: Blog items
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.
Learning fun!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 20th Sep 2019 @ 3:57pm
This week the koalas have enjoyed finding out about Robert Goddard who invented the first fuel powered rocket, space relax kids and a number treasure hunt. They had to find 8 numbers and order them biggest to smallest explaining their thinking. It was tricky to find them all! In our learning with Jigsaw Jack we had fun playing circle games and thinking about what we wanted our classroom to look like eg helping each other, kind words and hands and superstar learning.
week 3 , by Miss Reynolds
Date: 19th Sep 2019 @ 3:07pm
This week has been amazing we are half way through making moon buggies and we are excited to try out the luna track which Miss Reynolds is preparing .
We have been learing with a lady called Rebecca from nuffield heath gym and she has set us challenges for are goal for next week and the rest of this half term.
PE circuit, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 17th Sep 2019 @ 9:42pm
In PE we are learning to move carefully around the hall, moving forwards, backwards and sideways. We listen carefully to different instructions and then we had a go at a circuit where we were throwing, catching, balancing and stepping up and down....we thought about what our heart was doing inside of our body whilst we were exercising.
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 Miss Leigh
Date: 16th Sep 2019 @ 7:38pm
Thank you to everyone who was able to come. Here is the information if you weren't able to attend.
Miss Leigh
Monday Funday x, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 16th Sep 2019 @ 6:52pm
We have had a lovely day. We are reading the story of little red riding hood and we have made a bakers shop to bake like Grandma. We are playing board games and card games to encourage turn taking and speaking and listening.
Active maths, by Mr Pearson
Date: 15th Sep 2019 @ 11:19am
Part of the specialist teachers that are coming to cover Mr Pearson's PPA and management time is a practical maths teacher. We will increase our mathematical knowledge by taking part in active challening actitivies.
Today we were learning about prime numbers.
Being imaginative!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 13th Sep 2019 @ 4:43pm
The koalas have had fun splatting paper to make the background for our rockets 🚀 even some shoe were turned into space shoes!!
We used our imaginations today to think about what we might see out of the rocket window. Following our story we worked with a partner to draw and write what we thought we might see. We then made a window this afternoon.We had lots of great ideas, shooting stars, alien rockets and alien houses to name a few.
Hope you all have a great weekend and a well earned rest🤪
Projects, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 13th Sep 2019 @ 4:32pm
This terms projects can be about anything on the Autumn 1 overview or list of what we want to know questions both of which you will find in your meet the teacher packs or on our class page. However, the project can also be avbout something that interests your child, a hobby or a talent they have.
The date for projects to be handed in is October 10th
Meet the teacher, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 13th Sep 2019 @ 4:21pm
It was nice to meet some of you on Thursday at the Meet The teacher Meeting . For those of you unavble to attend the children will be bringing packs home on Monday containing the documents that were given out. I have uploaded the introductions letter onto the blog which gives details of everything you need to know , including who will be teaching your children when I have PPA and leadership time.
At the meeting I spoke about me being out of class for some days over the next 3 weeks. This is to complete a year long research project I have been working on which has required me to spend time at Longton Library and the Harris Museum. The project ends on October 3rd.
Week 2, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 13th Sep 2019 @ 3:08pm
this week we have been making moon buggies last week we planned them and this week we made the chassis for them. we used hot glue and saws[ no one lost a finger] but a lot of people burnt there fingers while using the glue gun.
In english we wrote our own myths. We had lots of good vocab ideas and interesting phrases.
We will see you next week!
Grace and Stanley
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.
Meet the teacher, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 12th Sep 2019 @ 7:30pm
Thank you to the parents who turned up tonight. If you couldnt make it , dont worry, I have put together a pack that will be in your child's bag tomorrow. Homework books have gone home tonight and we collect back in byTuesday of the following week.
Parents were asking about phonics and how we teach it...there is a quick parent guide on the files to download and I have just added a new one named 'read with phonics', Im sure over the next year you will soon become familiar with all the terms; phoneme, grapheme, digraph etc...
Introduction to Year 5, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 12th Sep 2019 @ 1:50pm
Presentation from Meet the Teacher
Launching rockets!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 11th Sep 2019 @ 4:19pm
The Koalas really enjoyed finding out about rockets and did some great labelling of the rocket parts. We have also been practising our counting skills.
We had a great relax kids session with a space theme , we did some peer massages and some realaxing moves and stretches, we were fantastic!
Outdoor fun, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 10th Sep 2019 @ 6:26pm
We love learning in the outdoor environment. Take a look at what we've been doing today, click on the video clip.
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.
First PE lesson., by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 9th Sep 2019 @ 7:19pm
Today we have all had PE in the hall. We played the bean game, balancing beanbags and sleeping lions. We all managed to get dressed and undressed and back in our own clothes.
Lunar Landings, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 9th Sep 2019 @ 3:29pm
This half term we are going to be learning about the Lunar landings. We are going to make moon buggys.Everyone has been put into groups of three and we are all looking forward to building a robot and make a track for it to run up,down left and right and we will be using craft stuff like toilet chubes and lego pices and we are going to use milk bottle lids and lots of other stuff like that and they will all be realy cool and fun for all of us to play with and we will be programming them to operate on their own!
Also Miss Reynolds would like us to bring in some egg cartons for Mrs Catterall's special project.
Grace and Lois
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.