Year 7: The Penguins: Blog items
Christmas Party, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 2nd Jan 2019 @ 5:05pm
French traditions, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 18th Dec 2018 @ 11:32am
The Penguins are hard at work learning about Christmas traditions in France 🇫🇷
Playing our magnetic games, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 15th Dec 2018 @ 8:40pm
Christmas Dinner, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 15th Dec 2018 @ 8:37pm
Author Visit - Longton Library, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 15th Dec 2018 @ 8:36pm
We had a really enjoyable morning at at the library. We met Graham Fletcher the author of 'Oleg the Giant'. We talked about what makes us want to read a book and looked around the library for a book we might choose to read and explain to our partners why we chose it.
We explored the idea of a giant and measured some of us to see who was as close to the size of Oleg.
Mr Fletcher then read us his story. He stopped near the end and left it on a cliff hanger!!! Luckily Mrs Catterall has a copy and finished the story. We really enjoyed it and are going to do some work in English about the book after Christmas.
Magnetic Game, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 11th Dec 2018 @ 7:52pm
Today we finished our designs for our Christmas themed magnetic games then made them. It was an action packed day! Two children had the responsibility of capturing the day in photos, here are a few of them. On Thursday we will play our games and evaluate them.
The week ahead - 10th December, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 9th Dec 2018 @ 4:12pm
Christmas is fast approaching and we have lots of work to do and exciting events taking place.
It is a busy week this week.
Science / DT project days. Forces and magnets focus. Design and make a Christmas themed magnetic game.
Visit to the library - author visit.
Christmas dinner
Swimming
Panto
Christmas Shop (remember your carrier bags)
We will also make a start on our Christmas cards.
Maths -3D shape., by Mrs Catterall
Date: 9th Dec 2018 @ 4:03pm
Science - Light, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 9th Dec 2018 @ 4:01pm
This week we have been exploring Light. Children in year 6 had made some videos about Light. They came to share them with the class. We have carried out lots of different activities to find out more about Light and how it works in different ways. We will come back and explore Light further next term.
Spelling - suffix work, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 9th Dec 2018 @ 3:58pm
Children have been working in pairs to challenge each other to spell words with suffixes that we had been learning. Together they could then check and discuss errors and make changes.
Maths division, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 9th Dec 2018 @ 3:53pm
The week ahead - 26th November , by Mrs Catterall
Date: 25th Nov 2018 @ 1:11pm
English. This week we will be focusing on the story The Owl who was afraid of the dark.
Maths - division.
DT. / Art - making decorations for the Christmas trees in the hall. More groups will be making bread.
Celebration Assembly in church on Thursday - no swimming this week.
R.E. - how would we prepare for a celebrity visitor?
Jigsaw - focusing on being a witness to bullying behaviour and finding solutions to it.
Music - Mrs Bolton.
Lancashire crisp tasting., by Mrs Catterall
Date: 25th Nov 2018 @ 12:53pm
Fiddlers Lancashire crisps. Potatoes grown in Ormskirk and made into crisps at their farm. We explored their website and then tasted them. We had some very funny faces for some of the flavours. It was great to see everyone having a go and trying some of the crisps.
Making and tasting bread, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 25th Nov 2018 @ 12:43pm
As part of our topic Scumdiddlyumptious we have been making bread. We have also observed the structure of and had a taste of different types of bread.
Parliament week, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 25th Nov 2018 @ 12:40pm
As part of Parliament week we have been learning about the Houses of Parliament, we have been having lots of votes in class and thinking about persuading people about what the best colour is. We have had a visit from the mayor of Preston and from Seema Kennedy.
Remembrance Pebbles, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 25th Nov 2018 @ 12:32pm
Throughout the week every child has been designing a painting a pebble with a phrase/picture/symbol to commemorate WW1. They have been placed around the village. Please go for a stroll and take a look. Our pebbles have pride of place in the PEACE garden at the front of school.
Remembrance day, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 25th Nov 2018 @ 12:24pm
On Friday 9th November we came to school wearing nurses outfits, soldier uniforms, red and black. As well as our special assembly where Mr Turner came to visit and re recited the Flander Feild poem in our peace garden we also worked in small teams to design and make a plane. We went into the hall and tested them. At the end of the day the winning plane from each class completed in the final.
Class assembly, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 25th Nov 2018 @ 12:15pm
Our class assembly was all about World War One. We have learnt lots of facts about the countries involved, animals used in the war, signing up, life in the trenches and learnt a short dance to end our assembly with.
The children were all amazing, every single child stood up and had their moment. A very proud teacher.
DT - WW1 teddies, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 25th Nov 2018 @ 12:07pm
During WW1 soldiers would have small teddies given or sent to them from family and loved ones. The teddies would have eyes at the top of their heads so they be able to see out of pockets.
The Penguins have been been having a go at sewing together the felt and stuffing their teddy before adding its features. I think they have done an amazing job. Lots of determination, perseverance and helping out each other. Well done Penguins.
Quantum Theatre - WW1 Your country needs you., by Mrs Catterall
Date: 25th Nov 2018 @ 12:02pm
Completed Stain glass windows., by Mrs Catterall
Date: 5th Nov 2018 @ 8:03pm
Would we be able to sign up to the war?, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 5th Nov 2018 @ 8:01pm
Today we found out all about what we would have to do to be a new army recruit.
We had to see if we met the criteria of height - 160cm and chest size - 82cm.
We had great fun practising our measure skills before using subtraction to work out the differences in length.
Firework Poster WINNER, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 4th Nov 2018 @ 8:49pm
We recieved some very exciting news on Friday in assembly.
Mrs Brown had a envelope containing tickets for Worden Park Bonfire this Monday, they had been dropped off by Lancashire Fire and Rescue service.
The posters we had entered into the competition had been judged against those from all other local schools and we are pleased to announce that Bronwen was a successful winner. We are very proud of her, she produced an amazing entry.
The week ahead - 5th November , by Mrs Catterall
Date: 4th Nov 2018 @ 8:44pm
This week we will be devoting our lessons to the theme of WW1.
Monday
What were the criteria for joining up? Developing our measuring skills.
What animals were involved in the war? What roles did they play? We will read the story 'Flo and the Somme' as well as continuing our class book the Farm Boy.
In the afternoon we will continue to research animals and begin our painting of pebbles.= aswell as sartin to think about our class assembly which will be on Thursday.
Tuesday
Our focus will be on Nurses and the injured soldiers. We will read the story Peace Lily and think about the role of nurses, inparticular Edith Cavell, the types of injuries sustained and how they might be treated. We will try out skills in bandaging each other and making a stretcher.
Wednesday
Wednesday is Hug a Bear day. The children have been told they can bring in a small bear to school. We will explore how bears are linked to World War 1 and will develop our sewing skills by making a felt bear.
We will also be watching a theatre Production in the hall 'Your Country needs you'.
Thursday
We will start the day with our class assembly. Our World War 1 learning will continue by focusing on the air attacks and different types of aircraft. We will work in groups to design and make our own planes ready to test out with other classes on Friday. we will be swimming as normal.
Friday
Non Uniform Day - Come dressed as a doctor, nurse, soldier, evacuee etc. or in red and black.
Remembrance, Mr Turner assembly. we will focus our leanring on the end of the war, the Treaty of versailles and write Peace poems.
We will test out our planes. We will also be going to the park area at the end of School Lane to display our painted pebbles.
It's going to be a busy week.
WW1 - how did it all begin?, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 2nd Nov 2018 @ 3:00pm
Today we started our WW1 focused week a bit early. We found out about the countries involved and developed our geography skills looking at flags and maps to locate the countries.
This afternoon we made some WW1 stain glass windows.
