: Blog items
We are all very excited 🙂, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 11th Jan 2019 @ 9:37pm
We have begun to get ready for our Stone Age to Iron Age themed week next week. I've spent a few hours after school setting things up in our classroom and have my shopping list ready - marshmallows are on the list!!
Remember you can come in your own outdoor clothes next week, I'm sure we will get mucky. Plenty of warm clothes and inside shoes needed as well.
I'm so excited already. See you Monday.
Mrs Catterall
Happy New Year, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 11th Jan 2019 @ 3:36pm
The elephants have had a busy week making New Year promises, enjoying the story No thank you! In English Problem solving with numberlines and estimating steps to 50. In Maths,They also enjoyed throwing and catching yesterday afternoon and really had a lovely afternoon decorating a treasure box as part of our Jigsaw work.
Phew...busy,busy ,busy!!
They have come with a letter today outlining our learning for the half term ,which should help with project ideas.Remember it can be a hooky or interest too.
Have a lovely weekend😀
Warning Writers At Work!, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 11th Jan 2019 @ 1:55pm
What a wonderful sight! The Bongos are all hard at work writing fact sheets about The Ancient Romans. They have shared their knowledge from Year 3 and have found out lots more information this morning. Their work is looking great, lots of lovely handwriting, lots of facts and beautiful illustrations.I think there are lots of very proud Bongos today.
Fantastic Friday, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 11th Jan 2019 @ 1:46pm
Letter writing , by Mrs McLennan
Date: 10th Jan 2019 @ 3:55pm
Today we have written letters to the author Hilary Robinson telling her how much her books on World War One inspired us. I wonder if we will receive a reply. We have become expert map readers and map makers of the local area. We have also had a great dance lesson where we thought about shells and the shape they make.
Happy NewYear, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 9th Jan 2019 @ 7:44pm
Happy New everyone. Thank you very much for all of the very lovely and very thoughtful gifts I received for Christmas.
I have uploaded this terms curriculum overview and it is on display on the window board.
Projects are due in on Monday 28th January, the week of the next round of parents evenings. The project can be based around anything the children have enjoyed learning about so far this year, anything on this terms curriculum overview or anything that interests them outside of school- a hobby, a skill, a favourite book.
Home work will be coming home tomorrow for ALL children. It should be completed and returned to school no later than next Tuesday. Any homework that is regularly not done will have to be done at lunchtime on Wednsday. Please can I also ask that children read at home, Mrs Doherty has reported that there are an increasing number of children not reading and who are not returning their reading books and blue reading records on Mondays.
There have been a few minor changes to the timetable this term, Miss Connell will continue to teach PE and Jigsaw on Monday mornings. She will also be in class on Tuesday afternoons teaching PE and RE and on Wednesday mornings following music teaching reading comprehension, spelling and data and statistics.
Swimming, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 9th Jan 2019 @ 7:32pm
We are swimming tomorrow, costume/trunks, swimming hat, towel, shorts and t.shirt.
Our lessons will be about water safety.
Maths reasoning, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 9th Jan 2019 @ 7:28pm
Today we had to have our thinking caps on to work out the missing numbers.
Shadows, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 9th Jan 2019 @ 7:06am
We took advantage of the cold yet sunny weather to explore our shadows. We worked in pairs to draw around our shadows. We noticed that they were longer than we really were. I wonder why this is? Is my shadow going to look the same tomorrow? Does it look different at different times of the day. If I draw around my shadow at 2pm in July will it look the same? As the rest of the school year goes along we will continue to think about and explore these questions.
Spelling, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 9th Jan 2019 @ 7:00am
We have been learning about the suffixes -ness and -ful this week. We went on a hunt around the room to find out which root words we could add each suffix to in order to make a new word.
We have also seen how the spelling practice program 'Primary Spelling Online' works. Children have been told how they can login at home. They will be able to practice in school as well and will complete the assessment task this week to get them started. When they login you will be able to see the words they have spelt correctly and those they have got wrong.
Keep practising.
Happy New Year, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 7th Jan 2019 @ 7:12pm
I hope you all have had an amazing Christmas and a very happy New Year to you all. The Koalas have all settled back into class and school routine very well today, take a look at what we have been up to.
Happy new year, by Mrs McLennan
Date: 7th Jan 2019 @ 4:52pm
Welcome back and a very happy new year. Today we have reflected on our achievements from last year and thought about what we’d like to learn and find out about this year. I wonder if you have a resolution.
paige + jolie`s blog, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 7th Jan 2019 @ 3:14pm
Today we have been investigating Miss Reynolds` wonder which is about how many people can fit inside our ball-cage,which is in our massive playground. We worked in threes to measure how wide the ball-cage is and how high it is. To do this we went outside with measuring sticks to find the length. When we came in from lunch we started to learn about Shang Dynasty, which is in China. Our teacher read us a story about Wan-Nian's calendar. Did you know that Miss Reynolds can speak a little bit of chinese herself. Together the class created a Shang Dynasty wonder sheet ...
Maths investigation today, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 7th Jan 2019 @ 2:59pm
Our maths investigation was very interesting! We were trying to figure out how many people we could fit inside the ball cage, but the ball cage was locked! We realised that we didn’t need to get inside, if we knew how many rows of people we could fit in, we could figure it out. However, then someone pointed out that there was in fact loaaaaads of room higher up if we could stack people. So then we learnt about volume and how we could figure out the best way to stack people so they’d fit! It caused lots of arguments about best strategies, including jenga stacks, piggy backs and cinnamon roll towers! We realised that there were issues with our assumptions because some groups had smaller members, and other had much taller ones... this led us to refine our statement: how many Juliettes can you fit in compared to how many Eddies? We still can’t decide on the best way to stack them though!
THANK YOU and HAPPY NEW YEAR, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 2nd Jan 2019 @ 5:27pm
Happy new year. I hope you have all had a fabulous Christmas and New Year. I can't wait to hear all about what you have been up to. Thank you very much for all my wonderful gifts, They have been eaten, drunk and I have been pampered, thank you.
Mrs Catterall x
Sewing - doves, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 2nd Jan 2019 @ 5:17pm
A few weeks ago we used a kit to sew together a teddy. To develop our skills further we have used thinner needles and thread to sew together, using an over stitch, two pieces of felt to make peace dove. The children did an amazing job showing determination and perseverance.
Gifts from year 1, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 2nd Jan 2019 @ 5:12pm
A massive thank you to Mrs Pratten, Mrs Thomson and all of year 1 for our lovely gifts, from year 3.
Calendars, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 2nd Jan 2019 @ 5:08pm
Christmas Party, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 2nd Jan 2019 @ 5:05pm
Merry Christmas!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 21st Dec 2018 @ 4:10pm
Mrs Thomson and I would like to wish all our fantastic Elephants a very happy Christmas.We hope you all have a wonderful time and see you in the New Year!
A big thank you for all our lovely gifts not expected much appreciated x
Merry Christmas , by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 21st Dec 2018 @ 11:48am
Happy Christmas to all of the wonderful Bongos. I hope Santa brings you all you wish for. Have a fun filled family time. Thank you for all of your lovely cards and gifts which I will open on Christmas morning
Letters from Santa, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 21st Dec 2018 @ 9:42am
All the children have just had the most amazing suprise and received a letter from Santa through the post. It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas X. X X
Compliment day in reception, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 20th Dec 2018 @ 5:25pm
The Koalas have well and truly earned their class compliment day. We had a relaxing afternoon watching Peter Rabbit, eating homemade cookies and drinking juice x
