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Week beginning the 23rd October, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 22nd Oct 2017 @ 4:19pm
This week is check-up week, so it will run a little differently from normal weeks. So in terms of tests, it will look like this:
Monday: Arthimetic paper & Grammar and Punctuation paper
Tuesday: Maths Reasoning A paper & Spelling paper
Wednesday: Maths Reasoning B paper & Reading paper
Then there all done and dusted for this half term! 
In amongst the tests, we will have our usual timetable which will include the following:
English: Creating persuasive short-films for a charity of the childrens choice and looking at some poetry.
GPS: Pointless game grammar
Maths: Review and consolidation of this terms Maths that we have covered
Science: Working scientifically and the importance of observation/asking questions
Computing: Research using search engines and considering relevance of websites & using excel to present data.
PSHE: Jigsaw - British Values
French: Introductions
PE: Gymnastics and Cricket.
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 23rd October 2017, by Miss Adamson
Date: 21st Oct 2017 @ 4:17pm
Hello all :)
I hope that you are enjoying your weekends!
This week is called 'Check-Up Week'. We will all be doing assessments in order to help me to plan the next steps for the children as effectively as possible. This is how the week should look:
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Maths |
All of the children will do a small arithmetic and reasoning assessment. |
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Phonics |
We will carry on with our daily phonics lessons. Miss Adamson's group will be learning ie (a colourful tie), ue (blue glue), aw (yawn at dawn) and ew (chew the stew). Mrs Thomson's group will be learning oi (spoil the boy), ear (hear with your ear) and air (that's not fair). All the children will also do a short phonics check with Miss Adamson. |
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Reading |
We will have guided reading as usual on Wednesday. In addition, children will do a short reading assessment with Miss Adamson or Mrs Thomson. |
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Writing |
We are doing some special pieces of writing as part of a whole school theme called 'Journey Back in Time'. We will be reading the story of Old Bear and retelling it in our writing. |
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History |
In keeping with Journey Back in Time and Old Bear, we will be learning about toys from the past. We will compare them with toys in the present and create our own timeline. |
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Homework |
This week there will be no homework in the children's purple books. Instead, children will receive their Holiday Passports. During every school holiday (Y1-Y6), children fill in their holiday passport with details of what they have done over the break. We love reading what you have done and it makes for lovely memories to look back on when your child gets to Year 6. Holiday Passports are kept inside the red book bag. |
I look forward to seeing you all on Monday!
Miss Adamson :)
P.S. If you have any outstanding toast money to be paid for this past half-term (£7.80). Please send it to school with your child this week.
Spellings, by Miss Adamson
Date: 21st Oct 2017 @ 1:58pm
Here we are with some words that can be tricky to spell! Mrs Dixon helped us to write them and took photos for the wall to serve as reminders!
3D Shapes, by Miss Adamson
Date: 21st Oct 2017 @ 1:55pm
We identified and sorted 3D shapes. Then we used 3D shapes to make castles because what could be more fun than building castles!? Wonderful teamwork!
Friday mindfulness , by Mr Pearson
Date: 20th Oct 2017 @ 11:22am
Today in Mindfulness session we have learnt to consider and focus on our breath.
we have also learnt to finger breath,
http://blissfulkids.com/mindfulness-for-children-take-five-exercise/
Next we looked at snow dome to explain how our mind can be at times all fizzzy and dizzy and how we can use mindfulness techniques our minds can then settle down
Finally, we looked at weeble wobbles to compare how sometimes in life we may have little things that might make us wobble and we bounce back, then when a big wobble in life might affect us, however like the weeble wobble we will bounce back.
Another good website to look at.
Making apple juice, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 20th Oct 2017 @ 11:17am
We got a brand new Apple press and crusher this week for school to use, so in reception we wer the first to have a go. we picked apples off the tree, washed and cut them and then crushed and pressed them. The fresh apple juice was delicious.
The lost sheep, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 19th Oct 2017 @ 8:32pm
We are finding out about Christianity in RE and today we read a story from the bible called The Lost Sheep. We made our own little sheep.
Homework, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 18th Oct 2017 @ 5:33pm
Apparatus fun, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 18th Oct 2017 @ 4:05pm
The Penguins enjoyed using their gymnastic skills in the large apparatus today and were amazing, very creative and showed great skills🙂
They have also designed their tile all about Longton and some have started to print, they are looking good!
My reading are enjoying the reading corner and finding facts about dinosaurs
James And Joe Blog No.3, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 18th Oct 2017 @ 3:14pm
This Week In Year 5, we have been doing Science Experiments! We did an observation of different objects such as : iron blocks,raw wool ,cow skin and wire wool. We Went round the class and observed the various items on the tabels. We recorded the items that interested us and wrote: how they felt, how they look, how they smell and questions about the object that interested us. We Really enjoyed our afternoon and we hope that Miss Reynolds sets us another fun lesson like this! (Note, Miss Reynolds Always Does Fun Lessons And Your Child Is Getting Good Education) <--- The Irony of this sentence is not lost on Miss Reynolds 
By James Platt And Joe Fish.
The week, by Miss Leigh
Date: 18th Oct 2017 @ 10:45am
Our learning this week.
Spelling: prefix un and dis
English: writing descriptions using descriptive language with colons and semi colons.
Grammar: colons and semi colons
Maths: Roman numerals, arithmetic and long division.
Science and PE will be th Mrs fletcher this week.
The week ahead, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 15th Oct 2017 @ 10:20pm
Our lessons this week will focus on
Spelling - homophones
Grammar - understanding of vocabulary - noun, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, apostrophe, inverted commas, pronoun.
Reading - a variety of response activities to the Dick King Smith stories the children have been reading.
English - writing a story, back to the future themed.
Maths - mental and formal subtraction.
Topic - comparing maps of Preston Docks. Bob is coming into class to tell us some stories of the docks.
PSHE - story massage, British Value - Respect, discussions.
R.E. - Buddhism, the festival of Wesak.
P.E. - swimming Thursday, Cricket Friday.
Week beginning the 16th October, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 15th Oct 2017 @ 8:17pm
This week will look like this:
English: Finish writing our persuasive letters to Solar Tech and starting to look at persuasive filming.
GPS: Reviewing and revising basic word class
Maths: Addition and Subtraction (statistics with a focus on line graphs) - try this silly game to remind yourselves about data handling and the ways we can present statistics.
Science: Material properties
Computing: Research using search engines and considering relevance of websites & using excel to present data.
PSHE: Jigsaw - British Values
French: Introductions
PE: Gymnastics and Cricket.
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!
This Week In the Penguins......, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 15th Oct 2017 @ 7:35pm
In our learning this week we are in ......
Maths - adding and subtracting, using apparatus and drawing pictorially
English - non fiction work, finding out facts about looking after dogs and cats, how fiction is different to non fiction
Writing- if I went back in time what adventure would I have?
PE - gymnastics, using apparatus to continue our work (2 lessons this week!)
Music - learning about percussionist instruments
History- finding out about street names and thinking about questions to ask about old Longton, what school was like and who might have lived in their house.
Art- making a template out of a polystyrene tile, choosing their design
PSHE - feelings when we are being a good friend and when we fall out with our friends
Pics from last week, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 15th Oct 2017 @ 5:12pm
Rainbow fish, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 15th Oct 2017 @ 5:12pm
This week our main focus is the story rainbow fish. It will help us to think about sharing and friendships and so links nicely into all the PSHE jigsaw learning we have been doing.
We continue with our number learning, which has been a real success by all this half term. We continue to count to 20 forwards and back....look at learnits....add fish! And much more. In phonics we are learning the sounds h, b, f, ff and also learning the tricky words I, no, go, to into and the.
we will continue to learn songs, tap a beat and rhythm in music ready to share with you all the following week.
Week Beginning Monday 16th October 2017, by Miss Adamson
Date: 15th Oct 2017 @ 10:35am
Hello all :)
I hope that you are enjoying the weekend.
This is what we are doing this week:
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English |
We are writing instructions for how to make a superhero hand puppet (now that we are the experts!). We will also learn about plurals. |
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Maths |
We are using a number line to help us add and subtract. We will decide which is the most efficient way to add to numbers and what happens to the number line when we subtract. We will introduce the concept of diffference through 'how many more?' and 'how many less?'. |
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Phonics |
Mrs Thomson's group are working on: or (shut the door), ur (nurse with a purse), ow (brown cow). Miss Adamson's group are reviewing er (better letter) and learning ir (whirl and twirl) and wh as in what, where when etc and ph as in alphabet. |
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Handwriting |
I hope that we will finish our work on curly caterpillar letters this week (letters that begin with the magic c). |
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P.E. |
We are playing the Honey Pot game. We will use underarm throws and running skills for this game. |
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RE/Maths |
In the afternoons this week we are learning about Diwali because Hindus celebrate Diwali on Thursday 19th October 2017. We are going to see what 2D shapes we can identify in Rangoli patterns and design our own. We will also learn about Diwali gifts and 3D shapes. We'll guess what the gift could be depending on the 3D shape of the parcel! |
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Wednesday afternoon |
On Wednesday afternoon, Miss Adamson is at a meeting so Mrs Ainsworth will be teaching the Meerkats. |
I look forward to seeing you all next week,
Miss Adamson
Poetry, by Miss Adamson
Date: 14th Oct 2017 @ 12:58pm
This week the meerkats have written four poems each! They are inspired by Paul Cookson poems that Mrs Thomson and Miss Adamson learned about when we were out of class last Monday. The children wrote That's No Place to Put a Pet, two mini east poems and a riddle. The riddles have been entered into a young writers competition (see www.youngwriters.co.uk/competitions/little-riddlers). I am sure the judges will be astounded by all the children's wonderful writing.
Here re are some pictures of the children looking for inspiration for their mini east poem.
Jigsaw - helping others learn, by Miss Adamson
Date: 14th Oct 2017 @ 12:52pm
We made freeze frames to show how we could help others to learn. The rest of the class guessed what we were doing in the freeze frames.
Hand puppets, by Miss Adamson
Date: 14th Oct 2017 @ 12:47pm
This week we designed and made our super hero hand puppets. When we were finished we decided if we were pleased with what we had made and wrote a sentence to explain why.
Mindfulness , by Mr Pearson
Date: 13th Oct 2017 @ 11:33am
Today we completed an experiment, the children had a choice of a minstrel chocolate or a blueberry. Two of the minstrels were place in front of the children, the first minstrel the children just consumed straight away.
The second minstrel, the children had to look at it first, turn it over, then smell it, touch their lower lip with it, then place it on their tongue and roll it around their mouth, finally they had to bite it in half and slowly saviour the taste.
The children will be doing this with their food over the next and have encouraged to train their parents.
The hippocampus part of our brain were used to take in all of the senses of eating the minstrel.
The hippocampus was then explained to the children as it links our memories together, when we sleep our brain files them away. An amazing lesson from Tanya once again.
Yoga Friday , by Mr Pearson
Date: 13th Oct 2017 @ 11:15am
Today we have been studying how to work on our balance in yoga, warrior 3, flamingo.
Mr Pearson joined in, no photographic evidence exists though. 😀
Projects, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 12th Oct 2017 @ 9:39pm
Wow, what a creative bunch you are Bongos. We have had a whole variety of projects this week; times tables, shadow posters and investigations, biographies, map work, French vocabulary to name just a few.
Well done
Enterprise, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 12th Oct 2017 @ 8:59pm
Last Friday was a busy day. The Bongos spent the morning preparing for our enterprise event. Thank you to Mrs Gray and Sandye for supporting the children in the kitchen.
The marshmallows sold quickly with only a few left. The children were amazing and ran their stall with very little support.
We made £134.20 profit. This money goes directly to the class to spend on items to support their learning. We are hoping to use some of it as part of an exciting trip which I am arranging for later on in the school year. As a class we will discuss what else we would like to purchase.
Thank you to everyone who came and supported the event.
Longton Village, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 12th Oct 2017 @ 6:42pm
We walked in to Longton today and had a look at the shops and street furniture . We drew some great pictures and had lots of fun as people waved to us (a lot!) and trucks honked their horns, we loved it!!
