Our blogs
Orienteering, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 21st Jan 2018 @ 9:20pm
We have been taking part in orienteering sessions on Thursday mornings. We have learnt about points, lines are areas, using a key and matching up symbols. The children needed to use their memory skills to solve the puzzles.
Week beginning 22nd January, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 21st Jan 2018 @ 6:33pm
Hope you have all had a great weekend if a somewhat cold one!
This Week in the Penguins we are:
English - writing our own version of The Tunnel by Anthony Browne
Maths - adding one digit to a number, using place value counters and recording pictorially , applying to problems
PE - dance, space theme and orienteering
Jigsaw - setting goals and how we can achieve them, keeping going when it is a challenge
DT - designing a space buggy, the children may bring in a toy vehicle to look at , preferably one which is for rough terrain (don't worry if you you don't have one a normal car will be fine - we can discuss if it would be a good vehicle to explore the moon - this is for Wednesday )Please can you also start collecting small cardboard boxes, plastic bottles, lids etc anything which would be appropriate for a moon buggy (not needed until next week)
Dont forget parents evening is next week, if you need to make an appointment at another time, please see me and we can sort something out.
I look forward to listening to the children sharing their projects, some have come in already and look very exciting, thank you for your support.
Mrs Pratten
Week beginning the 22nd Jan, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 21st Jan 2018 @ 1:16pm
Hello everybody! Thank you so much for coming to our class assembly last week! It was great to see so many of you there to support us. As a result of all our hard work, we earned our Class Compliment, which means we get a class reward this week! We have decided on building dens and watching a movie in our pj's. It's going to take place on Wednesday afternoon, so if you want to bring pyjamas and any blankets you want, that'd be great.
It's also parent's evening on Monday and Wednesday, which means that projects should be in on Monday. If projects have slipped your mind, please don't panic and rush it tonight - if you want to make one, just drop it in before Wednesday and we'll add it to our display for Wednesday's parent's evening and we'll share them with the rest of the class sometime after that. 
Also, some parents have been asking about Hothersall Lodge - I will send out a Parent Mail about it this week, but I have set a preliminary date of Wednesday 31st January (TBC). I will send out the kitlist with the Parent Mail too.
Finally, we will be going to see our buddies on Thursday afternoon. I know lots of people have been doing nice little things for their buddies, so just thought it was worth giving you a heads-up about it.
Right... I think that's all from me! Have a lovely week, and this week for the Tigers will look like this:
English: Slow writing about the rainforest.
GPS: Reviewing statutory word list & prepositions
Maths: Co-ordinates & 2D shapes
Science: Life cycles
PSHE: Jigsaw - dreams & goals
R.E: Hindu stories
French: Family
PE: Invasion games
If you have any artefacts/special skills/holiday pics etc. that would help us with our learning - please feel free to volunteer them! We would love to have some visitors to our class this year and learning always works best when it is contextualised!
Week Beginning Monday 23rd January 2018, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 20th Jan 2018 @ 12:06pm
Hello all :)
I hope that you are having a great weekend!
We have one more week of hard work on the play and then we will be back to normal timetable! This week we are rounding off our work on money in maths. Counting how much money we have and selecting coins to make an amount. In English, we have our own targets to do a little writing about how bees make honey. We are also working on our written comprehension skills. In phonics, Mrs Thomson's group is working on different pronounciations of 'u' and 'ie'. Mrs Coxhead's group is working on ph, wh, au and oe.
Couple of notes about The Bee Musical:
- Thank you for your support with costumes and learning lines so far.
- Please remember to bring costumes to school in named bag. If there are any bits that you don't have at home, please let us know as soon as possible so we have time to get them.
- This week homework is to work hard on our lines so that we are confident with our words. Remember to have a listen to the songs, too!
I look forward to seeing you next week.
Many thanks,
Mrs Coxhead
Investigating negative numbers, by Mr Pearson
Date: 18th Jan 2018 @ 4:39pm
We have studying negative numbers in maths this week along with Roman Numerals.
Photos of the games we played to reinforce learning. Excellent progress has been made.
SATs Meeting 17th January 2018, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 18th Jan 2018 @ 2:32pm
Whatever the weather...., by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 17th Jan 2018 @ 7:31pm
Today we have been thinking about different types of weather and then writing, painting and making our own clouds. Now that is clever🌧⛈🌦⛅️🌥
Catch up on blog No.7, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 17th Jan 2018 @ 2:46pm
Hi,
Sorry for the inconvinience we realised that Mrs Fletcher was teaching us so we couldn't catch you up. Putting that aside, we will tell you about this week. In Maths, we have played battleships. This was to strengthen our co-ordinate skills even more (We have become co-ordinates masters thanks to Miss Reynolds!). We have finished and presented our rainforest PowerPoints today. They were all excellent (The ones that we have seen so far!) and we can't wait to see the others. We have practiced our class assembaly and most of us know our lines. We have now finished our great Kapok tree in Kellys club.
By James And Luke S. 
More Toy Story Adventures, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 16th Jan 2018 @ 6:57pm
In maths we are learning under, over and through....., by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 15th Jan 2018 @ 7:36pm
We had fun going through the box!
Buzz light year and space, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 15th Jan 2018 @ 7:30pm
Last week we went into space with Buzz Light year. We all got the writing bug and wanted to write, write, write!
Second week back, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 15th Jan 2018 @ 7:06pm
Hope everyone had a good weekend, what are we up to this week?
English - reading more Anthony Browne books, Silly Billy and The Tunnel. Discussing how charac feel and making worry dolls
Maths - time, learning to tell the time, o' clock, half past, quarter to and past, then to 5 minute intervals
PE - space dance, looking at clips of space men walking on the moon, zooming off in to space and partner work walking on the moon. Thursday - orienteering
Jigsaw - looking st successes and making treasure boxes, seeking goals
ICT - key board skills, typing names and alphabet, using space bar and shift key
History - looking at Atlases for the places famous explorers explored and recapping continents and oceans
Keep practising x10 tables , we are learning x 2 this week🙃
Second week back, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 15th Jan 2018 @ 7:05pm
Hope everyone had a good weekend, what are we up to this week?
English - reading more Anthony Browne books, Silly Billy and The Tunnel. Discussing how charac feel and making worry dolls
Maths - time, learning to tell the time, o' clock, half past, quarter to and past, then to 5 minute intervals
PE - space dance, looking at clips of space men walking on the moon, zooming off in to space and partner work walking on the moon. Thursday - orienteering
Jigsaw - looking st successes and making treasure boxes, seeking goals
ICT - key board skills, typing names and alphabet, using space bar and shift key
History - looking at Atlases for the places famous explorers explored and recapping continents and oceans
Keep practising x10 tables , we are learning x 2 this week🙃
Week Beginning Monday 15th January 2018, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 13th Jan 2018 @ 1:32pm
Hello all :)
I hope that you are enjoying your weekend!
This week, our main focus is The Bee Musical - learning our lines, knowing when to be on and off stage, learning our songs and actions! In English, we are reading The Enormous Turnip and using joining words. In maths, we are using our knowledge of counting in steps to count money. In phonics, Mrs Coxhead's group is learning ue, aw, ew, wh and ph. Mrs Thomson's group is learning alternative pronounciations for C and G.
Also, Linda sent out a Parentmail earlier in the week about projects, sorry that this doesn't give you lots of time to think about/prepare a project. I had completely forgotten about projects! As email states, the theme is plants and growth. If you are stuck for ideas, let me know or sometimes parents with older children in the school have a good ideas from past projects.
Thank you for your support with The Bee Musical. Please get in touch if you have any questions!
Many thanks,
Mrs Coxhead
Odd and even, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 13th Jan 2018 @ 1:16pm
We learned about odd and even numbers. We used Numicon to see the difference between how odd and even numbers look. We also have this rhyme to help us remember odd and even numbers.
0, 2, 4, 6, 8 being even is just great
1, 3, 5, 7, 9 being odd is just fine
Expedition fun, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 12th Jan 2018 @ 3:56pm
Yesterday as part of our PE for this half term, we had our first orienteering session. The children learnt about symbols on maps and started to use a key. This afternoon we took out bears 🐻 on an expedition, we talked about what would be useful equipment to take and what wouldn't. The children used their maps well to find hidden objects around the playground. We discussed how exciting it was to discover something and that must be how explorers felt. We then looked at some famous explorers and talked about what they achieved.
Have a great weekend
Mrs Pratten
James And Luke S Blog No.7, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 12th Jan 2018 @ 3:16pm
Happy New Year readers! This week has been exellent for us. We have been sorting out new units for all subjects and they have been outstanding! Our English homework is to create a word bank for our Prequel to the great Kapok tree. Here is an example of our homework : A powerful, stealy, carnivorous feline prowling the underbrush.
Sorry - have to cut short today! We've run out of time! We will fill you in on Monday!
The Bee Musical: Words and music, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 10th Jan 2018 @ 10:26pm
Listen to the tracks and practise at home!
Please note, we are only learning the first verse of The Bee's Knees. Please just practise this one!
Many thanks,
Mrs Hothersall and Mrs Coxhead
Tuesday news, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 9th Jan 2018 @ 5:24pm
Today the Penguins enjoyed a taster of Sreet dance.They should have bought a flyer home tonight about an after school club.It is always popular so first , come first served.
This afternoon we were practising our key board skills with Mrs Atkinson , we had to try to type the alphabet and our name.
I am not in tomorrow, Mrs. Robinson will be taking the class. I will see you all on Thursday😀
Place Value, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 8th Jan 2018 @ 9:33pm
Today we were focusing on reading and writing three and four digit numbers, ordering them, placing them on a blank number line and discussing the value of the digits.
Projects, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 8th Jan 2018 @ 9:29pm
Projects for this term are due in on Monday 22nd January ready to be displayed for parents evening.
They can be related to any aspect of our topic or on an area your child is interested in.
Key topic areas are:
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Forces and Magnets
Hinduism
Dreams and Goals
The Iron Man
Happy New Year, by Mr Pearson
Date: 8th Jan 2018 @ 8:19pm
I hope you have had a lovely break and made lasting memories.
I have attached the outline of this 1/2 terms learning.
For the project it can be anything your child is interested in or linked to the learning that will be taking place over the next 5 weeks. It is very much a science based 1/2 term looking at teeth and the digestive system. All interesting investigations. Any questions please don't hestitate to contact me.
Mr Pearson
Welcome back and Happy New Year!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 8th Jan 2018 @ 5:12pm
Welcome back to all the Penguins, sounds like they have all had a great Christmas and some were up to let in the New Year too, all good fun!
This Week in our learning we are thinking about:
English - stories by Anthony Browne great stories but brilliant illustrations
Maths - place value - writing numbers, estimating numbers on a numberline
Jigsaw - setting goals and looking at successes
History - finding out what an explorer does and learning about some famous explorers
PE - team games and orienteering
Project theme is Explorers
We will be finding out about Neil Armstrong , anything related to space, space ships, rockets,other Space explorers planets etc
We will also be learning about Christopher Columbus and his discoveries.
The projects do not have to relate to our topics , choose something that interests the children , a favourite author, hobbies, sports clubs, rainbows etc
We hope you enjoy spending time with your child creating something together, remember it does not have to be a model it can be a poster, small booklet, photos, a story, feel free to use your imagination🙂
Welcome back and Happy New Year!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 8th Jan 2018 @ 5:12pm
Welcome back to all the Penguins, sounds like they have all had a great Christmas and some were up to let in the New Year too, all good fun!
This Week in our learning we are thinking about:
English - stories by Anthony Browne great stories but brilliant illustrations
Maths - place value - writing numbers, estimating numbers on a numberline
Jigsaw - setting goals and looking at successes
History - finding out what an explorer does and learning about some famous explorers
PE - team games and orienteering
Project theme is Explorers
We will be finding out about Neil Armstrong , anything related to space, space ships, rockets,other Space explorers planets etc
We will also be learning about Christopher Columbus and his discoveries.
The projects do not have to relate to our topics , choose something that interests the children , a favourite author, hobbies, sports clubs, rainbows etc
We hope you enjoy spending time with your child creating something together, remember it does not have to be a model it can be a poster, small booklet, photos, a story, feel free to use your imagination🙂
Curriculum Overview - Spring 1, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 7th Jan 2018 @ 6:22pm
Please find attached the curriculum overview for Spring 1 and attached letter.