and lyrics as this is quite a large play, so people have lines here there and everywhere (I didn't want to kill Mrs Woolley with photocopying!)

I thought it would be helpful to put the songs up here, that way people can get a wiggle on with learning them (and possibly thinking up a few dance move suggestions if you're feeling up to it!) One of the songs I have shortened because it seemed to go on forever, but if you check your script you'll see where it is. :) 

I hope you all have a lovely half term and I look forward to working on the production with you all after the holidays.

Miss R.

School Games sports day, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 24th May 2018 @ 12:32pm

What a fabulous afternoon we had for our School Games sports day yesterday. The children all had a great afternoon taking part in the activity stations and then competing in the races. A big thank you to all the children ,spectators and staff for all helping to make it such an enjoyable afternoon. Well done to red  team 2 for gaining the most individual team points and a big congratulatio

Jamaican dancing , by Miss Leigh

Date: 24th May 2018 @ 11:36am

We learnt a little bit of Jamaican dancing.  

Sri Lanka, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 24th May 2018 @ 11:30am

Today started with a dance session in the hall. The class did an amazing job learning a dance from Sri Lanka.

Back in class the children were challenged o create 3D models based on Sri Lankan masks. They had to think symmetry, size, shape, colour and type of paper to use to create the models.

Arts week day 3, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 23rd May 2018 @ 8:31pm

The Penguins enjoyed looking at some more paintings by Jamini Roy, with an animal theme. We also added in some fabulous Indian inspired patterns to our elephant , which will join the others being completed by the meerkats and Reception.

 

 

Arts week, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 23rd May 2018 @ 11:36am

What we have done so far.

Arts Week - Tuesday pm, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 22nd May 2018 @ 10:03pm

This afternoon we looked at the work of Malawi artist, Hamban Mhone. 

We copied his work then put our own spin on it to create a UK focused piece.

More photos to follow. 

Arts Week - Tuesday, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 22nd May 2018 @ 9:57pm

Today we had a visit from an artist, Caroline.  She explained to us how she turns a sheep's fleece into wool, how she uses onion skin and daffodils to dye it and then how she uses it to weave. 

We had a go at weaving wool, it was a bit fiddly and tricky, it took a long time.  It looks amazing, we are very proud of our work. 

Arts Week -Monday , by Mrs Catterall

Date: 22nd May 2018 @ 9:40pm

On Monday we wore badges of the 53 commonwealth nations.  We stood in a circle and passed the string from country to country in the order in which they joined the Commonwealth to create this web.  We found out that some countries such as South Africa joined, then left, then joined again! 

What links all the countries is the common language of English along with sharing common values and principles as set out in the Commonwealth Charter.   We also used atlases to locate the different countries and had a guess the country flag competition. 

In the afternoon we drew action poses to show the different sports in the Commonwealth Games.  Then 2 Science teachers and some 6th form students came to class.  We tested different foods for starch and fat. Athletes need the energy from these foods when carrying out their sport. 

Roman Mosaics, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 22nd May 2018 @ 9:38pm

Shape challenge, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 22nd May 2018 @ 9:36pm

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Lancashire
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