Year 6: The Meerkats: Blog items
Macmillan coffee morning and book read, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 1st Oct 2019 @ 5:39pm
What an amazing morning. We were completely blown away by the number of visitors this morning. Thank you to everyone who came along to support this event, there was plenty of cake for everyone. The children enjoyed reading with their parents/grandparents, reading with the younger children or sat on a bean bag, taking off their shoes and sharing a book with their friends. Thankyou also to the parents who helped our amazing charity ambassadors and heads team.
We had lots of amazing cakes for our moon/space themed competition. There are some very talented bakers out there. The charity ambassadors had some difficult decisions to make when choosing the winner from each class. The winners were informed in assembly today and prizes given out. All children who took part will receive a special certificate later this week.
We will let you know the total amount once it has been totalled up.
Cake competition, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 30th Sep 2019 @ 6:36pm
Thank you to everyone who has entered the cake competition, your entries are amazing. There is still time to bring in your entry on Tuesday morning before we start selling at 9am.
We are also welcoming any cake donations home made or bought for our Macmillan coffee morning and book read.
We look forward to seeing you tomorrow.
Cheese on toast, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 30th Sep 2019 @ 6:33pm
Well, I never realised until today how many different ways you could make cheese on toast.
We started the lesson by telling each other how to make cheese on toast, it was a revelation, from cheese on bread and in a toaster to putting it in a microwave and using cheese spread, I have learnt a lot today😂
We then went on to look at a variety of instructions for making cheese on toast and discussed the positive and negatives for each one.
Science, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 30th Sep 2019 @ 6:27pm
W/c 30th October, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 30th Sep 2019 @ 6:27pm
This week we are continuing our English unit on Instructions, focusing on prepositions, adverbs and conjunctions. There will also be some baking this week. I hope they save some for me to eat 🙂
Maths - perimeter is this weeks focus. Measuring length in cm and m and naming 2D shapes.
Topic - sorting animals according to what they eat using a venn diagram. Where in the world does our food come from?
swimming, marking skills in a team game.
Macmillan coffee morning on Tuesday 9-10. Come and share a book with your child and buy a cake to support this charity.
Harvest in church on Friday afternoon.
Instructions, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 30th Sep 2019 @ 6:17pm
We are learning about the non fiction text - instructions. We have tried to follow a set of origami instructions to make different animals. Some were harder than they looked! We showed determination and resilience.
Baking dog biscuits, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 24th Sep 2019 @ 6:02pm
As an introduction to our new English unit on instructions and as part of our topic work we had a go at making dog biscuits. They contained wholemeal flour which is important as dogs need to eat food which contains carbohydrates. The recipe we used and some biscuits will be making their way home to dog owner families tomorrow. There will be more human food coming your way over the next couple of weeks.
W/c 23rd September, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 22nd Sep 2019 @ 12:13pm
Another action packed week ahead.
Maths - we will be finishing our unit on mental strategies for adding and taking away 1’s, 10’s and 100’s. Our focus will them move onto 2D shapes, measuring and perimeter.
English - on Monday the children will be writing their own version of the story The old woman in the vinegar bottle. They have some super ideas for where their character might want to live. I can’t wait to read them this week. Our new unit will be about instructions and to tie in with our scrumdiddlyumptious topic we will be focusing on recipes.
Topic - the children will continue their exploration of whether or not breakfast cereal contains iron and then look at the diets of animals. I don’t have any pets so if you have a pet at home maybe your child can talk to us about what you feed it and why.
Swimming on Thursday
Preparation for harvest assembly next week, (4th October) organising readers and making something to show you all.
Throwing and catching, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 22nd Sep 2019 @ 12:00pm
We have continued to develop our skills in throwing and catching this week. Chest passes and marking our opponent.
Does breakfast cereal contain iron?, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 22nd Sep 2019 @ 11:54am
This week we began investigating whether or not our breakfast cereal contains iron. Having crushed up and tested with a magnet, we are still not completely convinced. Watch this space to see how this develops, the children are going to try a different method to extract any iron.
Mad Science, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 17th Sep 2019 @ 2:28pm
This afternoon the children found out all about the science of sport from the mad scientist.
Meet the Teacher, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 12th Sep 2019 @ 7:41pm
Thank you to all the parents that made it to meet the teacher tonight. It was lovely to meet you. Dont worry if you couldn't come, I will send home the information with the children tomorrow. Please come and see me if you have any questions.
The powerpoint slides I showed are here, but I all the information is also on the information sheets.
Swimming, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 12th Sep 2019 @ 7:37pm
WELL DONE Meerkats. You were great at swimming today. You were very excitited and it sounded like you all enjoyed it. Quick getting changed and we made it back to the bus in time 
Super job.
w/c 9th September, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 10th Sep 2019 @ 7:52am
This week we will be
Practicing handwriting in our new handwriting books.
Writing about the charaters of the old woman and the fairy from our story.
Exploring numbers so we understand the value of the digits and find different ways of partitioning the numbers.
Exploring the grammar of speech. Can we write speech using the correct punctuation?
What is a healthy diet?
We will be finding out more about our word of the year - Metacognition.
Our first swimming lesson is this Thursday.
Lots going on - fingers crossed the weather improves and we can do some gardening on Friday.
End of the first week., by Mrs Catterall
Date: 7th Sep 2019 @ 11:02pm
Wow, what a week! The Meerkats have been marvellous and settled in well to year 3. They have shown great listening, great participation in class discussions, great teamwork and have just been amazing. Well done Meerkats.
I'm looking forward to next week.🙂
See you on Monday, make sure you have your P.E. kits please.
Meet the teacher. If you can't make it, don't worry, I will send home the information the following day. Any questions please come and see me or leave a message with the office and I'll get back to you.
Enjoy the rest of the weekend.
Character voices., by Mrs Catterall
Date: 7th Sep 2019 @ 10:55pm
On Friday we identified sections of speech in our folktales 'The old woman in a vinegar bottle.'
We then worked with a partner to practise reading the speech using a voice for the character of the old woman or the fairy. We shared our presentations with the class and filmed them using the iPad. We had a good giggle at some of the voices, the children were amazing.
Maths, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 5th Sep 2019 @ 9:03pm
Today we began using our new maths equipment to make 3 digit numbers and compare them. We used the idea of a crocodile eating the biggest number to help us compare numbers using greater than and less than signs.
Jujitsu practice., by Mrs Catterall
Date: 5th Sep 2019 @ 9:00pm
This morning we had a jujitsu taster session. The children were very excited and had a great time. The photos are a bit blurry as they were moving so fast. If your child would like to attend the after school club they run, letters came home in their bags tonight.
Welcome Back, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 1st Sep 2019 @ 8:29pm
Welcome Back to School
I hope you have all had a fabulous Summer holiday. Welcome to Year 3. I am excited to see you all tomorrow and find out what exciting adventures you have been up to.
Please remember to bring your water bottles, P.E. kits and 20p if you are wanting toast at playtime.
I hope you have all managed to obtain a swimming hat. We wont be going swiming this week so if not you have a bit longer to get one.
Holiday Passports should also be returned this week please.
This week I will be introducing the children to the routines for year 3. There are some things which are organised slightly different to KS1, I will be explaining it all at the meet the teacher session but please feel free to come and ask myself or Mrs Atkinson if you have any questions.
See you in the morning
Mrs Catterall
Mrs Cowburn, by Mrs McLennan
Date: 22nd Jul 2019 @ 5:58pm
A huge thank you (and goodbye) to Mrs Cowburn. The Meerkats have loved working with you.
Computing , by Mrs McLennan
Date: 22nd Jul 2019 @ 5:55pm
We’ve had a morning of fun coding and debugging. Thank you to Year 5 who helped us.
50th anniversary of the moon landings., by Mrs Catterall
Date: 20th Jul 2019 @ 12:18pm
Next year we will be exploring moon landings as part of our Geography, Science and Maths work. As this weekend is the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing (Apollo 11) please keep a look out on the TV for information, maybe a newspaper or magazine article, you might like to share them with your class next year.
Out of Africa, by Mrs McLennan
Date: 21st Jun 2019 @ 5:20pm
This week we have been learning some Swahili. We can now sing a playground song and have added musical instruments as accompaniment.
Termly Plan, by Mrs McLennan
Date: 13th Jun 2019 @ 4:51pm
Out of Africa is our theme for the term. Please see attached file.
Potions, by Mrs McLennan
Date: 13th Jun 2019 @ 4:26pm
We’ve been busy this afternoon making rather smelly potions. We were using our skills of measuring. I wonder who made the stinkiest potion...
