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Baking bread just like the little red hen, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 28th Feb 2018 @ 1:36pm

Today we made bread and then tasted bread just like the little red hen. It was delicious.

The week ahead - 26th February, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 26th Feb 2018 @ 7:06am

This week

Maths - position and direction, looking at turns, compass directions as well as time.

Reading - comprehension of Olympic themed texts.

Grammar - use of although, when, so as a conjunction.

English - writing focus around the story of the Stone Age Boy.

Topic - children will be working in groups with a specific area of the Stone Age to research and produce a PowerPoint, clothes, recipe book etc to present their findings. (This will be carried out over a few weeks )

Jigsaw - our theme is Healthy Me. This week our focus is on exercise and fitness challenges

P.E. - we are swimming still until the end of this term.

FRIDAY - world book day, our theme is the Winter Olympics. Please see parent mail re what to wear. We will be having a launch assembly in the morning for anyone who wishes to attend.

The weather forecast is for very cold this week. Please ensure the children have coats, hat and gloves.

Here's to another fun and action packed week.

Last weeks fun., by Mrs Catterall

Date: 26th Feb 2018 @ 6:51am

Last week was a busy first week back. We spent a lot of the week focusing on our new topic of the Stone Age.

We looked at 2 stories UG and The Stone Age Boy. We read in pairs, acted it out, wrote diary entries and discovered all about life in the Stone Age. We made our own paint brushes from sticks and other items outside, we made mud paint and then had a go at painting Stone Age animals with it all. It was very tricky as it was cold and windy, it made the experience all the more real.

I wonder what we will be discovering this week.

Hothersall - The correct powerpoint!, by Miss Reynolds

Date: 25th Feb 2018 @ 9:49pm

As some of you have spotted, my name is not Mrs Moxham and it is not 2014, as the last powerpoint would have you believe! All other information is the same though, so if you have already read it, there are no altercations to the actual content of the powerpoint. :) See you tomorrow!

Hothersall - The correct powerpoint!

The Week Ahead, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 25th Feb 2018 @ 12:27pm

Here is an outline of some of the things we will be doing in class this week.

English

We are having a potions themed week. We will be reading about potions, making potions and writing about potions

Grammar will be focussing on types of verbs, tenses and conjunctions

spelling this week words ending in ture and possessive apostrophe with plurals

Maths

Our focus is place value, thinking about numbers beyond 1000, decimals to two decimal places, rounding numbers, solving problems and investigating .

Topic

We will continue to develop our Geography skills whilst learning about the Paris Basin region of France

Wider Opps on Wednesday

Orienteering on Thursday morning

Jigsaw

recognise the changing dynamics between
people in different groups, see who takes
on which role, e.g. leader, follower, and
understand the roles I take on in different
situations
be aware of how different people and groups
impact on me and to recognise the people I
most want to be friends with

Friday World Book Day- lots of fun around our theme of The Winter Olympics

RE

Sacrifice - what have people given up to support charities?

Week Beginning Monday 26th February 2018, by Mrs Coxhead

Date: 24th Feb 2018 @ 2:17pm

Hello :)

I hope that you are enjoying the sunshine this weekend!

Here is what the Meerkats are doing this week:

Maths	We are solving addition and subtraction problems. We will need to use some of our learning about measuring from last week to help us!
English	We are reading Little Red Riding Hood. We are studying the characters and setting. We will also be looking at words with -ed endings and continuing our look at conjunctions.
Reading	Year One is now reading in class four times per week. This means that books will now be changed on a Friday. Please see Parent mail for more information (Monday 26th February 2018)
Phonics	Mrs Thomson's group are working on alternative pronounciations, Mrs Coxhead's group are practising reading and writing phase 5 graphemes in words and sentences.
Seasonal Changes	We are learning about the changes in springtime. We are spotting signs of springs and drawing and painting some of the changes.
Jigsaw	We are learning how to make healthy lifestyle choices.
PE	We are combining our dance sequences from the little pigs and the wolf to create a new dance.
World Book Day	On Friday, it is World Book Day. Children can dress-up in Winter Olympic themed clothes. We are reading Over and Under the Snow by Kate Messner.

I look forward to seeing you all on Monday!

Mrs Coxhead

Update: Projects, by Miss Reynolds

Date: 23rd Feb 2018 @ 3:55pm

Apparently we don't have projects this term! Sorry! Of course, you're always welcome to make something and show us if you want, but it's not expected.

Sorry for confusion!

Miss R

Thursday evening, by Miss Leigh

Date: 22nd Feb 2018 @ 10:19pm

Sleeping lions or a power nap?

It’s a little after 10pm and all the children are tucked up in bed, the lights are out (except for the fantastic star light in the elephant’s room) and the children are sleeping.

Bright and early start tomorrow then 3 activities before heading home.

Exhausted after our busy day, by Miss Leigh

Date: 22nd Feb 2018 @ 7:32pm

Wow. What an amazing day we have had. So many of the tribe have steppe day out of their confort zone, tried something new and been genuine superstars. We have even been praised on our manners!

Thursday lunch, by Miss Leigh

Date: 22nd Feb 2018 @ 1:48pm

After our filling breakfast we’ve spent the morning around the centre. Activities have included canoeing, knights quest, archery and zip line. Here we are ready for our afternoon.

Our first week all about animals., by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 21st Feb 2018 @ 8:22pm

This half term we are learning all about animals. We have been thinking about pets this week and also baby animals. In maths we continue to count but we have been learning about money x

Wednesday at Robin Wood, by Miss Leigh

Date: 21st Feb 2018 @ 8:05pm

We have had a busy day so far. The children are all settled in their groups and enjoyed various activities...some have asked if they can go to bed already.

Here are just a couple of photos from the day. We will post more tomorrow. Fingers crossed for a good nights sleep.

First week back! by leon and oliver b, by Miss Reynolds

Date: 21st Feb 2018 @ 2:58pm

On Monday which was are first day back from half-term we found out what are new topics were.In the afternoon we had Mrs Ainsworth and we did some PSHE.On Tuesday we did fraction maths , grammar monster spelling test and after we had to do some reading a group read with Mrs Woolley , the rest do tasks . in the afternoon we did history about great thinkers like: Michael Angelo,Leonardo DA Vinci and Avicenna. Today in the morning we did lots of jobs till break and then we did more monster spelling and guided reading we did some English about a scientists called professor branestawm and we made a short paragraph about him going back to a 3 year old party. In the afternoon we did D.T (design and technology) we finished of are pouches........ TO BE CONTINUED {next week}

A few bits and bobs, by Miss Reynolds

Date: 21st Feb 2018 @ 7:51am

Hello everyone! I hope you all had a lovely half term and feel ready for the next five weeks. Just a few things that are going on:

We're going to Priory tomorrow for a taster day - we'll be doing P.E, Food Tech, Art and Science. We've been asked to go in our P.E kit, so if it isn't already in school, can you please send it in tomorrow.
I'm still missing quite a few medical forms for the Hothersall Lodge trip - if you need another one they are available on the blog, or I can give you paper copy if you pop into school at some point.
Hothersall lodge trip is fast approaching! Please check the kit-list in preparation. I've been made aware that the powerpoint I put up is the old version and I will update it again this evening because I can't for the life of me find where I've saved the updated one now!
Our topic for this half term is 'Inventors and Inventions' - we'll be looking at great thinker, inventors and scientists throughout the ages with a particular focus on the Golden Age of Islam and 8th century Baghdad. We'll be looking at forces in Science and in D.T we will be looking at cams and cogs. For projects, you could research an inventor in depth and create a booklet, draw schematics for your own invention, or even create a prototype for your own creation!

Welcome back, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 20th Feb 2018 @ 9:32pm

I hope you have all had an enjoyable half term.

The Giraffes have made a great start to the new term and have made me feel very welcome.

They have been working hard and showing me how fantastic they are.

Finding out about plants, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 20th Feb 2018 @ 5:01pm

This afternoon we started our Science topic on plants, we drew what we thought a plant was and then went outside to take photos withour iPads to find plants around school. We learnt that there are lots of other plants like trees and hedges and bushes.

In Maths we have been learning about multiplication linking it to arrays and repeated addition.

in English we are reading all about stories set on farms we looked at different types of farms and what buildings there are on farms.We enjoyed the story of Farmer Duck.

Week Beginning Monday 19th February 2018, by Mrs Coxhead

Date: 13th Feb 2018 @ 7:55pm

Hello :)

I hope that you had a wonderful break celebrating Shrove Tuesday, St Valentine's Day and Chinese New Year. Here is the plan for this week:

English	We are reading the story of Hansel and Gretel. We will use conjunctions and learn about the prefix 'un'.
Maths	We are measuring! We will measure length/height using a ruler and we will have a go at measuring mass/weight.
Phonics	We are doing some more assessments from last half-term. While that's going on we'll review some of the phase 5 sounds we have done up until now.
PE	We are dancing to Flight of the Bumblebee, as Little Pigs who are afraid of the Big Bad Wolf.
Jigsaw	We are launching our Healthy Me topic. We'll have a look at the difference between healthy and unhealthy and find some ways to keep healthy.
History	We are learning about important events that have happened in our lifetimes. We will also compare birthdays today with birthdays that happened in the past (1930s).

I have attached the topic letter for this half-term to our class page. Please take a look.

I look forward to seeing you all on Monday,

Mrs Coxhead

Barton Grange Trip, by Mrs Coxhead

Date: 13th Feb 2018 @ 9:40am

We had a great time visiting Barton Grange garden centre. I hope you are taking good care of your lettuce seeds!

Friday news, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 9th Feb 2018 @ 3:48pm

The Penguins worked really well together to create their dream birds for the garden of dreams display.They had to make sure everybody's ideas were on the bird and then had fun painting and decorating. They look brilliant!

We had our last orienteering looking for markers around school and on the field (sorry for the muddy shoes). They were all really good at using the maps and working together to find the right markers.

This afternoon they enjoyed showing off their space buggies to Reception, Mrs Hathersall was very impressed with their knowledge and of courses their fabulous buggies.

We have earned lots of class compliments this week so well done Penguins, have a fab holiday and see you all soon.

Mrs Pratten and Mrs Regan

Last week of Spring half term, by Miss Reynolds

Date: 8th Feb 2018 @ 3:11pm

This week has been great! Thursday was great for a start in the morning we made/performed our rainforest songs most of us did it with the sounds of weather and animals such as monkeys, snakes, rain, thunder, lightning, birds and many more. On Wednesday, we had great fun making our own science fact books about the life cycle of mammals, amphibians, insects or birds and finally the germination of plants.We did lots more but thats all we have time to tell you over all we had an AMAZING! week.

Year 6 SATs Meeting , by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 7th Feb 2018 @ 4:15pm

Year 6 SATs Meeting

Sporting fun, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 6th Feb 2018 @ 6:34pm

A big well done to those children who braved the snow this morning and went off to All Hallows for some sporting fun. Looks like they all had fun and they said it was fantastic

Snow fun, by Mr Pearson

Date: 6th Feb 2018 @ 6:22pm

The Giraffes enjoyed themselves this morning in the snow.

Snow snow snow!, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 6th Feb 2018 @ 12:05pm

The snow has caused much excitement in the elephant class so first thing this morning we went out exploring. We have collected lots of snow, listened to Olaf sing from frozen and made our very own magical snowflakes.