Toucans W.B. 27.02.23

Date: 16th Feb 2023 @ 7:47pm

Welcome Back to Toucans’ Weekly Blog ?

Toucans have all worked so hard during this half term and have demonstrated such a conscientious and mature attitude to their learning.

N.B. Unfortunately, due to technical issues, I was unable to post a blog last week and a number of recent blogs have been lost beyond my control. 

Praise: Willow

Top Table: Sophie and Jake

Next School Week (W.B. 27.02.23)

Reminders:

• Spring 1 term ends on Friday 17th February and school re-opens on Monday 27th February.
• PE will continue to take place on both a Monday and a Friday each week, so please send your child into school wearing their PE kit on these days. PE kits should either be school kits or plain black/navy.
• World Book Day will be celebrated at Lostock on Wednesday 1st March. Children will be able to wear their own clothes, pyjamas, or dress up as their favourite book character. They can bring along their favourite books to share in their classes too. 
• After half term, we will begin 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 of your home into school after half term - thank you!

Curriculum:

In English, we will begin a new unit focussing on the text ‘The Day War Came’. We will initially recap writing in the passive voice before exploring children’s rights according to UNICEF, and the present perfect verb tense.  

In maths, we will continue to work on our unit that focuses on algebra. We shall be looking at forming and solving equations. We will also continue with our 4-a-day arithmetic questions each morning to further practice our four operations.

In science, we will begin our new unit on evolution and look at why offspring look similar to their parents due to DNA inheritance. We shall also explore acquired and inherited characteristics. 

In our history/geography lesson, we will begin our new unit which focuses on refugees and what home looks like and feels like to us. We shall discuss what aspects make our home feel like a safe space and look at cases where people have been unfortunate to lose their home through war / tragedies / natural disasters. 

In RE, we will start to discuss The Resurrection and the importance of the Easter story to Christians. 

In PSHE / No Outsiders with Mrs Hulse, the children will read the book ‘Love You Forever’ by Robert Mansch and discuss how life may change as they grow up. 

In PE, the children will continue with gymnastics, paired work, and problem solving with Mr Ault on Monday and Friday. 

Homework:

There will be no official homework to be completed over the half term break. It is strongly encouraged, however, that all children read (15 mins a day), practice their spellings (Y5/6 word list on the Y6 school webpage), and arithmetic skills as and when possible - everyday for a short time would be optimal and keep up their knowledge and skills. 

Please remember that if you have any questions or queries, do not hesitate to get in contact!

Have a nice and restful half term break!

Mr Corkill ?