: Blog items
All stars Cricket, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 4th May 2018 @ 5:47pm
We enjoyed trying cricket with Mark from New Longton.
An Amazing Week, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 4th May 2018 @ 2:40pm
It has been an amazing week for our class. The highlight of the week was our outstanding performance of Cinderella The Musical. Our audiences loved it!
We have had 3 class compliments this week so are beginning to fill our new chart.
This morning all of our English work was based on the song This is Me from The Greatest Showman. We have even written our own versions which we will video and share next week.
This afternoon we have been learning about different ways in which artists draw and paint water.
Cricket fun, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 3rd May 2018 @ 5:07pm
Today the Penguins enjoyed a cricket session, learning to hit the wickets, hit the ball as well as practising our throwing and catching skillls. They all enjoyed the session and should have bought home details of how they can join New Longton cricket club and take part in some coaching sessions. There was lots of good skill on show - well done Penguins!
Gingerbread men, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 2nd May 2018 @ 5:53pm
Today we made and then tasted gingerbread men. Run, run as fast as you can....we can catch you, delicious gingerbread man!
Outdoor PE, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 30th Apr 2018 @ 11:38am
We have had loads of fun doing PE outside. We had a go at the obstacle race ready for sports day. Next we had a go at the running race and we ran all the way around the field. Finally we finished with parachute games. We made a mushroom and played popcorn.
The week ahead - w/c 30th April, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 30th Apr 2018 @ 7:23am
Good morning
The sun is shining, fingers crosssed it stays this week.
Another great week in school is planned. On Thursday we will be going in our trip to BAE, we are leaving at 9am so please make sure you are all here on time.
On Tuesday afternoon we get to watch the year 4 production, I'm sure it will be fabulous.
In English this week we will be writing and practising our class assembly in preparation for next week. Although I have a rough plan the children will be creating this themselves. Writing their parts and organising there props etc.
In Maths we are focusing on arithmetic on Monday and then the focus will be money. They will be creating a shop and buying and selling their products with play money as well as developing their addition and subtraction of decimal numbers.
P.E. - developing our tennis skills.
Jigsaw - Relationship unit.
Music - Mrs Bolton
Science - planting seeds and looking at plant variety. How many types of plant do we have in our school grounds?
Week Beginning Monday 30th April 2018, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 28th Apr 2018 @ 1:03pm
Hello :)
I hope that you are enjoying your weekend. Here is what we are doing this week:
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English |
We are learning traditional rhymes, looking for rhyming words, sharing our preferences and writing our own version of a traditional rhyme. |
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Maths |
We are continuing our learning about number and place value. Specifically, we are comparing groups of objects and numbers and ordering groups of objects and numbers. |
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Phonics |
Mrs Thomson's group are learning about silent letters and Mrs Coxhead's group are learning unusual graphemes for vowel sounds. |
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PE |
On Thursday morning the Cricket Roadshow is coming to Year One so we will learn about and try a little cricket. We are also practising some of our ball skills. |
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Jigsaw |
We are continuing our topic about relationships by learning about people who help us. |
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Computing |
We are using ICT to design castle pictures. |
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Reading |
Books are changed on Friday this week. |
I look forward to seeing you all on Monday,
Mrs Coxhead
Looking at our learning journals, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 27th Apr 2018 @ 9:10pm
This afternoon we all had great fun looking at our learning journals so far. We had fun remembering all the fun we have had so far in reception. We could not believe how far we have come since September.
Earthlings, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 27th Apr 2018 @ 6:24pm
Earthlings! Today we applied for jobs in the morning and had to use our skills collaboratively to create a display fact file about Planet Earth. We had creators making a (fairly) accurate Earth globe, who worked closely with the Geographers to ensure accuracy and to come up with facts for over 100 countries around the globe. We had artists and researchers working closely to sketch 3D foods from around the world, which were paired with facts and food air miles. We’ve had a great day!
Miss R
Greetings, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 27th Apr 2018 @ 5:46pm
In Jigsaw we were learning about greeting people. We made our own greetings in pairs.
In role interviews, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 27th Apr 2018 @ 11:09am
As part of our work based around the story of The Mousehole Cat we were interview in role as some of the characters from the story. Some of us were villagers , some were Mowzer the cat and another group were Old Tom . Our interviews were videoed.
Planning a story about The Three Wishes, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 27th Apr 2018 @ 8:15am
We made story maps to help us plan our stories about The Three Wishes.
Assembly blog, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 27th Apr 2018 @ 7:32am
Friendship was the theme in today's assembly. When we walked into the hall there was a question, that question was what does being a good friend mean to you ? We had a challenge where we had to finish a sentence with a different thing about our friends. One of the sentence starters was my friend is different to me because... we came up with because we are all unique! We then had some time to think about the qualities of our best friend. Good friends listen, so we looked at, the rules of listening. The rules of listening are: be still, look at the speaker, nod and look interested and ask questions that relate on what the speaker is saying. We were talking about how a good friend says nice things to us and how it makes us feel happy. We said that you can give your friends a positive stroke. We don't physically stroke them, but we give them a compliment or say well done. This makes the person you said it to feel happy, just like when you stroke a cat, it feels good and makes them happy and purr.
by Gracie and Abigail
Picture News - British Values - w/c 23rd April, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 27th Apr 2018 @ 7:27am
Sorry for the dealy, I didnt make it go live!
If you have Gracie and Abigail's Assembly Blog from Monday you will have discovered our topic for discussion this week was Loneliness.
Well done Giraffes, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 26th Apr 2018 @ 7:47pm
Congratulations Giraffes on your very successful enterprise. Your pitta pockets, homemade coleslaw and rainbow fruit kebabs were really popular. You did an amazing job , working as a team to chop, fill and create your food and then went on to impress everyone with your outstanding customer service.
Your pricing was spot on . £82 was taken in sales, the cost of the ingredients was £40 giving you a profit of £42. This is a 105% profit making the Year 4 enterpise a real success.
New arrivals, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 26th Apr 2018 @ 2:36pm
We had a delivery by post today. A box arrived with 5 tiny caterpillars in. We have been learning about lifecycles of a tadpole a bean and now a butterfly. We haven't yet talked about the lifecycle of a butterfly but we have put the caterpillars in a safe place and letting them settle into class and grow! We will talk about the lifecycle of a butterfly next week.
Castle and the Sun, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 25th Apr 2018 @ 5:48pm
We looked at Castle and the Sun by Paul Klee and made our own wax resist versions. Here’s the shapes that we began with.
Wonderful Wednesday!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 25th Apr 2018 @ 3:47pm
The Penguins enjoyed a busy day today, preparing healthy snacks as part of our Jigsaw work (and teatsing them of course!) and a visit from the fire service.
This morning we were busy chopping, scooping and preparing our healthy snacks, popcorn raisins, veggie dip, avocado dip, fruity scones and fruit kebabs. The best bit was tasting them this afternoon and voting for our favourite, it was...fruit kebabs ,closely followed by popcorn raisins.
This afternoon we had a visit from the fire service talking to the children about fire safety. Homework check up, does your child know their address and have you checked your smoke alarm recently? It would be useful to discuss a fire plan with the children , just in case.
COLE&LUKE, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 25th Apr 2018 @ 2:51pm
THIS WEEK HAS BEEN TREMENDOUS! ESPECIALY TODAY BECAUSE WE HAD DIFFERENT SECTIONS THAT WE COULD CHOOSE FROM. THE SECTIONS WERE : MATHS, D.T, READING AND G.P.S . EACH SECTION WAS 1 HOUR APART FROM READING AND G.P.S WHICH WERE 30 MINUTES EACH . LUKES FAVOURITE THING WAS READING BECAUSE HE GOT TO VIDEO A MAGAZINE REVIEW . MY FAVOURITE THING WAS D.T BECAUSE WE GOT TO MAKE THINGS THAT MOVE . I HOPE TO DO THIS AGAIN .
Number bonds to 5, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 25th Apr 2018 @ 11:36am
We collected 5 beans and then found how many ways we could make number sentences that add up to 5.
Marvellous magnificent models!, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 25th Apr 2018 @ 10:01am
STEM at Priory, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 24th Apr 2018 @ 3:04pm
Today James and I went to Priory to do some STEM. We have been very busy; we did hard problem solving in Maths; we made a tower out of: paper, paperclips, straws, lollysticks, scissors and cellotape; we experimented in Science with chemical reactions and got to use the bunsen burners! Finally, we made paper planes and saw if size or models effected flight (Leon made an awesome one out of sugar paper).
We definitely had loads of fun!!
Playscript writing, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 24th Apr 2018 @ 12:04pm
We have had a brilliant morning working together to create a play script for a video called "Dum Spiro".
Mondays assembly blog, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 23rd Apr 2018 @ 8:09pm
Blog written by our year 6 PSHE leaders
Today's assembly was about what does loneliness feel like? Loneliness may be when you are homeless , alone and left out. The U.K., sadly, has loneliness problems. Many people assume that it is just elderly people who are lonely, but 1 in 20 Young people have actually said they are lonely, they are the heart of the problem. Some of the cause of being lonely are if you are starting a new school or if you are just naturally shy. We looked at some pictures with groups of children in them, we had to think, which child was feeling lonely, on one, one of the people were on there own, so we knew that that child was lonely. We then looked at a letter in which a mum had wrote about her daughter because she was shy, had no brother or sisters and the mum was asking for advice. Once we had read the letter we thought of ways we would include the little girl. We had lots of ideas like: invite her to parties, ask her to play a game with you in the playground and make the effort. We got set a challenge to look out for people who were a bit lonely in the playground and see if they would like to play a game with you. We also need to remember that sometimes people aren't lonely, they might just want some alone time.