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Goldfinches WB 14th June, by Mrs Evans
Date: 10th Jun 2021 @ 5:11pm
Welcome to Goldfinches’ Weekly Blog
What another hardworking week we have had whilst enjoying the fact that summer really is here!
Star of the week goes to: Sophie
Top Table award goes to: Ryan
In worship this week we have been discussing the Christian Value of Courage. We listened to the story of Moses in the burning bush and the courage he showed. We have written a shared acrostic poem for courage and have considered an up and coming challenge which might require us to show courage.
On Friday we will hopefully have a zoom call with our lovely Miss Randles for her last day of work before starting her maternity leave. We send her and her new baby all our love and best wishes. I will be popping round to her in the next couple of weeks and would be happy to pass on any gifts you may have as I know some of you had asked about this. Thank you all again for sending in such gorgeous photos of your child for the card.
Next week we welcome Mrs Shimmin back for a couple of weeks to complete the final part of her teacher training.
Trip (in school) During this time of covid regulations, it has been so difficult to find a safe trip out of school which is relevant and meaningful to the work we are focusing on at the moment in class. This is why I decided to book The Makers of History company (which I have used numerous times in both this school and my last school) By not travelling out anywhere, will have the entire day from 9am-3pm and will have a truly fun and meaningful learning experience going back in time to the Roman Empire.
English- We have got very good at using the present perfect tense in our writing this week (have + past tense verb e.g. I have worked very hard this week) through writing a reflective memory of life after the eruption of Vesuvius. We have planned and begun to write our own historical story based on the events.
Spellings- we will be focusing on words with the prefixes il, im, un, in, im, dis which all have the meaning ‘not’
Our words this week are: illogical, illegal, illiterate, unkind, unclear, incomplete, incorrect, impolite, disagree, dislike
Please work with your child to ensure he or she understands the meanings of the words and can use them in a sentence as well as being able to spell them. There are different suggestions of activities to do each week to support practising the spellings.
Reading- We have continued with our ‘Volcanoes’ book and have enjoyed learning more technical language as well as understanding how the layout and features of non-fiction texts support our understanding. Ask your child about pumice, mud flows or pyroclastic currents!!
Maths- we have moved onto finding the area of shapes (using multiplication and division to support us) we will continue this into next week before beginning to look at decimal numbers.
We have had another practise with the Multiplication Tables Check App this week in preparation to have a go at the trial version by the 25th June.
The official Y4 multiplication check has been postponed until next year, however, as a school we have made the decision to trial it for ourselves this year. The game below is almost the same as the format for the multiplication check we will do in June. Please support your child to practise using this at home regularly alongside TTRock Stars
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check
This week we will have a go at the official practise site to become familiar with how it works and what we have to do.
Science- we recorded the next results of our eggs in different drinks to find out the effects on our teeth. Coke, energy drinks and orange juice were the most damaging and water and milk were the best for keeping our teeth healthy.
We used classification keys to sort out sweets and then mini-beasts into different categories using questions.
RE- Our new RE topic is Judaism.
History and Geography- we worked very hard on Tuesday to inquire about the big question: What Legacy was left by the Ancient Greek civilisation? We thought about sub- questions to ask to support our research and used the I-Pads and library books to research Democracy, Olympic Games, Alphabet, Architecture and an area of our own choice. Did you know the Greeks invented the catapult and the vending machine?!
German- this week we will learn months of the year.
PE- this half term will focus on Athletics and Striking and Batting games (rounders and cricket). It will continue to be on Monday and Friday afternoons. Please ensure your child wears the Lostock Gralam PE uniform and has long hair tied back and earrings removed or covered please.
Our first Cricket club was very well attended. Please ensure that if your child is attending they wear their PE uniform, not their own clothes during the day and follow the same safety rules of bringing a hair band for long hair and taking earrings out/covering them with tape.
As always, please don’t hesitate to contact me via the school office if you want to discuss anything regarding your child.
Mrs Evans
Toucans Week beg. 14th June, by Mrs Whittingham
Date: 10th Jun 2021 @ 4:25pm
Week beg 14thJune 2021
Homework
Continue to just focus on Reading and Spellings alongside Times Tables Rockstars.
Spellings for next few week will focus on the Year 5/6 Statutory Words
Spellings will be tested on Friday 18th June – accommodate, amateur, available, category, competition, correspond, determined, environment, exaggerate, foreign
Curriculum
Maths –Algebra
We will finish this unit with some problems involving solving problems and then move onto Ratio and Proportion.
English – Island – A story of the Galapagos by Jason Chin
The focus will be on journalistic writing.
History
We will begin our study of the Ancient Mayan Civilisation
RE – Sikhism
We will explore objects and symbols that are important to Sikhs but also for us.
Science – Electricity
Will focus on the components of a circuit and drawing the relevant symbols.
ART/DT – Mayan Masks
PE day will be on Thursday (Cricket Coach) and on Friday (Mr Ault)
Toucans can also attend Mr Ault’s after school club on Fridays.
Kind regards,
Mrs Whittingham, Mrs Downing and Mr Beswick
Week beginning 7th June, by Mrs Evans
Date: 28th May 2021 @ 6:48am
Welcome to Goldfinches’ Weekly Blog
What another hardworking week we have had and I wish you all a happy, sunny half term holiday!
Star of the week goes to: Zach
Top Table award goes to: Mason J
In worship this week we have been learning about the Golden Rules mosaic which is displayed in the UN Headquarters and how it encourages everyone to live out their lives following the rules. ‘Do unto others as you would have then do unto you’.
We have also shared more of Mr Cliff’s answers to our ‘Big Questions’ we asked as part of our Ethos work before Easter.
This week we have discussed another P4C (Philosophy for children) sticker. Your child will wear a sticker home every now and again to prompt a family discussion!
We celebrated all getting on the Recognition Board for 'Getting straight on' with our work by going out and playing in the sunshine.
English- We have used the present perfect tense in our writing this week (have + past tense verb e.g. I have worked very hard this week). We have written letters imagining we were Tranio or Livia’s parents giving them advice about how to stay safe and we have continued to work on writing and punctuating direct speech. After the holiday we will complete our work on Escape from Pompeii with further historical writing.
Spellings- we will be focusing on words from the 4th column of the Y3/4 statutory word list
Words to learn this week: interest, island, knowledge, learn, length, library, material, medicine, mention.
Please work with your child to ensure he or she understands the meanings of the words and can use them in a sentence as well as being able to spell them. There are different suggestions of activities to do each week to support practising the spellings.
Reading- We loved starting our new ‘Volcanoes’ book and being immersed in some of the very technical vocabulary! We now know what a volcanologist! We have been learning more technical language as well as understanding how the layout and features of non-fiction texts support our understanding.
Maths- we have been solving division problems this week using the part whole method of partitioning to support us. After half term we will move onto finding the area of shapes (using multiplication and division to support us)
We have been enjoying practising with the Multiplication Tables Check App this week.
The official Y4 multiplication check has been postponed until next year, however, as a school we have made the decision to trial it for ourselves this year. The game below is almost the same as the format for the multiplication check we will do in June. Please support your child to practise using this at home regularly alongside TTRock Stars
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check
This week we will have a go at the official practise site to become familiar with how it works and what we have to do.
Science- we recorded the results so far of our eggs in different drinks to find out the effects on our teeth. We were surprised that some of the shells were starting to dissolve and some were changing colour! We began researching ideas for a presentation on keeping teeth healthy.
RE- Our new RE topic after half term is Judaism.
History and Geography- we have found out where Ancient Greece fits in on the timeline and in the world using timelines and maps. We worked beautifully together in groups to research the question ‘How great was Alexander the Great?’
Music- we did so well and enjoyed our final Ukulele lesson.
German- this week we will learn months of the year.
PE- this half term will focus on Athletics and Striking and Batting games (rounders and cricket). It will continue to be on Monday and Friday afternoons. Please ensure your child wears the Lostock Gralam PE uniform and has long hair tied back and earrings removed or covered please.
As always please e-mail or phone the office if you would like to speak to me about anything.
Mrs Evans
Starlings Class Blog 28th May, by Mrs O'Marah
Date: 27th May 2021 @ 8:55pm
Weekly Blog
28th May 2021
Hello Starlings and welcome back to our final weekly blog of this half term.
After another fantastic week in Starlings class, we wanted to share what we have learnt this week and what we are looking forward to next half term.
English
This week our writing was inspired by our Creepy Crawly Show! We wrote a recount of the day the creepy crawlies visited our class, and we wrote our own poems in the style of “We Can” by Michael Rosen.
After half term we will begin a new unit of work based on the book ‘Toys in Space’ by Mini Grey.
Maths
In Maths this week we have been working hard on our addition and subtraction facts within 20. We compared addition and subtraction facts using the symbols <, > and =.
After half term our maths work will focus on numbers to 50, then numbers to 100.
Creepy Crawly Show
Wow, what a fantastic experience this week when the Creepy Crawly show visited school. All of the children were incredibly brave and they showed our school rules of ready, respectful, safe beautifully.
We loved learning about, looking at and touching a tarantula, 2 species of snake, a cockroach, a gecko, and even a tenrec. That’s a relative of the humble hedgehog!
It was a truly amazing day.
Topic
Next half term, we will be learning about Neil Armstrong and the moon landing in History. In Geography we will learn all about the local area of Lostock, and in Science we will be learning about materials.
Phonics
This week our groups have been learning:
Red Group
Sounds focus: qu, x
Book: Pick it Up
Green Group
Sounds focus: ar, or, air
Book: Black Hat Bob
Pink Group
Sounds focus: aw, are
Book: Tab’s Kitten
Orange Group
Sounds focus: ire, ear, ure
Book: Come on Margo!
Yellow Group
Sounds focus: ire, ear
Book: Off Sick
Blue Group
Sounds focus: u_e, aw, are
Book: The Poor Goose
Grey Group
Sounds focus: u_e, aw, are
Book: I dare you
Wishing you all a lovely, safe and happy half term break. We will see you back in school on Monday 7th June. Mrs. O’Marah, Mrs. Judge, Mrs. Esling and Mrs. Southern.
Toucans week beg. 7th June, by Mrs Whittingham
Date: 27th May 2021 @ 4:02pm
Week beg 7thJune 2021
Homework
Continue to just focus on Reading and Spellings alongside Times Tables Rockstars.
Spellings for next week will focus on the sh sound spelt si or ssi
Spellings will be tested on Friday 11th June – expansion, comprehension, tension, permission, admission, profession, possession, revision, collision, decision
Curriculum
Maths –Algebra
Solving equations, missing box problems, writing formula
English – Island – A story of the Galapagos by Jason Chin
We will draft and edit a discussion text based on this book and Jemmy Button.
Geography
We will be learning about Time Zones and finding out about the countries that make up South America.
RE – Sikhism
We will continue our study of Sikhism and find out about the values that Sikhs hold and compare/contrast these to our own.
Science – Electricity
Will focus on the components of a circuit and drawing the relevant symbols.
PE day will be on Thursday (Cricket Coach) and on Friday (Mr Ault)
Toucans can also attend Mr Ault’s after school club on Fridays.
Kind regards,
Mrs Whittingham, Mrs Downing and Mr Beswick
Skylarks W.B. 7.6.21 (After Half Term), by Miss Beattie
Date: 26th May 2021 @ 9:19pm
Hello everyone
Welcome back to our weekly blog ? I can’t quite believe we are at the end of another half term in school and what a fantastic half term it has been!
Important Reminders:
This Friday 28th May, the photographer is in school. As this is our PE day, please send your child to school in full school uniform with trainers on their feet.
On Tuesday 8th June Skylarks are going on their trip to Tatton Old Hall to find out more about the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings. Please make sure your child is in school promptly on this day. They must wear full school uniform and bring a raincoat with them. They must also bring their lunch in a disposable bag as all rubbish will be thrown away after eating (the children will not be bringing a bag or lunch box with them on the trip).
Please call the school office before half term if you have any questions or queries regarding this trip.
Learning after half term:
When we return to school after half term, we will be looking at our new text ‘The Darkest Dark’ by Astronaut Chris Hadfield. We will begin by using clues to predict the text, before using pictures from the book as a stimulus for writing a setting description.
Our reading lessons will also focus on a new text ‘Exploring Space’. We will begin by reading about the International Space Station and thinking about how the text is organised and structured using different features (e.g. headings, subheadings, fact boxes, etc.)
Our space theme will continue in our science lessons where will be exploring our new topic ‘Earth and Space’ in more detail. We will use a model of our solar system to help us understand that it has 8 planets. We will also look at the position of the sun and Earth to help us explain the concept of day and night.
In maths we will continue to develop our understanding of fractions. We will look more in depth at the relationship between fractions and division, and will also order and compare fractions based on their size.
As part of our topic work we will be using our trip to Tatton Old Hall to expand our knowledge and understanding of the Anglo-Saxon and Viking periods. Our topic day when we are back in school will focus on Viking artwork which we will analyse to help us find out more about their identity. We will then use our sketching skills to replicate this style of art.
In RE, we will continue to explore our theme of ‘Forgiveness’. We will listen to The Parable of the Unmerciful Servant (Matthew 18:21-28), before looking at modern-day scenarios where would should show mercy to each other.
Our PE days for the last summer half term will be Thursday and Friday. Your child should come to school in their PE kit on these days. Please remember PE kits should either be school kits or plain black/blue.
Homework
The children should complete page 29 of their maths book to be returned by Friday 11th June. This homework is looking at ordering fractions and the children will need to use their knowledge of finding equivalents to help them.
Remember, if your child is unable to complete their homework at home, Mrs Hulse and I will ensure that supervision is provided on a Wednesday lunchtime so that they can complete it in school. During this lunchtime, any children who may be struggling on a particular question at home can also come to ask an adult for help.
Please encourage your child to read and practice their spellings/times tables in addition to their maths homework.
Our spellings for the quiz on Friday 11th June will look at the suffix -ent:
confident, absent, different, patient, magnificent, efficient, decent, intelligent
Have a fantastic half term everyone. Remember to show our Christian values in all that you do ?
Miss Beattie x
Skylarks W.B. 24.05.21, by Miss Beattie
Date: 24th May 2021 @ 2:31pm
Hello everyone
Welcome back to our weekly blog ?
This week in our Writing lessons, we will be using our carefully thought out plans to write our own narrative based on ‘The Hunter’. I am so excited to read the children’s stories and I know I am going to be super impressed with their use of engaging vocabulary, relative clauses and adverbs for possibility. Why not ask your child what each of these features are?
In maths, we will continue to look at fractions. This week, the children have shown a great understanding of equivalent fractions and converting between improper and mixed number fractions. We will consolidate our understanding of these concepts next week, and will also move on to look at number sequences and comparing/ordering fractions.
In science we will be looking at our new topic ‘Earth and Space’. We will begin by asking questions about the theme, before sharing any prior knowledge we may have.
Our music lesson this week will be very exciting as the children will be using their bows for the first time. The children have shown such a keen interest in our violin and cello lessons this half term and have made great progress so far.
Our PE day this half term is Friday. Your child should come to school in their PE kit on this da/y (Cricket will resume on a Thursday after May half term).
Homework
The children should complete page 28 this week, to be returned by Friday 28th May. This homework is looking at equivalent fractions which we have been learning about in school this week.
Remember, if your child is unable to complete their homework at home, Mrs Hulse and I will ensure that supervision is provided on a Wednesday lunchtime so that they can complete it in school. During this lunchtime, any children who may be struggling on a particular question at home can also come to ask an adult for help.
Please encourage your child to read and practice their spellings/times tables in addition to their new maths homework.
Our spellings for the quiz on Friday 28th May will be the next 10 words from the Year 5/6 statutory word list:
Existence, explanation, familiar, foreign, forty, frequency, government, guarantee, harass, hindrance, hinderance
If you have any questions or queries, please do not hesitate to get in contact ?
Miss Beattie x
Starlings Class Blog 21st May 2021, by Mrs O'Marah
Date: 20th May 2021 @ 8:56pm
Weekly Blog
21st May 2021
Hello Starlings and welcome back to our weekly class blog.
After another fantastic week in Starlings class, we wanted to share what we have learnt this week and what we are looking forward to next week.
English
In writing we have completed our writing unit inspired by our class text ‘The Curious Case of the Missing Mammoth’. We used the plans we wrote last week to write a story which uses the same structure as our class text, but included our own animals and setting in the story.
Next week we will learn all about poetry and we will be writing our own poems.
Maths
In Maths this week we have been working hard to subtract within 20. We have learned all about crossing tens when subtracting which was quite tricky but we tried hard and think we have cracked it!
Next week we will practise our addition and subtraction facts to 20 and solve some word and picture problems to test out learning!
History
In History this week we continued our learning on inventions and transport. We used ipads to help us to find out more with the use of a “padlet”, it was so much fun! We learned all about different inventions and then we found out about the inventor George Stephenson and made posters to celebrate our learning.
PSHE
In PSHE this week we began our P4C work and discussed some “big questions”. Did you manage to continue the discussion at home? We hope the lovely stickers helped you to do so!
Phonics
This week our groups have been learning:
Red Group
Sounds focus:z, ch
Book: Jam
Green Group
Sounds focus: ow, oo, oo
Book: The spell
Pink Group
Sounds focus: u_e, i_e, o_e
Book: The dressing up box
Orange Group
Sounds focus: ai, oa, ew
Book: A good cook?
Yellow Group
Sounds focus: ai, oa, ew
Book: Tom Thumb
Blue Group
Sounds focus: ie, i_e, o_e
Book: King of the Birds
Grey Group
Sounds focus: ie, i_e, o_e
Book: The Lion's Paw
Wishing you all a lovely, safe and happy weekend. Please remember that Monday is an INSET day so we will be back to school on Tuesday.
Mrs. O’Marah, Mrs. Judge, Mrs. Esling and Mrs. Southern.
Toucans week beg. 24th May, by Mrs Whittingham
Date: 20th May 2021 @ 3:42pm
Week beg 24th May 2021
Remember INSET on Monday 24th May
Homework
Continue to just focus on Reading and Spellings alongside Times Tables Rockstars.
Spellings for next week will focus on the sh sound spelt ti or ci
Spellings will be tested on Friday 28th May – direction, explanation, competition, especially, appreciate, ancient, cautious, delicious, motion, subtraction
Curriculum
Maths –Algebra
Solving equations, missing box problems
English – Island – A story of the Galapagos by Jason Chin
We will draft and edit a discussion text based on this book and Jemmy Button.
RE – Sikhism
We will continue our study of Sikhism and find out about the 5Ks
Science – Electricity
Will focus on the components of a circuit and drawing the relevant symbols.
PE day will be on Thursday (Mrs Whittingham) and on Friday (Mr Ault)
Toucans can also attend Mr Ault’s after school club on Fridays.
Kind regards,
Mrs Whittingham, Mrs Downing and Mr Beswick
Week beginning 24th May 2021, by Mrs Evans
Date: 19th May 2021 @ 10:09pm
Welcome to Goldfinches’ Weekly Blog
What another hardworking week we have had!
Star of the week goes to: Isabel C
Top Table award goes to: Riley
This week in worship:
We had a lovely class visit to Church and to meet Vicar Andrew.
We have played a board game to highlight the importance of water and to have an opportunity to enjoy playing with our friends. Our school councillors launched a competition to make a poster about saving water. These can be done at home and are due in on the first Tuesday back after half term.
We have shared some of Mr Cliff’s answers to our ‘Big Questions’ we asked as part of our Ethos work before Easter.
We enjoyed using our first P4C (Philosophy for children) stickers to prompt our discussions. Your child will wear a sticker home every now and again to prompt a family discussion!
Our No Outsiders focus was on including everybody and the special facemasks for people who are deaf.
English- We have looked at different tenses, completed a zone of relevance with key vocabulary from the book and recapped using speech punctuation.
Spellings- we will be focusing on words with the sion suffix
Words to learn this week: explosion, television, collision, division, invasion, decision, erosion, confusion, decision, revision.
Please work with your child to ensure he or she understands the meanings of the words and can use them in a sentence as well as being able to spell them. There are different suggestions of activities to do each week to support practising the spellings.
Reading- We have explored the layout and organisation of non-fiction books and how they can support our understanding of a topic and this has helped us expand our technical vocabulary. We will continue to use the book to investigate how a volcano is formed, erupts and becomes extinct.
Maths- we have been brilliant at use partitioning to support the division of 2-digits by 1-digit and moved on to 3-digit numbers, understanding how a remainder is created. Next week we will link our understanding of multiplication and division to finding the area.
The official Y4 multiplication check has been postponed until next year, however, as a school we have made the decision to trial it for ourselves this year. The game below is almost the same as the format for the multiplication check we will do in June. Please support your child to practise using this at home regularly alongside TTRock Stars
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check
This week we will have another go at the official practise site to become familiar with how it works and what we have to do.
Science: this week we have continued about the importance of making healthy snack and drink choices and about how to look for the sugar content on food labels as part of our Change 4 Life focus. We have set off another investigation into the effects of different drinks on eggshells (which are very similar to the enamel of our teeth) and made predictions as to what will happen to the eggs after a week. Next week we will find out what has happened, record our results and learn about tooth care.
RE- we have continued to explore the theme of Discipleship.
History and Geography- we have compared and contrasted the similarities and differences of the ancient civilisations to find out what made them some of the world’s greatest civilisations. This week we will begin to discover where Ancient Greece fits in on the timeline and in the world.
Art- We have all used the techniques of collage to make a unique sunflower petal to form part of a whole school display. We have also all contributed to a beautiful piece of shared art for the Northwich Arts festival on the theme of ‘Belonging’.
Music- we are really working hard in our final few Ukulele lessons.
German- this week we learn and practise colours names of the week.
PE- this half term will focus on Athletics and Striking and Batting games (rounders and cricket). It will continue to be on Monday and Friday afternoons. Please ensure your child wears the Lostock Gralam PE uniform and has long hair tied back and earrings removed or covered please.
As always, please don’t hesitate to contact me via the school admin email if you wish to discuss anything.
Mrs Evans
Y3 Wk Beg 26.04.21, by Mrs Rice
Date: 26th Apr 2021 @ 5:37pm
Hello everyone
Robins had a wonderful week last week with lots of outside learning. We even found footage of a sparrow nesting in our bird box that was captured on our new night life camera, it was magical! It was lovely to talk with you all on the phone, thank you for your time. This week, we continue our problem solving in multiplication and division focusing on the 3, 4 and 8 times tables. In Writing, we are loving our new wordless book
Toucans class blog week beg. 26th April, by Mrs Whittingham
Date: 23rd Apr 2021 @ 4:22pm
Week beg 26th April 2021
It has been a delight this week to have the opportunity to chat to parents about how their children are getting on in class. Welcoming Toucans back after the break this week has been lovely and we have had a busy week as usual! The children have been learning about a Leadership Award that they will be doing over this term that is run by the Archbishop of York Trust.
Homework
Continue to just focus on Reading and Spellings alongside Times Tables Rockstars.
Spellings for next week will focus on plurals.
Spellings will be tested on Friday 30th April
Swallows Weekly Blog - Friday 23rd April 2021, by Miss Gillam
Date: 23rd Apr 2021 @ 8:15am
Swallows Weekly Blog
Starlings Class Blog 22.4.21, by Mrs O'Marah
Date: 22nd Apr 2021 @ 9:43pm
Weekly Blog
23rd April 2021
Hello Starlings and welcome back to our weekly class blog.
After a restful Easter break in the sunshine, we have loved being back together in class this week and, as always, could not be prouder of our superstars.
English
In writing we started our unit of work on our new class text
Skylarks Blog - WB 26.04.21, by Miss Beattie
Date: 22nd Apr 2021 @ 2:10pm
Hello everyone and welcome back to Skylarks weekly blog ?
I hope you all had a wonderful half term. It was lovely to speak to so many of you today during our parents evening phone calls. If you have any further questions or concerns please do not hesitate to get in contact.
The children have had a super week back in school. I have particularly loved their enthusiasm for our new Writing topic based on the book
Y3 Wk Beg 29th March 2021, by Mrs Rice
Date: 26th Mar 2021 @ 2:15pm
Hi everyone
We have made it to the final week of the term with huge smiles as we are so happy to be back together. 
The children have been busy with assessments and have made me so proud with their attitude towards these.
We are continuing to enjoy The Sea Book by Charlotte Milner as a stimulus in our reading lessons. The children are using the contents and index pages to navigate the text, making predictions and summarising key points of paragraphs. This book is also helping us to take care of God's oceans and the creatures that live in them by considering how we can reduce the amout of plastic that sadly ends up there.
This week we will be wriitng a letter from one character to another in our Seal Surfer story. We will take on the roke of the boy in the story and write to Grandad, telling him of our adventures witht he seals in his absence.
Our spellings this week contain the letters 'ch' but make the 'c' sound
chaos, chorus, mechanic, character, anchor, echo, aching, chemist, schemed
In Maths we continue our work on multiplication and division exploring the patterns and connections of the 4 and 8 times tables.
We are thoroughly looking forward to visiting church on Wednesday to watch a pre recorded Easter worship by Mr Cliff.
Lostock are celebrating World Book Day on Thursday. The children can come to school wearing their pajamas ready for a wonderful day of story.
We are so proud of our class for the happiness and joy that they bring with them each day.
Have a great week. Please contact me if you have any questions or queries.
Many thanks
Mrs Rice and Mrs Brennan.
Week beginning 29th March 2021, by Mrs Evans
Date: 26th Mar 2021 @ 8:35am
Welcome to Goldfinches’ Weekly Blog
Goldfinches have continued to work hard this week and make us so proud.
Star of the week goes to: Abi
Top Table award goes to: Grace D
This week we have… and next week we will…
…continued to enjoy the opportunities to be back together again and working in teams in lots of different subjects.
English- We have really got into the story of Leon and The Place Between and have met more of the characters. We have recapped our use of subordinate clauses within some beautiful descriptive writing. Next week we will continue to explore more of the story and of course, we are looking forward to finishing the term in our pyjamas for our very own World Book Day on Thursday.
Spellings- continuing with words with the spelling pattern ‘ey’ ‘ei’ ‘eigh’
Maths- In maths we have enjoyed exploring how to record multiplication methods in different ways in order to solve multiplication problems. We have started our times tables challenges again.
History- we investigated a range of pictures and artefacts to help investigate more about what life was like in Ancient Greece.
Music- Ukulele is going well and we are learning to play in time together which is a really tricky skill but lots of fun!
German- We enjoyed learning to greet each other and recapped asking each other’s names.
PE- We have enjoyed playing team games and solving problems together outside.
Art- We have found out about the artist Lynne Pugh who shares her Christian faith through art. Her painting has inspired us to create our own mixed media collage and we have begun by recapping tint in colour by adding white.
No Outsiders- Our story this week was ‘Crayon’ and through it we enjoyed giving advice about being the best people we can be and being proud to be ourselves.
As always, if you want to speak to me, please don't hesitate to contact the school office by phone or e-mail.
Mrs Evans
Starlings Blog 26/3/2021, by Mrs O'Marah
Date: 25th Mar 2021 @ 8:36pm
Weekly Blog
26th March 2021
Hello Starlings and welcome back to our weekly class blog.
What another excellent week we have had in school, we hope you have enjoyed it as much as we have!
English
In writing we have continued with our class text ‘The Lion Inside’. We have enjoyed orally retelling the story with our friends. We have also been exploring how the animals were feeling at different points of the story.
Next week we will be writing our own stories inspired by the text.
Phonics
This week our groups have been learning:
Gold Group
Ditty sheets
Green Group
Sounds focus: air, or, ir
Book: Black Hat Bob
Pink Group
Sounds focus: or, air, ir
Book: Tab the Cat
Orange Group
Sounds focus: aw, are, ur
Book: Look-Out
Blue Group
Sounds focus: ew, ire, ear
Book: The Poor Goose
Maths
In Maths this week we have been looking at ‘how many are left?’ We have looked at the number as a whole and subtracted a part to find what was left.
Next week we are continuing with subtraction and will be exploring counting back.
We have been so excited to see the frog spawn in our class tank hatch into tadpoles! We cannot wait to see them develop more and turn into frogs.
We also enjoyed planting trees in our school environment.
R.E.
In RE this week we learned all about ‘The Last Supper’.
Spellings
As next week is our last week and it’s a short week, we won’t be having a spelling quiz.
Wishing you all a lovely, safe and happy weekend.
Mrs. O’Marah, Mrs. Judge, Mrs. Esling and Mrs. Southern.
Toucans week beg. 29.03.21, by Mrs Whittingham
Date: 25th Mar 2021 @ 4:26pm
Week ending the 26th March 2021
Toucans have enjoyed working in groups on our History Enquiry Project this week. They have chosen a concept/aspect of World War 2 to research and present to their classmates in poster form. We are nearly finished them so will hopefully be able to tweet some soon.
We have also been looking at our ART objectives and have been developing our drawing and painting skills using a variety of media and textures. We have been looking at the artwork of a Christian artist, Cindy Norris, to create our own paintings.
Homework
The only homework we want our children to be doing at the moment is reading and spellings.
Spellings for next week will focus on ei and ie
Spellings will be tested on Thursday 1st April – piece, perceive, relief, deceive, achieve, ceiling, believe, receive, niece, shriek
Curriculum – highlights for next week
Monday 29th March – focus will be on Science
Tuesday 30th March – focus will be on ICT using IPads
Wednesday 31st March – Class Worship in church to mark Easter, make Easter Cards
Thursday 1st April – Lostock Book Day – please wear pjs, focus on Reading
PE day will be on Thursday (cricket)
Kind regards,
Mrs Whittingham, Mrs Downing and Mr Beswick
Skylarks W.B. 29.03.21, by Miss Beattie
Date: 25th Mar 2021 @ 10:14am
Hello everyone and welcome back to Skylarks weekly blog 😊
We have had another fantastic week in Skylarks class. I am so proud of how hard the children are working!
Next week in English, we will be using our plans from this week to write our own story beginning and build up. We will be focusing on building tension and developing characterisation through our vocabulary choice.
In maths, we will continue to focus on multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000, as well as continuing to practice long multiplication.
In RE, we will start our new topic about ‘Humanism’. We will begin by asking our own questions about Humanism, before finding out about the 5 main themes by listening to the story ‘Here we are’ by Oliver Jeffers.
In Science, we will be recording our results from last week’s investigation where we tested the solubility of different materials. We will present our results using a bar chart and develop our conclusion writing skills.
On Thursday, we will celebrate World Book Day with a variety of fun reading tasks. Children are invited to come to school in their pyjamas on this day 😊
Our PE days this half term are Thursday and Friday. Your child should come to school in their PE kit on these days.
Homework
Maths homework will resume after the Easter holidays.
Please encourage your child to read and practice their spellings/times tables for 5-10 minutes every day.
Our spellings for the quiz on Thursday 1st April will be the next 10 words from the Year 5/6 statutory word list:
competition, conscience, conscious, controversy, convenience, correspond, criticise, curiosity, definite, desperate
Have a lovely weekend everyone!
If you have any questions of queries please do not hesitate to contact me via the school admin email address or telephone 😊
Miss Beattie x
Week beginning 22nd March 2021, by Mrs Evans
Date: 19th Mar 2021 @ 7:58am
Welcome to Goldfinches’ Weekly Blog
It has been absolutely fantastic to welcome each and every one of our wonderful Goldfinches back into school. They have continued to make us so proud with their passion for learning and happy faces.
Star of the week goes to: Willow.
Top Table award goes to: Savannah
This week we have… and next week we will…
…enjoyed the opportunities to be back together again and working in teams in lots of different subjects.
English- We have enjoyed predicting and exploring our new English book ‘Leon and the place between’. Our sentence descriptions have been wonderful as we are developing a rich and varied vocabulary. We have started to read ‘The train to impossible places’ and are finding out about the characters and unusual setting. This week our focus is on using our rich and varied vocabulary to write a diary entry and to recap using a wider range of subordinating conjunctions.
Spellings- words with the spelling pattern ‘ey’ ‘ei’ ‘eigh’
Maths- In maths we have solved addition and multiplication problems after recapping multiplying and dividing by 1 and 0. We are moving on to using a range of written methods of multiplication.
Science- We explored a range of different foods from Mrs Evans’ cupboard and worked together to sort them into their food groups.
History- we read a range of myths and used them as sources of information to find out about life in Ancient Greece. This week we will use further primary and secondary sources of information to find further clues about the past.
Music- Ukulele is going well and we are learning to play in time together which is a really tricky skill.
PE- We have enjoyed playing team games and solving problems together outside.
Computing- Our first E-Safety lesson this term focused on playing online games safely together. We will use our understanding of this to support us in our next theme of ‘Entering a digital world’ and help us learn to create a presentation.
As always, if you need any support, please don't hesitate to contact me at school via e-mail or by phone.
Mrs Evans
Y3 18.03.21, by Mrs Rice
Date: 18th Mar 2021 @ 9:32pm
Hello everybody
What a pleasure it is to have my gorgeous Robins back in class, happily learnng and laughing together. We are so impessed with how hard the children have settled quickly back into routines and into excellent learning behaviours. We look forward to seeing their smiles and hearing their giggles every day and treasure every moment with them. 
Hopefully I can keep them now until July!
The children are absolutely loving watching the frog spawn develop daily in our classroom, it is the first thing they all rush to when they come in. They have enjoyed fun PE sessions with Mr A, time on our track as well as playtime games and time in our new woodland. Lots of outdoor fun is helping with our happiness.
Next week, we will be writing letters in our English lessons from different characters in our Seal Surfer story. We will explore the structure and language of letters and focus on prepositions of time, place and cause. In Maths, we will be continuing our work on multiplication and division. As a class, we are learning the four times tables, noticing patterns the multiples of four make on a 100 square, looking at the connection to the two times table and increasing our rapid recall of these facts.
The children are now having weekly virtual German lessons with Mrs Judge which they are loving.
Please continue to read with your child daily and recording in their reading diaries as the children feel so proud when they are able to put their ticks onto the chart and gain a raffle ticket. Daily reading is so beneficial for our children. Not only because it improves their vocabulary and writing skills but it is a gorgeous opportunity to escape into the wonderful land of stories, adventure and imagination. Our weekly spelling quizes have resumed each Friday. I have asked the children to spend five minutes each evening practising their spellings and five minutes on their times tables in order to keep these key skills ticking over and for the children to gain in confidence.
Our spellings this week are focusing on the suffix 'ation' being added to verbs to form nouns. For example when we add 'ation' to the verb 'exclaim' the word 'exclamation' is made. We will explore which letters are dropped when this suffix is added. Our new words are:
explanation, exclamation, preparation, exploration, temptation, separation, admiration, information.
Thank you for your continued support and as always, I am at the end of the phone or an email if you need to talk to me. What a class of super stars I have!
Have a great weekend
Love from Mrs Rice and Mrs Brennan
Swallows Weekly Blog - 19.3.21, by Miss Gillam
Date: 18th Mar 2021 @ 9:05pm
Hello SUPER Swallows!
Welcome back to our weekly blog.
Thank you so much for working so hard once again this week. Mrs Elson and I are so proud of every single one of you.
Reading
We have loved starting whole class, shared reading lessons again this week. We are completing 3 whole class reading session’s each week now in addition to our Read Write Inc learning. We are reading the interesting book ‘Above and Below’ by Hakako Clulow.
Our new Read Write Inc sounds are /ea/- cup of tea, /oi/ - spoil the boy and /a_e/ - make a cake.
Spelling
Our Read Write Inc Spelling lessons have focused on the or sound spelt a before l and ll.
Here are our spellings for this week. You will also find a copy of these spellings in your reading diary.
Writing
In writing we have been exploring our class text ‘The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark’. We enjoyed changing adjectives into adverbs and used them to describe how owls and fireworks move. We also learnt how to use commas to list adjectives in a description of the characters from the story.
Maths
Our Maths work was focused on subtraction this week. We solved lots of tricky problems using number lines, Dienes and the column method to help us. We also learnt how to use the Bar Model to help us to solve missing number problems.
Art
In Art, we have been looking at the artist Sue Newham and analysing her use of colour and line. Next week we will use her artwork as inspiration for our own piece of art which will be displayed around school.
Homework
Please encourage your child to read and practice their spellings for 5-10 minutes each day. Please remember to sign your child’s diary each time they read and let us know what page they are up to.
Our PE days this half term are Thursday and Friday. Your child should come to school in their PE kit on these days. Please remember to only send your child in laces if they can tie them independently.
Have a lovely weekend everyone!
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me via the school admin email address or telephone.
Miss Gillam