Lostock Gralam C of E Primary School
3.4.20
Date: 3rd Apr 2020 @ 9:02am
Good morning my lovely Starlings 
Wow, it is Friday again. Didn’t the weekend come around quickly? Well done to you all (and your adults) on having another fantastic week of home learning. Have you checked out our school Twitter feed recently? If you click onto ‘Tweets & replies’, you will see lots of fantastic ideas which might inspire you to try something new too.
I woke up feeling excited today. Chester Zoo are doing another live virtual zoo day today, bringing the zoo to you. This can be accessed via both Facebook and Youtube by searching ‘Chester Zoo virtual zoo day’.
https://www.chesterzoo.org/virtual-zoo/
Why not use a page of your yellow book to write down interesting facts to teach your friends when we return to school or in your next Zoom video call? I will definitely be watching the Meerkat's and thinking about our amazing class story 'Meerkat Mail'. Here is a video to remind you of the story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcwuTRQ16MU
To encourage you to get outdoors where possible, I have attached some maths activities to complete outdoors. I have also attached some Lego maths activities! Please see the blue tab at the bottom of today's blog.
Please keep following our weekly timetable and remember to keep up with your daily speed sound and Power Maths/ White Rose maths lessons where possible.
As it is the Easter holidays, there is no expectation that the children should be doing any work over the next two weeks. I will however update the blog once each week with ideas on how to keep busy over the holidays for those who want to get involved.
Easter Break Home Learning
As a school, we have decided that the daily blogs will not continue through the Easter holidays. We think it’s important you all have a break from this kind of learning and instead play, bake, garden, spend time together and relax!
Here are some ideas for home learning ideas that you could do over the two week break, if you’d like!
Week 1
Reading
Continue with some form of daily reading – you reading to your child, your child reading to you or whole-family reading time! Maybe you could try listening to some audio books on https://stories.audible.com/start-listen. They are free for as long as schools are closed!
Zoo Visit
Go on a virtual visit to Chester Zoo with your family. On 27th March, Chester Zoo held a virtual zoo day where the live streamed footage from different enclosures around the zoo. Relive this experience by visiting the Chester Zoo YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ9UagJLiMdBIFOHYwT7eLA
Enjoy!
Easter Project
Remind yourself of the Easter story on YouTube using the following links:
What is Easter?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK2o-mhBfuc&list=PLcvEcrsF_9zK0q_Ey3yl7k5LA5v1M7NNs&index=28&t=0s
The Easter Story
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/easter/easterstory.aspx
Events of Good Friday
https://www.truetube.co.uk/film/last-supper-2014
Finally, wishing two very special Starlings a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY for tomorrow. We hope you have a wonderful day with your most special people. With lots of love from Miss Gillam, Mrs Southern and all of your Starling friends xxx
I will be back with my next post next week, take care and keep smiling.
Have a lovely Easter and don’t eat too much chocolate!
Sending lots of love and hugs.
Miss Gillam
Message from Mrs Powell
“You will never have this day again. So make it count”
Good morning children, It may not feel like it but we are all very lucky to have each other. What are you going to do today to make it different from yesterday, we never get today again. What will you do today? How will you use it? Will you draw a picture? Do some PE? Help someone at home? I’m keeping a diary so that I can remember how I made each day count, could you? Stay safe and remember this: “I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.”
I think this Friday we should be having hot chocolate for breakfast! Get your favourite mug, it is time for a special hot choc! We are so proud of you all. Mrs.P!