: Blog items
Buzz light year and space, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 15th Jan 2018 @ 7:30pm
Last week we went into space with Buzz Light year. We all got the writing bug and wanted to write, write, write!
Second week back, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 15th Jan 2018 @ 7:06pm
Hope everyone had a good weekend, what are we up to this week?
English - reading more Anthony Browne books, Silly Billy and The Tunnel. Discussing how charac feel and making worry dolls
Maths - time, learning to tell the time, o' clock, half past, quarter to and past, then to 5 minute intervals
PE - space dance, looking at clips of space men walking on the moon, zooming off in to space and partner work walking on the moon. Thursday - orienteering
Jigsaw - looking st successes and making treasure boxes, seeking goals
ICT - key board skills, typing names and alphabet, using space bar and shift key
History - looking at Atlases for the places famous explorers explored and recapping continents and oceans
Keep practising x10 tables , we are learning x 2 this week🙃
Second week back, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 15th Jan 2018 @ 7:05pm
Hope everyone had a good weekend, what are we up to this week?
English - reading more Anthony Browne books, Silly Billy and The Tunnel. Discussing how charac feel and making worry dolls
Maths - time, learning to tell the time, o' clock, half past, quarter to and past, then to 5 minute intervals
PE - space dance, looking at clips of space men walking on the moon, zooming off in to space and partner work walking on the moon. Thursday - orienteering
Jigsaw - looking st successes and making treasure boxes, seeking goals
ICT - key board skills, typing names and alphabet, using space bar and shift key
History - looking at Atlases for the places famous explorers explored and recapping continents and oceans
Keep practising x10 tables , we are learning x 2 this week🙃
Week Beginning Monday 15th January 2018, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 13th Jan 2018 @ 1:32pm
Hello all :)
I hope that you are enjoying your weekend!
This week, our main focus is The Bee Musical - learning our lines, knowing when to be on and off stage, learning our songs and actions! In English, we are reading The Enormous Turnip and using joining words. In maths, we are using our knowledge of counting in steps to count money. In phonics, Mrs Coxhead's group is learning ue, aw, ew, wh and ph. Mrs Thomson's group is learning alternative pronounciations for C and G.
Also, Linda sent out a Parentmail earlier in the week about projects, sorry that this doesn't give you lots of time to think about/prepare a project. I had completely forgotten about projects! As email states, the theme is plants and growth. If you are stuck for ideas, let me know or sometimes parents with older children in the school have a good ideas from past projects.
Thank you for your support with The Bee Musical. Please get in touch if you have any questions!
Many thanks,
Mrs Coxhead
Odd and even, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 13th Jan 2018 @ 1:16pm
We learned about odd and even numbers. We used Numicon to see the difference between how odd and even numbers look. We also have this rhyme to help us remember odd and even numbers.
0, 2, 4, 6, 8 being even is just great
1, 3, 5, 7, 9 being odd is just fine
Expedition fun, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 12th Jan 2018 @ 3:56pm
Yesterday as part of our PE for this half term, we had our first orienteering session. The children learnt about symbols on maps and started to use a key. This afternoon we took out bears 🐻 on an expedition, we talked about what would be useful equipment to take and what wouldn't. The children used their maps well to find hidden objects around the playground. We discussed how exciting it was to discover something and that must be how explorers felt. We then looked at some famous explorers and talked about what they achieved.
Have a great weekend
Mrs Pratten
James And Luke S Blog No.7, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 12th Jan 2018 @ 3:16pm
Happy New Year readers! This week has been exellent for us. We have been sorting out new units for all subjects and they have been outstanding! Our English homework is to create a word bank for our Prequel to the great Kapok tree. Here is an example of our homework : A powerful, stealy, carnivorous feline prowling the underbrush.
Sorry - have to cut short today! We've run out of time! We will fill you in on Monday!
The Bee Musical: Words and music, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 10th Jan 2018 @ 10:26pm
Listen to the tracks and practise at home!
Please note, we are only learning the first verse of The Bee's Knees. Please just practise this one!
Many thanks,
Mrs Hothersall and Mrs Coxhead
Tuesday news, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 9th Jan 2018 @ 5:24pm
Today the Penguins enjoyed a taster of Sreet dance.They should have bought a flyer home tonight about an after school club.It is always popular so first , come first served.
This afternoon we were practising our key board skills with Mrs Atkinson , we had to try to type the alphabet and our name.
I am not in tomorrow, Mrs. Robinson will be taking the class. I will see you all on Thursday😀
Place Value, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 8th Jan 2018 @ 9:33pm
Today we were focusing on reading and writing three and four digit numbers, ordering them, placing them on a blank number line and discussing the value of the digits.
Projects, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 8th Jan 2018 @ 9:29pm
Projects for this term are due in on Monday 22nd January ready to be displayed for parents evening.
They can be related to any aspect of our topic or on an area your child is interested in.
Key topic areas are:
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Forces and Magnets
Hinduism
Dreams and Goals
The Iron Man
Happy New Year, by Mr Pearson
Date: 8th Jan 2018 @ 8:19pm
I hope you have had a lovely break and made lasting memories.
I have attached the outline of this 1/2 terms learning.
For the project it can be anything your child is interested in or linked to the learning that will be taking place over the next 5 weeks. It is very much a science based 1/2 term looking at teeth and the digestive system. All interesting investigations. Any questions please don't hestitate to contact me.
Mr Pearson
Welcome back and Happy New Year!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 8th Jan 2018 @ 5:12pm
Welcome back to all the Penguins, sounds like they have all had a great Christmas and some were up to let in the New Year too, all good fun!
This Week in our learning we are thinking about:
English - stories by Anthony Browne great stories but brilliant illustrations
Maths - place value - writing numbers, estimating numbers on a numberline
Jigsaw - setting goals and looking at successes
History - finding out what an explorer does and learning about some famous explorers
PE - team games and orienteering
Project theme is Explorers
We will be finding out about Neil Armstrong , anything related to space, space ships, rockets,other Space explorers planets etc
We will also be learning about Christopher Columbus and his discoveries.
The projects do not have to relate to our topics , choose something that interests the children , a favourite author, hobbies, sports clubs, rainbows etc
We hope you enjoy spending time with your child creating something together, remember it does not have to be a model it can be a poster, small booklet, photos, a story, feel free to use your imagination🙂
Welcome back and Happy New Year!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 8th Jan 2018 @ 5:12pm
Welcome back to all the Penguins, sounds like they have all had a great Christmas and some were up to let in the New Year too, all good fun!
This Week in our learning we are thinking about:
English - stories by Anthony Browne great stories but brilliant illustrations
Maths - place value - writing numbers, estimating numbers on a numberline
Jigsaw - setting goals and looking at successes
History - finding out what an explorer does and learning about some famous explorers
PE - team games and orienteering
Project theme is Explorers
We will be finding out about Neil Armstrong , anything related to space, space ships, rockets,other Space explorers planets etc
We will also be learning about Christopher Columbus and his discoveries.
The projects do not have to relate to our topics , choose something that interests the children , a favourite author, hobbies, sports clubs, rainbows etc
We hope you enjoy spending time with your child creating something together, remember it does not have to be a model it can be a poster, small booklet, photos, a story, feel free to use your imagination🙂
Curriculum Overview - Spring 1, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 7th Jan 2018 @ 6:22pm
Please find attached the curriculum overview for Spring 1 and attached letter.
Happy New Year! - Week beginning 8th January , by Miss Reynolds
Date: 7th Jan 2018 @ 6:20pm
Hello everybody and Happy New Year! I hope you've had a really wonderful christmas break and are ready to attack Spring 1! I'll upload the curriculum overview for this half term in just a sec, but in a nutshell, our topic is 'Amazon Adeventures'. Please remember that projects will be due in on the first Parents evening - as it is not far away, it can be on something that we did last half term (Food, Glorious Food was our topic - we did lots on reversible and irreversible changes and made biscuits in D.T fr our enterprise), or you can do something on our new Topic!
This week will look like this:
English: Introduction to The Great Kapok
GPS: Revision
Maths: Geometry (angles)
Geography: Reasearch rainforests
Computing: Powerpoint presentations
PSHE: Jigsaw - dreams and goals - When I grow up
R.E: Hindu stories & festivals
French: Family
PE: Dance & Invasion Games Skills
If you have any artefacts/special skills/holiday pics etc. that would help us with our learning - please feel free to volunteer them! We would love to have some visitors to our class this year and learning always works best when it is contextualised!
New Year -2018, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 7th Jan 2018 @ 11:27am
Well the Christmas holidays are nearly behind us, I really hope that you have all had a lovely relaxing time with family and friends and I cant wait to see you all back in school with smiley faces and lots of lovely tales to tell.
Our new topic for Spring 1 - is Toy Story. Its a lovely topic and I have added the Spring 1 curriculum letter to our website for you to look at, I will be sending out next week as well.
Thw week ahead will see us finding out about our new toipic and what we might be learning. We will be thinking about the New Year, what it entails and what resolutions we will make!
We continue with PE and a focus of games - to support team building and working together.
We will be getting to grips with phonics and as we are so clever we are all moving onto phase 3. Dont forget to put reading books in bags so that we can read at school and change for new ones.
I cant wait to see you all tomorrow and lets hope that 2018 brings lots of luck and new adventures.
Mrs Hothersall x x x
Week Beginning Monday 8th January 2018, by Miss Adamson
Date: 6th Jan 2018 @ 12:25pm
Hello all :)
Happy New Year! I hope that you have had a wonderful Christmas break!
Here is what we are doing next week:
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Maths |
We are working on number and place value. Specifically, we are practising careful number formation, finding more and less and odd and even numbers. |
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English |
Father Christmas gave us the story of Bumblebear. We are looking for words with -ed endings. |
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Phonics |
We will save switching groups until after check-up week so Mrs Thomson's group will study alternative pronunciations for 'i' and 'o'. Mrs Coxhead's group will review ay, ou, ie and ea. |
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PE |
We will be learning about dance. |
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Jigsaw |
We are beginning our new unit called Dreams and Goals. We will set our own simple goals. If you have any little boxes from Christmas at home - e.g. empty Maltesers boxes - these would be handy this week. |
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Bee Musical |
We will begin rehearsals for the Bee Musical. This will feature heavily over the coming weeks! |
I look forward to seeing you all on Monday!
Mrs Coxhead
2018 - Spring Term, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 5th Jan 2018 @ 9:10pm
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL
I hope you have all had a fabulous Christmas and New Year and made lots of family memories. I'm looking forward to hearing all about it on Monday.
I have attached to the main class page a curriculum overview and letter for this half term.
One thing I have enjoyed doing as a family this holiday is sitting down together to plan 1 full family day of activities each month. These aren't necesarily activities that cost lots of money, the focus has been on something we all take part in together. Some of the things we have selected are a walk and picnic on the beach, a bike ride and ice cream, a day baking all sorts of cakes for members of the family, A day at the leisure centre swimming and playing badminton. I have attached a grid we completed, if this is something you might like to do yourselves please feel free to print it out.
The last few weeks of the term - Photo catch up, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 5th Jan 2018 @ 9:02pm
It was a busy end to the last few weeks of the term; cooking, making modroc objects and painting them, calendars, Chrstmas cards, our Wedding day, music concert, Christmas Lunch our Jigsaw lessons, Christmas party and finishing off the term with our Class Compliment treat of den building under the tables in our onsies.
Here are just a few of the many photos we took.
Happy Christmas, by Miss Adamson
Date: 22nd Dec 2017 @ 8:50pm
Thank you for all your hard work and support this term. I am very grateful for the kind cards and presents I received - thank you very much. I am amazed by your generosity! I hope you will all have a peaceful Christmas. I look forward to seeing you in January.
Making snowmen, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 22nd Dec 2017 @ 4:04pm
As a treat all afternoon we made marshmallow snowmen and melted biscuit snowmen then ate them all up. Yum!
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, see you all in 2018 x x
A big Thank you, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 22nd Dec 2017 @ 3:58pm
Mrs Regan and I would like to say a big thank you for all our lovely presents, you are very generous, so thank you. We hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and our best wishes for 2018 x
Apologies, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 22nd Dec 2017 @ 11:35am
I would like to apologise for the SATs meeting having to be cancelled last week. You will be receiving a parentmail with the rearranged date which is Wednesday 17th January.
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and best wishes for the New Year
Mrs Fletcher
Thank you, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 22nd Dec 2017 @ 11:31am
I would just like to say thank you very much for all of the lovely Christmas cards and presents I have received. It is very kind of you all to think of me at this special time of year.
I have had an amazing first term worling in Years 6, 5 and 4. I have never worked in this capacity before and your children have made it one of the most rewarding periods in my teaching career.
At this special time of year I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and wish you well for 2018.
Mrs Fletcher