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Year 1 sporting fun, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 12th Feb 2020 @ 10:25am
Year 1 had a fun morning at Priory taking part in lots of different activities - they loved it! Well done!
This weeks spellings, by Mr Pearson
Date: 10th Feb 2020 @ 1:21pm
famous
favourite
February
forwards
fruit
grammar
group
guard
guide
Musical Penguins, by Mr Pearson
Date: 10th Feb 2020 @ 1:14pm
We have a talented group of musicians in the Penguin tribe.
Enjoy the photos.
Penguin fun, by Mr Pearson
Date: 10th Feb 2020 @ 1:09pm
In this week’s English lessons again we carried on with our Aladdin story, writing a description of the cave and the characters.
This week’s weekly spellings this week are ‘early, Earth, eight, enough, exercise, experience, experiment, extreme’
In our grammar we did things that were linked to our English like onomatopoeia, similes and fronted adverbials.
In our maths lessons this week we played a game of battle ships which linked in with our maths topic of co-ordinates. Remember to keep learning your times tables.
In this week’s topic lesson, we got to design our own Roman bath house. If you wanted to you could put a statue of you wanted to.
In French, we learnt about hobbies that we would do every day.
In music we had a show off week were people could bring in an instrument or sing a solo or a duet.
By Oliver and Abigail 😉😉
Elephants Excel, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 9th Feb 2020 @ 8:59pm
The Elephants have completed their compliment sheet and will be having their compliment treat on Friday 14th February. They have voted to have a party afternoon with games and activities. They will be making their own egg and cress sandwiches on Friday morning to eat at the party using cress that we have been growing in our science lessons,
The children have been working really hard in class and are enjoying collecting ideas and vocabulary for their own historical stories.
A busy week of learning!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 7th Feb 2020 @ 3:56pm
This week we have carried on with our story , No Way Home, we are really enjoying it and doing some fantastic writing , we are all impressing Mrs Pratten👍🌟😆
In Maths we have been learning about weighing,comparing weights and using scales and cubes to measure.
We have been artists too, finding out all about primary colours. We created pictures in the style of Piet Mondrian using torn paper.This afternoon we have used primary colour paints to mix all the other colours.A tricky challenge but we were awesome at it and were very proud of our finished pictures
Surviving the Stone Age, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 4th Feb 2020 @ 8:37pm
We have all had an amazing day today. We have attempted to light a cotton wool ball on fire using flint and steel. Some were more successful than others, one thing is for sure the Meerkats have determination, they never gave up and were determined to succeed. Time was up and it got a bit windy but they want me to bring back the equipment so they can have another go. Super proud of the positive attitude.🙂
We became hunter gathers, finding berries and nuts and recording whether they were safe to eat or not.
We built a shelter and made weapons. At the end of the day they had to try and catch a mammoth!
Lots of mud, fresh air and fun, now time for a bath and a good nights sleep.
Thanks for being amazing Meerkats.
Awesome tribe, by Mrs Brown
Date: 4th Feb 2020 @ 2:44pm
Our year 6 children have their heads down and are working exceptionally hard. They are also proving to be amazing role models. Thank you.
If you would like to start your own lunch time club please think about what the cub would be, who would attend, where and when it would take place and how would people know to attend. Then come and discuss your plans with Mrs Brown. If you need any help ask Bronnie and Faith or Tilly and Paige regarding the clubs they already successfully run.
Stone Age Day on Tuesday / tomorrow., by Mrs Catterall
Date: 3rd Feb 2020 @ 8:08pm
Despite driving home in the hailstone I'm staying positive and we are going to have a Stone Age day at school tomorrow as part or our topic work.
Please come to school wearing your own clothes. Lots of warm layers to keep you warm and things you don't mind getting a bit muddy. Hats, gloves and a coat essential. Old trainers or wellies are advised. We will be having dinner time as normal and a day of Stone Age themed activities.
Class compliment treat, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 3rd Feb 2020 @ 3:49pm
The Koalas had a great afternoon watching their film and munching on popcorn and cookies - a very well deserved treat!
We do have some mix ups with school iniform so please could you check you have the correct T-shirt, jumper etc- thank you!!
Penguin Projects, by Mr Pearson
Date: 3rd Feb 2020 @ 1:32pm
Another set of amazing projects from the Penguin children and parents,
Penguins spellings, by Mr Pearson
Date: 3rd Feb 2020 @ 1:17pm
This weeks spelling focus words are
early
Earth
eight
enough
exercise
experience
experiment
extreme
All the e words from the Y3/4 word list
Week ending 31 January, by Mr Pearson
Date: 3rd Feb 2020 @ 1:17pm
This week in our English we had a new topic Aladdin and a new way to do our story writing. The way it worked was we write what Mr Pearson does on the right hand side of the page and then we write indepentently of our own.
In our maths lessons this week we leant about what is the same between a fraction and the decimal.
In our grammar lesson, we learnt our weekly spellings which were ‘mixture adventure, capture, feature, moisture, nature, picture and vulture’ we learnt different ways to learn them one of them were practicing them by pyramids.
In our topic lessons we learnt about roman baths by explaining the parts and then we wrote a fact file saying all the parts in it.
In our French lesson we recapped everything we have done like numbers up to 20, the rooms of houses and learnt people’s names like mum in French is ma mere.
In our Cricket we did catching throwing and bowling drills in teams of 5 in 5 teams.
In our I.T lesson we had a go at online instruments like piano guitar and others.
In guided reading we did a whole class comprehension called pharaohs and mummies from Mr Pearson booklet called comprehension ninjas .
By Oliver and Lucie with help of Evie 😊
Projects, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 2nd Feb 2020 @ 4:37pm
It was great to chat to so many oarents at the Parents evening meetings this wee.
Thank you for all of the amazing prjects thaty have been brought into school. They are all wonderful and we appreciate all of the hard work that has gone into them.
Homework this week is in the red homework bags and is a comprehension task. The children are all used to this type of activity so should just need encouragement to get it done.
Projects, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 30th Jan 2020 @ 8:45pm
Thank you for all the amazing projects. You are all very talented.
Homework - neighbourhood posters, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 30th Jan 2020 @ 8:43pm
Fantastic posters for homework, here are a few of them.
This weeks learning, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 30th Jan 2020 @ 5:02pm
This week the Koalas have been building on their understanding of place value using bundles of straws to help.Lots of partner work, making numbers and counting to work them out.
We have also carried on with our animal topic learning all about fish, having to to sorting different animals to find the fish, Mrs Pratten tried to trick us but we were too smart!
We had fun today with our football skills, kicking, dribbling and trapping different sized balls and kicking though a target.
We have really enjoyed looking at all the fantastic projects , lovely to see how proud the children are and they are amazing so a big thank you for all your support.
Dint forget our treat afternoon tomorrow 🙂👍😜🌟🙃😁😆
Jam Coding, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 28th Jan 2020 @ 2:49pm
Today jam coding came to our school and spent time with year 5 and 6. They helped us to make online safety animations using stop motion. Everyone was put into groups of 3 and worked together to make our animated safety messages . Everyone had a great time and we learnt a lot. Hopfullysoon we will be putting some pictures of all the fun we had.
by Grace
Investigating shadows, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 27th Jan 2020 @ 10:08pm
Today we explored shadows further. How do we make a shadow bigger/ smaller?
Chinese New Year, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 25th Jan 2020 @ 8:43am
We have had a lovely few days finding out about the Chinese New Year. We made dragons, tapped a beat and did a dragon dance and made special red packets and put a gold coin in. Kung Hey Fat Choy !
Charity - Australia fundraising, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 24th Jan 2020 @ 7:50pm
Thankyou to everyone who donated their loose change to our Australian fire campaign. This afternoon the children covered a map of Australia and the words adopt a koala. The coins covered it all perfectly.
Linda will be adding it all up next week and then I’ll let you know the total.
Thank you again.
Wolves in the Wall - wolf party, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 24th Jan 2020 @ 7:46pm
We have been really enjoying our book for this half term ‘Wolves in the Wall.’ Today the story took an unsuspecting turn, the wolves who had been portrayed as vicious were found eating jam and popcorn, dancing around and watching TV. We had our own Wolf party to celebrate this turn of events and create our own party food vocabulary.
Harris Museum - Stone Age Trip., by Mrs Catterall
Date: 24th Jan 2020 @ 7:34pm
On Tuesday we had a fantastic day at the Harris museum. We started off by exploring the museum, especially the open art exhibition. We had a story in the library, Mr Majeka - I told the children that when I was little this was a TVProgramme. We have watched the first episode back in class, we loved it. I’m going to get some more of the stories for the classroom.
After lunch we attended a workshop all about the Stone Age, we were archaeologists digging for bones. We found enough for a skeleton, but what animal was it. We read fact cards about different animals and decided it was an elk. In the museum we saw a skeleton of an elk which was found near Poulton le Fylde. We looked at some skulls believed to be of a Stone Age man and woman and other artefacts from the Stone Age and Bronze Age.
The children were amazing and asked lots of great questions.
Week ending 24 Jan, by Mr Pearson
Date: 24th Jan 2020 @ 1:16pm
At the start of the week in our maths lesson we did our division and multiplication method however the questions had remainders in the answers. We have been focussing on our times tables as well. Please check out the maths section of our class page for links to some amazing resources to help you learn them.
In our English lessons this week, we planned our ideal weekend we were given a temporary pen license, which is why we had to write it in ink.
In our topic lesson we were learning all about the digestive system on.
In our grammar lessons in our weekly spellings which are ‘guardian, guide, guitar, guilty, guest, guard, guarantee, guinea pig, guillotine guess’
In our French lesson, we watched a three little pig video in French and in music we have playing our recorders and have been learning time table songs.
In sport we did some running techniques and used the running track. We the had Mark the cricket coach in to give advice how to throw and hit the wicket.
Times table test website, by Mr Pearson
Date: 23rd Jan 2020 @ 11:49am
Dear Parents
As you will be aware in June this year all Year 4 children will be assessed on their times tables knowledge. This means that your child will need to be fluent in all of the times tables up to 12 x 12.
To prepare for the assessment our maths homework for the immediate future will be to learn a focus times table each week. The children will need to know the answers in a random order and not just be able to count on, as in the test the children only have 6 seconds to answer each question. We will assess the children on a Tuesday in the back of their maths homework book to enable you to keep a check on how your child is progressing. We would hope all children would score full marks, however any child who makes several errors will keep that times tables focus for the following week. Your support in this matter is invaluable and will benefit your child greatly as they progress through school.
This is the website we will be using to practice for the test in June
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check