Our blogs
Cricket and a few reminders , by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 4th Oct 2019 @ 11:49am
The Elephants have had lots of fun learning how to bowl with Mark the cricket coach
Projects are due in soon. They can be on anything on the knowledge organiser you have or on something your child is interested in.
Please can all children have a PE kit with appropriate footwera in school, we have a number of children who do not have PE kit or PE shoes.
Thank you
Maths is fun, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 2nd Oct 2019 @ 7:32pm
This week we are learning to add. We have added teddies, hedgehogs, conkers even hedgehogs spikes. Take a look at some of our amazing work.
Learning about the body, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 2nd Oct 2019 @ 5:10pm
Yesterday the children enjoyed some buddy time sharing books.
Today the children have been learning about the body. They wrote their own labels and then labelled their partner!
Sporting times at Priory, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 2nd Oct 2019 @ 4:29pm
Yesterday some children from Y3 and Y4 took part in a fantastic sporting event at Priory. Other schools attended too and the children completed lots of different challenges. They said it was fun and they enjoyed all the activities.
Well done!
Macmillan coffee morning and book read, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 1st Oct 2019 @ 5:39pm
What an amazing morning. We were completely blown away by the number of visitors this morning. Thank you to everyone who came along to support this event, there was plenty of cake for everyone. The children enjoyed reading with their parents/grandparents, reading with the younger children or sat on a bean bag, taking off their shoes and sharing a book with their friends. Thankyou also to the parents who helped our amazing charity ambassadors and heads team.
We had lots of amazing cakes for our moon/space themed competition. There are some very talented bakers out there. The charity ambassadors had some difficult decisions to make when choosing the winner from each class. The winners were informed in assembly today and prizes given out. All children who took part will receive a special certificate later this week.
We will let you know the total amount once it has been totalled up.
Story session at the library, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 30th Sep 2019 @ 7:23pm
Today the Koalas were very excited to visit the library for a story session with puppets , the story was called Midnight. The puppets were amazing and the children enjoyed meeting all the characters and listening to the story, the message of which was make time in your life to enjoy friends and do nice things. It was fascinating how it all linked to the clocks and was a magical experience which we all thoroughly enjoyed.
Cake competition, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 30th Sep 2019 @ 6:36pm
Thank you to everyone who has entered the cake competition, your entries are amazing. There is still time to bring in your entry on Tuesday morning before we start selling at 9am.
We are also welcoming any cake donations home made or bought for our Macmillan coffee morning and book read.
We look forward to seeing you tomorrow.
Cheese on toast, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 30th Sep 2019 @ 6:33pm
Well, I never realised until today how many different ways you could make cheese on toast.
We started the lesson by telling each other how to make cheese on toast, it was a revelation, from cheese on bread and in a toaster to putting it in a microwave and using cheese spread, I have learnt a lot today😂
We then went on to look at a variety of instructions for making cheese on toast and discussed the positive and negatives for each one.
Science, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 30th Sep 2019 @ 6:27pm
W/c 30th October, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 30th Sep 2019 @ 6:27pm
This week we are continuing our English unit on Instructions, focusing on prepositions, adverbs and conjunctions. There will also be some baking this week. I hope they save some for me to eat 🙂
Maths - perimeter is this weeks focus. Measuring length in cm and m and naming 2D shapes.
Topic - sorting animals according to what they eat using a venn diagram. Where in the world does our food come from?
swimming, marking skills in a team game.
Macmillan coffee morning on Tuesday 9-10. Come and share a book with your child and buy a cake to support this charity.
Harvest in church on Friday afternoon.
Instructions, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 30th Sep 2019 @ 6:17pm
We are learning about the non fiction text - instructions. We have tried to follow a set of origami instructions to make different animals. Some were harder than they looked! We showed determination and resilience.
Hold your head up high, by Mrs Brown
Date: 29th Sep 2019 @ 7:01pm
Giraffes are awesome, by Mrs Brown
Date: 29th Sep 2019 @ 6:56pm
I just want to share my appreciation for our amazing Giraffes.
You have taken on the roles and responsibility with great gusto and have become true role models for the whole school. Congratulations Giraffes - you are amazing.I just want to share my appreciation for our amazing Giraffes.
You have taken on the roles and responsibility with great gusto and have become true role models for the whole school. Congratulations Giraffes - you are amazing.
Launching into space, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 27th Sep 2019 @ 4:35pm
The Koalas have been working hard on designing rockets, making rockets and talking about rockets! They produced some amazing designs and made some awesome rockets - well done they all look......fantastic!!!
This week!, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 27th Sep 2019 @ 3:09pm
this week some groups finished there chassys .Next week add the crumbles and mabye put some light programe in. Some of the group's buggys are really going to work [WE HOPE].
nuffield health came in and did an exercize afternoon with us.Today we did our big write, which was really a description about a very scary forest. it sent shivers down our spine!
Grace and Reece
Welcome from this terms class bloggers, by Mr Pearson
Date: 27th Sep 2019 @ 1:52pm
In maths, this week we were learning about standard subtraction methods.We also were learning about standard decimal addition methods.
In grammar, we were studying contractions's lerning how to put them in the right place and how to spell them. We did sentance openers to help us write better sentances and to help us whith Fronted adverbials.
In English,we all learned about said synonyms because said is a boring word.
This week in topic,we learned about the different phases of the moon and moved onto learn about Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin and the apollo 11 mission.
In science,we started learning about sound and first we went around school listening to the sounds that we could hear and we found out that the y5 and 6 boys bathroom was the loudest we also learnt about that sound is caused by vibrations.
Wriiten by Oliver and Lucie
Celebrating Diwali, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 25th Sep 2019 @ 5:19pm
In preparation for our Harvest assembly next week we enjoyed the Hindu story about Rama and Sita, we discovered it was about light overcoming dark.They made little oil lamps called divas to guide them home.
This afternoon we made our own diva lamps out of clay, we rolled a ball and then used our thumbs to shape the pot.Last of all we decorated them using clay tools. They need to dry out and th we can paint. They look fantastic already!!!
Thank you, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 25th Sep 2019 @ 7:40am
Thank you to the wonderful children and parents of the Elephant Tribe for your support over the past couple of weeks. As I explained at Meet The Teacher and on the blog I have been involved in a 12 month research programme for Lancashire County Council which has meant I have had to be out of class. The research has been into the develoment of reading for pleasure and I will share it with you as soon as the powers that be give it the okay.
The work is now completed and I will be back in class which I am really looking forward to and am very excited about.
Thanks again for your understanding and support.
Normal service, Mrs Fletcher style is now resumed.
Baking dog biscuits, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 24th Sep 2019 @ 6:02pm
As an introduction to our new English unit on instructions and as part of our topic work we had a go at making dog biscuits. They contained wholemeal flour which is important as dogs need to eat food which contains carbohydrates. The recipe we used and some biscuits will be making their way home to dog owner families tomorrow. There will be more human food coming your way over the next couple of weeks.
W/c 23rd September, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 22nd Sep 2019 @ 12:13pm
Another action packed week ahead.
Maths - we will be finishing our unit on mental strategies for adding and taking away 1’s, 10’s and 100’s. Our focus will them move onto 2D shapes, measuring and perimeter.
English - on Monday the children will be writing their own version of the story The old woman in the vinegar bottle. They have some super ideas for where their character might want to live. I can’t wait to read them this week. Our new unit will be about instructions and to tie in with our scrumdiddlyumptious topic we will be focusing on recipes.
Topic - the children will continue their exploration of whether or not breakfast cereal contains iron and then look at the diets of animals. I don’t have any pets so if you have a pet at home maybe your child can talk to us about what you feed it and why.
Swimming on Thursday
Preparation for harvest assembly next week, (4th October) organising readers and making something to show you all.
Throwing and catching, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 22nd Sep 2019 @ 12:00pm
We have continued to develop our skills in throwing and catching this week. Chest passes and marking our opponent.
Does breakfast cereal contain iron?, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 22nd Sep 2019 @ 11:54am
This week we began investigating whether or not our breakfast cereal contains iron. Having crushed up and tested with a magnet, we are still not completely convinced. Watch this space to see how this develops, the children are going to try a different method to extract any iron.
Learning fun!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 20th Sep 2019 @ 3:57pm
This week the koalas have enjoyed finding out about Robert Goddard who invented the first fuel powered rocket, space relax kids and a number treasure hunt. They had to find 8 numbers and order them biggest to smallest explaining their thinking. It was tricky to find them all! In our learning with Jigsaw Jack we had fun playing circle games and thinking about what we wanted our classroom to look like eg helping each other, kind words and hands and superstar learning.
week 3 , by Miss Reynolds
Date: 19th Sep 2019 @ 3:07pm
This week has been amazing we are half way through making moon buggies and we are excited to try out the luna track which Miss Reynolds is preparing .
We have been learing with a lady called Rebecca from nuffield heath gym and she has set us challenges for are goal for next week and the rest of this half term.
PE circuit, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 17th Sep 2019 @ 9:42pm
In PE we are learning to move carefully around the hall, moving forwards, backwards and sideways. We listen carefully to different instructions and then we had a go at a circuit where we were throwing, catching, balancing and stepping up and down....we thought about what our heart was doing inside of our body whilst we were exercising.
