: Blog items
Meet the Teacher, by Miss Adamson
Date: 12th Sep 2017 @ 4:29pm
Thank you ever so much for coming to Meet the Teacher! If you couldn't come but would still like to chat, please drop in! On the class page I have added the paperwork from the session.
Many thanks,
Miss Adamson
Tuesday 12th September, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 12th Sep 2017 @ 4:14pm
Meet the teacher, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 12th Sep 2017 @ 4:11pm
Thank you to everyone who made it to meet the teacher. We talked about general routines, if you can start to leave your child at the door that would be great. The children have settled into school really well and this would be the next big progression.
I sent home WOW cards and class lists, we will put them in your bags if you did not attend. However there are WOW cards on the blog now for your to download.
Phonics wil start next week and we will send home phonics packs and reading books. Please try to encourage your child to read little and often, every day.
Please come along and ask if you are unsure of anything. Mrs Hothersall.
Meet the teacher , by Miss Leigh
Date: 12th Sep 2017 @ 3:39pm
Hello and Welcome back!
As we start the new school year it is always best to make sure that you know what is expected of your child. Now that they are in year 6, things might have become a little scary. Hopefully, this information will set out a few of the things which may be causing anxiety and help you to navigate the year ahead.
Curriculum: The programme of study for year 6 can be found online. See the useful links section on the class page. I have put the links on the blog for you if you’d like to look at them. We will be following these on our run up to SATS and afterwards to ensure that we are ready for High School.
Our Day: Mornings are spent learning English, Maths, GPS and Guided Reading. Mrs. Fletcher works with targeted small groups in the mornings. These groups are not fixed and will change. Afternoons are when we will look at History, Geography, ART, DT, Science, PE, RE, PHSE. Jigsaw is our fantastic new PHSE approach. Mrs Atkinson will take children out for interventions in the afternoon.
Expectations: Children are expected to challenge themselves with their learning. Lessons start promptly and teaching pace is fast. Children need to be prepared for their day with the equipment they need.
Homework: Given out on Thursday, returned by Tuesday. Late homework will be monitored as homework feeds directly into learning this year. Extra copies of homework are available in the stripy box. The quality of homework should be the same or better than their school work. Help is available on Fridays and Mondays. READING- still essential! Please try and discuss your child’s reading book with them each week. Make sure it is a challenging book.
Phones: Turned off and kept in the office during the day.
Bikes/Scooters: Can be stored in the Bike shed, children do not need to arrive earlier at school to use this facility.
Bookbags: No rucksacks please.
Residential: Robin Wood. 21-23rd February. More information to follow next week. Cost is £199 per child.
SATS: Week of 14th May in the mornings. Parents’ information session in the Spring term.
If, as we go through the year, you have any questions, please feel free to contact the office or speak to me on the playground.
Kind Regards,
Miss Leigh
Homework, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 12th Sep 2017 @ 2:28pm
Wednesday 13th Sept to be handed in Tuesday 19th Sept:
Autumn 1 - Curriculum Overview, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 12th Sep 2017 @ 1:28pm
Download the file below for an overview of our curriculum for this half term.
Introduction to year 5, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 12th Sep 2017 @ 1:25pm
Download the file below for a full overview of everything you need to know about Year 5.
Week beginning the 11th September, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 12th Sep 2017 @ 1:18pm
Hello everybody! Sorry this is a bit late - I've just managed to navigate myself around the website!
This week will look like this:
English: Work around Beowulf and Grendel - focus on Thesaurus skills and semi-colons.
Maths: Place value, counting in steps of powers of 10 and Rounding
Geography: Rivers of the UK
History: Anglo-Saxons - Who were they?
PSHE: Jigsaw -
RE: Buddhism
French: Greetings
PE: Gymanstics and Quick Cricket
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 11th September 2017, by Miss Adamson
Date: 11th Sep 2017 @ 8:39pm
Hello all :)
I hope that you have had a lovely weekend. This is what we are doing this week:
| English |
We are practising saying sentences before we read them and re-reading our sentences to check that they make sense. We are reading Superworm by Julia Donaldson. |
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Maths |
We are learning to read number words from zero to twenty. |
| Science |
We are designing our own superhero and labelling the parts of the human body. We are learning about the five senses and choosing which super sense we'd like our superheroes to have. |
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Jigsaw |
We are learning about how to make our class a safe place for everyone to learn. |
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Cauliflour Cards |
Believe it or not, we are preparing our Cauliflour Christmas cards to send home at the end of the week! |
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Relax Kids |
We are focussing on the story of Superworm. |
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P.E. |
We are working on running, hopping and rolling a ball. |
I look forward to seeing you at Meet the Teacher tomorrow night. If you are unable to attend, I will send home your handouts with your child on Wednesday. I am more than happy to meet with anyone who cannot attend at another time - please let me know if you would like to..
Warm regards,
Miss Adamson
Number word bingo , by Miss Adamson
Date: 11th Sep 2017 @ 5:58pm
We played bingo to practise reading our number words to ten and twenty. We also watched the number word rap to help us to spell number words to ten!
Superworm, by Miss Adamson
Date: 11th Sep 2017 @ 5:54pm
We read the story of Superworm and then hunted for some worms. We had to say our sentences into the magic microphone before we wrote them!
Welcome back , by Miss Leigh
Date: 11th Sep 2017 @ 5:14pm
Welcome Back Bears,
We've made an excellent start to the new school year. The tribe is really working hard to step up to those year 6 expectations and it's been a pleasure to see the children challenging themselves.
This week we will be learning about:
MATHS: Long Multiplicaiton and Long Division
ENGLISH: Class novel is Swiss Family Robinson. We will be learning about the setting, characters and using correctly punctuated dialogue for some extended writing at the end of the week.
Science: Exploring Adaptation of birds
Art: Texture
Jigsaw (PHSE): What is the difference between what we want and what we need?
RE: How is life like a journey?
PE: Beyond sport will be in on Tuesday morning.
Looks like we are going to have a great week. I hope to see as many parents as possible on Tuesday after school for our meet the teacher event.
See you there!!
The week ahead, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 11th Sep 2017 @ 4:34pm
English - starting our unit on Folk Takes. Reading a variety of stories and looking for similar patterns.
Spelling - revising suffixes
Grammar - speech marks
Maths - place value, what is the value of the digit? Which digit will change if I add 1, 10, 100?
Science - What is light? Skills in drawing a data table and writing a conclusion.
P.E. - we will have our first swimming lesson!
Jigsaw - understanding why rules are needed and linking this to rights and responsibilities.
Computing - word processing skills
R.E. - what / who is a leader?
Art - creating our Cauliflower Christmas cards.
Autumn walk and more, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 11th Sep 2017 @ 4:33pm
We walked around the fields to collect leaves. We made black and white elephants, we had a go at ordering numbers ourselves - we have worked really hard.
Monday 11th September-week ahead, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 11th Sep 2017 @ 4:32pm
This half term is all about Colour.
This week we will focus on the colours black and white. Our stimulus is a story called Elmer and Wilbur. Elmer is a colourful patchwork elephant and Wilbur is black and white.
The black and white theme willrun through the week, we will look at patterns and make black and white patterned elephants in the maths area. Also we will continue to count to 10 and beyond and we have already learnt our first learnit 1 + 1 =2 and so this week will learn 2 + 2 =.....
We will go on an autumn leaf walk and collect lots of autumn coloured leaves to make a class patchwork Elmer!
We continue with base lining the children to find out what they already know.
Its a fun filled week so watch out for any photos.
Exciting Electric , by Mr Pearson
Date: 11th Sep 2017 @ 3:14pm
Today we have started our topic about electricity and Mr Pearson took us outside to look at lightening conductors on the school chimney and the Church.
we have also studied similes in English, in maths we have studied decimal points to two places.
In GPS we have started to investigate frontal adverbials.
A very productive day.
Week beginning 11th September, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 11th Sep 2017 @ 12:33pm
Hope all the Penguins had a great weekend!
This Week we will be:
English- work based around Katie Morag delivers the mail
Maths - place value, tens and ones, ordering and comparing
Geography - where do I go to have fun?
Jigsaw - discussing rewards and consequences
RE- How do we show people they are special?
Computing- writing instructions in order, Algorithms
PE - gymnastics - jumping and landing
Throwing and catching
Art - sketching/ preparing Cauliflower cards
A busy busy week! Don't forget meet the teacher tomorrow.
A Fantastic first week, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 8th Sep 2017 @ 5:06pm
The Penguins enjoyed a jujitsu taster, please return reply slips if you want your child to join.
They had fun creating Jolly Postman maps this afternoon and well done to our first certificate winners👍
The Penguins have been amazing this week , well done , have a well deserved rest and a fantastic weekend🙂
We made it to Friday!, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 8th Sep 2017 @ 4:57pm
Well we made and we are still smiling. Everyone has had an amazing first week and I hope that the full time start has been OK for everyone.
Next week we are looking at the colours black and white and the story of Elmer the elephant. On Tuesday at 3.30 it is meet the teacher a chance to come in for a short chat and just a little more info about your child's time in Reception.
Our first week with Mr Pearson, by Mr Pearson
Date: 8th Sep 2017 @ 12:59pm
This week we learnt about rounding numbers up to 10,100 and 1000 in maths.
Also we had to find the difference of the two numbers and to half that number then add it on.
We really enjoy maths even if it's year 2 work and we've done it before.
We love writing it is the one thing that lets us write stories off the top off our head.
we do different morning tasks every day.
Thursday Activities, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 7th Sep 2017 @ 9:31pm
Take a little look at what we got up to today. Pictures of us all having snack, counting, painting portraits and much more.
Homework, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 7th Sep 2017 @ 9:24pm
The children have bought home their first English homework task today, apologies but the photocopier is out of action so we were unable to provide a printed explanation, hence the Blog should your child have forgotten!! Following our work on The Jolly Postman, the children should choose a character from a book ( or film ) and create an appropriate birthday card for them, signed from themselves. This should be bought in to school on Tuesday.
Please can we also ask you to take time over the weekend to clear out book bags/ homework bags of any Year 1 information/ homework. Unfortunately In Year 2 we do not have a lot of room for storing book bags so would be grateful if you could limit what is in them ( we have separate storage for homework bags ) The key rings the children have are great for identifying their book bags but again could we ask that the number of key rings is limited, lovely though they are!
We hope you can make the meet the teacher on Tuesday where we will provide you with all the information you need. If you can't make the meeting, please don't worry, we will send the information home and it will also be put on the class page.
Mrs Pratten and Mrs Regan
Our first week back, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 7th Sep 2017 @ 7:47pm
The first week is nearly over and what an amazing week it has been. The Bongos have settled into year 3 fantastically. They have been well mannered, showed a really good work ethic and I'm super proud of all of them. Their hard work and concentration hasn't gone unnoticed, as both Mrs Brown and Mrs Woolley have given them a class compliment.
This week we have being thinking about our classroom expectations, how to set out work out in our books and generally getting to know each other better.
The children have had an exciting day today. We took part in a British Values Workshop with our visitor Mr Beresford and we had a taster of Jujitsu this afternoon as well.
Tonight the children gave brought home their red homework folders. There is a large collection of paper for you to read through inside.
This weeks Homework tasks. English - write a short paragraph reflecting on your first week in year 3. Maths - write out your 2x, 5x and 10x tables. Homework is to returned in the red bags by Tuesday please.
I look forward to meeting you all at the 'Meet the Teacher' meeting next Tuesday.
Here are a few photos from this weeks fun.
Ju Jitsu Taster Session, by Miss Adamson
Date: 7th Sep 2017 @ 5:22pm
The Meerkats did themselves proud in their Ju Jitsu taster session today. I was wonderful to see everyone enjoying trying something new!
Meeting Jigsaw Jo, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 6th Sep 2017 @ 3:44pm
The penguins enjoyed their first PSHE lesson with Jigsaw Jo, we played a game of finding people in their group but one catch , no talking! The Penguins were amazing🙂
We also had our first PE lesson In Year 2 practising our throwing and catching skills, the Penguins are settling in really well , learning new routines and being superstars👍Well done!
