Our blogs
Learning more about our senses, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 10th Oct 2019 @ 3:43pm
Yesterday we carried on with our senses learning, using our sense if smell to work out what was in the pots, some nice smells some not so nice! Today we were tasting using our tongue and mouth. We all helped to peel and chop vegetables to make a vegetable curry. Next we had fun tasting different flavour crisps to see what our class favourite was. We discovered it was salt and vinegar. Tomorrow we are using our hands to touch and feel...
Week 7, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 10th Oct 2019 @ 2:58pm
This week have been finishing our crumbles on our Lunar rovers. We have had lots of fun finishing our buggies it was very interesting that some of them actually worked it was like it was magic!
Today we did gymnastics it was very fun. We were doing routines in small groups. we had to act out a routine about landing on the moon. tommorrow we will be doing our big write about instructions.Some people in our class are going to the football stadium, good luck people!
by Evie, Grace and Lois
Cricket with Mark, by Miss Leigh
Date: 10th Oct 2019 @ 2:07pm
This week we have done cricket with Mark. We did a race to see who could get the most points at five stations with different things to do. We’ve been working on these skills: batting, bowling, fielding, short throwing and long bounce pass to each other across the hall. Outside we have been putting our skills together and putting them into miniature cricket games. Except we start off with five bats and every time we get caught out or get stumped we lose a cricket bat until we haven’t got any left.
Im glad it didn’t rain.
By Tom.
End of year expectations, by Mr Pearson
Date: 10th Oct 2019 @ 12:04pm
Please click on the link to see the end of year expectations for writing, reading and maths for your child's year group.
End of year expectations, by Mr Pearson
Date: 10th Oct 2019 @ 12:03pm
Please click on the link to see the end of year expectations for writing, reading and maths for your child's year group.
End of year expectations, by Mr Pearson
Date: 10th Oct 2019 @ 12:02pm
Please click on the link to see the end of year expectations for writing, reading and maths for your child's year group.
End of year expectations, by Mr Pearson
Date: 10th Oct 2019 @ 12:01pm
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End of year expectations, by Mr Pearson
Date: 10th Oct 2019 @ 11:59am
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End of year expectations, by Mr Pearson
Date: 10th Oct 2019 @ 11:55am
Please click on the link to see the end of year expectations for writing, reading and maths for your child's year group.
Sound investigation, by Mr Pearson
Date: 10th Oct 2019 @ 11:07am
As part of our science learning about sound we made our own musical instrument.
We then played a mini concert playing some of our favourite songs.
Tap its - tapping a beat and finding a rhythm, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 9th Oct 2019 @ 6:51pm
Today we got the tap its out and tapped a beat to different songs. When we stopped tapping we put them on our heads! Take a look at the pictures and the video clip of our delightful singing and signing.
A few reminders, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 8th Oct 2019 @ 8:33pm
Just a few reminders.
Next week we will be sending home holiday passports, there are still several children who have not returned them after the summer holidays. Please can you send them in so they can be marked ready for next week.
Projects to be in this week please. Thankyou to those people who have brought them in, I’m looking forward to you telling us all about them.
Next Friday, 18th October we are holding our enterprise after school. The children are going to be decorating shortbread biscuits to make them into Pudsey bear faces. If anyone could spare an hour or so during the day to help out I would be very grateful, please call in to speak to me or leave a message with Linda and I’ll get back to you. I know Children in Need isn’t for another month but we thought this was a perfect opportunity to raise money for a worthwhile cause and to link in with our food and baking topic.
Amazing artists, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 8th Oct 2019 @ 8:21pm
Over the last 2 days we have been focusing on drawing fruit. Yesterday we just used the photographs of fruit and veg faces by Giuseppe Archimboldo. Today we completed some observational drawings of fruit focusing on the inside of them and the seeds they contain.
The detail was amazing, I can’t wait to see their skills in shading develop as we go through the year.
Well done Meerkats.
Maths - smartie graphs, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 8th Oct 2019 @ 8:17pm
Today we investigated my theory.
I think there are fewer orange smarties in a box than any other colour.
We each had a box of smarties, counted up the different colours and recorded our data in a table. From this we drew a bar chart. There was not a conclusive answer, some children had fewer orange smarties than any other colour some didn’t. Tonight I have collated all the results. I’ll let you know the answer tomorrow.
Using our senses, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 8th Oct 2019 @ 12:15pm
This week we are learning all about our 5 senses, so far we have enjoyed a listening walk.We heard cars, the wind, children talking and Bobby splashing! This morning we were using our eyes to see if we could spot signs of Autumn, we saw leaves changing colour and blowing , it also felt cold! Tomorrow we are smelling , hope it is nice smells!!!
PE part3, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 7th Oct 2019 @ 6:10pm
PE part 2, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 7th Oct 2019 @ 6:08pm
PE part 1, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 7th Oct 2019 @ 6:06pm
We are really enjoying our PE on Mondays. We have been gaining confidence on all of the apparatus and today we had a go on the large equipment and the climbing frame. We are balancing, travelling, and jumping off the gym benches carefully and like a gymnast.
W/c 7th October, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 6th Oct 2019 @ 4:49pm
This week we will be learning
Maths - interpreting and representing data in bar charts and tables.
English - the final group will be making their biscuits and we will be writing out recipes focusing on layout and making sure they use the language features we have been exploring. Conjunctions to create a subordinate clause at the start of a sentence, prepositions, verbs, adverbs.
Topic - this week will focus on art. Looking at the work of Giuseppe Archimboldo, the imaginative portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruit, vegetables, flowers and fish.
There will also be some Lancashire crisp tasting, the results of which we will be exploring in our maths lessons.
Spellings this week will focus on words with the spelling pattern ‘ei’ vein, ‘eigh’ eight, ‘aigh’ straight and ‘ey’ they.
Maths - Perimeter, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 6th Oct 2019 @ 3:50pm
This week we have been learning all about perimeter. These are just a few photos of one of the activities we did. Measuring the sides of a shape, measuring art straws to find the matching length to place around our shapes, then putting them in one long line to find the total distance around the shape - the perimeter.
Lucy's Blue Day, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 4th Oct 2019 @ 7:04pm
This half term we have been thinking about our emotions of happy and sad. Today we read a lovely story called Lucy's Blue Day. We found out that whilst it's great to be happy it is ok to be sad, and eventually your sadness goes and you become happy again.
The week that has been , by Mr Pearson
Date: 4th Oct 2019 @ 1:30pm
In English this week we have focused on diaries. Mr Pearson shared a pretend diary entry from Mrs Thomson who spread blue hand prints around school! On Friday we wrote an imaginary diary entry and let our imaginations run wild.
In grammar we have been studying synonyms for said e.g. bellowed, whispered. In addition we have used subordinating conjunctions to write complex sentences. An example ….
Oliver ran quickly across the road because there was a tiger after him.
For Maths we were solving tricky puzzles like pyramid’s using our addition and subtraction skills. We even had a visit form Mrs Brown to demonstrate our amazing learning.
In topic we studied the Saturn 5 rocket that took the astronauts to the moon. We watched the launch and investigated the different parts of the space ship. After this the Penguins designed their own Space rocket.
In music on the recorder we learnt the note B.
In art, every week we use a different type of medium and this week we used pencil crayons to draw different types of fruits.
In French, we did an activity sheet to describe each other.
Mr Pearson spent Wednesday in Burnley making links with a school that the Penguins will be joining in activities through this year.
Written by Lucie and Oliver
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!
