: Blog items
Fables - using conjunctions., by Mrs Catterall
Date: 12th Nov 2017 @ 11:45pm
On Thursday we had an 8 sentence fable. It didn't read very well so we improved it by combining the shorter sentences together using connectives and adding in adverbs.
Week beginning the 13th November, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 12th Nov 2017 @ 5:55pm
This week is Parliament week at school, so in amongst all of our usual learning, there will also be lots of learning about Parliament - if you have stories/pictures/expertise in this area, we woud love to hear from you this week! Just pop in on Monday morning and we can arrange a time for you to come in during the week and share your knowledge with us!
I know a few parents have been asking after the data from check up week, it will be sent out this week!
Also, on Friday, we will be going down to the Brickcroft to get some inspiration for our writing and our Art by getting out and about in a bit of nature... It's a busy week!
This week will look like this:
English: Alice in Wonderland - writing our own chapter
GPS: 'Show me, don't tell me' sentences
Maths: Division and fractions (May I recommend parents vs children on this game - when you get up to the higher levels, it is really quite tricky! 
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Science: Reversible changes
D.T: Designing products for Enterprise
Art: Creating 'Winter Warmer' posters (didn't get chance last week!)
Computing: E-safety
PSHE: Jigsaw - Parilament
R.E: Christian stories
French: Family
PE: Dance (Tuesday) and Beyond Sport (Monday)
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!
Week Beginning Monday 13th November 2017, by Miss Adamson
Date: 12th Nov 2017 @ 12:57pm
Hello all :)
This is what we are doing this week:
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English |
We are reading about the North and South Pole. We will write information booklets to show what we have learned. |
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Maths |
We are learning about pictorial representations of numbers to twenty and tens and ones. |
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Phonics |
Mrs Thomson's group is learning ie (a colourful tie), ou (shout it out), ur (nurse with a purse) and aw (yawn at dawn). Miss Adamson's group is learning oa (goat in a boat), ar (start the car), ur (nurse with a purse) and or (shut the door). |
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Handwriting |
We are learning to join ai, but, ch and ck. |
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Jigsaw |
We are learning about what makes us different. |
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Parliament week |
In the afternoon's we will be learnig about Parliament. |
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PE |
We are travelling, rolling, jumping and creating tuck shapes.If your child hasn't got their PE kit in school yet, please bring it in before Thursday. |
Look forward to seeing you in the morning,
Miss Adamson
Short division , by Mr Pearson
Date: 11th Nov 2017 @ 1:48pm
We have been learning about short division this week
click on the link below for further support
Remembrance Day lunch, by Mr Pearson
Date: 11th Nov 2017 @ 1:39pm
Remembrance Day, by Miss Adamson
Date: 10th Nov 2017 @ 10:25pm
Thank you for all your effort into your costumes and donations. We enjoyed listening to Mr Turner's stories about his father. We wrote about what peace feels like, sounds like, smells like and tastes like. We watched the CBeebies video about remembrance to give us ideas. Five children who worked especially hard on their writing today had their faces or hands painted the Head's Team.
Underwater Street, by Miss Adamson
Date: 10th Nov 2017 @ 10:17pm
We had a wonderful time at Underwater Street! The staff at Underwater Street were really impressed by the children's respect and positive attitudes. We took lots of photos - there was a lot to photograph! Here are a few!
Weather, by Miss Adamson
Date: 10th Nov 2017 @ 10:14pm
On Monday we were learning about different types of weather. We shared what we knew in groups and presented.
Remembrance Day, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 10th Nov 2017 @ 5:39pm
The Penguins all looked fantastic today as we thought about past wars and wars still today an d all those people who served so we can live or lives today. We wrote an acrostic poem spelling "poppy", wrote about what we had dressed up as and also designed a medal. We had a school assembly and observed the 2 minute silence, Poppy told us about her Great Grandad and his efforts in the war.
Homework, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 10th Nov 2017 @ 3:35pm
This weeks homework for Maths is a photocopy sheet - A is mild, B is medium and C is spicy. I'd like you to do at least one question from each section and one whole section. For example, all of B and one question from A and one from C.
For English homework, I would like you to all log on to Spellodrome and practice the spelling words (I'm going to test you on Tuesday, but don't worry I don't expect you to learn all of them! We will do the same test in a couple weeks and see how we've improved, hopefully). Also, I would like you to choose any 5 words from the list and write them in a sentence in your homework book. 😊 Have a lovely weekend!
Giraffe Remembrance outfits, by Mr Pearson
Date: 10th Nov 2017 @ 11:30am
The Giraffes on Remembrance Day
Busy, busy, busy.., by Mrs Pratten
Date: 9th Nov 2017 @ 8:04pm
The Penguins have enjoyed practising their moves for our Christmas production, they were very enthusiastic!They have also been finding out about arrays and how they can help with multiplication.
In our Jigsaw work we were thinking about celebrating differences and how we can't assume for example, all girls like pink and all boys like football. We played a fun game where we had to choose either agree, disagree or not sure to various questions.
Today we have been learning about how baby animals grow and change, how some babies are not like the adults and that a baby snake is hatchling, a baby elephant is a calf and a baby goat is a kid!
James And Luke S Blog No.4, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 9th Nov 2017 @ 3:18pm
This week in Year 5, We have been doing D&T. In D&T, we have been taste testing biscuits including: Outstanding Oreo's, Marvelous Malted Milks, Crumbly custard creams and Munching Marylands. In English, we have been reading todler books YES TODLER BOOKS! The reason why we are reading todler books is to improve our inference skils and to tell the difference between linear and Non-linear storys. (We have read Mr. Large in charge and voices in the park)
By James Platt and Luke Singleton. 
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Autumn term 2!, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 9th Nov 2017 @ 2:55pm
Welcome back after the October holidays. This half term is all about Julia Donaldson and we will share a story every week. We have made a Gruffalo cafe were the children can enjoy scrambled snake and owl ice cream.....we have started our Christianity learning that leads into the nativity story. we have a busy term ahead and I will send home a new curriculum letter on Friday.
The year 6 buddy organisers have sent home an invite to buddy lunch - everyone in year 5 and reception will be involved.
Take a look at what we have been up to.
Science -Skeletons, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 7th Nov 2017 @ 7:52pm
A fantastic afternoon.
We have had a great time this afternoon trying to answer the question, What does our skeleton look like?
After drawing our initial ideas we went into the hall to work as a team to create a skeleton using the bones given to us. There were some interesting skeletons.
Using a correct skeleton, we took turns to observe and change our skeleton.
Mrs Catterall then taught us the names of lots of our bones.
Welcome back!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 6th Nov 2017 @ 10:14pm
Hi and welcome back, hope everybody had a great holiday and is ready for the next exciting term!
This Week in our learning:
English - we are looking at the story of Jack and the beanstalk with a twist!
Maths - learning multiplication and linking to repeated addition
Science - finding out about our new topic, Animals and keeping healthy
Jigsaw - new theme of celebrating our differences
Learning our Christmas songs and dances.
Remembrance day activities
Welcome Back, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 6th Nov 2017 @ 12:08am
Good Morning
Didn't that come around quickly. I hope you have all had a fanstistic half term, time to relax as well as lots of fun over Halloween and Bonfire night.
We have a very busy half term planned leading up to Christmas. Lots of learning to be done, Remembrance day, Parliament week, Road Safety activities, Celebration Assembly, Winter Warmer, plays to rehearse and perform, Christmas decorations to make, Christmas shop, reakfast with Santa, Parties, Carol Service aswell as our Theatre trip to the Panto. WOW, I'm sure there will be others I have missed aswell.
This week we are going to be learning about:
English - Fables
Grammar - adverbs
Spelling - revision of homophones learnt last half term, statutory word list spelling tests.
Maths - multiplication, 3x 4x and 8x tables
Science - What does our skeleton look like?
P.E. Swimming
Music - learning our songs for the play.
R.E. - Christianity - How would we feel if a famous person visited us at school?
PSHE - JIgsaw, Celebrating Difference - understanding that everyone's family is different and important to them.
I will be posting a more detailed overview of the curriculum content for this half term on the class page.
Here's to a full and exciting week back.
Mrs Catterall
Week Beginning Monday 6th November 2017, by Miss Adamson
Date: 5th Nov 2017 @ 10:43am
Hello all :)
I hope that you have had a wonderful half-term. Here is what we are doing in Year One this week:
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English |
We are writing a recount about our trip to Underwater Street's Imagine That! |
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Maths |
We are learning about efficient ways to count numbers beyond ten and to check that other people's counting is accurate. |
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Phonics |
We are reviewing a few sounds and beginning work in our new groups. Mrs Thomson's group will be reviewing ue (blue glue), ie (a colourful tie) and ou (shout it out). They will be practising 'children', 'little' and 'it's'. Miss Adamson's group will be reviewing ai (snail in the rain), oa (goat in a boat) and ow (brown cow). They will be pracitising 'will', 'now' and 'back'. |
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Handwriting |
We will begin to learn some joins this week. |
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Science |
We will be learning about the weather in preparation for our class trip. |
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Jigsaw |
We will begin our new unit: Celebrating Difference. We are finding out what makes us similar to others in our class. |
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PE |
We are beginning our gymnastics unit. |
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Reading |
Books will be changed on Wednesday, as normal. Children will mostly have new guided reading teachers. |
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Homework |
Please hand in red book bags containing holiday passports on Tuesday. |
I look forward to seeing you all in the morning.
Many thanks,
Miss Adamson
End Autumn 1 & week beginning 6th November , by Miss Reynolds
Date: 5th Nov 2017 @ 10:04am
Hello!
I hope you have all had a lovely half term and are feeling ready to attack Autumn 2! I realised that there were a few pictures and videos from this half term that I haven't managed to upload that you might want to see. So the next few posts are going to be about all of that. While I'm here, may as well let you know what next week looks like too!
This week will look like this:
English: Introduction to Alice in Wonderland
Maths: Mental multiplication and division (links to games)
Science: Reversible changes
D.T: Researching products for Enterprise
Art: Creating 'Winter Warmer' posters
Computing: E-safety
PSHE: Jigsaw - Different cultures
R.E: Christian stories
French: Family
PE: Dance (Monday) and Beyond Sport (Tuesday)
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!
Last day of autumn one, by Miss Adamson
Date: 27th Oct 2017 @ 4:39pm
Well done Meerkats, you've worked so hard this half-term! This week has been especially busy doing reading, writing, phonics and maths check-ups!
Lots ts went in book bags tonight so, just to check it all made its way home, you should have:
a panto letter
photo order forms
leaflets - billy magician and lime bar
kids club letters (where applicable)
Let me know if anything didn't make its way home and I will find it for you a week on Monday.
PE kits have gone home for a wash. Please send them in on the first day back.
I hope that you will have a wonderful half-term.
Many thanks,
Miss Adamson
Wow what a week!, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 27th Oct 2017 @ 4:30pm
We have had lots of fun dressing up as skeletons, witches and spooky creatures. We read the story of pumpkin soup and some of us had a go at scooping out pumpkins...yuk!
We made magic potions and spells in maths...some of us attended the disco on Thursday night and danced the night away🤔
Pour buddies came to play as well.
Have a lovely half term holiday and come back safe on the 6th November ready for a fun filled November and December.
Holidays!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 27th Oct 2017 @ 3:38pm
The Penguins had fun collaging Halloween and bonfire night pictures. We talked about keeping safe and found out about the gunpowder plot.
Have a great holiday, enjoy the fun but keep safe ,
Mrs Pratten and Mrs Regan
Music and words for CANW event, by Mr Pearson
Date: 26th Oct 2017 @ 2:00pm
Please find attached words and music for the CANW event at the end of the November
Charity videos, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 26th Oct 2017 @ 1:21pm
We have been looking at persuasion this term and we've tried to make our own videos to persuade people to vote for our chosen charities. The children researched and selected there own charities and took charge of all the filming process. We hope you like them! Tomorrow we're showing them to year four and letting them vote on which one they like the most! The winning team will get £5 donated to their charity! Who would you vote for?
Split pin teddies, by Miss Adamson
Date: 25th Oct 2017 @ 5:18pm
On the theme of toys from the past, we made some split pin teddies. Aren't they great!?
