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Goldfinches WB 17.7.23, by Mrs Evans

Date: 13th Jul 2023 @ 9:09pm

Welcome to Goldfinches’ Weekly Blog

The final blog for the class of 2022-2023!

Friday Superstar:  Hannah

Top Table children: Christopher and Nathan

How have we got to the final week and where has this year gone? I would just like to say what a pleasure it has been to see our wonderful Goldfinches grow and mature over the past year. I am so proud of each and every one of them in their journey through the Year 4 curriculum and their own personal development. They are more than ready to fledge up to Skylarks and start their Year 5 adventure but I still want to see them popping in to fill me in on their latest news.

This week:

What a fabulous and diverse week of learning! From more super swimming to gorgeous artwork inspired by Henri Matisse, creative Geography and Art river collages to playing so well in our Everton Academy tournament. All topped off with the Friday take over day!

The final week:

Please remember we finish at 1pm on Thursday 20th July.

Reading books: Please ensure all school reading books are returned.

Reading: The Library Reading Challenge is on once again and it would be lovely to hear how well our children have got on with it over the summer holidays.

Times Tables: Continue to use the websites you love to keep the tables ticking over.

https://ttrockstars.com/

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/times-tables/coconut-multiples

PE: Final PE session for Y4 on Monday and cricket on Tuesday. Swimming for the children in Turtles, Seals and Orcas groups on Monday and Tuesday. 

Thank you also to all of our lovely Goldfinch parents and families for your support over the past year. I know you will join me in wishing Miss Wilkinson and Mrs Simmonds lots of love and luck in their new jobs next year.

Have a wonderful, safe and relaxing summer.

Mrs Evans, Miss Wilkinson, Miss Nelson and Mrs Simmonds.

Robins Week beg. 17th July, by Mrs Whittingham

Date: 13th Jul 2023 @ 6:27pm

Thank you to everyone who attended our Open Evening. It was lovely to see the joy on the children's faces as they shared all their books and work with you. We will be sending home their old books over the next couple of days so if they don't have a rucksack it would be useful to bring in a bag to enable the children to take home their books. Some of their books that they are currrently using will be passed up to their Year 4 class so they can continue to use these next year. It has been lovely to have Miss Charlton working with the children in class this week. This has allowed her to build relationships with the children before September. 

We have had another great week of swimming. We will have some more intensive lessons for Robins on Monday and then Tuesday everyone will have their last lesson. An email will be sent out to those that need swim kit in school for both days. 

Thank you to everyone for your support with homework this year. The children have been amazing with their reading at home this year, practising their weekly spellings and learning their times tables.

Next week we will be focusing on completing our Ancient Civilisation topic. Although I don't think we will get it finished by the end of term so this will be continued by Miss Charlton in Year 4 and will act as a good transition project for the class. 

We will also be finishing of our Art and DT work for this year as well as completing our Maths objectives on Measure and Statistics. 

Thank you for your outstanding support this year and I look forward to watching your lovely children continue to bloom in Year 4.

Please feel free to get in touch if there is anything we can help you with,

Mrs Whittingham, Miss Wilkinson (Friday) & Mrs Taylor

Toucans W.B. 17.07.23, by Mr Corkill

Date: 13th Jul 2023 @ 5:11pm

Welcome Back to Toucans’ Weekly Blog ? 

Congratulations to all the children on achieving their best during the SATs assessments. We’ve made it to the end of the academic year and I could not feel prouder of each and everyone member of the class for all their hard work, achievements and progress. You have all been, and will continue to be, superstars at high school and I wish you all the very best of luck for the future. Thank you to all parents/families for making this year so special for both the children and me!

Praise: Whole Class

Top Table: Jake and Zach

Next Week (W.B. 17.07.23)

Reminders:

• On Monday (17th July), Y6 will get to enjoy a special leavers’ picnic after school, an extra session of PE with Mr A and a special visit from the ice cream van. Please collect your child from school at 5pm. This is also a non-uniform day.
• On Tuesday (18th July), we have our Y6 leavers’ service in church from 09:30 (for approximately an hour). This will be a celebration of the children’s time at Lostock, include many of the children’s memories, songs and hymns, and a trip down memory lane. Y6 families are welcome to join us and stay for refreshments in church following the service.
• On Wednesday (19th July), there is the summer fair from 3:15-5pm. Y6 have been busy making some amazing games that they can’t wait to share with you. If possible, please come along to join in with all the fun and support your child and school. Please collect your child from school at 5pm.
• On Thursday (20th July), Y6 will be clapped into school in the morning and clapped out at 12:50pm as they leave primary school. Children are welcome to have their school t-shirts signed by fellow pupils and staff. School closes at 1pm and there is no ‘Fun Foxes’ as this is the last day of term and the academic year!

Curriculum:

We will be making some fresh bread on Monday using yeast - one of the microorganisms we have recently been looking at closely in our science lessons. The children will get to bake and taste bread and watch the magic of yeast throughout the day.

We will continue to practice for the leavers’ service ready to share with you on Tuesday and finish off any last pieces of work (e.g. Maya mask paintings).

During the last few days, we will enjoy the time together as a class with some fun activities and sharing memories and favourite stories from over the children’s time at Lostock.

The children will have their final lesson of PE with Mr Ault on Monday.

Homework:

There will be no homework set.

Have a wonderful summer holiday and good luck for a happy and healthy future! Remember you each have a special and unique talent and can do anything when you put your mind to it - good luck!

Mr Corkill ?

Goldfinches WB 10.7.23, by Mrs Evans

Date: 6th Jul 2023 @ 9:00pm

Super swimmers this week!

Friday Superstar: Ethen

Top Table: Lydia and Lexi

Swimming:  this has been so successful so far! All the children have impressed me so much with their enthusiasm, courage and perseverance. I am so proud! Swimming will continue for Year 4 on Wednesday and Thursday for some of the children and Friday for the whole class. Please continue to send a swim kit in to school.

Friday 14^{th (}Pupil take over day)- Non Uniform day in return for £2 donation. Please remember your child will also have PE and swimming on this day so ensure they wear/bring suitable footwear.

This week we have:

Loved swimming, have been excellent listeners and have made such lovely progress already. On Wednesday we enjoyed working with Mrs Campion as part of our transition to Year 5. Thursday afternoon showed some budding chefs as we learned to chop and slice safely using the bridge method. We made some delicious Greek Salads! We have used our super knowledge of decimals to help us learn about money and solve money problems.

Next week we will:

Writing: Write our own explanations and use computing to complete a glossary.

Spellings: We will work on our personal spellings in class but no more spellings will be sent home this year.

Reading homework: Keep up with the 10 minutes a day target.

Please have a good root around at home to search out any school books so we have time to sort them ready for next term.

Maths homework: Continuing to play a game on the Maths Frame Multiplication Check will continue to help build their fluency and to end year 4 and begin year 5 with as much confidence as possible.

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-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

SRE: We will follow the Christopher Winter’s scheme of work which is age appropriate for Year 4 for Sex and Relationships education. In these lessons we will learn about the human life cycle, how our bodies change as we grow up and enter puberty and how to look after our bodies. Please speak to Mrs Evans if you want to know further detail about the content.

PE: Monday, Tuesday and Friday.

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.

Robins week beg. 10th July, by Mrs Whittingham

Date: 6th Jul 2023 @ 5:42pm

Wow! What a week we have had with the pool on site! The children have loved their swimming lessons and have showed both courage and perseverance. Some of the children have already met the expectations for the end of Key Stage 2. Next week, we will regroup the children based on how they have done this week and we will let you know when they will have their next swim session. 

Please remember to read with your child for 10 - 15 mins daily and record in diary if possible. Also take a look at their reading target which is on a sticker in their diary, some children may have the same target for a few weeks to work on. This term we will be mainly focusing on vocabulary development. 

Spellings for next week will continue to include words from the Statutory Year 3/4 word list. These spellings are hard and often don't link to any of the patterns that we have already covered this year. Therefore we have been looking at different strategies to help us to learn them e.g. looking for smaller words within the word to remember, looking for double letters, drawing around the word, drawing images to help us remember how to spell tricky parts of the word etc.   

perhaps, popular, potatoes, promise, quarter, recent, regular, reign

Spelling quiz next week will be on Friday 14th July. 

In Maths we are currently working on Telling the Time to the nearest minute on an analogue clock and reading the time on a digital clock. Can they read the time to the nearest hour? half hour? quarter to? quarter past? in 5 minute intervals? in 1 minute intervals? What time do they get up at? What time do they leave for school? What time does the school day end? Asking lots of questions like these about the time throughout the day would be beneficial. 

 It would be useful to play these games at home and to discuss the time.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?q=telling+time 

Remember to encourage your child to have a go at the spelling and multiplication games suggested below. 

https://ictgames.com/littleBirdSpelling/

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button 

https://www.multiplication.com/games/all-games

Use this website below to revise x2, x5, x10, x3, x4 and to focus on learning x8. The children have a mixed times tables sheet for homework this week.

https://www.timestables.co.uk/

PE days for this half term will be Monday and Friday. All children will have a swim lesson on Tuesday 11th July. 

We will email to let you know if your child will require an extra session on Wednesday 12th/Thursday 13th July if they have not met the National Curriculum expectations for Swimming. 

RE - we will be finding out about Hinduism 

Music - we will be listening and appraising different types of music, playing percussion instruments and learning to sing a variety of new songs. 

Computing - we will be finding out about how computers work and using IPads and Laptops to record our findings. 

DT - we will be exploring structures and making our own

Art - We will also be learning about some famous artists - William Kentridge, Georges Seurat and Pable Picasso and creating our own pieces of work based on the individual style of these artists.

Our new History and Geography Topic will focus on Ancient Civilisations.

Please feel free to get in touch if there is anything we can help you with,

Mrs Whittingham, Miss Wilkinson (Friday) & Mrs Taylor

Toucans W.B. 10.7.23, by Mr Corkill

Date: 6th Jul 2023 @ 4:58pm

Welcome Back to Toucans’ Weekly Blog ?

Toucans have all been out on their high school transition days this week. I feel so proud of all the courage they have shown and it’s been lovely to hear all their exciting stories.

Praise: Izzy

Top Table: Abi and Savannah

Next Week (W.B. 10.07.23)

Reminders:

• Year 6 swimming lessons on Monday 10th July and Friday 14th July. The class will be split into three groups and swim for 30 minutes on each day. Please ensure your child has a one-piece swimsuit or swimming trunks, a towel and a swim hat (these can be purchased via the school gateway if needed and children will not be allowed to swim without one). They are welcome to bring goggles if they wish. Please provide a plastic carrier bag for their wet kit.
• The nursing team will visit school on Wednesday 12th July to weigh and measure both Year 6 and Reception pupils. Permission will have been granted by you directly to their team to allow them to carry out these checks.
• If possible, please ensure your child has a strong carrier bag or backpack so that they can take their books home from this year towards the end of next week.
• Friday 14th July - 'Pupil take over day'. Non uniform day in return for a £2 donation. Please remember that your child will have both swimming and PE on this day so ensure they bring appropriate clothing and suitable footwear. 
• 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 and should only be worn on PE days.

Curriculum:

In English and computing, the children will continue with their ‘how to…’ guide. They will be creating informative videos and instructions on some of the roles they have fulfilled this year that can be shared with Year 5. In shared reading, we will explore another famous explorer with a focus on summarising and sequencing information.

In maths, we will start our final unit on geometry - the property of shapes. We shall be looking at vertically opposite angles, the angles in a triangle, and missing angles within shapes. We will also continue with our 4-a-day arithmetic questions each morning to further practice our four operations.

In science, we shall be drawing our learning on living things and their habitats to a close through playing a revision game in small groups.

In our history and geography lessons, the children will explore some of the theories about why the Maya civilisation collapsed around AD 900 and make our own judgments based upon the available evidence. We will also complete an oral task about the book ‘The Rainplayer’ and use the talking points method to discuss and debate this text.

In art, the children will be creating a self portrait in the style of our focus artist, Frida Kahlo.

In PE, the children will continue their lessons with Mr Ault and will have their swimming sessions on both Monday and Friday. 

Homework:

There will be no homework set.

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

Mr Corkill ?

Goldfinches WB 3.7.23, by Mrs Evans

Date: 29th Jun 2023 @ 9:41pm

Welcome to Goldfinches’ Weekly Blog

Super scientists this week!

Friday Superstar: Ella

Top Table: Matthew and Christopher

Swimming: Starts on Monday. The children will be swimming from Monday to Thursday this week. The class will be split into 3 groups and will swim for 30 minutes each. Please ensure your child has a one-piece swim suit or swimming trunks, towel and a swim hat. (They will not be allowed to swim without one) They can bring goggles if they would like to. Please provide a plastic carrier bag for their wet kit.

Extra PE session: Goldfinches will be having a very sporty week next week with an extra session of PE on Wednesday morning with Mr A. This is in addition to PE on Monday and Friday and cricket on Tuesday.

This week we have:

Enjoyed working with Miss Beattie on Tuesday and Wednesday morning as part of our transition to Year 5. In geography we have loved investigating how the water cycle works using Mrs Evans’ propagator.

Next week we will:

Writing: Continue to read Blue John as inspiration for our writing and to learn about how caves are formed.

Spellings: homophones- words with the same sound but different spellings and meanings.

Words to learn at home this week: brake, break, great, grate, here, hear, main, mane, meet, meat, peace, piece, plain, plane, mined, mind

Reading homework: Keep reading daily- reading for just 10-15 minutes a day can have several benefits, such as improving concentration and memory, improving mental stimulation, expanding your vocabulary, improving your sleep quality, and reducing stress. Goldfinches are doing so well with this so please keep it up!

Maths:

The National Multiplication Check is now complete however, we will be continuing to work on our times tables every day by using games, online games, worksheets and tests in class. Look out for paper copies of activities and games I’m sending home to support with recall and fluency.

Maths homework: Continuing to play a game on the Maths Frame Multiplication Check will continue to help build their fluency and to end year 4 and begin year 5 with as much confidence as possible.

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-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

DT: We will be taste testing ingredients for a Greek salad then learning cutting skills to make our own.

SRE: We will follow the Christopher Winter’s scheme of work which is age appropriate for Year 4 for Sex and Relationships education. In these lessons we will learn about the human life cycle, how our bodies change as we grow up and enter puberty and how to look after our bodies. Please speak to Mrs Evans if you want to know further detail about the content.

PE: Monday, Tuesday, WEDNESDAY and Friday.

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.

Toucans W.B. 03.07.23, by Mr Corkill

Date: 29th Jun 2023 @ 4:26pm

Welcome Back to Toucans’ Weekly Blog ?

Toucans have had a busy week, particularly working on lots of different art and history projects. I know how much they are all looking forward to their transition days next week and I wish them all the best of luck as they begin their high school journeys.

Praise: Jai

Top Table: Francesca and Isabel

Next Week (W.B. 03.07.23)

Reminders:

• All pupils will be out on different transition days throughout the week. Please read through the information your child’s high school will have sent you carefully so that you are aware of when and where they need to be, plus what they need to bring along for the day. Good luck everyone!
• 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 and should only be worn on PE days.

Curriculum:

In English and computing, the children will be creating a ‘how to’ guide for some of their specific Year 6 activities. They will be creating informative videos and instructions on some of the roles they have fulfilled this year that can be shared with Year 5. In shared reading, we will explore another famous explorer with a focus on summarising and sequencing information.

In maths, we will continue with working on problem solving involving time, position & direction, and different properties of shapes. We will also continue with our 4-a-day arithmetic questions each morning to further practice our four operations.

In science, we shall complete a short revision activity before completing an assessment task on living things and their habitats. We will also be researching and recording about the famous scientist, Alexander Fleming and his discovery of penicillin. 

In our history and geography lessons, the children will be learning about the number system of the Maya, their calendar, and a little bit about their diet and lifestyle.

In RE, the children will put together all their learning on Sikhism to create an A3 poster on different aspects of this religion.

In PE, the children will continue their lessons outdoors Mr Ault.

Homework:

There will be no homework set.

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

Mr Corkill ?

Goldfinches WB 26.6.23, by Mrs Evans

Date: 22nd Jun 2023 @ 10:33pm

Welcome to Goldfinches’ Weekly Blog

Super sports this week.

Friday Superstar: Archie

Top Table: Hannah and Chloe

Move up morning: On Tuesday next week, Goldfinches will become Skylarks for the morning. They will come to Goldfinches’ classroom as usual to register then go and spend the rest of the morning with the lovely Miss Beattie.

Swimming: In the week beginning 3^rd July, Goldfinches will all be swimming daily in our pop up pool. They must have a swimming cap to swim (as I discovered when I forgot to send my son into school with one on his first day swimming!!) The office have some in stock to buy. I would recommend plaiting long hair and removing earrings before school to ensure speedy changing and maximum time in the pool.  

This week we have:

Worked brilliantly together in Sports day- we supported each other and got into the spirit of a bit of competitiveness. We have worked incredibly hard on our assessments (and enjoyed the extra playtime and brain break time within these). We have completed our learning about Refugees within our Home topic with some thoughtful reflections.

Next week we will:

Writing: Continue to read Blue John as inspiration for our own explanation writing.

Spellings: homophone words: words which sound the same but have different meanings and different spellings.

Words to learn at home: herd, heard, threw, through, to, too, two, blue, blew, their, they’re, there

Reading homework: I am really impressed with how the children are choosing such a wide range of books to read in quiet reading time. One of my favourite times of the day is chatting about which books the children have enjoyed and having a 1:1 read. Please help to support this developing love of books and reading at home by listening to and chatting about your child’s reading books daily and signing their diary.

Maths: We will continue our new unit on angles, triangles and rectangles.

Times tables: We are continuing to work on our times tables to ensure we are able to recall as many as we can fluently before we move into Year 5.

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check

If this link doesn’t work on a tablet, try googling Maths Frame Y4 Multiplication 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

PE: Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays.

Items from home reminder: there have been some items from home being brought in to school including bracelets and wrist bands. Please ensure these are kept at home so they don’t end up being lost/taken in school and causing distractions and fall outs. Thank you for your support in this.

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, Mrs Simmonds and Miss Nelson.

Robins week beg. 26th June, by Mrs Whittingham

Date: 22nd Jun 2023 @ 5:43pm

The children have had such a lovely week in school with Sports Day and our trip to the World Museum in Liverpool. They have been a credit to their class and school. I love the enthusiasm that they show for everything and it is lovely to hear their excited cheering and see them smiling so much!

Please remember to read with your child for 10 - 15 mins daily and record in diary if possible. Also take a look at their reading target which is on a sticker in their diary, some children may have the same target for a few weeks to work on. This term we will be mainly focusing on vocabulary development. 

Spellings for next week will continue to include words from the Statutory Year 3/4 word list. These spellings are hard and often don't link to any of the patterns that we have already covered this year. Therefore we have been looking at different strategies to help us to learn them e.g. looking for smaller words within the word to remember, looking for double letters, drawing around the word, drawing images to help us remember how to spell tricky parts of the word etc.   

heard, heart, height, history, important, island, learn, length

Spelling quiz next week will be on Friday 30th June

In Maths we are currently working on Money so it would be useful to play these games at home and to discuss money problems with your child. Make sure they know the value of each coin and note, can they use different coins to make 50p, 57p etc. Can they add costs of items and give change?

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?q=money

Remember to encourage your child to have a go at the spelling and multiplication games suggested below. 

https://ictgames.com/littleBirdSpelling/

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button 

https://www.multiplication.com/games/all-games

Use this website below to revise x2, x5, x10, x3, x4 and to focus on learning x8. The children have a x8 times tables sheet for homework this week.

https://www.timestables.co.uk/

PE days for this half term will be Monday and Friday. We will have our first SWIMMING session on Monday 3rd July

RE - we will be finding out about Hinduism 

Music - we will be listening and appraising different types of music, playing percussion instruments and learning to sing a variety of new songs. 

Computing - we will be finding out about how computers work and using IPads and Laptops to record our findings. 

DT - we will be exploring structures and making our own

Art - We will also be learning about some famous artists - William Kentridge, Georges Seurat and Pable Picasso and creating our own pieces of work based on the individual style of these artists.

Our new History and Geography Topic will focus on Ancient Civilisations.

Please feel free to get in touch if there is anything we can help you with,

Mrs Whittingham, Miss Wilkinson (Friday) & Mrs Taylor

Toucans W.B. 26.06.23, by Mr Corkill

Date: 22nd Jun 2023 @ 3:33pm

Welcome Back to Toucans’ Weekly Blog ?

Toucans had such a wonderful time during sports day on Wednesday afternoon and, despite the rain, all had an amazing time. Thank you if you were able to come along and support your child and our class.

Praise: Riley

Top Table: Savannah and Mason J

Next Week (W.B. 26.06.23)

Reminders:

• St. Nicholas Catholic High School have a transition day on Monday 26th June. Pupils are expected to make their own way there for the day and full details have been provided in a letter from their school.
• We have the new class morning on Tuesday (27th June), so Y6 will spend time with me either enjoying some extra PE or a fun indoor activity.
• KS2 choir will be visiting our local care homes next Friday afternoon to show off their incredible singing skills!
• 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 and should only be worn on PE days.

Curriculum:

In English, the children will finish writing some of their favourite memories from throughout their primary school journey and we will begin to write the leavers’ service together as a class.

In maths, we will continue with working on problem solving involving percentages, ratio & proportion, and time. We will also continue with our 4-a-day arithmetic questions each morning to further practice our four operations.

In science, we shall review our experiments and draw a conclusion about what micrograms need in order to grow and survive. We shall also review our learning on living organisms ready for a short science assessment next week.

In history and georgraphy, we shall continue to explore our topic of The Maya. Our focus this week will be their writing system and comparing and contrasting it to our own alphabet. 

In computing, we will continue our unit on ‘growing up in a digital world’. 

In PE, the children will continue their lessons outdoors Mr Ault.

Homework:

There will be no homework set.

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

Mr Corkill ?

Starlings Class WB 26th June 2023, by Mrs Esling

Date: 21st Jun 2023 @ 5:09pm

Goldfinches WB 19th June 23, by Mrs Evans

Date: 15th Jun 2023 @ 7:37pm

Welcome to Goldfinches’ Weekly Blog

Marvellous Mathematicians!

Friday Superstar: Jacob C

Top Table: Ella and Amber

Please remember to apply suncream before school, bring extra if your child can re-apply themselves and bring a hat and water bottle every day.

Please remember necklaces, bracelets and nail varnish are not part of our school uniform. 

Refugee week: Next week we will have a visit from a head teacher from Chester and the refugee children who go to her school.

Non Uniform day Fri 16^th June in aid of the Share charity to support the homeless and refugees.

Cricket sessions for Goldfinches: It is Goldfinches’ turn to have cricket lessons starting on Tuesday 6^th June. Please send your child in their PE kit on Tuesdays. This is in addition to their usual Monday and Friday PE slot.

This week we have:

…worked so hard and done so well in our times tables. Mrs Evans is so proud of all the hard work we have put in both at school and home.

Next week we will:

Writing: Learn how to write an explanation text based on Blue John.

Spellings: words with double consonants ending in ed or ing:

Words to learn for Friday 23rdth June: stammered, stammering, slipped, slipping, skidded, skidding, muttered, muttering, missed, missing

Reading: we will complete our reading assessment papers based on 3 different texts using all our reading and comprehension skills.

Reading homework: Keep reading daily- reading for just 10-15 minutes a day can have several benefits, such as improving concentration and memory, improving mental stimulation, expanding your vocabulary, improving your sleep quality, and reducing stress. Goldfinches are doing so well with this so please keep it up!

Maths: We will combine our knowledge of lots of areas of maths in our maths assessments.

The National Multiplication Check is now complete however, we will be continuing to work on our times tables every day by using games, online games, worksheets and tests in class. Look out for paper copies of activities and games I’m sending home to support with recall and fluency.

Maths homework: Continuing to play a game on the Maths Frame Multiplication Check will continue to help build their fluency and to end year 4 and begin year 5 with as much confidence as possible.

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-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

PE: Monday, Tuesday and Friday.

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.

Robins Week Beg. 19th June, by Mrs Whittingham

Date: 15th Jun 2023 @ 5:53pm

Remember Sports Day is on Wednesday 21st June at 1pm. Children to wear PE uniform to school on the day. Please have sun cream applied, sunhat and water bottle as usual. Parents are very welcome to come along and please bring your camping chairs/picnic mats!

The children are looking forward to our trip to the World Museum in Liverpool on Thursday 22nd June. Our focus will be Ancient Civilisations but we will also enjoy a tour of the aquarium which ties in nicely with our English topics. 

Please remember to read with your child for 10 - 15 mins daily and record in diary if possible. Also take a look at their reading target which is on a sticker in their diary, some children may have the same target for a few weeks to work on. This term we will be mainly focusing on vocabulary development. 

Spellings for next week will continue to include words from the Statutory Year 3/4 word list. These spellings are hard and often don't link to any of the patterns that we have already covered this year. Therefore we have been looking at different strategies to help us to learn them e.g. looking for smaller words within the word to remember, looking for double letters, drawing around the word, drawing images to help us remember how to spell tricky parts of the word etc.   

earth, eight, eighth, exercise, famous, favourite, fruit, group 

Spelling quiz next week will be on Friday 23rd June

In Maths we have started our unit on Money so it would be useful to play these games at home and to discuss money problems with your child. Make sure they know the value of each coin and note, can they use different coins to make 50p, 57p etc. Can they add costs of items and give change?

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?q=money

Remember to encourage your child to have a go at the spelling and multiplication games suggested below. 

https://ictgames.com/littleBirdSpelling/

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button 

https://www.multiplication.com/games/all-games

Use this website below to revise x2, x5, x10, x3, x4 and to focus on learning x8. The children have a x8 times tables sheet for homework this week to recall division facts.

https://www.timestables.co.uk/

PE days for this half term will be Monday and Friday. 

RE - we will be finding out about Hinduism 

Music - we will be listening and appraising different types of music, playing percussion instruments and learning to sing a variety of new songs. 

Computing - we will be finding out about how computers work and using IPads and Laptops to record our findings. 

DT - we will be exploring structures and making our own

Art - We will also be learning about some famous artists - William Kentridge, Georges Seurat and Pable Picasso and creating our own pieces of work based on the individual style of these artists.

Our new History and Geography Topic will focus on Ancient Civilisations.

Please feel free to get in touch if there is anything we can help you with,

Mrs Whittingham, Miss Wilkinson (Friday) & Mrs Taylor

Toucans W.B. 19.6.23, by Mr Corkill

Date: 15th Jun 2023 @ 2:41pm

Welcome Back to Toucans’ Weekly Blog ?

Toucans had an amazing time on their residential trip this week and learned lots of valuable life lessons and skills.

Praise: Toby

Top Table: Edward and Ellie

Next Week (W.B. 19.06.23)

Reminders:

• Tomorrow (Friday 16th June) is a non-uniform day for our ‘Refugee Day of Welcome’. Donations will be given to the Chester based charity ‘Share’.
• Sports Day will take place on Wednesday 21st June and begins at 1pm. Parents are invited along to attend.
• 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 and should only be worn on PE days.

Curriculum:

In English, the children will finish writing me an informal email to discuss their residential trip and will begin to write some of their favourite memories from throughout their primary school journey.

In maths, we will continue with working on problem solving involving fractions, decimals, percentages and ratio & proportion. We will also continue with our 4-a-day arithmetic questions each morning to further practice our four operations.

In science, we will begin learning about different types of microorganisms and whether they are helpful or harmful to us. We shall also set up an experiment to investigate what conditions are needed for mould to grow.

In computing, we will continue our unit on ‘growing up in a digital world’ where the children will be creating a new webpage on online bullying.

In PE, the children will continue their lessons with Mr Ault with a focus on rounders.

Homework:

There will be no homework set.

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

Mr Corkill ?

Starlings WB 19th June 2023, by Mrs Esling

Date: 14th Jun 2023 @ 9:55pm

Welcome to this week's Starlings class Blog. What aa hot week we have had.  

Friday Superstar: Teddy H

Top Table: Teddy G and Charlotte

Diary Dates:

Friday 16th June            Non-Uniform day in return for a donation to SHARE (please see newsletter)

Tuesday 20th June        Trip to Belwilderwood

Tuesday 21st June         Sports Day

Wednesday 28th June    Reserve Sports Day

Wednesday 5th July       New Class Day

Monday 10th July         Swimming Lessons

Tuesday 11th July         Swimming Lessons

RWI

Starlings' class have been phenomenal this week.  They have lived and breathed phonics and I could not be prouder of them all.  Thank you for all your support.

Below I have put links to some fun games that the children have enjoyed playing in class these past couple of weeks.

Odd and Bob

Phonics Frogs

word pairs

Our RWI lessons start promptly at 9 am.  If you can drop your child off as near to 8.45 as possible it would be very beneficial as we have activities before the class registration.

The children will continue to bring home a Read Write Inc book, a book bag book and a bedtime story each week. This provides them with a variety of familiar, new and challenging texts to read. Bedtime storybooks are to be enjoyed with an adult. Reading TO the children ensures that they experience the magic of a story coming to life and have a purpose and love of reading.

 Please check your child’s diary to find out which group they are in, which sounds they have learnt that week and which books they have in their book bag.  Each time they move to a new group they will receive a RWI bookmark.  On this bookmark are the ‘red’ words practised in that group.  These words inform our spelling quizzes and regular practice supports fluency and confidence in writing. 

On the class page, I have uploaded three new files named Set 1, Set 2 and Set 3.  These contain the QR codes for all the sounds.  Each video is about ten minutes long and can be viewed by your child independently.  Please check your child's bookbag on a Friday to see which new sounds they learned that week and use the videos to support their learning.

No spellings will be sent out this half term.  Instead, your child has real and alien words to practice at home.  This ensures the children have lots of exposure in preparation for the Phonics Screening Check.  More will be added to your child's folder but please don't feel you have to review every word each night as it will be too much for them.  I would recommend no more than eight at a time and mix them up daily.

Writing

 Our new class text is 'Toys in Space' By Mini Grey.

This wonderful story starts with a summer night when the toys were left outside. . . . For the very first time, the Wonderdoll, the helpful wind-up robot, the thoughtful green dinosaur, and the rest of their plucky gang lie in the grass, gazing up at the stars. But one star seems brighter than the rest. As it grows bigger and bigger, the toys realize it may not be a star at all! Soon they're venturing into the unknown, travelling by spaceship, where they meet a lonely alien in need of help and some friends.  This wonderful story will inspire us to write our own version of the story

In maths, we will be looking at division,fractions and shape.

RELIGION

In religion, we will be learning about how Muslims express new beginnings.

PE

Our PE days have reverted to  Wednesdays and Fridays. Please come to school wearing the appropriate PE kit- White t-shirt, black/blue plain hoodie and tracksuit bottoms or shorts, hair tied back and earrings removed or covered with own plasters.

Snack

Children in KS1 receive free fruit.  Children do not have to bring a snack from home but if you wish, we ask that it be a healthy option and just one item, please. Please also remember we are a NUT-FREE SCHOOL. Please can you also make sure that your child only has water in their water bottle; juice, however, is fine at lunchtime if your child brings a packed lunch.

Birthdays

We love celebrating the children's birthdays and hearing about all the exciting things they are doing. We appreciate that it is not always possible to invite the whole class and we would ask therefore that in these instances invites are given out before or after school.  Thank you.

Please don’t hesitate to contact us via a note in your child’s diary or through the office if you would like to discuss anything about your child.  admin@lostockgralam.cheshire.sch.uk     01606 668270 

Many thanks, Mrs Esling and Mrs Westland

Goldfinches WB 12.6.23, by Mrs Evans

Date: 9th Jun 2023 @ 8:00am

Welcome to Goldfinches’ Weekly Blog

Perfect Performers this week.

Friday Superstar: Christopher

Top Table: Lydia and Chloe

Cricket sessions for Goldfinches: It is Goldfinches’ turn to have cricket lessons starting on Tuesday 6^th June. Please send your child in their PE kit on Tuesdays. This is in addition to their usual Monday and Friday PE slot.

Times table check- will be carried out over the week.

Non uniform day- Friday 16^th in aid of the Share charity. All donations of small change welcome.

This week we have:

…Settled back into school for our final half term of Year 4! Performed brilliantly in our last Ukulele lesson.

Next week we will:

Writing: continue to read our new book Blue John by Belie Doherty which is all about the Blue John mines. We are exploring a rich vocabulary and varying sentence structures.

Spellings: words ending in gue pronounced g:

Words to learn for Friday 16th June: fatigue, colleague, catalogue, dialogue, league, tongue, vague, rogue, analogue, Prague

Reading: we will continue to explore questions from the book ‘Fantastically Great Women Who Saved Our Planet’ and learn about the Shark Lady!

Reading homework: Keep reading daily- reading for just 10-15 minutes a day can have several benefits, such as improving concentration and memory, improving mental stimulation, expanding your vocabulary, improving your sleep quality, and reducing stress. Goldfinches are doing so well with this so please keep it up!

Maths: We are moving on well through fractions and decimals and are now applying our understanding of multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100 to include decimal numbers.

Times tables: The National Times Table test will be carried out over the week with small groups of children at a time. We have done lots of practice so this will be a very familiar routine.

Keep going with the Maths Frame Multiplication Check to help build their confidence and fluency. 25 questions with a 6 second gap between each one can be tricky and the more they practise, the more confident they will be.

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-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

PE: Monday, Tuesday and Friday.

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.

Toucans W.B. 12.06.23, by Mr Corkill

Date: 8th Jun 2023 @ 6:22pm

Welcome Back to Toucans’ Weekly Blog ?

Toucans have had a good first week back at Lostock in their final half term of primary school. We have been busy problem solving in maths and utilising our oracy skills in English as we discussed the text and real life story of ‘Jemmy Button’.

Praise: Zach

Top Table: Jake and Ellie

Next Week (W.B. 12.06.23)

Reminders:

1. Y6 Residential to Barnstondale Centre (Monday 12th June - Wednesday 14th June).

• As the coach will be departing school at 9am, please ensure your child promptly arrives to school at 08:45. 
• I have emailed home a kit list so that you can review it to help with packing. 
• Children need a packed lunch and drink for the first day in a labelled, disposable plastic bag. Please email the school office should you require to order a 'cat bag' from the school kitchen. 
• The children also need to bring a water bottle to use throughout the trip.
• Please ensure all snacks for the trip are bagged and labelled with your child's name as these will be handed to adults to supervise throughout the residential.
• Any medications your child needs to take whilst away need to be brought in on the day of departure, labelled with your child's name and with clear dosage instructions provided. 
• No electronics (e.g. mobile phones) are permitted to be brought along - thank you for your cooperation with this request. 

2. 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 and should only be worn on PE days.

Curriculum:

In English, the children will be writing me an informal email to discuss their residential trip, what they enjoyed the most and learned during the trip.

In maths, we will continue with working on problem solving involving the four operations. We will also continue with our 4-a-day arithmetic questions each morning to further practice our four operations.

In computing, we will continue our unit on ‘growing up in a digital world’ where the children will be creating a new webpage on online bullying.

In art, the children will create a painting of a toucan in celebration of their final year of primary school.

In PE, the children will continue their lessons with Mr Ault looking at all things athletics this half term.

Homework:

There will be no homework set.

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

Mr Corkill ?

Robins week beg. 12th June, by Mrs Whittingham

Date: 8th Jun 2023 @ 5:57pm

Robins have settled straight back in after the half term. We have started our new writing unit based on the book Big Blue Whale by Nicola Davies. Our writing this half term will focus on gathering facts about whales, and writing persuasive reports about them. We have also begun our new reading unit based on the book When I met a whale by Michael Morphurgo.

The children are looking forward to our trip to the World Museum in Liverpool on Thursday 22nd June. Our focus will be Ancient Civilisations but we will also enjoy a tour of the aquarium which ties in nicely with our English topics. 

Please remember to read with your child for 10 - 15 mins daily and record in diary if possible. Also take a look at their reading target which is on a sticker in their diary, some children may have the same target for a few weeks to work on. This term we will be mainly focusing on vocabulary development. 

Spellings for next week will continue to include words from the Statutory Year 3/4 word list. These spellings are hard and often don't link to any of the patterns that we have already covered this year. Therefore we have been looking at different strategies to help us to learn them e.g. looking for smaller words within the word to remember, looking for double letters, drawing around the word, drawing images to help us remember how to spell tricky parts of the word etc.   

build, calendar. circle, describe, different, difficult, disappear, early

Spelling quiz next week will be on Friday 16th June

Remember to encourage your child to have a go at the spelling and multiplication games suggested below. 

https://ictgames.com/littleBirdSpelling/

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button 

https://www.multiplication.com/games/all-games

Use this website below to revise x2, x5, x10, x3, x4 and to focus on learning x8. The children have a x8 times tables sheet for homewowrk this week. 

https://www.timestables.co.uk/

PE days for this half term will be Monday and Friday. 

RE - we will be finding out about Hinduism 

Music - we will be listening and appraising different types of music, playing percussion instruments and learning to sing a variety of new songs. 

Computing - we will be finding out about how computers work and using IPads and Laptops to record our findings. 

DT - we will be exploring structures and making our own

Art - We will also be learning about some famous artists - William Kentridge, Georges Seurat and Pable Picasso and creating our own pieces of work based on the individual style of these artists.

Our new History and Geography Topic will focus on Ancient Civilisations.

Just a reminder about Sports Day on Wednesday 21st June and our class trip to the World Museum in Liverpool on Thursday 22nd June 

Please feel free to get in touch if there is anything we can help you with,

Mrs Whittingham, Miss Wilkinson (Friday) & Mrs Taylor

Starlings WB 5th June 2023, by Mrs Esling

Date: 31st May 2023 @ 5:06pm

Welcome to this week's Starlings class Blog. What another fantastic week we have enjoyed

Friday Superstar: Martha

Top Table: Nathan and Alba

Diary Dates:

Monday 5th June           INSET DAY

Friday 16th June            Non-Uniform day in return for a donation to SHARE (please see newsletter)

Tuesday 20th June        Trip to Belwilderwood

Tuesday 21st June         Sports Day

Wednesday 28th June    Reserve Sports Day

Wednesday 5th July       New Class Day

RWI

Read Write Inc 

In preparation for the Phonics Screening Check (PSC), your child has a copy of real and alien words in their envelopes containing the sounds they will be assessed on.  Please encourage your child to practise these sounds.  In addition, there is a copy of all the QR sounds in their folder which will support their revision too.

Below I have put links to some fun games that the children have enjoyed playing in class.

Odd and Bob

Phonics Frogs

word pairs

Our RWI lessons start promptly at 9 am.  If you can drop your child off as near to 8.45 as possible it would be very beneficial as we have activities before the class registration.

The children will continue to bring home a Read Write Inc book, a book bag book and a bedtime story each week. This provides them with a variety of familiar, new and challenging texts to read. Bedtime storybooks are to be enjoyed with an adult. Reading TO the children ensures that they experience the magic of a story coming to life and have a purpose and love of reading.

 Please check your child’s diary to find out which group they are in, which sounds they have learnt that week and which books they have in their book bag.  Each time they move to a new group they will receive a RWI bookmark.  On this bookmark are the ‘red’ words practised in that group.  These words inform our spelling quizzes and regular practice supports fluency and confidence in writing. 

On the class page, I have uploaded three new files named Set 1, Set 2 and Set 3.  These contain the QR codes for all the sounds.  Each video is about ten minutes long and can be viewed by your child independently.  Please check your child's bookbag on a Friday to see which new sounds they learned that week and use the videos to support their learning.

No spellings will be sent out this half term.  Instead, your child has real and alien words to practice at home.  This ensures the children have lots of exposure in preparation for the Phonics Screening Check.  More will be added to your child's folder but please don't feel you have to review every word each night as it will be too much for them.  I would recommend no more than eight at a time and mix them up daily.

Writing

 Our new class text is 'Goldilocks and Just the One Bear'  In this story Little Bear is all grown up and Goldilocks is a distant memory. One day, Little Bear wanders out of the woods and finds himself lost in the Big City. Will he find the city too noisy? Too quiet? Or just right?

MATHS

In maths, we will be exploring time before moving on to numbers up to 100.

SCIENCE and DT

We had great fun building a shelter for Paddington and then testing it for its effectiveness of being both sturdy and waterproof.  This half term we will enjoy looking for signs of Summer as well as continuing to look at materials.

RELIGION

In religion, we will be learning about how Muslims express new beginnings.

PE

Our PE days have reverted back to  Wednesdays and Fridays. Please come to school wearing the appropriate PE kit- White t-shirt, black/blue plain hoodie and tracksuit bottoms or shorts, hair tied back and earrings removed or covered with own plasters.

Snack

Children in KS1 receive free fruit.  Children do not have to bring a snack from home but if you wish, we ask that it be a healthy option and just one item, please. Please also remember we are a NUT-FREE SCHOOL. Please can you also make sure that your child only has water in their water bottle; juice, however, is fine at lunchtime if your child brings a packed lunch.

Birthdays

We love celebrating the children's birthdays and hearing about all the exciting things they are doing. We appreciate that it is not always possible to invite the whole class and we would ask therefore that in these instances invites are given out before or after school.  Thank you.

Please don’t hesitate to contact us via a note in your child’s diary or through the office if you would like to discuss anything about your child.  admin@lostockgralam.cheshire.sch.uk     01606 668270 

Many thanks, Mrs Esling and Mrs Westland

Goldfinches WB 5.6.23, by Mrs Evans

Date: 25th May 2023 @ 9:20pm

Welcome to Goldfinches’ Weekly Blog

Super story writers this week.

Friday Superstar: Naomi

Top Table: Logan and Alex

Monday 5^th: INSET day. School closed.

Cricket sessions for Goldfinches: It is Goldfinches’ turn to have cricket lessons starting on Tuesday 6^th June. Please send your child in their PE kit on Tuesdays. This is in addition to their usual Monday and Friday PE slot.

This week we have:

…worked so hard on our final piece of writing inspired by our refugee book ‘Wisp’

After half term we will:

Writing: Begin to explore our new Pathways to writing book… watch this space.

Spellings: words ending in que pronounced k:

Words to learn for Friday 9th June: unique, cheque, antique, grotesque, boutique, picturesque, plaque, arabesque, mosque, opaque

Reading: we will continue to explore questions from the book ‘Fantastically Great Women Who Saved Our Planet’.

Reading homework: Keep reading daily- reading for just 10-15 minutes a day can have several benefits, such as improving concentration and memory, improving mental stimulation, expanding your vocabulary, improving your sleep quality, and reducing stress. Goldfinches are doing so well with this so please keep it up!

Maths: We will continue our focus on solving fractions problems by using our increasing knowledge of times tables to help us and develop an understanding of the link between fractions and decimal numbers.

Times tables: The National Times Table test is getting closer now so please continue to support your child to practice their fluency and speed in the different times tables.

We are continuing to work on our times tables every day by using games, online games, worksheets and tests in class. Look out for paper copies of activities and games I’m sending home to support with recall and fluency.

I would highly recommend supporting your child to play a game on the Maths Frame Multiplication Check at least once a day to help build their confidence and fluency. 25 questions with a 6 second gap between each one can be tricky and the more they practise, the more confident they will be.

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-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

PE: Monday, Tuesday and Friday.

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.

Toucans W.B. 29.05.23, by Mr Corkill

Date: 25th May 2023 @ 8:52pm

Welcome Back to Toucans’ Weekly Blog ?

Toucans have had a good final week of this half term with a focus on statistics in maths, writing a story opening based upon The Explorer in English, and creating a PowerPoint presentation on the rainforest.

Praise: Lola

Top Table: Amelia and Sophie

Next Week (W.B. 29.05.23)

Reminders:

• Next week is our summer half term holiday. There is a school INSET day on Monday 5th June with school reopening to pupils on Tuesday 6th June.
• Please ensure that you have returned the necessary forms to the school office for the upcoming Y6 residential (12/06/23 - 14/06/23). Remember children will need a packed lunch and drink on the day of departure. If you need to order a ‘cat bag’ from the school kitchen, please contact the school office.

Homework:

There will be no homework set over the half term holiday. Enjoy a well deserved rest after a busy half term that has included many assessments and see you all for your final half term of primary school!

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

Mr Corkill ?

Goldfinches WB 22.5.23, by Mrs Evans

Date: 18th May 2023 @ 7:41pm

Welcome to Goldfinches’ Weekly Blog

Amazing artists this week.

Friday Superstar: Lydia

Top Table: Elliot and George

This week we have:

…created a wonderful masterpiece of art together on the theme of ‘Environment’ which will be on display in Barons Quay. Origami flowers, mini beast rock paintings, oil pastel flower designs, mini pipe cleaner butterflies and leaf printing!

Next week we will:

Writing: Use our book Wisp to inspire our own pieces of writing.

Spellings: words with prefixes:

Words to learn for Friday 26^th May: illegal, illogical, illiterate, unkind, unclear, incomplete, incorrect, impolite, disagree, dislike

Reading: we will practice answering inference questions about our new text.

Reading homework: We are enjoying choosing from a wide range of books within the classroom – both fiction and non-fiction. Please support your child to continue to read at home for 10-15 minutes daily.

Maths: We will continue our focus on solving fractions problems by using our increasing knowledge of times tables to help us and develop an understanding of the link between fractions and decimal numbers.

Times tables: The National Times Table test is getting closer now so please continue to support your child to practice their fluency and speed in the different times tables.

We are continuing to work on our times tables every day by using games, online games, worksheets and tests in class. Look out for paper copies of activities and games I’m sending home to support with recall and fluency.

I would highly recommend supporting your child to play a game on the Maths Frame Multiplication Check at least once a day to help build their confidence and fluency. 25 questions with a 6 second gap between each one can be tricky and the more they practise, the more confident they will be.

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-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

PE: Mondays and Friday.

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.

Toucans 22.05.23, by Mr Corkill

Date: 18th May 2023 @ 5:29pm

Welcome Back to Toucans’ Weekly Blog ?

Toucans have now thankfully completed their SATs which means no more revision or booster afternoons. We have been looking at lots of statistical work in maths and the rainforest this week in both English and Geography.

Praise: Mack

Top Table: Toby and Ed

Next Week (W.B. 22.05.23)

Reminders:

• 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 and should only be worn on PE days.
• Y6 class photo on Friday 26th May.

Curriculum:

In English, we will be writing our final piece for this unit of work on The Explorer by Katherine Rundell. In shared reading, we will continue to practise our comprehension skills by reading another section of ‘Great Adventures' by Alastair Humphreys.

In maths, we will continue with our unit on statistics by looking at more complex pie charts and problem solving involving the mean. We will continue with our 4-a-day arithmetic questions each morning to further practice our four operations.

In science, we will continue with our unit on living things and their habitats. We shall look at creating a classification key.

In our geography lesson, we will be researching and reporting on what the rainforest provides to our homes and the impact of our actions of this environment.

In computing, we will continue our unit on ‘growing up in a digital world’.

In PSHE, the children will begin to discuss their thoughts and feelings towards the transition to high school and we will create a class poem on the topic.

In PE, the children will continue their lessons with Mr Ault looking at all things athletics this half term.

Homework:

There will be no homework set this week!

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

Mr Corkill ?

Robins week beg. 22nd May, by Mrs Whittingham

Date: 18th May 2023 @ 3:50pm

Robins have now finished drafting their final piece of writing based on the book The Silence Seeker as part of our whole school topic Home. Next week we will edit the pieces and then we will share our final pieces with you. 

Please remember to read with your child for 10 - 15 mins daily and record in diary if possible. Also take a look at their reading target which is on a sticker in their diary, some children may have the same target for a few weeks to work on. 

Spellings for next week will revise the suffix 'ion' . Then after half term we will focus on the words from the year 3/4 statutory list which are displayed on our Robins Class page. I will choose 8 to learn each week.  

action, subtraction, injection, collection, attraction, correction, education, operation

Spelling quiz next week will be on Friday 26th May

Remember to encourage your child to have a go at the spelling and multiplication games suggested below. 

https://ictgames.com/littleBirdSpelling/

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button 

https://www.multiplication.com/games/all-games

Use this website below to revise x2, x5, x10, x3, x4 and to focus on learning x8. The children have a x8 times tables sheet for homewowrk this week. 

https://www.timestables.co.uk/

PE days for this half term will be Monday, Tuesday and Friday. 

RE - we will be looking at Discipleship and exploring differnt Bible quotes and stories based on this concept. 

MONDAY 22nd May - whole school worship - Pentecost - in church

Music - we will be having Ukulele lessons until the May half term on Thursdays

Computing - we will be using the app Book Creator to create our information books on Superheroes. We will be adding sound buttons and speech bubbles.

DT - we will be exploring structures and making our own

Art - we will be working in pairs to create a painting of the Iron Man using a variety of media. We will also be learning about some famous artists - William Kentridge, Georges Seurat and Pable Picasso and creating our own pieces of work based on the individual style of these artists.

HOME- Our new whole school topic - we will be investigating the difference between refugees and migrants

Just a reminder about our class trip to the World Museum in Liverpool on Thursday 22nd June 

Please feel free to get in touch if there is anything we can help you with,

Mrs Whittingham, Miss Wilkinson (Friday) & Mrs Taylor