Our blogs
Reading, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 26th Nov 2017 @ 9:35pm
We do lots of reading in class. Reading 1 to 1 with an adult, reading in a group, independent reading in order to understand and analyse the text. Earlier in the year the children could choose a Dick King Smith story to read and thoroughly enjoyed it. This week the children had the opportunity to choose a book from the bookcase and read for pleasure, they could choose where they wanted to sit to get comfy and just enjoy reading.
Week Beginning Monday 27th November 2017, by Miss Adamson
Date: 26th Nov 2017 @ 6:33pm
Hello all :)
I hope you have had a peaceful weekend.
Here is what we are doing this week:
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Maths |
We are continuing our work on fractions - finding a quarter of a shape and quantity. |
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English |
We are reading Up and Down, by Oliver Jeffers. In the afternoons, for reading comprehension, we are reading The Emperor's Egg. |
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Phonics |
Mrs Thomson's group are working on split diagraphs, a-e (make a cake) and i-e (nice smile). Miss Adamson's group are learning ay (may I play), ow (blow the snow), ea (a cup of tea) and ie (a colourful tie). |
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Jigsaw |
We are learning how to help if we think someone is being bullied. |
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PE |
We are using jumps, rolls and travelling movements to create our own sequences. |
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Celebration Assembly |
On Monday, we are going to church for celebration assembly at 2pm. Some children will give a brief overview of what we have been learning this term. |
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Trees |
We will be learning about different kinds of trees - deciduous and evergreen. |
I look forward to seeing you next week.
Many thanks,
Miss Adamson
Enterprise, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 26th Nov 2017 @ 3:40pm
We just want to say a big thank you to everyone that bought a cookie or hot chocolate from us on Friday - we had lots of fun making everything, but apparently 80 biscuits wasn't nearly enough! The whole school wanted our delicious treats... Sorry if you missed out! We managed to make a profit of around £50! Thank you very much to Mrs Baller and Mrs Ashcroft for lending a hand too!
Week beginning the 4th December, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 26th Nov 2017 @ 3:33pm
Hello everybody! Hope you've had a lovely weekend! Don't forget this Thursday we are having a special Wedding themed day - if you'd like school dinner that day, you'll need to pay at the office. 
The whole day will be centred around the theme of different types of weddings - it's going to be great!
This week will look like this:
English: Script writing
GPS: Inventing words & word class
Maths: Negative numbers and Roman numerals
Science: Irreversible changes & Reversible changes assessment experiment
Computing: Coding and Debugging
PSHE: Jigsaw - different cultures
R.E: Christian stories
French: Family
PE: Beyond Sport (Monday)
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 the 27th November, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 26th Nov 2017 @ 3:33pm
Don't forget that we are taking an Athletics team to Priory on Tuesday - if you haven't already returned your permission slip, please bring that in Monday! If there are any parents that would be available to take some children to and from Priory, that would be very much appreciated. We are leaving at 9am and returning around midday.
Also, I forgot to put a blog post up about homework, but just so you know, English - Lets keep working on those spellings with Spellodrome! If you don't have access to a computer, then you can do it at school. You need to write 5 sentences with any 5 words from Spellodrome. We'll be having a test on the stage 3 list Wednesday next week. Maths is the grid method multiplication sheet that we wrote as a class - you must do a minimum of any 4 of those questions, but I am expecting most of you to be able to do most of them!
This week will look like this:
English: Reading comprehension skills
GPS: Inventing words & word class
Maths: Consolidation week - a week of reviewing and deepening our understanding in various areas of Maths, particularly reasoning skills. Found this fun little website for improving all areas of Maths. You just need to provide an email address so it can keep track of your prgoress for you, but it's absolutely free. It also has a Reading section, but I haven't had chance to explore that yet - give it a go and tell me what you think!
Science: Irreversible changes
D.T: Evaluating our Enterprise biscuits
Computing: Coding and Debugging
PSHE: Jigsaw - different cultures
R.E: Christian stories
French: Family
PE: Dance (Tuesday) and Beyond Sport (Monday)
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!
Continents, Celebration Assembly and Words, by Miss Adamson
Date: 24th Nov 2017 @ 4:45pm
Hello :)
I hope you've had a lovely week!
We had a watch of a quick video about the names of the seven continents this afternoon.
Also, we coloured baubles to go on the Christmas tree at Booths - keep an eye out for them.
A handful of children have a few words to learn for celebration assembly on Monday afternoon. I hope it's not too onerous! Some children were a little dissapointed that they didn't have any words. However, we will begin practising for our production with Reception soon and many more children will have speaking parts. We will try to ensure all children who want to speak will get an opportunity at some point throughout the year.
Most children have been bringing their words (piece of paper in poly pocket) to school for reading/spelling check on Friday morning. Please could these come to school in blue book bags on Fridays. Sorry that wasn't clear.
Last thing, if you have made a recycled Christmas tree decoration, please bring it in for Thursday 30th November - St Andrew's Day!
Have a lovely weekend!
Miss Adamson
Survival!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 24th Nov 2017 @ 4:05pm
The Penguins were stranded on a desert island this afternoon and had to think what they would miss, what would make them happy and what they would absolutely need to survive. They had to write a note asking for things and ssend it out in the sea in a bottle and hope that someone would find it.
Yesterday we looked at road safety and discussed things we should do to keep safe around roads and crossing the road.
Hop you all have a lovely weekend 😀👍
Maths in the Giraffes , by Mr Pearson
Date: 24th Nov 2017 @ 9:49am
A practical lesson on equivalent fractions.
Fraction fun, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 22nd Nov 2017 @ 7:13pm
We had fun this afternoon with fractions, we folded paper in different ways to show halves and quarters. Next we shared "sweets" between different numbers of children and used different grids, we even found a quarter of 48! Last but not least we had to choose whether we would rather eat half or a quarter of a chocolate bar and explain why. Then we could eat half but had to take half home. A big thank you to those parents and grandparents who were able to make it, a copy of notes and example questions will be coming home tomorrow in the homework bags.
We also had fun and did some really amazing thinking finding fractions of amounts on Tuesday. Our challenge was to find different ways of making half - we came up with some really clever ideas👍
Giraffes PowerPoint Fractions, by Mr Pearson
Date: 22nd Nov 2017 @ 6:02pm
Please find attached a copy of the PowerPoint used in today's Parent workshop about Fractions in Y4
Parents afternoon, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 22nd Nov 2017 @ 5:15pm
It was lovely to see the parents and grandparents that came along today. We had a mini phonics session and looked at some of the strategies we use to help segmenting, blending and then applying to our reading and writing.
This week so far, by Mr Pearson
Date: 22nd Nov 2017 @ 2:59pm
This week we have done fractions and division in our maths lessons.
Also we have had our parents come in and do some fractions.
This week it is road safety week and we have a speed down save lives.
Someone called Sean came in and practised our songs for the guild hall.
Tigers Newspaper No.1 , by Miss Reynolds
Date: 22nd Nov 2017 @ 1:44pm
School Newspaper Report
One of America's most famous Christmas trees, the Rockfeller Center Christmas Tree in New York, has arrived from Pennsylvania, to it's new home in Mid-Manhatten! The Norway spruce stands 75 feet tall and is roughly 50 feet in diameter.
It's set to be decorated with more than 50,000 lights and topped with a Swarovski star.The tree will be illuminated on the 29th of November and remain on display until 7th of January. It will then be donated to a charity to be transformed into wood for building homes.
This weeks learning, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 20th Nov 2017 @ 8:19pm
This Week in our learning we are in:
Maths- finding out about fractions - shading fractions of shapes and sharing objects, using the term numerator and denominator.
English - work based around Prince Cinders, our stories with a twist continue.
Science- what we need to survive if we were on a desert island, what are the essentials for survival?
Jigsaw - celebrating our differences, starting to understand that people make assumptions about boys and girls. Understand some ways in which boys and girls are different and that this OK.
We are continuing with our Christmas rehearsals , tickets are on sale from the office, don't forget to send in costumes and let us know if any problems.
On Wednesday you are invited in to class for a lesson in Maths, hope you can join us.
Library Visit, by Miss Adamson
Date: 20th Nov 2017 @ 6:59pm
We had a wonderful morning at the library. Tom read us two books about monsters and told us lots of information about the library. We had some time to look at the different books. We borrowed ten books to take back to class on Mrs Thomson's library account - we best not lose any!
Tom told us that there are some Christmas activities at the library. Will find out the full details and let you know!
STEM: the Leyland truck trail , by Miss Leigh
Date: 20th Nov 2017 @ 6:19pm
What a fantastic afternoon!!!!!!
Lots of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths going on.
Room on the broom, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 20th Nov 2017 @ 4:00pm
We have changed the weeks around and so this week we are learning room on the broom and next week will be what the ladybird heard.
We will read the story and look at rhyming words, we will also learn to write a magic spell!
in maths we are still counting in 1's and 2's but beginning to learn 5's. We are adding and starting to take away.
We are still continuing with consolidating phase 2 in phonics and some of the children will move onto phase 3 next week.
In PE we are using the apparatus to move along in different ways and then land safely and finish just like a gymnast.
Reading books, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 19th Nov 2017 @ 9:57pm
As of this week reading books will now be changed on a Friday.
Thank you
Photos from last week., by Mrs Catterall
Date: 19th Nov 2017 @ 6:07pm
What a busy week last week was.
UK Parliament week, lots of division work, science exploration of different skeletons and our joints as well as Children in Need.
The week ahead, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 19th Nov 2017 @ 6:02pm
I hope you have had a lovely weekend, it's been a bit chilly but the sun has been shining at least.
We have another busy week planned.
GPS - determiners and pronouns.
English - our final week on Fables. The children will be writing their own fables using the structure from the Lion and the Mouse and the characters they have created as part of their homework. A key focus is on the use of connectives in complex sentences.
Maths - We will continue our work on division and its links with multiplication. Remember to keep learning those times tables!
PSHE - this week is road safety week. Mrs Neilson will be delivering this lesson and we will have an assembly to find out more about it.
P.E. - Swimming. We will be starting our water safety lessons on Thursday. Don't forget your shorts and T.shirt as well as your usual swimming stuff.
D.T. - Mrs Neilson will be focusing on healthy eating and the Eatwell plate this week. Over the next few weeks she will be taking the children out in groups to develop their baking and cooking skills.
Play Practise. - children will not be allowed their lines this week. They have had 3 weeks to learn them so we can now just work on expression, stage directions and making sure they can be heard. Thank you for your support with this.
THURSDAY - 2pm Parents in class. Our focus for this is going to be Fractions. This is often a tricky area for children so this is a fantastic opportunity for you to find out how we teach it in school do you can continue to support their learning and reassure them they CAN do it. . I look forward to seeing you there.
Mrs Catterall
Week beginning the 20th Nov, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 19th Nov 2017 @ 3:09pm
If there are any particularly good bakers (or not so good... we're not picky 
) amongst our parents, we would love to have you give us a hand this week with our enterprise! We will be making giant plain cookies and then melting chocolate and making them half-dipped - an extra pair of hands would be greatly appreciated!
Don't forget, this Wednesday afternoon all parents are welcome to join us for a lesson on fractions. If you won't be able to make it, but would like to know what a typical maths lesson looks like - just pop in and I'll give you a copy of the annotated lesson plan that I'll be handing out on Wednesday.
This week will look like this:
English: Alice in Wonderland - grammar and comprehension skills
GPS: Semi-colon pauses
Maths: Multiplication - Area - use this to explore area. For a bonus challenge try colouring in the squares different colours and find the area of the whole shape you create, but then also try working out what fraction of the shape you have coloured in (for example) pink!
Science: Reversible changes
D.T: Making products for Enterprise
Art: Looking at graffiti artist - SAGE for inspiration of Word Art
Computing: E-safety
PSHE: Jigsaw - different cultures
R.E: Christian stories
French: Family
PE: Dance (Tuesday) and Beyond Sport (Monday)
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 20th November, by Miss Adamson
Date: 18th Nov 2017 @ 4:03pm
Hello all :)
I hope you're having a happy weekend!
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English |
We are reading Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers. We are going to walk to the library on Monday morning and learn about some stories from cold places. |
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Maths |
We are learning about fractions. Specifically, a fraction is one equal part of a whole. We will also learn about halves and quarters of shapes and quantities. |
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Phonics |
Mrs Thomson's group is learning ew (chew the stew), oe (ten toes) and au (he caught a fish). Miss Adamson's group is learning air (that's not fair), er (better letter), or (shut the door) and ure (sure it's pure). |
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Geography |
We are learning about continents and finding cold places on a map of the world. We will be linking this to the Lost and Found story. |
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Jigsaw |
We are learning what bully is and how being bullied might feel. |
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PE |
We are still learning new ways of travelling and rolling. We are continuing to work on creating our own sequences. |
I look forward to seeing you all on Monday,
Miss Adamson
Parliament Week, by Miss Adamson
Date: 17th Nov 2017 @ 11:12pm
This week is Parliament week. The children asked some questions about what they'd like to know about parliament. We focussed on finding out what it is like inside the Houses of Parliament. Most children would like to be in the House of Lords because of the red seats! We learned about the Queen's messenger, Black Rod, who knocks on the door of the House of Commons. The children compared the difference between the Queen and the Prime Minister and decided who they thought was the most important.
Place Value, by Miss Adamson
Date: 17th Nov 2017 @ 11:08pm
Year One have been using tens and ones to help us to understand two digit numbers.
