Year 6: The Elephants: Blog items
Home Learning updates, by Mr Pearson
Date: 31st Mar 2020 @ 11:46am
Lots of updated ideas and websites to aid home learning.
Now in a tiered sections
3. Worth trying but not essential
4. For your information - You might be interested.
Check them all at Home Learning
Daily maths lessons , by Mr Pearson
Date: 24th Mar 2020 @ 8:12am
Fantastic daily maths lesson including video, activity sheet and answers. Closely linked to what your child would have been learning in school.
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/
We as a school use White Rose maths as a scheme of learning in aiding our planning and supporting our teaching of maths.
Twinkl free password, by Mrs Brown
Date: 21st Mar 2020 @ 11:15am
Hello,
As the Coronavirus spreads, we’re aware that more schools are closing and pupils’ learning is being disrupted. Parents, carers and teachers are looking for ways to ensure the continuity of education during school closures so that no children miss out on valuable learning time.
To support you during this period, Twinkl is offering every teacher in England access to all Twinkl resources with a One Month Ultimate Membership, totally free of charge. We’re also extending this to every parent and carer in your school so your pupils can still have access to high-quality learning during any periods of disruption.
Setting this up is really easy to do - go to www.twinkl.co.uk/offer and enter the code UKTWINKLHELPS
We’d like your support to get this message out. Please let your wider school and leadership team know about this opportunity so that you can all share it with your school community.
Please also share this code with parents and share the link above on your website so parents know where to activate their code.
We’ve also put together some helpful guidance to outline a few ideas for how you can support parents and carers during school closures, ensure high quality learning continues and support teachers, parents and carers to make the most from this offer of help.
If you are an existing Twinkl subscriber on Core or Extra you will be able to use this code to upgrade your current membership using the same link as above.
It’s easy to arrange access yourself through our website. If you do have any questions please get in touch with our TwinklCares team. As we are supporting people globally please bear in mind that we are receiving a large number of enquiries so please only get in touch if your enquiry is of an urgent nature at twinklcares@twinkl.co.uk
You can also visit our website - www.twinkl.co.uk
Our thoughts are with everyone affected by the Coronavirus outbreak and we hope that this will go some way towards helping.
Home Learning whilst closed, by Mrs Brown
Date: 18th Mar 2020 @ 10:50pm
Following the Government’s announcement, we are currently closed. Please engage with the home learning which has been set up for your child. You can obviously be creative and add to these. We would love to see what you get up to. If you email the odd photo of what you are up to we will try our best to add to the website - bursar@longton.lancs.sch.uk.
For home learning go to the curriculum tab on our website, go to the bottom and you will find the home learning link. Depending on how long we are closed will depend on how much will be added. We hope you all stay happy and healthy and enjoy time with your families and loved ones.
World Book Day, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 7th Mar 2020 @ 8:50am
The children have had a wonderful day. We used a scene from Ronald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to pose a scientific question: can sweets grow bigger? Using gummy bears and water the children set out to find the answer. They placed their bears in pots with a small amount of water and left them for an hour. Mrs Fletcher wasn’t allowed any water for her bear to make it a fair test. After an hour the children found that the bears in water had grown to be twice the size of Mrs Fletcher’S bear.
Next the children became architects , designing buildings made from sweets. They then wrote letters to Willy Wonka to tell him about their buildings.
After dinner we added to the whole school story before learning how to make origami books. The children then became authors and illustrators creating their own science or space themed books.
The children have all had an amazing day, I hope they enjoy sharing their new books with you and don’t forget to spend the book vouchers.
World Book Day 2020 science and space, by Mrs Masterson
Date: 6th Mar 2020 @ 11:21am
This world book day most people came in and science or space themed outfits to fit with our whole school year theme of moon landings. We loved the fact that most people went with the principle of it is the thought that counts not the cost of the outfits - very eco! Luckily, our school is very creative and we have seen some amazing ideas for the theme. Today we have also included another whole school write,starting in year six all the way to reception and seeing what wonderful story writing can be comprehended into it! At the end of the day we will have a big assembly and read through the excellent work we have created.
by Eddie and Emily J
Elephant Tribe Homework, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 5th Mar 2020 @ 12:22pm
This week your homework is to learn the words for the songs for our production. Mrs Catterall has uploaded the tracks onto the class page for you to sing a long to.
Faith Week, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 3rd Mar 2020 @ 11:01am
It is a busy week in school with Faith Week and World Book Day events planned. Today the Elephants are learning facts , beliefs and symbols of the 6 major world religions. I was impressed when at the start of the session when the class named 5 of the 6 religions.
We are looking forward to celebration assembly this afternoon when some of the tribe will be speaking and others will be receiving achievement certificates. 🐘
Play - songs to learn, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 27th Feb 2020 @ 3:10pm
Last day of the term, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 14th Feb 2020 @ 11:23am
It may be the last day of the half term but yet again the Elephabts are being excellent learners. They have all done an amazing job using imperative verbs to write instructions on how to make egg and cress sandwiches.
Every child has been in the kitchen to make an egg and cress sandwich with Mrs Woolley.
We have looked at the weather in 5 European cities or towns and have thought about appropriate clothes to wear in the weather conditions today. We have discovered that in Portugal it’s sunny and in other locations it’s snowing or gale force winds.
This afternoon the children are having a party as their compliment treat.
Mrs Woolley and I wish you all a lovely half term
Year 2 SATS , by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 13th Feb 2020 @ 10:57pm
Thank you to the parents who attended the meeting this evening. The presentation is available on the class oage.
We will be doing our SATs the week beginning Monday May 4th
Elephants Excel, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 9th Feb 2020 @ 8:59pm
The Elephants have completed their compliment sheet and will be having their compliment treat on Friday 14th February. They have voted to have a party afternoon with games and activities. They will be making their own egg and cress sandwiches on Friday morning to eat at the party using cress that we have been growing in our science lessons,
The children have been working really hard in class and are enjoying collecting ideas and vocabulary for their own historical stories.
Projects, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 2nd Feb 2020 @ 4:37pm
It was great to chat to so many oarents at the Parents evening meetings this wee.
Thank you for all of the amazing prjects thaty have been brought into school. They are all wonderful and we appreciate all of the hard work that has gone into them.
Homework this week is in the red homework bags and is a comprehension task. The children are all used to this type of activity so should just need encouragement to get it done.
Charity - Australia fundraising, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 24th Jan 2020 @ 7:50pm
Thankyou to everyone who donated their loose change to our Australian fire campaign. This afternoon the children covered a map of Australia and the words adopt a koala. The coins covered it all perfectly.
Linda will be adding it all up next week and then I’ll let you know the total.
Thank you again.
Seed dispersal, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 21st Jan 2020 @ 2:32pm
This afternoon the children have once again been scientists. They have been learning about seed dispersal and then had fun making sycamore seeds which are an example of a helicopter seed that disperses in the wind .
Royal Learning , by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 17th Jan 2020 @ 2:56pm
Today we have started to learn the history of the British Monarchy . King Thomas of London and Queen Cara of Cardiff have had a coronation . Say your elephant what their royal name is .
Reading Rocket, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 8th Jan 2020 @ 10:38am
Our Reading Rocket is now complete.
Well done to Year 3 and Mrs Atkinson and everyone who brought in egg boxes.
Christmas party for reception year 1 and year 2, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 19th Dec 2019 @ 1:47pm
Christmas Dinner Day 2019, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 11th Dec 2019 @ 9:07pm
We enjoyed a scrumptios Christma dinner today follwed by an amazing magic show
Rocket Day, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 26th Nov 2019 @ 9:29pm
It has been a truly amazing day . We started with an assembly where Steve from Starchaser told us about his company, how he bacame interested in rockets, his career and the Nova 2 rocket.
We also went outside to look at the rocket . It had been made smaller so it can be moved around the roads. When it blasts off in May it will be 12 meters long, the longest rocket to be launched in the UK.
Next we had fun looking in the special space box learning about the materials used to build rockets, rubberised rocket fuel, astronaut food and lots more.
As a treat the Elephants got to taste some astronaut freeze dried ice cream . They learnt how it was made and thought about its taste and texture.
Writing was next. We looked at videos of the command capsule of Apollo 11 , we found out that the astronauts were lying down when they blasted off. As we watched the rocket lift off we used our senses to imagine what it would have been like to have been on the mission to the moon. The children were using very impressive vocabulary.
The day finished outside where parents and grandparents joined us to watch 2 rockets be launched. Our very own Poppy was selected to launch one of the rockets.
A wonderful day of learning and life long memories .
Rockets launches , by Mr Pearson
Date: 26th Nov 2019 @ 8:14pm
Film of the end of school rocket launches
Guided Reading, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 25th Nov 2019 @ 7:53pm
Today the Elephants have had an amazing guided reading session. Mrs Fletcher’s groups looked at The Littlest Dragon through their phonics and grammar lens. They did a great job choosing a word they could read and explaining why it was a tricky word using their phonics.
Busy Elephants , by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 24th Nov 2019 @ 9:20pm
The Elephants have had another busy week. They continued to learn about the moon, have learnt facts about the USA and been scary aliens in dance.
They have enjoyed the challenge of have a go spelling and rainbow spelling this week and did an amazing job learning the progressive past and present tense in English. In maths we have been busy learning about multiplication
Please can any remaining boxes , tubes etc come into school this coming week so we can begin making our space buggies. Also any bits of yellow packaging, paper, fabric would be much appreciated for our candle to go in church.
Remembrance Day , by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 11th Nov 2019 @ 9:15pm
The children all looked wonderful in their Remembrance Day outfits. Thank you everyone for making such a wonderful effort. We have spent the day remembering . After play the classs joined in the whole school service of remembrance. After that we looked at a verse from the poem Fallen and thought about its meaning. This afternoon the children wrote down their thought about what memories are before listening to a story which helped tem to understand the meaning of memories even more. Next they wrote about who we remember on Remembrance Day and the ways in which we remember.
We even had time to elect Poppy and Theo as Rotakids and we finished the day listening to some Michael Rosen poems which we found very funny.
Parliament Week, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 10th Nov 2019 @ 3:17pm
This week the children have learnt about Parliament, the Gunpowder plot and had fun completing a bonfire night themed maths challenge.
on Friday Pippa brought Rainbow bear into school to visit us.
in DT we have been designing moon buggies. Please can the children collect cereal boxes, plastic bottles and cardboard tubes to use to build their buggies.
