Lostock Gralam C of E Primary School
Week beginning 12th October
Date: 8th Oct 2020 @ 7:32pm
Welcome to Goldfinches' Weekly Blog.
Well done for such a wonderful start back to school after 2 weeks away. All of our Goldfinches have impressed the adults in the classroom so much with their eagerness to learn and their calm start back. We are so proud of you.
Star of the week: Congratulations to Toby.
Top Table: Congratulations to Sophie.
Diaries- please support your child to bring their diary into school every day
Home Reading
Well done to so many of you who are reading at home regularly. We are collecting lots of raffle tickets already! Please continue to support your child to read at home. This can be a mixture of them reading independently, reading to you and you reading to them.
This week we have continued to assess the children in their reading in class.
Spellings
Each week we will be playing spelling games in class, learning spelling rules in our lessons and also practising them through handwriting. We will be sending spellings home to learn after half term.
The list of focused spellings is attached to the weekly blog with ideas of how they could practise them. Please support your child to learn the meanings of the spellings and say them in sentences. The children will be tested on these words the following week.
Times Tables
We are continuing with our recap of the 3x table which will help us with the 6x table. You will see a sticker in their diary to keep you informed of your child’s progress. We are using our busy time in the mornings to practise the times tables in lots of different ways.
As last year we will work through the Bronze (in order) Silver (mixed up) and Gold (Division facts) for each times table.
TTRockstars- this is all renewed and up and running and I have set the tables for each week for your child to practise. Please encourage them to spend 10-15 minutes on this a few times a week as this is an excellent way of helping them to embed the times table knowledge. Let’s see how many Y4 rock stars we can get on the leader board! Login details are on a sticker in your child’s diary.
PE
At the moment, PE lessons are on Mondays and Fridays. Please send your child to school in their PE kit on these days. For safety long hair must be tied back, earrings removed (by the child) or covered with tape. Mr Ault’s club is also available for Year 4 Goldfinches on Friday mornings 8am-8.40am
This week we have…
...enjoyed getting back into our English book ‘Counting on Katherine’ and thinking about how it would have felt to have been her dad to help us write a diary from his point of view. Next week we will be using speech punctuation and finding out about John Glenn.
Maths has been all about rounding to the nearest 100. Ask your child about the rap we have learned to help us do this. Next week we are continuing with place value activities based around 4 digit numbers.
We have been enjoying mindfulness time to relax, colour and listen to mindful meditation and lots of our Goldfinches are really improving in their fitness during our daily track time.
Well done to everyone for contributing to a wonderful acrostic poem to say “Thank You for our Harvest” we enjoyed watching the virtual worship today.
We enjoyed a computing lesson where we used the Book Creator app to design a poster to advise 7, 8 and 9 year olds on how to balance their time using technology.
In our No Outsiders lesson we loved listening to the story ‘Dogs Don’t do Ballet’ which helped us think about how to be assertive and stand up for what we believe in.
Saturday 10th October is World Mental Health Day so on Friday we will be doing some activities based around mental health including PE with Mr Ault.
Whilst we have been off, Teddy has returned to school. If you haven’t yet done so, please return the Teddy permission slip or e-mail the school office to give your permission for your child to spend time with Teddy when he is in school.
Finally, thank you all for your continued support, please e-mail or phone the school office if you would like to contact us.
Mrs Evans