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Week Beginning Monday 8th January 2018, by Miss Adamson

Date: 6th Jan 2018 @ 12:25pm

Hello all :) 

Happy New Year! I hope that you have had a wonderful Christmas break!

Here is what we are doing next week:

Maths

We are working on number and place value. Specifically, we are practising careful number formation, finding more and less and odd and even numbers.

English

Father Christmas gave us the story of Bumblebear. We are looking for words with -ed endings.

Phonics

We will save switching groups until after check-up week so Mrs Thomson's group will study alternative pronunciations for 'i' and 'o'. Mrs Coxhead's group will review ay, ou, ie and ea.

PE

We will be learning about dance.

Jigsaw

We are beginning our new unit called Dreams and Goals. We will set our own simple goals. If you have any little boxes from Christmas at home - e.g. empty Maltesers boxes - these would be handy this week.

Bee Musical

We will begin rehearsals for the Bee Musical. This will feature heavily over the coming weeks!

I look forward to seeing you all on Monday!

Mrs Coxhead

2018 - Spring Term, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 5th Jan 2018 @ 9:10pm

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL
I hope you have all had a fabulous Christmas and New Year and made lots of family memories.  I'm looking forward to hearing all about it on Monday.

I have attached to the main class page a curriculum overview and letter for this half term.  

One thing I have enjoyed doing as a family this holiday is sitting down together to plan 1 full family day of activities each month.  These aren't necesarily activities that cost lots of money, the focus has been on something we all take part in together.  Some of the things we have selected are a walk and picnic on the beach, a bike ride and ice cream, a day baking all sorts of cakes for members of the family, A day at the leisure centre swimming and playing badminton.   I have attached a grid we completed, if this is something you might like to do yourselves please feel free to print it out.  

The last few weeks of the term - Photo catch up, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 5th Jan 2018 @ 9:02pm

It was a busy end to the last few weeks of the term; cooking, making modroc objects and painting them, calendars, Chrstmas cards, our Wedding day, music concert, Christmas Lunch our Jigsaw lessons, Christmas party and finishing off the term with our Class Compliment treat of den building under the tables in our onsies.

Here are just a few of the many photos we took. 

Happy Christmas, by Miss Adamson

Date: 22nd Dec 2017 @ 8:50pm

Thank you for all your hard work and support this term. I am very grateful for the kind cards and presents I received - thank you very much. I am amazed by your generosity! I hope you will all have a peaceful Christmas. I look forward to seeing you in January.

Making snowmen, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 22nd Dec 2017 @ 4:04pm

As a treat all afternoon we made marshmallow snowmen and melted biscuit snowmen then ate them all up. Yum!

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, see you all in 2018 x x

A big Thank you, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 22nd Dec 2017 @ 3:58pm

Mrs Regan and I would like to say a big thank you for all our lovely presents, you are very generous, so thank you. We hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and our best wishes for 2018 x

Apologies, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 22nd Dec 2017 @ 11:35am

I would like to apologise for the SATs meeting having to be cancelled last week. You will be receiving a parentmail with the rearranged date which is Wednesday 17th January.

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and best wishes for the New Year

Mrs Fletcher

Thank you, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 22nd Dec 2017 @ 11:31am

I would just like to say thank you very much for all of the lovely Christmas cards and presents I have received. It is very kind of you all to think of me at this special time of year.

I have had an amazing first term worling in Years 6, 5 and 4. I have never worked in this capacity before and your children have made it one of the most rewarding periods in my teaching career.

At this special time of year I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and wish you well for 2018.

Mrs Fletcher

Christmas fun, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 20th Dec 2017 @ 6:40pm

Take a look at what we have been up to this week x

More festive fun!, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 20th Dec 2017 @ 3:33pm

We enjoyed another breakfast with Santa this morning and had fun decorating our mini Christmas cakes, hope they taste good!

Nativity songs, by Miss Adamson

Date: 20th Dec 2017 @ 12:43pm

Thank you for supporting our nativity songs. The children and Mrs Bolton worked really hard to learn all those words and tunes!

Christmas Party, by Miss Adamson

Date: 20th Dec 2017 @ 12:40pm

A wonderful time was had at the Reception and KS1 Christmas party. There was brilliant dancing and lots of fun games. We met Father Christmas, again!

Breakfast with Santa, by Miss Adamson

Date: 20th Dec 2017 @ 12:37pm

Many of the meerkats met Father Christmas for breakfast on Tuesday and Wednesday. Here are some pictures.

Feeling Christmassy, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 19th Dec 2017 @ 3:43pm

The Penguins 🐧 enjoyed making their Christmas cakes and are looking forward to decorating them tomorrow. Breakfast with Santa was fun and our party was fabulous! Thank you Thomas and Sam you did a great job as DJ'sπŸ™‚πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ˜Ž

Week Beginning Monday 18th December 2017, by Miss Adamson

Date: 16th Dec 2017 @ 11:24am

Hello :) 

I hope that you are enjoying this weekend. As that last week before Christmas can be a little different to our usual routine, I have presented what we are doing by days, as opposed to subject:

Monday

  1. Addition and subtraciton
  2. Christmas writing
  3. Phonics review
  4. Making Christmas cards
Tuesday
  1. Addition and subtraction
  2. Phonics review
  3. Christmas writing
  4. Christmas party (children can bring party clothes in a bag to change into after lunch)

Wednesday

  1. Christmas songs with parents
  2. Change reading books
  3. Music
  4. Bee Musical practice

Thursday

  1. Whole school fun sing
  2. Phonics review
  3. Bee Musical practice
  4. Christmas carols in church

Friday

Christmas Craft Day:

  1. Christmas angels
  2. Phonics review
  3. Christmas Snowmen
  4. Christmas Candles
  5. Christmas stars

I look forward to seeing you all on Monday,

Miss Adamson

Christmas Dinner Day, by Miss Adamson

Date: 16th Dec 2017 @ 10:23am

On Thursday, Silvana prepared a wonderful Christmas dinner. Here are some pictures.

Starry Night Continued, by Miss Adamson

Date: 16th Dec 2017 @ 10:18am

On Friday afternoon we finished our Starry Night pictures. Here are some of the finished pieces.

Last week reminders, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 15th Dec 2017 @ 5:15pm

Just a few reminders for next week.

Christmas party πŸŽ‰Tuesday afternoon.The children should come to school in their uniform as usual and bring their party things to change into.

Breakfast with Santa πŸŽ… is on Tuesday and Wednesday morning.

Christmas carol service is Thursday afternoon, please note school closes on Friday.

A big thank you to those parents/ grandparents who have volunteered to help on Monday and Wednesday morning. We are making mini Christmas cakes, baking them on Monday and decorating them on Wednesday, we really do appreciate your support and help.

Hope you all have a fab weekend πŸ™‚

James And Luke S Blog No.6, by Miss Reynolds

Date: 15th Dec 2017 @ 3:28pm

This week in Year 5 , we have skyped Silla (Miss Reynolds' Icelandic friend) and asked her some questions. Here are some examples:how do you say hello in Icelandic? ANSWER:hallo (it sounds German), Do you find it hot or cold in Iceland? ANSWER: Mostly cold, it was -8°C at 11:50am (when we skyped Silla). In Maths, we did some Christmas Questions like: Kerry Buys ten boxes of sixor 89p each,four boxes of six luxury mince pies for £2 eac and four boxes of free from mince pies for £1.75 each, what is the average cost of each mince pie to the nearest penny? We worked out the total cost of the mince pies and then we worked out how much mince pies Kerry has.

James And Luke S Blog No.6, by Miss Reynolds

Date: 15th Dec 2017 @ 3:28pm

This week in Year 5 , we have skyped Silla (Miss Reynolds' Icelandic friend) and asked her some questions. Here are some examples:how do you say hello in Icelandic? ANSWER:hallo (it sounds German), Do you find it hot or cold in Iceland? ANSWER: Mostly cold, it was -8°C at 11:50am (when we skyped Silla). In Maths, we did some Christmas Questions like: Kerry Buys ten boxes of sixor 89p each,four boxes of six luxury mince pies for £2 eac and four boxes of free from mince pies for £1.75 each, what is the average cost of each mince pie to the nearest penny? We worked out the total cost of the mince pies and then we worked out how much mince pies Kerry has.

Christmas dinner fun, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 14th Dec 2017 @ 8:11pm

We all enjoyed our Christmas lunch today, thank you Sylvana and the teamπŸ‘

Starry Night, by Miss Adamson

Date: 13th Dec 2017 @ 5:29pm

We began painting Starry Night in the style of Van Gogh.

Wedding Day, by Miss Adamson

Date: 13th Dec 2017 @ 5:27pm

Here are a dew pictures from class on the big day!

Week beginning 11th December , by Mrs Pratten

Date: 11th Dec 2017 @ 8:29am

This week we are :

Maths - using a number line to help us add up coins and work out change

English - some imaginative writing based around Christmas adverts, Mogs calamighty Christmas, The greatest gift

Science - finishing off our topic by looking at keeping clean and safety around medicine

Jigsaw - continuing work on  bullying and looking at being a good friend

Christmas crafts 

...and of course we have our pantomime trip tomorrow and Christmas lunch and jumper day on Thursday.

The week ahead , by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 10th Dec 2017 @ 6:14pm

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas x trees and decorations are beginning to appear in lots of houses around Longton and school is looking very Christmassy! The week ahead is very exciting. We are visiting the panto of Aladdin on Tuesday and on Thursday it is Christmas lunch day.

Throughout the week we will continue with some structure and read the story of Aladdin, phonics will continue with all the children learning new phase 3 sounds. In maths we will count in 1's, 2's and 5's  and make snowmen with 2d shapes and add buttons.

We have started to make Christmas cards and calendars and children will be painting a very special person who visits on Christmas Eve. 

Fun, fun, fun!