Our blogs
Blackpool Zoo, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 27th Jun 2017 @ 10:00pm
The Bongos have had a fantastic time at Blackpool Zoo. As well as seeing lots of amazing animals they have learnt lots too.
Blackpool zoo 2, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 27th Jun 2017 @ 5:23pm
Week beginning 26th June, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 26th Jun 2017 @ 3:12pm
This Week in our learning we are thinking about:
Maths - exploring properties of 2D shapes
English - writing reviews and reports about our year in Y4/carrying on with our debating skills
History- investigating Pharoahs
ICT - investigating the world wide web
DT - making wallets
PSHE - exploring stereotypes
PE - athletics, tag rugby
WOPPS - violin lessons continue
Good luck to our athletes from Y3 and Y4 taking part in an inter school competition 😃
The week ahead - 26th June, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 26th Jun 2017 @ 8:02am
This week we will be focusing on
English - explanation texts about plants.
Maths - mental addition and subtraction
Science - What a plant needs to grow
PSHE - the 4 emotion cogs, emotion, behaviour, body sensations and triggers
GPS - year 3 and 4 statutory word list spellings and proofreading skills
P.E. - Athletics, games skills with Elite coaches.
German - items in the classroom.
Painting, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 26th Jun 2017 @ 7:56am
We enjoyed painting flowers, we thought about the shape of the petals and lightly sketched them on the page. We chose 1 colour and used this to paint the petals using small flicking strokes, each time adding white to the paint to make it a lighter shade.
The Week Ahead - Monday 26th June 2017, by Miss Adamson
Date: 25th Jun 2017 @ 8:37pm
I hope that you have all had a lovely weekend! If you went to the summer fair, I hope that you had fun!
This is what we are doing this week:
| Maths |
We are learning about multiplication as repeated addition and division by sharing and grouping. |
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English |
We are reading Celebration on Planet Zox and writing about how Cosmic Clive is feelling. |
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GPS |
We are learning about adjectives and noun phrases to describe pictures, in our reading and in our writing. |
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Science |
We are continuing to learn about the human body on Monday and Tuesday. |
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PE |
We have the Elite coaches for a fundamental skills session on Tuesday. |
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RE |
We are learning about Islam. |
| Pedestrian Training |
We will be doing our pedestrian training in groups of Wednesday, Thursday and Friday afternoon. |
I look forward to seeing you in the morning,
Miss Adamson
Bongo Update, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 25th Jun 2017 @ 6:24pm
Thank you to everyone who came to our assembly, it was great to see you all there.
The Bongos have a very busy week ahead of them.
Monday
- maths- division problems with remainders
- PSHE- Communities
- Spelling or after w
- topic- the seaside
Tuesday
Trip to Blackpool Zoo
Wednesday
- homework in
- change reading books
- English - recount of our trip
- maths- statistics, displaying and interpreting data
- spelling- or after w dictation
- PE- athletics
- RE- routines
Thursday
Mr Pearson
Friday
- Wrie own Just So Story
- Maths- plan a zoo, draw a map using squares in book, in pairs calculate running costs
- spelling, al at the end of words
- art
Computing with our buddies, by Miss Adamson
Date: 24th Jun 2017 @ 9:01am
Computing with our buddies is always a treat! We learned to make a simple programme.
Taking turns, by Miss Adamson
Date: 24th Jun 2017 @ 8:58am
The children played this days of the week board game really nicely. They worked out the rules on their own. It looks pretty complicated to me!
A Very Lucky Ducky, by Miss Adamson
Date: 24th Jun 2017 @ 8:56am
Here is the duck that I rescued from the garden. I think he loved all the attention!
Enterprise, by Miss Adamson
Date: 24th Jun 2017 @ 8:51am
Thank you for supporting our enterprise! I think we needed some more butterflies!
James And Joe Blog No.28, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 23rd Jun 2017 @ 3:04pm
This Week In Year 4, we have been playing our violins yet again and our school concert is in 3 Weeks so we better get ready and practice! In maths we have been doing symmetry and messing with shapes. We've been cutting out triangals and making shapes with them. We tried to copy the exact shape on the other side and that was the tricky part! In English, we have had a proper debate about for or against zoos. Both sides (For And Against) had some good arguments in stock and the debate ended in a draw and under some circumstances, zoos were alowed in our world!
By James and Joe 😀🐯 (Both Writers) P.S 3 Months and we go into Year 5 with the new teacher (Miss Reynolds)
Science investigation heart rate, by Mr Pearson
Date: 23rd Jun 2017 @ 12:00pm
Race for Life, by Mr Coxhead
Date: 21st Jun 2017 @ 7:54am
Some members of Year 4 took part in a 'Race for Life' event (a fundraiser for Cancer Research UK) with their local football team at the weekend!
A huge well done to Daniel, Luke S, Jack N, Ryan and Jack J! We're impressed. 5k is a long way!
The dentist visited the Meerkats, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 20th Jun 2017 @ 7:57pm
Today we were visited by the dentists Laura and Tracey. They showed us how to look after our teeth and gave us a goodie pack and toothpaste.
Science-plants, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 19th Jun 2017 @ 9:50pm
What a lovely day. We took the opportunity to take our learning outside this afternoon and sit in the shade.
We started the lesson by exploring all the words we could think of connected to 'plants' and then tried to link them together by sharing the facts we already knew. What does a plant look like? We had lots of similar ideas when asked to draw a plant - a stem, a leaf at either side and a round flower centre with petals around it.
With our clipboards in hand we set off out into the school grounds to find a plant and develop our observation skills by drawing different examples of plant life.
Back in class we sorted a variety of pictures under the headings, alive, not alive , never alive. We had some interesting discussions especially about the picture of a fire.
Glass and plastic - were they once alive? See what you can discover?
Year 4 rugby, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 19th Jun 2017 @ 6:35pm
Well done to Year 4 who took part in a tag rugby tournament at Leyland , they played really well , great team spirit.We did not loose a game but drew them all - so well done!😀🏉
Week beginning 19th June, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 19th Jun 2017 @ 6:29pm
Hi , hope everybody is enjoying the lovely sunny weather😎
Unfortunately Miss Priestley's daughter is unwell so Miss Priestley will not be back in school until Wednesday.
This Week in our learning we are in:
Maths- looking at symmetry, coordinates and translating shapes
English - we continue our work on zoos looking at the style of persuasive writing
History - we carry on exploring Ancients Egypt
PSHE- looking at judging people on what they look like and stereotyping
ICT- investigating the world wide web
DT - carrying on with our sewing skills
PE - athletics and rugby
Music - violin lessons continue
Don't forget our Summer Fair on Friday evening!😝
German, by Mr Coxhead
Date: 19th Jun 2017 @ 3:47pm
We've been learning the names of different fruits in German this afternoon! We then designed our dream fruit salad. Some children liked the idea of no fruit in their dream fruit salad.
Arithmetic with negatives, by Mr Coxhead
Date: 19th Jun 2017 @ 1:55pm
Today, we've been learning to multiply negative numbers! It's surprisingly simple. This video serves as a good guide:
The week ahead - 19th June, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 18th Jun 2017 @ 3:05pm
I hope you have enjoyed the lovely weather this weekend.
Lets hope it continues this next week. Don't forget to put on your sun cream and bring your water bottles with you.
GPS - this week we will be looking at words with the ou spelling. Young, double, trouble, country, rough and tough. We will also be editing our writing - checking spelling, selecting more adventurous vocabulary, checking for punctuation and ensuring we have used complex sentences with main and subordinate clauses.
English - we will be continuing our mystery and adventure themed writing, creating new characters and looking how we can add examples of speech within our stories rather than writing a long conversation.
Science - we will begin our final unit of work on plants. This week we will focus on what is a plant?what makes it a plant? We will draw and label parts of a plant
P.E. - we will be focusing on Athletics this half term. This week we will be using a pull action aim for throwing distance, a push action throw for accuracy and we will be developing or sprint techniques.
R.E. - we will be reading some stories from the Bible which show Jesus as a leader.
First week back, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 18th Jun 2017 @ 2:51pm
Wow, where did that first week go! A busy week in the Giraffe classroom. We have been exploring shapes, developing our ideas for mystery writing, completing our Lake District work and taking part in Dance from the Heart.
Great Week, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 18th Jun 2017 @ 11:05am
The Bongos had a great first week back after half term. Outstanding work in all areas especially maths this week. Well done everyone. The Henri Rousseau style collages are finished, look out for photos next week.
Dance From the Heart was great fun. The children loved seein Boogie Storm from BGT.
Congratulations to Evie for her winning mask design.
The Week Ahead - Monday 19th June 2017, by Miss Adamson
Date: 18th Jun 2017 @ 10:20am
It's an exciting week for the Penguins because we are doing our class enterprise on Wednesday. We thought of some different names and voted for our favourite. Emily's idea, 'Penguin Pop Shop', was the most popular. It has a great ring to it! Look out for a parentmail with all the details.
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English |
We are reading the No-Bot, the story of a robot who loses his bottom! We will be using different conjunctions in our writing. |
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Maths |
We are practising finding fractions of shapes, groups and numbers. We are looking for halves and quarters. |
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GPS |
We are working on writing sentences with conjunctions and checking that they make sense. This is to complement our work in English. |
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Handwriting |
We are checking that our letters start and finish in the correct place - especially n, h and m. |
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Reading |
We are back to normal guided reading sessions on Wednesday morning and reading in the afternoons. |
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ICT |
We are working on programming with our Year 6 buddies. |
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PE |
We are practising our continuing our work on bouncing balls from last week. We will apply what we have learned about bouncing a ball to a hand dribble technique. |
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Enterprise |
We are making sweetie butterflies to sell on Wednesday! |
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Science |
We are learning about parts of the human body. |
I hope that you enjoy the remainder of your weekend and look forward to seeing you tomorrow!
Miss Adamson