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Brass Monkeys, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 15th May 2017 @ 9:12pm

This morning we enjoyed a fabulous assembly from the music service.  We learnt all about some of the different brass instruments.  We listened to a range of music and had to guess the film or TV theme tune.   

The week ahead - 15th May, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 15th May 2017 @ 9:09pm

We welcome back Miss Stocker this week to help us with our learning.  She will be in school this week and next.

English / Geography / Computing - we will be continuing our research on the Lake District and creating our Powerpoints. 

Maths - we are learning about money.  Adding up price lists and finding change, writing amounts in £ and in p. 

P.E. - Games.

R.E.  - The Guru Granith Sahib.

Sports Day - fingers crossed for good weather. 

This week is also check- up week so will will be completing a variety of assessment activities throughout the week.

 

15th to 19th MAY, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 14th May 2017 @ 3:18pm

In English this week the Bongos will become poets. We will be looking at the humourous poem Aliens Stole My Unerpants and The Michael Rosen Rap. Spelling this week will be looking at the possessive apostrophe, words ending in al, el and le.

Maths this week will be looking at reading temperature, capacity, weight, money and time.

In RE we will be learning about Guru Nanak.

The Bongos will complete their Henri Rousseau themed masterpieces in art  ( if sports day is postponed) and use percussion instruments in music.

We will be outside for PE doing some athletics

 

Well Done Bongos, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 13th May 2017 @ 8:03pm

Well done Bongos, you have had an amazing week. You have shone brightly doing your SATs. Everyone has used their growth mindset and believed that they can , can, can.

All of your teachers are very proud of you.

Have a lovely, fun filled weekend.

 

The Week Ahead - Monday 15th May 2017, by Miss Adamson

Date: 13th May 2017 @ 11:30am

Hello All,

I hope that you have enjoyed the weekend!

This is what the Penguins will be doing this week. This week is called our check-up week so we will be doing assessments throughout the week.

English

We will do two reading comprehension papers and a big write.

Maths 

We will do two maths papers - a reasoning paper and an arithmetic paper.

Reading

We will do individual reading colour book band assements as appropriate.

GPS

We will do one combined grammar, punctuation and spelling assessment.

Phonics

We will not do a formal phonics assessment as our phonics screening check is only one month away.

Class Assembly

We hope you can make it to our class assembly - Percy's Bumpy Ride - at 9am on Thursday 18th May.

Sports Day 

It's our first attempt of Sports Day on Friday afternoon - fingers crossed for sunshine!

I look forward to seeing you on Monday!

Warm regards,

Miss Adamson

Tens frames, by Miss Adamson

Date: 12th May 2017 @ 5:48pm

We used tens frames and counters to help us to solve missing number sentences.

Badger notes, by Miss Adamson

Date: 12th May 2017 @ 5:47pm

We took notes while we watched a video clip to help us with our writing about badgers.

Enterprise day, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 12th May 2017 @ 4:57pm

Wednesday 17th May is the receptions enterprise day. We will be selling lollies...iced lollies, fruit lollies, yoghurt lollies, chocolate lollies all at 50p. We will sell them after school for 50p under the quad. We have been busy making posters to tell our friends.

James And Lennon Blog No.20!, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 12th May 2017 @ 2:46pm

This week we went to Cuerden valley park. It was for our knowledge of rivers and Geography and we definitely had fun! The river that we went to was the River Lostock. We had a tour of the river and went fishing with nets. We measured the river's speed and its height. James got drenched but he still had fun! Also we did a little mini beast hunt,what we had to do was grab a net and stand behind it and move your feet for 30 seconds. 

We also scooped up pebbles And quartz,marble and amber.

By James Platt (The Writer) and Lennon Sindall (Co. Writer) 🐯😀

Woodland Wednesday on Thursday...., by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 11th May 2017 @ 7:36pm

Today we had woodland Wednesday even though it was Thursday! Princess  Fairybelle arrived and we thought about our woodland rules. We played a game of 123 were are we, and then we made a woodland friend. 

Research questions - English, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 9th May 2017 @ 9:26pm

This morning we started to think about our unit of work on the Lake District. We found it on a map and watched a video of the hills and lakes from the sky. It was breathtaking. 

We thought of lots of questions we could try and answer through research and grouped them into different topics. 

Tomorrow we are going to look at leaflets of places to visit in the Lake District in order to gather ideas and inspiration for our own information leaflet. 

Measuring Monday, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 8th May 2017 @ 8:17pm

This week we are measuring in different ways. Weighing, filling and emptying containers, seeing how long or short objects are......today we measured objects in the classroom using unifix cubes.

Mosaics, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 8th May 2017 @ 3:54pm

This afternoon we used a variety of techniques to create mosaics; magnets, painting, an online mosaic maker and paper and glue.

Here are some of our creations.

The Week Ahead - Monday 8th May, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 8th May 2017 @ 3:52pm

Another exciting week for the Giraffes.

English - For the next 2 weeks we will be focusing on Non fiction texts and linking it all together with our Geography unit of the Lake District and our Computing work, making a PowerPoint.  We will generate a list of key questions to research and begin to find the answers.

Grammar - we will be focusing on using conjunctions. Co-ordinating conjunctions (FANBOYS -for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so) and subordinating conjunctions (while, if, when, since, before, until, although)

Maths - this week we will be covering all 4 number operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) and using what we know to solve problems. 

P.E. - We will continue to developing our throwing and catching skiills and begin to understand and practise the skill of marking an opponent. 

R.E. - Sikhism, exploring the Gurus. 

 

Class Assembly, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 8th May 2017 @ 3:29pm

I was a super proud teacher last week as the giraffes put on their class assembly for their parents.  The children worked amazingly well to research their given area, write a script and make some of the props they were going to need.  They spoke clearly and were very informative.  Well Done Giraffes. 

James & Issac Blog No.19, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 8th May 2017 @ 3:12pm

Sorry if we didn't get to inform you on Friday, we couldn't get on the IPad we tried all the other options but it didn't work we are happy to inform you now! In year 4,we did a German recap on days of the week and Monday is Montag etc.We practiced our violin and it was definitely fun! We had to get our violins out and stood up and played to the rhythm it was cool! In English, we wrote poems and they were fun and cool! We listened to Michael Rosens Introduction Song and laughed out loud! In Science,  we learned about solids ,liquids and gases.

 

We have had fun and can't wait for the further week!😀🐯

 

The Week Ahead, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 7th May 2017 @ 7:49pm

The Bongos have got a busy week ahead of them. We are going to start our check up week on Monday and aim to have all of the assessments done by Friday. However we will monitor how things are going and if needs be we will complete the check ups next week.

In between our check up activities we will be going over fractions, shape and measure in maths. We will be going over lots of areas of grammar in our special grammar books. In spelling we will be looking at words with or after w. Writing this week will see the children writing explanations of the seasons and weather in Britain and an animal themed story.

We will continue to learn about Sikhism in RE and to work on our Henri Rousseau inspired collages.

 

Trip week😄, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 7th May 2017 @ 2:04pm

Hope everybody enjoyed the glorious weather today let's hope it stays for Thursday!

This Week In:

English - Miss Priestley will be inspiring the children with poetry, learning about some different styles of poems

Maths - our learning will involve finding fractions of amounts and formal written ways to divide, yeah chunking!

Science - the children to work with Miss Priestley continuing to investigate solids, liquids and gases

Geography - we will be learning about the water cycle and of course our trip on Thursday to observe the river Lostock firsthand. Please  make sure the children are appropriately dresses for the weather

DT - we will be practising our sewing skills and making patterns for our wallets and purses

We will of course keep our 15 minutes of movement going every day

Another busy but fun week planned!

The Week Ahead - Monday 8th May 2017, by Miss Adamson

Date: 6th May 2017 @ 5:31pm

This is what the Penguins will be working on this week:

Maths

We are learning to identify, name and describe the properties of 2D and 3D shapes.

English

We are focusing upon non-fiction texts again. We are reading another Barnaby Bear big book about badgers and then making our own baddgers booklets.

Phonics

We are applying all the graphemes for each of the vowel sounds that we know in reading and writing. This is in preparation for our Phonics Screening Check. There was a letter and parent mail about this. If you have not received it, please let me know!

Grammar

We are learning about different sentence types: command, statement, question and exclamation.

Class Assembly

We are preparing for our class assembly. Well done to all the children who have already learned all of their lines! We are enjoying preparing for the assembly.

Handwriting

We are practising zig-zag letters.

Move a Mile

We are continuing to do our daily Move a Mile in the afternoons. Last week, we enjoyed running in the sunshine on the field!

I hope that you enjoy the remainder of your weekend and look forward to seeing you all on Monday!

Miss Adamson

Scene painting, by Miss Adamson

Date: 6th May 2017 @ 10:06am

In preparation for our class assembly we have painted our cloudy sky backdrop.

Longton with Barnaby, by Miss Adamson

Date: 6th May 2017 @ 10:04am

We read a Barnaby Bear book to learn a little about a village in Norway. We compared the Norwegian village with Longton. Wonderful collaborative work!

Number bonds to 5 and beyond!, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 5th May 2017 @ 4:30pm

Today we have been thinking of all the different ways to make 5. We looked inside Dora's bag and she had put lots of groups of objects in 5s. Then we added spots to mini beasts and then we had a go at writing a number sentence. Some children made number bonds to 10 and some children even knew how to count in 2s and called it their 2 times table. We are all working very hard.

Artists at work, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 5th May 2017 @ 1:41pm

Today the Bongos are hard at work creating collage backgrounds in the style of the French painter Henri Rousseau. 

Before they started their work they went outside to investigate the shapes, sizes and colours of grasses and leaves on the bog garden. 

French food , by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 4th May 2017 @ 3:43pm

This week we have been visiting France and speaking French in class. Today we tasted some French food.

Woodland Wednesday, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 3rd May 2017 @ 8:55pm

Princess Fairybelle sent the Meerkats a letter asking them to try out three woodland activities. They had fun in their groups learning together.