Lostock Gralam C of E Primary School
Goldfinches WB 6.3.23
Date: 2nd Mar 2023 @ 8:08pm
Welcome to Goldfinches’ Weekly Blog
We have settled back beautifully this week.
Friday Superstar: Chloe
Top Table: Freddie and Nathan
This week we have:
…had a wonderful start back to school. We have been launched into the tropical theme of a Pacific Island in our new books ‘When the Giant Stirred’ and ‘Ariki and the island of Wonders’. We loved World Book day and had fun creating book based artwork, having ‘Book talk’ time, reading with our friends in Y6 and learning to perform a poem. We have also wowed Mrs Evans and Miss Furnival with our knowledge of volcanoes as we created a group poster.
HOME- Our new whole school topic
This half term we have begun our new whole school topic- Home. This has been planned around the theme of the importance of our homes to us and the human conflicts and natural disasters that result in homelessness for others. We are hoping to use photographs of our children’s homes as part of our displays. If you would like to, please send or e-mail a photo/copy of your home into school after half term. Thank you.
Thurs 9th Cake Sale. This is for the children in KS1 to bake/donate cakes which will be on sale after school for all children. 30p a cake or 4 for £1
Choir have the lovely opportunity to sing at a local Care home next Friday 10th March.
Next week we will:
Writing: Develop our rich and varied language by choosing precise nouns e.g. Minnow or trout rather than just fish. Palm tree rather than just tree.
Spellings: Spellings with the prefix ir when added to words beginning with r
Words for the test on Friday 10th March: irrelevant, irresistible, irresponsible, irregular, irrational, irradiate
These are tricky words with tricky meanings so please spend some time ensuring your child understands the meaning (using google dictionary)
Reading: We will predict details from our new text and use our retrieval skills to select answers from the text about the settings and characters.
Reading homework: Please continue to support your child’s love of reading and the chance to disappear into another world whilst they do! Please sign when your child had read independently and comment when they have read aloud to you.
Maths: We will continue to develop our division methods using place value counters to help.
Times tables: We are continuing to work on our times tables every day by using games, online games, worksheets and tests in class. We are introducing the 9x table this week.
Please continue to support your child to learn their tables fluently in order, out of order and know the division facts for the 2, 5, 10, 4, 8, 3 and 6 times tables.
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check
Please ensure your child uses this game at least a couple of times a week to get used to speed and time limits and prepare them for the online check.
Other fun games to try:
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/category/7/multiplication-and-division
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/times-tables/coconut-multiples
Science: We will enjoy a Science assembly on Thursday in preparation for Science week the following week.
PE: This will be on Mondays and Fridays for the next half term.
Please don’t hesitate to contact us via the office if you would like to discuss anything about your child. admin@lostockgralam.cheshire.sch.uk 01606668270
Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Evans, Miss Wilkinson, Miss Nelson and Mrs Simmonds.