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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!😝
German, by Mr Coxhead
Date: 19th Jun 2017 @ 3:47pm
We've been learning the names of different fruits in German this afternoon! We then designed our dream fruit salad. Some children liked the idea of no fruit in their dream fruit salad.
Arithmetic with negatives, by Mr Coxhead
Date: 19th Jun 2017 @ 1:55pm
Today, we've been learning to multiply negative numbers! It's surprisingly simple. This video serves as a good guide:
The week ahead - 19th June, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 18th Jun 2017 @ 3:05pm
I hope you have enjoyed the lovely weather this weekend.
Lets hope it continues this next week. Don't forget to put on your sun cream and bring your water bottles with you.
GPS - this week we will be looking at words with the ou spelling. Young, double, trouble, country, rough and tough. We will also be editing our writing - checking spelling, selecting more adventurous vocabulary, checking for punctuation and ensuring we have used complex sentences with main and subordinate clauses.
English - we will be continuing our mystery and adventure themed writing, creating new characters and looking how we can add examples of speech within our stories rather than writing a long conversation.
Science - we will begin our final unit of work on plants. This week we will focus on what is a plant?what makes it a plant? We will draw and label parts of a plant
P.E. - we will be focusing on Athletics this half term. This week we will be using a pull action aim for throwing distance, a push action throw for accuracy and we will be developing or sprint techniques.
R.E. - we will be reading some stories from the Bible which show Jesus as a leader.
First week back, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 18th Jun 2017 @ 2:51pm
Wow, where did that first week go! A busy week in the Giraffe classroom. We have been exploring shapes, developing our ideas for mystery writing, completing our Lake District work and taking part in Dance from the Heart.
Great Week, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 18th Jun 2017 @ 11:05am
The Bongos had a great first week back after half term. Outstanding work in all areas especially maths this week. Well done everyone. The Henri Rousseau style collages are finished, look out for photos next week.
Dance From the Heart was great fun. The children loved seein Boogie Storm from BGT.
Congratulations to Evie for her winning mask design.
The Week Ahead - Monday 19th June 2017, by Miss Adamson
Date: 18th Jun 2017 @ 10:20am
It's an exciting week for the Penguins because we are doing our class enterprise on Wednesday. We thought of some different names and voted for our favourite. Emily's idea, 'Penguin Pop Shop', was the most popular. It has a great ring to it! Look out for a parentmail with all the details.
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English |
We are reading the No-Bot, the story of a robot who loses his bottom! We will be using different conjunctions in our writing. |
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Maths |
We are practising finding fractions of shapes, groups and numbers. We are looking for halves and quarters. |
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GPS |
We are working on writing sentences with conjunctions and checking that they make sense. This is to complement our work in English. |
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Handwriting |
We are checking that our letters start and finish in the correct place - especially n, h and m. |
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Reading |
We are back to normal guided reading sessions on Wednesday morning and reading in the afternoons. |
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ICT |
We are working on programming with our Year 6 buddies. |
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PE |
We are practising our continuing our work on bouncing balls from last week. We will apply what we have learned about bouncing a ball to a hand dribble technique. |
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Enterprise |
We are making sweetie butterflies to sell on Wednesday! |
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Science |
We are learning about parts of the human body. |
I hope that you enjoy the remainder of your weekend and look forward to seeing you tomorrow!
Miss Adamson
A busy week!, by Miss Adamson
Date: 18th Jun 2017 @ 9:14am
The Penguins got straight back to work on Monday preparing for the phonics challenge on Tuesday and Wednesday! I hope everyone is so proud of themselves! Thank you for practising at home, it makes such a difference!
After the screening we prepared for our enterprise on Wednesday. We will sell sweetie butterflies. Look out for the parent mail! On Friday we were visited from the Dance from the Heart team. We saw dancing storm troopers and paw patrol!
Dance for your heart..., by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 16th Jun 2017 @ 4:51pm
Take a look at who came along......paw patrol and storm troopers from BGT. Amazing!
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. 🙂 🐯
Mask winner, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 16th Jun 2017 @ 9:42am
Well done to Evie Rialas in Year 2 ,whose Nemo design won the competition and looks amazing🙂
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.😀
Elite sport, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 13th Jun 2017 @ 5:52pm
Today we have had an elite sport session with Tom. It was fun.
First day back..., by Mr Coxhead
Date: 12th Jun 2017 @ 10:51am
This morning Year 6 have had a handwriting lesson and are now learning to use calculators effectively in maths! Challenge 1 is to try the SATS maths arithmetic paper from this summer using a calculator - we've realised that you cannot solve all of them with only a calculator. Knowledge and understanding are required!
As we transition smoothly into our writing lesson, we'll be planning arguments for a discussion text entitled 'Should calculators be allowed in the KS2 maths SATS tests?'.
Snow White rehearsals set to begin in the afternoon.
Summer2, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 11th Jun 2017 @ 7:23pm
Wow it's summer term2! It doesn't really feel like summer....hope you have all had a lovely two weeks holiday and are refreshed and ready to start your final half term in reception. This term our focus is people who help us. We will be looking at all the people who help and make a difference in our lives. A curriculum letter will be sent home this week to explain more.
This week we will be thinking about people at home especially daddies as its a very special day on Sunday. As always we will have a focus story of literacy it's the jolly postman this week, we will continue with maths number work, time, money etc. Our phonic work is steaming ahead we are all on phase 3 and above, some children are about to start phase 5, watch out for individual news in school bags on where your child is and what their main focus will be this term. Can't wait to see all your happy and smiley faces on Monday😃
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
The Week Ahead - Monday 12th June 2017, by Miss Adamson
Date: 10th Jun 2017 @ 4:38pm
Hello all :)
I hope that you have had a wonderful break and are looking forward to coming back to school!
This week is a little different than usual as we have our phonics screening check. I've written out an overview by day as I think it will be simpler for this week!
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Monday |
Today is 'Phonics Funday'. We will be doing phonics games and activities all day as a little refresher following the two week break. |
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Tuesday |
Today most children will complete their phonics screening check with Miss Adamson. The check usually lasts between four and nine minutes per child. While children are not doing their phonics check they will do some more fun phonics activities in the classroom. |
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Any children who have not yet completed the check will do theirs this morning. Reading will go ahead as normal so please bring books in. In the afternoon the children will have music with Mrs Bolton. |
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Thursday |
We are learning about telling the time to the hour and the half hour in maths. In English, we are reading a story called Tommy and the Frog and deciding whether the sentences should end in full stops, question marks or exclamation marks. In the afternoon we will be doing throwing and catching skills in PE. |
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We are continuing our work on telling the time in maths. We will have a look at quarter hours. In English we will write our own Tommy and the Frog sentences using question marks, exclamation marks and full stops. During the afternoon we have the Dance from the Heart Roadshow. This is where we will perform the dance that we have been practising and watch a shhort performance. |
Further information about the coming half-term can be found in the topic letter which will be in book bags this week. I have also uploaded a copy to the Penguins class page.
I look forward to seeing you all on Monday!
Warm regards,
Miss Adamson
Arts Week -Peter Blake, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 26th May 2017 @ 9:01pm
What an amazing week. The children have yet again impressed me with their skills, concentration and determination. Yesterday and today we have been thinking about the work of Peter Blake. His use of bold colours and simple shapes, how his art reflected the period of time in which it was created.
We have tried to recreate some of his famous pieces. The first being a modern day collage, 16 squares showing examples of Peter Blake's bold shapes With images from today which were relevant to the children. There are images of sweets, drinks, games they like to play, portraits of themselves or family. Each one is unique and personal to every member of the Giraffe Tribe. They look amazing.
We have also created a 3D version of the bold designs using 'mod roc'. Covering cardboard shapes and then painting with acrylic paint. These have been glued together and are going to be mounted to create 1 large piece of art work. It looks really striking.
The children have been amazing all week; working hard, giving each activity a go, showing perseverance with new techniques and being supportive of each other. A fantastic end to the half term.
Fingers crossed the sunny weather continues for the half term break. Have a good rest and enjoy the holidays.
Mrs Catterall
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)
Swimming gala, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 26th May 2017 @ 2:14pm
On the Monday of arts week. Some year fives and some year six's went to leyland leisure centre to compete in a swimming gala with over 7other schools. We tried our best and kept going right until the finish line. We came 3rd out of all the other schools competing. It was very fun and the determination was inspiring.
Arts Week photo montage, by Mr Coxhead
Date: 26th May 2017 @ 10:16am
Moment of reflection and appreciation, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 25th May 2017 @ 7:04pm
At 11.00am we sat and thought about our friends and family and thought about everything they do and mean to us. We then sent a single white balloon off into the sky in rememberance at the same time as all the classes at Longton Primary x
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.
Arts Week Day 4, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 25th May 2017 @ 6:02pm
This morning started with another run through of the movie themed dance from the heart. Back in class we learnt about the Scottish artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh. We looked at examples of his work and then designed buildings and stain glass windows in his style.
At 11 o'clock we went outside to our favourite spot on the bog garden. There we had a time of silent reflection to appreciate the people we love, the fun filled week we are having and the fact that people in our area are having an awful time. At the end of the reflection members of the school parliament released balloons as a symbol of appreciation and remembrance.
back in class we completed our designs and then learnt 2 Scottish folk songs.
After lunch we walked to StAndrews Church and sketched the building in the style of Mackintosh. Tomorrow the children will be using inks to create their final pieces.
Making a Collagraph Print, by Miss Adamson
Date: 25th May 2017 @ 3:40pm
We created our own tiles for a Collagraph print in the style of Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
Here are some pictures from the making process.
