Year 7: The Penguins: Blog items
Time, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 6th Dec 2017 @ 10:03pm
This week we have been learning more about time. We have used a website game www.teachingtime.co.uk, this is fantastic for matching analogue and digital times. I have asked the children to start with the year 1 game and once they can complete in less than 30 seconds to move on to the next one and so on.
Please support your child with reading the time at home, talking about start and finish times of TV programmes, how long will it be on for? We are leaving at ? The time is now ? How long before we go? etc.
The week ahead, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 26th Nov 2017 @ 10:02pm
Another busy week is planned.
GPS - spelling work,
Reading - finding evidence about one of the main characters in the story.
English - poetry
Maths - reading and writing time. O'clock, half past, quarter past, quarter to, using an analogue and digital clock.
Monday afternoon - Celebration Assembly in church.
Tuesday - Mrs Ainsworth will be teaching the class today, she has lots of amazing activities planned.
Wednesday afternoon - music
Thursday - swimming, water safety, clothes needed again please. This will be our last swimming lesson this term. We will recommence again in January.
Friday afternoon - one group of children will be cooking in the kitchen with Mrs Neilson. Children in the choir will be singing at Longton Methodist church.
We will be continuing to practise our Christmas play, please make sure costumes are in by Wednesday as we will be having a dress rehearsal at the end of the week.
Mrs Catterall
Maths, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 26th Nov 2017 @ 9:47pm
Thank you to all the parents who attended our Fractions session on Wednesday afternoon. Our practical maths continued throughout the week. We had several problems to solve on Friday, the children showed great teamwork and lots of fantastic discussions and explanations.
DT, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 26th Nov 2017 @ 9:42pm
Mrs Neilson's lesson on Friday afternoon was all about Bread. The children found out about different sorts of bread and discovered how to make soda bread and where many of the ingredients come from. Over the next 3 weeks the children will have a go at making bread and a healthy soup to go with it.
Road safety, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 26th Nov 2017 @ 9:39pm
It has been road safety week this week and we have learnt about how we can stay safe on the roads. We found out about the work of 'Brake' and their message of speed down save lives.
Reading, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 26th Nov 2017 @ 9:35pm
We do lots of reading in class. Reading 1 to 1 with an adult, reading in a group, independent reading in order to understand and analyse the text. Earlier in the year the children could choose a Dick King Smith story to read and thoroughly enjoyed it. This week the children had the opportunity to choose a book from the bookcase and read for pleasure, they could choose where they wanted to sit to get comfy and just enjoy reading.
Reading books, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 19th Nov 2017 @ 9:57pm
As of this week reading books will now be changed on a Friday.
Thank you
Photos from last week., by Mrs Catterall
Date: 19th Nov 2017 @ 6:07pm
What a busy week last week was.
UK Parliament week, lots of division work, science exploration of different skeletons and our joints as well as Children in Need.
The week ahead, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 19th Nov 2017 @ 6:02pm
I hope you have had a lovely weekend, it's been a bit chilly but the sun has been shining at least.
We have another busy week planned.
GPS - determiners and pronouns.
English - our final week on Fables. The children will be writing their own fables using the structure from the Lion and the Mouse and the characters they have created as part of their homework. A key focus is on the use of connectives in complex sentences.
Maths - We will continue our work on division and its links with multiplication. Remember to keep learning those times tables!
PSHE - this week is road safety week. Mrs Neilson will be delivering this lesson and we will have an assembly to find out more about it.
P.E. - Swimming. We will be starting our water safety lessons on Thursday. Don't forget your shorts and T.shirt as well as your usual swimming stuff.
D.T. - Mrs Neilson will be focusing on healthy eating and the Eatwell plate this week. Over the next few weeks she will be taking the children out in groups to develop their baking and cooking skills.
Play Practise. - children will not be allowed their lines this week. They have had 3 weeks to learn them so we can now just work on expression, stage directions and making sure they can be heard. Thank you for your support with this.
THURSDAY - 2pm Parents in class. Our focus for this is going to be Fractions. This is often a tricky area for children so this is a fantastic opportunity for you to find out how we teach it in school do you can continue to support their learning and reassure them they CAN do it. . I look forward to seeing you there.
Mrs Catterall
Remembrance , by Mrs Catterall
Date: 12th Nov 2017 @ 11:51pm
On a Friday at 11am we held our 2 minute silence in school to remember all those who have fought for our country and our safety. We listened to Mr Turner who shared his memories of being a child during the war and his father going off to fight. The children were extremely respectful. We reflected on the experience at the end of the day after we wrote acrostic poems and completed some mindful colourings.
Fables - using conjunctions., by Mrs Catterall
Date: 12th Nov 2017 @ 11:45pm
On Thursday we had an 8 sentence fable. It didn't read very well so we improved it by combining the shorter sentences together using connectives and adding in adverbs.
Science -Skeletons, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 7th Nov 2017 @ 7:52pm
A fantastic afternoon.
We have had a great time this afternoon trying to answer the question, What does our skeleton look like?
After drawing our initial ideas we went into the hall to work as a team to create a skeleton using the bones given to us. There were some interesting skeletons.
Using a correct skeleton, we took turns to observe and change our skeleton.
Mrs Catterall then taught us the names of lots of our bones.
Welcome Back, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 6th Nov 2017 @ 12:08am
Good Morning
Didn't that come around quickly. I hope you have all had a fanstistic half term, time to relax as well as lots of fun over Halloween and Bonfire night.
We have a very busy half term planned leading up to Christmas. Lots of learning to be done, Remembrance day, Parliament week, Road Safety activities, Celebration Assembly, Winter Warmer, plays to rehearse and perform, Christmas decorations to make, Christmas shop, reakfast with Santa, Parties, Carol Service aswell as our Theatre trip to the Panto. WOW, I'm sure there will be others I have missed aswell.
This week we are going to be learning about:
English - Fables
Grammar - adverbs
Spelling - revision of homophones learnt last half term, statutory word list spelling tests.
Maths - multiplication, 3x 4x and 8x tables
Science - What does our skeleton look like?
P.E. Swimming
Music - learning our songs for the play.
R.E. - Christianity - How would we feel if a famous person visited us at school?
PSHE - JIgsaw, Celebrating Difference - understanding that everyone's family is different and important to them.
I will be posting a more detailed overview of the curriculum content for this half term on the class page.
Here's to a full and exciting week back.
Mrs Catterall
The week ahead, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 15th Oct 2017 @ 10:20pm
Our lessons this week will focus on
Spelling - homophones
Grammar - understanding of vocabulary - noun, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, apostrophe, inverted commas, pronoun.
Reading - a variety of response activities to the Dick King Smith stories the children have been reading.
English - writing a story, back to the future themed.
Maths - mental and formal subtraction.
Topic - comparing maps of Preston Docks. Bob is coming into class to tell us some stories of the docks.
PSHE - story massage, British Value - Respect, discussions.
R.E. - Buddhism, the festival of Wesak.
P.E. - swimming Thursday, Cricket Friday.
Projects, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 12th Oct 2017 @ 9:39pm
Wow, what a creative bunch you are Bongos. We have had a whole variety of projects this week; times tables, shadow posters and investigations, biographies, map work, French vocabulary to name just a few.
Well done
Enterprise, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 12th Oct 2017 @ 8:59pm
Last Friday was a busy day. The Bongos spent the morning preparing for our enterprise event. Thank you to Mrs Gray and Sandye for supporting the children in the kitchen.
The marshmallows sold quickly with only a few left. The children were amazing and ran their stall with very little support.
We made £134.20 profit. This money goes directly to the class to spend on items to support their learning. We are hoping to use some of it as part of an exciting trip which I am arranging for later on in the school year. As a class we will discuss what else we would like to purchase.
Thank you to everyone who came and supported the event.
KS 2 event, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 6th Oct 2017 @ 4:10pm
Well done to some Year 3 and 4 children ,who took part in a KS 2 event at All Hallows. They were awarded the 'Spirit of the games' certificate , which made us very proud. Thank you to those parents who supported.
Story Massage, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 5th Oct 2017 @ 10:31pm
The Bongos had a lovely afternoon on Wednesday with Mrs Thompson and Mrs Gray. They took part in a story massage session. This builds on the peer massage work that is carried out in school. The children learn a range of movements which are used to help tell a story. As I walked through the hall there was calm and a lovely atmosphere between the children.
The week ahead, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 1st Oct 2017 @ 9:44pm
It's going to be a busy week this week.
Spelling - words with the spelling patterns. E.g. ei (vein), eigh (eight), aigh (straight), ey (they).
Reading - literal questions, finding the evidence in the text.
English - biographies.
Maths - interpreting and drawing graphs, applying addition and subtraction skills.
Science - outside shadows, weather dependent.
P.E. swimming on Thursday and cricket on Friday
R.E. - exploring the messages within the Buddhist storyof the 'Buddha and the Injured Swan'.
Jigsaw - developing a learning charter.
On Tuesday afternoon we have our harvest service in church. Thank you to those who have already brought in donations.
On Friday we will be making our Enterprise food ready to sell at the end of the day after school. More details to follow.
Projects need to be in school on Friday as well please.
Mrs Catterall
Friday , by Mrs Catterall
Date: 1st Oct 2017 @ 9:19pm
Today we completed our folk tales. We sat with a partner and shared our stories, supporting each other to check and edit our work. There was a lovely working atmosphere in class today well done Bongos.
Shadows, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 1st Oct 2017 @ 9:15pm
We still haven't managed to get the sunshine for our work on shadows outside, however this hasn't stopped us exploring them in the classroom.
How can I use 1 object but make my shadow larger and smaller?
We used screens and torches to create shadows and see how we could change their size. Our conclusion, the closer the object the light source the bigger the shadow.
Carrot car race, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 27th Sep 2017 @ 12:14am
Our Jigsaw lesson today was all about team work. In groups we had 3 carrots, a chopping board, knife, cocktail sticks and string. The challenge was to create a car. Listening to everyone's ideas and taking turns was the focus of the lesson. It was great fun.
Maths - measuring, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 27th Sep 2017 @ 12:00am
Today we practised measuring in cm and mm. We went outside to find 2 leaves, one longer and one shorter than 10cm. We then took a closer look and measured them to the nearest mm.
The week ahead, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 25th Sep 2017 @ 10:17pm
English - writing of our folk tales, using last weeks story maps.
Maths - naming 2D shapes. Measuring and drawing lines to the nearest 1/2 cm, finding the perimeter of shapes.
Spelling - statutory word lists
Grammar - starting sentences in different ways
Science - light, shadows, weather permitting!
French - hello, goodbye, my name is.
Jigsaw - carrot car challenge - team work skills.
P.E. Thursday = swimming, Friday = cricket
Music - harvest songs
French, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 25th Sep 2017 @ 10:09pm
This afternoon we learnt how to say hello, my name is... and goodbye in French. We then used this to read the poem 'Two little dickie birds'. We made puppets and then filmed ourselves reading it out aloud.
