Year 6: The Meerkats: Blog items
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.
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 day 2, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 22nd May 2018 @ 3:48pm
Today we enjoyed listening to the brass and wind musicians from girls high, we had fun singing along to Mama Mia!
We then finished off our pictures in the style of Jamini Roy, they look fab!
Arts week day one, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 21st May 2018 @ 4:13pm
We enjoyed our first day of Arts week with a visit from a local artist, Sarah Hicks, we had fun creating a sunset background, practised our printing skills and then put it all together to create fabulous silhouette pictures African style.
In the afternoon we looked at an Indian artist Jimini Roy, we practised sketching small details from his paintings and then drew our outline shape of a face in his style. We painted them so they are ready to use with oil pastels tomorrow.
Royal weeding celebrations , by Mrs Pratten
Date: 21st May 2018 @ 4:06pm
The Penguins celebrated the Royal wedding with lovely lunch,
Brickcroft bug hunting, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 16th May 2018 @ 7:29pm
Year 2 had a fantastic time at the Brickcroft this afternoon. A lovely picnic lunch, followed by pond dipping (fortunately no children dipping!!) and we also had a good time looking for mini beasts in the wood part. We found lots of interesting things, tadpoles, water boatmen, water fleas and even centipedes and millipedes which escaped us at school.
A big thank you to all the helpers who came with us
Hunting for mini beasts , by Mrs Pratten
Date: 9th May 2018 @ 4:01pm
This afternoon the Penguins proved to be excellent mini beast hunters. We discussed the best places to find them, what habitat they needed and off we went. We found all sorts, worms, slugs, ants, wood lice, snail, ladybird.Evie even managed to catch a fly! Luke and Oliver even found a reindeer!!!!!!
Cricket fun, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 3rd May 2018 @ 5:07pm
Today the Penguins enjoyed a cricket session, learning to hit the wickets, hit the ball as well as practising our throwing and catching skillls. They all enjoyed the session and should have bought home details of how they can join New Longton cricket club and take part in some coaching sessions. There was lots of good skill on show - well done Penguins!
Assembly blog, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 27th Apr 2018 @ 7:32am
Friendship was the theme in today's assembly. When we walked into the hall there was a question, that question was what does being a good friend mean to you ? We had a challenge where we had to finish a sentence with a different thing about our friends. One of the sentence starters was my friend is different to me because... we came up with because we are all unique! We then had some time to think about the qualities of our best friend. Good friends listen, so we looked at, the rules of listening. The rules of listening are: be still, look at the speaker, nod and look interested and ask questions that relate on what the speaker is saying. We were talking about how a good friend says nice things to us and how it makes us feel happy. We said that you can give your friends a positive stroke. We don't physically stroke them, but we give them a compliment or say well done. This makes the person you said it to feel happy, just like when you stroke a cat, it feels good and makes them happy and purr.
by Gracie and Abigail
Picture News - British Values - w/c 23rd April, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 27th Apr 2018 @ 7:27am
Sorry for the dealy, I didnt make it go live!
If you have Gracie and Abigail's Assembly Blog from Monday you will have discovered our topic for discussion this week was Loneliness.
Wonderful Wednesday!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 25th Apr 2018 @ 3:47pm
The Penguins enjoyed a busy day today, preparing healthy snacks as part of our Jigsaw work (and teatsing them of course!) and a visit from the fire service.
This morning we were busy chopping, scooping and preparing our healthy snacks, popcorn raisins, veggie dip, avocado dip, fruity scones and fruit kebabs. The best bit was tasting them this afternoon and voting for our favourite, it was...fruit kebabs ,closely followed by popcorn raisins.
This afternoon we had a visit from the fire service talking to the children about fire safety. Homework check up, does your child know their address and have you checked your smoke alarm recently? It would be useful to discuss a fire plan with the children , just in case.
Mondays assembly blog, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 23rd Apr 2018 @ 8:09pm
Blog written by our year 6 PSHE leaders
Today's assembly was about what does loneliness feel like? Loneliness may be when you are homeless , alone and left out. The U.K., sadly, has loneliness problems. Many people assume that it is just elderly people who are lonely, but 1 in 20 Young people have actually said they are lonely, they are the heart of the problem. Some of the cause of being lonely are if you are starting a new school or if you are just naturally shy. We looked at some pictures with groups of children in them, we had to think, which child was feeling lonely, on one, one of the people were on there own, so we knew that that child was lonely. We then looked at a letter in which a mum had wrote about her daughter because she was shy, had no brother or sisters and the mum was asking for advice. Once we had read the letter we thought of ways we would include the little girl. We had lots of ideas like: invite her to parties, ask her to play a game with you in the playground and make the effort. We got set a challenge to look out for people who were a bit lonely in the playground and see if they would like to play a game with you. We also need to remember that sometimes people aren't lonely, they might just want some alone time.
Weather forecasters, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 23rd Apr 2018 @ 5:03pm
Today the Penguins enjoyed being weather forecasters for the day. As you can imagine we a lot of interesting weather going on in the United Kingdom! we also used a map of the United Kingdom to find the 4 countries and their capitals ,which can you remember?
Tomorrow they will be creating even more interesting weather as we create a weather forecast for Chew and Swallow from our story Cloudy with a chance of meatballs.
In Maths today we looked at finding fractions of amounts and making the link with division. Later on in the week we will be looking at position and direction.
We will be creating some healthy snacks in our Jigsaw work and voting for our favourites.
On Wednesday afternoon we have a visit from the fire service for our fire safety talk.
A parent mail was sent out about changing reading books on Thursday instead of Friday for this week only.
Happy reading!
Thursday assembly blog, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 20th Apr 2018 @ 7:07am
In assembly today we started off thinking about the word devotion and what are we devoted to. We shared our thoughts about how we know someone I'd devoted to a football team or a pop band. We listened to a story from India. This story happened 300 years ago! In our reflection we thought about some famous words one of the gurus in our story said. We also thought about how we can be brave and little things we would do that we were, in the past, afraid to do.
Tuesday Assembly Blog, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 17th Apr 2018 @ 8:53pm
Written by our Year 6 PSHE leaders
Today in our jigsaw assembly we learnt about friendships and relationships. Our title in jigsaw this half term is about friendships. We were talking about how baking a chocolate cake is like making a new friend. We put in our suggestions about the ingredients of a friendship, we had: loyalty, kindness, fun, and a friend that is always our friend. We had some time to think about if we had been kind to our friends today. We always have to remember to listen to our friends, to share with our friends, be kind to our friends and of course have fun with our friends!
Monday Assembly Blog, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 17th Apr 2018 @ 8:50pm
Written by our year 6 PSHE leaders
Today's assembly was about, how much of our lives should we share with others? In the news this week it said about how lots of people's private information was leaked all over Facebook. We learnt about how things in the past have now changed, like how in the past we would go to the travel agents if we wanted to go on holiday, but now we can go onto the internet and book there instead. We have also been thinking about how you would act in different situations like how you would act when arguing with your brother or sister. Facebook is now thinking about a messenger app for kids, as lots of adults use it. Parents will be able to look at what their child has been doing on this app. It will allow children to communicate even if they do not have a phone number. Our reflection today was about the rules of law and we had a lot of questions.
This week so far...., by Mrs Pratten
Date: 17th Apr 2018 @ 4:43pm
This week we have enjoyed the story of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter, we designed a wanted poster and practised our 4 types of sentences using the story.
In Maths we have been adding 2 digit numbers and today using only 3 numbers we have been making 4 different number sentences. Later on in the week we will be recapping 3D shapes.We enjoyed gymnastics yesterday putting together a sequence using a roll, travelling and a jump.
Busy, Busy!
Picture News - British Values - w/c 16th April, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 16th Apr 2018 @ 8:05am
Please find attached a copy of the picture news resource we will be discussing in assembly this week.
Take some time to chat about it at home.
Picture News , by Mrs Catterall
Date: 13th Apr 2018 @ 11:07pm
Dear parents
Picture News is a resource we use in our assemblies to share and dicusss with the children.
This week our assembly was titled, 'Who does the World belong to?' This also linked with our assembly about 'Earth Day'.
A Picture News - home resources is attached to this blog. Please look out for a parent mail giving you more infomation and look back at the blog each week to find out more about the news topics we will be exploring in school.
Mrs Catterall
Cloudy with a chance of meatballs, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 13th Apr 2018 @ 4:10pm
As part of our geography work we read the story Cloudy with a chance of meatballs. In the story the it rains orange juice,snows mashed potato and storms hamburgers! We discussed what this would feel like and thought ,sounds good but maybe not! Especially when it all goes wrong and the food becomes huge and stays the same. We designed our own Island of Stew and used a key to add things, we came up with some great ideas.
We also really enjoyed looking on Google Earth at Longton, we zoomed in on the school, the park and the Brickcroft as well as the village itself ,discussing what we could see. They were all super to keen to find their houses but obviously weall could not. Have a go at the weekend exploring Google Earth and see what you can find out about where you live.
Pe fun, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 12th Apr 2018 @ 9:59pm
The Penguins enjoyed an afternoon outside practising their catching and hand eye coordination skills. Some good skill and lots of enthusiasm!!
Welcome back!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 10th Apr 2018 @ 7:07pm
I hope the children have all had a good rest and most seem to be fully recovered from all their coughs and colds , thank goodness!
This Week the children have been enjoying the story The Monster Machine and have been busy creating horrible monster recipes which, when put in a machine, makes monsters. We had fun today drawing and describing the types of monsters that they had created. Tomorrow we are going to think about the monster land where they live.
In Maths we have been adding, using our knowledge of number bonds to try to help. Tomorrow we will be adding 2 digit numbers together by partitioning.
We started our Geography work on weather today, looking at the different types of weather, what we can do in that weather and what our favourite weather is.
We also looked at a map of the United Kingdom and discussed the 4 countries that make it up and also the 4 compass points. We had fun acting out different weather, using props for others to guess what the weather was and why. Can you guess?!
Fun Friday, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 23rd Mar 2018 @ 12:37pm
We finished our fantastic plants today and wrote instructions on how to grow them.If you want a chocolate tree, unicorn tree or a pond tree ,see the Penguins!
We also had fun designing a lab coat for a scientist.
Hope you all have a good break, enjoy your Easter eggs and are all cough free next term!
Thumping Tursday, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 23rd Mar 2018 @ 6:55am
Well done and a big thank you to all the children ( and parents) who made fantastic Easter bonnets they were all eggscellent! Grace was our overall winner 🐰
Wonderful Wednesday, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 21st Mar 2018 @ 5:07pm
Today we learnt about seed dispersal - how seeds travel and are carried to different places. We also planted our seeds, please let me know how they grow! The children have been busy inventing their own new plant, designing a seed , the plant and thinking about how the seeds will be dispersed. Some creative ideas!
We have also set up an experiment with celery and white carnations put in purple water, we have predicted what we think ,we will let you know if we were right👍
