Year 6: The Giraffes: Blog items
Many thanks, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 26th Jul 2017 @ 3:39pm
A big thank you from myself and Mrs Regan (who is still unfortunately poorly but I will pass on presents and cards) for all th cards and gifts, not expected but appreciated. We have both really enoyed teaching the Tigers again they are a fab tribe with a lot of personality!🙃
We hope you all have a lovely summer😎☀️🍦⚽️🏏🚴♀️🤾🏼♀️✈️🛳🚉🏖
See you in September😀
The Final Day Of Year 4. (James And Violet Blog No.36), by Mrs Pratten
Date: 26th Jul 2017 @ 3:00pm
As this is the final day of year 4 this is the final Blog of Year 4. We have spent the last 3 days making and playing our own games. We planned the games on Monday, made the games on Tuesday and we played them together today (Wednesday). We bought some games in on Monday and that's how we got inspiration for our games. It's time to go into the summer holidays so enjoy the hot weather and sun so HAVE FUN!😎😄☀️😀.
The whole class fun (James Blog No.35), by Mrs Pratten
Date: 25th Jul 2017 @ 2:16pm
The final 3 days In Year 4 have been very memorable. We have had a massive surprise as the ice-cream van has come and given us some ice lollies and ice-cream. We could have any ice lolly on ice cream under £1.20.
We enjoyed ourselves and most of us now have blue mouths so sorry about that parents! Parents Note: please make sure your child brushes his or her teeth thoroughly before going to bed. 😀 🍦
James Blog No.34, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 21st Jul 2017 @ 3:13pm
Children should bring in at least 1 plastic bag if not more into school on Monday. We would also like board games in school that include a dice if your child is happy and we will try not to loose the pieces or damage them (Monopoly is a good choice).
James And Laila Blog No.33, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 14th Jul 2017 @ 3:09pm
This Week In Year 4 we played some cricket! It was very exciting And Isaac's team got 127 runs and Louie's got 96 runs. We played as a very good team. We have learnt all about Africa. We learnt about the story Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters. It was VERY interesting about how the characters behave. We only have One and yes 1 week left in Year 4 and that means 2 more blogs for Year 4!
By James And Laila
School parliament, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 13th Jul 2017 @ 1:52pm
A message from Miss Reynolds, if your child is interested in representing our tribe on the school parliament please prepare something (poster, bullet points , power point etc) for next Tuesday afternoon. The children will share why they would be a good representative and a vote will be taken! if you have not yet written your letter to Miss Reynolds please bring that in on Tuesday too.
Many thanks
Mrs Pratten
Music Mania, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 12th Jul 2017 @ 6:58pm
The members of the choir from year 3 and 4 spent the day at Penwortham Girls High today. They were holding there very own Arts Week and had invited us to take part in Music Mania. The children had the opportunity to play either a steel drum or a drum known as a Djembe and compose a piece of music. During the day they also practised 2 songs which they had been learning in school with our very own Mrs Bolton and Mrs Little from Girls High.
At the end of the afternoon, parents arrived to watch their performances. We were also treated to an advance showing of songs and drama sketches from Girls High children.
It has been a fabulous day, the children behaved impeccably and were amazing. Well done.
James And Kaylie Blog No.32, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 7th Jul 2017 @ 3:04pm
This Week In Y4, we have enjoyed having Kaylie as she is leaving today and it's PJ day! We had a party for Kaylie😺! Also, we had a VERY difficult maths challenge.It was a fidget spinner mystery. Mr Simpson dunked the Y5 fidget spinners in the bucket of paint and he left them to dry so the fidget spinners could not spin (This was a fake mystery and NO Y5 fidget spinners were harmed in the making of the puzzle!)
By James And Kaylie (Who is sadly leaving)
James And Max Blog No. 31, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 5th Jul 2017 @ 3:07pm
This Week In Year 4, it's been takeover week and the Y4 had lots of fun! In P.E we had a go at footballl and it was lots of fun Max's team won and they got a lottery ticket. In Maths, we learnt 2 step problems and had a go at some word problems. In G.P.S, we learnt about apostrophes and their plural form. In Science, we were learning about sound and we went on a sound walk and heard lots of interesting stuff!
By James And Max
Takeover Day: Letter To Parents, by Mr Coxhead
Date: 5th Jul 2017 @ 11:38am
Below is a letter from Daniel and Matthew (our Year 6 pupils who have taken on the roles of Headteacher and Deputy Headteacher for the day):
Dear Parents,
Today Year 6 pupils have taken over teaching for the day as a reward they have earned. There are around 4 pupils teaching each class and have been given a timetable for the day.
Reception has been doing some amazing phonics work, music lessons too and all the teachers are doing a good job. Year 1 have enjoyed doing PE involving throwing and catching and for a treat, football. They also did guided reading work with the teachers helping each child. Year 2 have done some great science work finding out about bugs and have looked all over the bog garden to find some. Year 3 have started off today by doing some fantastic singing. They then did science, learning about flowers and purposes of them. Year 4 have been doing some math problem solving involving multiplication work, after that they work on GPS. Year 5 were doing spelling on suffixes and play rehearsal for their big performance night ahead of them.
Yours Sincerely, Mr Holmes (Deputy Head)
Mr Stillings (Head Teacher)
James And Cadence Blog No.30!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 30th Jun 2017 @ 2:49pm
This Week In Year 4, we have really enjoyed playing Cricket! Yes we took over for Y5 and had such fun and really did well. We learnt how to hit the ball really hard and field really well. In 2 DAYS Miss Preistley is going back to Edge Hill University. So sad. Anyway, we have have continued our work on D&T (Design and Technology) we are sewing our own purses and wallets. Before the lesson, we were given cupcakes from Miss Preistly and mindful colouring from Mrs.Pratten. In English,we have been arguing for and against school uniform and zoos. We had a secret vote and against won. Sorry For! We had Deepdale Duck (the PNE mascot) came in to assembly and was sitting on people's laps! In IT, we made a web to deliver E-Mails to one anonther. Rachel sent a message to me! A.K.A James.
By James and Cadence 🐯😀
Deepdale Duck visited school, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 29th Jun 2017 @ 1:24pm
James And Isaac Blog No.29, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 28th Jun 2017 @ 2:49pm
In the middle of the week,we have been learning about stereotypes and how you shouldn't judge someone by how they look or believe. In English we have been doing a review and our highlights of Year 4. We have just about finished them and they look excellent! In maths, we have been reaserching and looking into polygons and have really had fun with them (Drawing them and just plain looking at them!). People went to athletics to do running,javelin,obstacle courses,sprinting and long jump and we had lots of fun.We came either 4th,5th,6th,7th,8th or 9th! In History, we had a visit from Cleopatra VII and Tutankhamen!
By James And Isaac
Amazing athletes!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 28th Jun 2017 @ 1:14pm
Yesterday years three and four took part in an athletics tournament ,they were all amazing and put in 100% effort . Well done! A big thank you to all the parents who helped with transport and supported us.
Week beginning 26th June, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 26th Jun 2017 @ 3:12pm
This Week in our learning we are thinking about:
Maths - exploring properties of 2D shapes
English - writing reviews and reports about our year in Y4/carrying on with our debating skills
History- investigating Pharoahs
ICT - investigating the world wide web
DT - making wallets
PSHE - exploring stereotypes
PE - athletics, tag rugby
WOPPS - violin lessons continue
Good luck to our athletes from Y3 and Y4 taking part in an inter school competition 😃
James And Joe Blog No.28, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 23rd Jun 2017 @ 3:04pm
This Week In Year 4, we have been playing our violins yet again and our school concert is in 3 Weeks so we better get ready and practice! In maths we have been doing symmetry and messing with shapes. We've been cutting out triangals and making shapes with them. We tried to copy the exact shape on the other side and that was the tricky part! In English, we have had a proper debate about for or against zoos. Both sides (For And Against) had some good arguments in stock and the debate ended in a draw and under some circumstances, zoos were alowed in our world!
By James and Joe 😀🐯 (Both Writers) P.S 3 Months and we go into Year 5 with the new teacher (Miss Reynolds)
Race for Life, by Mr Coxhead
Date: 21st Jun 2017 @ 7:54am
Some members of Year 4 took part in a 'Race for Life' event (a fundraiser for Cancer Research UK) with their local football team at the weekend!
A huge well done to Daniel, Luke S, Jack N, Ryan and Jack J! We're impressed. 5k is a long way!
Week beginning 19th June, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 19th Jun 2017 @ 6:29pm
Hi , hope everybody is enjoying the lovely sunny weather😎
Unfortunately Miss Priestley's daughter is unwell so Miss Priestley will not be back in school until Wednesday.
This Week in our learning we are in:
Maths- looking at symmetry, coordinates and translating shapes
English - we continue our work on zoos looking at the style of persuasive writing
History - we carry on exploring Ancients Egypt
PSHE- looking at judging people on what they look like and stereotyping
ICT- investigating the world wide web
DT - carrying on with our sewing skills
PE - athletics and rugby
Music - violin lessons continue
Don't forget our Summer Fair on Friday evening!😝
James and Faye Blog No.27, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 16th Jun 2017 @ 12:05pm
This week in Year 4,we've been doing measuring weight in maths. We had fun going round our classroom and taking objects to weigh (the dinosaurs book was the most tested and weighed the most on the scales before it said ERROR). 10 lucky people are excited to go to a tag rugby competition and we're hoping to come 1st,2nd or 3rd.
By James And Faye. 🙂 🐯
James and Eryn Blog No.26, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 14th Jun 2017 @ 2:49pm
This Week In Year 4,we have been learning about mummification it is getting the bodyready for the after life ( as they believed). In maths,we have been learning about different measurements. With Miss Priesley,we used different cups and we had to estimate the capacity of each container. Also we did tag rugby and we had to hold the 🏉 Ball with 2 hands to score a try.😀
Welcome back, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 11th Jun 2017 @ 5:12pm
Welcome back everybody,can't believe we are in our last half term! Hope everybody. Has had a fantastic break.
This Week our learning will focus on:
Maths - measures, perimeter, mass, volume and capacity (Miss Priestley)
English - persuasive writing (debating skills) focus on zoos (Mrs Pratten)
History - Ancient Egypt (Miss Priestley)
Music - violin lessons continue
PHSE -equal opportunities
German - Mrs Bolton
DT - continuing with our wallets
PE - athletics and tag rugby
Arts Week Final, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 26th May 2017 @ 2:40pm
This Arts Week it's the end. Not literally but it's the end of arts week and the start of the 2week half term HOLIDAY! It's Very exiting and we also had an assembly on what we did throughout the week and we had the most artwork in the school to show. After assembly, some people went to the masters class and are having a whale of a time! We printed with polystyrene tiles and lots of different rollers, paints and colours
By James (The Writer)
A pause for reflection , by Mrs Pratten
Date: 25th May 2017 @ 6:20pm
Today we showed our support for the people of Manchester by observing the minutes silence at 11.00 o'clock. Each class found a peaceful place around school and paused for reflection, each class then let off a balloon in remembrance.
James And Isaac Blog No.25, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 25th May 2017 @ 3:10pm
On the 4th day of arts week, it's Peter Blake And the Beatles. We are looking at Peter Blakes pop art and how he designed the famous album Stg. Pepper.The Beatles people are John Lennon ,Paul mc.cartney , George Harrison and ringo star . We had a go at doing pop art and found it cool but hard. We could only use 2 colours and a couple of people found it really hard. We also started having a go at French and found it really easy yet really hard!
By James And Isaac.
James And Oliver B Blog No.24, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 24th May 2017 @ 3:13pm
On the 3rd Day of arts week, we have made The Eiffel Tower out of (Here comes the boring bit) Newspaper and Tinfoil without celatape or glue! The person who made the tallest tower got a surprise! It was a challenge to put it together because if it was too tall it would topple over! The winners got a chocolate bar to take home (They seceretly ate it at lunch break(Thomas told me!)).
By James And Oliver B (Both Writers) 🐯😀
