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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

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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.

Welcome to Spring 1! Curriculum Overview - Spring 1

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:

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.
English	Father Christmas gave us the story of Bumblebear. We are looking for words with -ed endings.
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.
PE	We will be learning about dance.
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.
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.

Family Experience Calendar

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

Christmas fun, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 20th Dec 2017 @ 6:40pm

Take a look at what we have been up to this week x