Lostock Gralam C of E Primary School
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Week Beginning 14.10.19, by Miss Beattie
Date: 9th Oct 2019 @ 12:37pm
What a super week we have had! Again, the children have made me extremely proud, particularly with their diary entry writing. Thank you to everyone who attended our Come and Join Us this week – I know how much your support means to the children.
In writing next week we will be focussing on letter writing. We will begin by looking at a range of letters to identify the features. We will then us this to help us plan and write our own letter in role as Tom from our book ‘Seal Surfer’. In maths, we will begin to look at addition in more detail, building up to using the written column method. In science, we will be carrying out an investigation to answer the question ‘How can we change the size of a shadow?’ In History, we will be using a variety of sources to find out more about the Stone Age.
Our spellings next week will look at silent letters: answer, island, February, length, strength, business, know, climb, wrong, calm
The Book Fair will be in school from Tuesday 8th October until Wednesday 16th October. It will be open from 3.20pm until 4pm every day in the year 5 classroom.
Reminder: Parents Evening will take place next week on Tuesday 15th and Wednesday 16th October. If you have any questions about your appointment day or time, please do not hesitate to speak to me.
Many thanks,
Miss Beattie and Mrs Esling
14.10.19, by Mrs Campion
Date: 8th Oct 2019 @ 8:32pm
Hello! Another busy week ahead in Owls class.
In Literacy, the children will begin to think of other noises that may keep Mr Bear awake at night and use these to begin to make up their own narratives based on the Peace at Last story we have been reading in class.
In Maths, we will be exploring the number 3 in greater depth and looking at stories and songs linked to the number 3. We will also be looking at different ways we can make 3 and learning more about triangles.
We are very excited to be learning about night time animals and we have a very special surprise lined up for them next week. Keep your eyes peeled on twitter.
Please record any reading your child does in their reading diary. We are continuing to focus on letter and number formation in school and we are practising writing our name everyday. If you could also practise at home it would be much appreciated.
You should have received an appointment for Parents Evening on either Tuesday or Wednesday. If there are any problems or you are unsure of your time please come and ask.
Hope you all have a fanastic week and thank you for your continued support.
Mrs Campion & Mrs Hoskins.
Y2 Wk beg 7.10.19, by Mrs Rice
Date: 3rd Oct 2019 @ 4:19pm
Swallows have had a super week being history detectives examining aretefacts relating to the Titanic. Next week, we will look at the time line of events that led upto the fateful crash. The children will be writing letters from characters in our story Troll Swap and exploring predictions. Our reading lessons will continue to focus on finding the exact information from the text to answer a question and not trying to remember. In Maths, we will explore number sequences and patterns using our place value knowledge. Our spellings will continue with the soft c sound:
pencil, notice, concert, face, price, circus, certain, concentrate, excellent, with (this is a word that we are having difficulty in spelling correctly)
Please ensure that PE kits are in school daily. Thank you for your support with home reading, this is so important for our children. We ask for 3 comments in the reading diaries from home each week in order for the children to receive a raffle ticket and make progress in their reading. The children have times tables homework on RockStars.
As always, please come and talk with myself or Mrs Elson if you have any queries about anything.
Many thanks
Mrs Rice and Mrs Elson
7.10.19, by Mrs Campion
Date: 3rd Oct 2019 @ 12:45pm
A big thank you to everyone who came to join us for our Harvest festival and our come and join us session. It was wonderful to see so many of you.
In Literacy, the children will be designing a nightime snack for Mr Bear and begin to add labels. We will be reading a book called 'Homes' by Carson Ellis and the children will design their own home. If you have any pictures of your home that you would like to send in that would be wonderful.
In Maths, we will b revisiting the numbers we have learnt so far with a focus on number 2. We will b looking at the word pair and what it means, sorting pairs of socks in the home corner, finding 1 more and one less and much more.
We will be learning about nocturnal animals and what the word nocturnal means.
Owls class are collecting natural resources including things like buttons, pebbles, conkers and shells. If you can help in anyway it would be greatly appreciated.
Have a fantastic week.
Year One - Week Beginning 7.10.19, by Miss Gillam
Date: 3rd Oct 2019 @ 12:33pm
Hello and welcome back to Starlings Class Blog,
Starlings have had yet another busy and exciting week. We enjoyed performing our special song during our Harvest Service on Wednesday. We also had the opportunity to invite our parents in for our ‘Come and Join Us’ session. Thank you so much to those who were able to make it.
We have yet another busy week ahead of us next week.
Reminders
Monday 7th October – Kevin and Erwin to speak to the children about Guide Dogs.
Tuesday 8th October – Gymnastics (PE Kit needed)
Maths
In Maths we will be continuing to solve problems involving comparing numbers and learning about ordinal number (1st, 2nd, 3rd). We will also be ordering numbers and exploring number lines. The children will see that a number line can be used to:
- Count to 10
- See one more/one less
- See greater than/less than statements
- Order three numbers
Vocabulary: count greater than less that equal to compare same different more less order
Writing
We are going to be authors this week in our writing lessons and create our very own stories based on our amazing class text ‘Lost and Found’. We are going to make changes to the original story and then write our own version. Who will be the characters in your story? Where will the story be set?
Topic
In our Topic lessons, we will be looking at old maps of Northwich to see how the town has changed over time. We will also compare Lostock Gralam to Northwich town centre, focusing on both the human and physical geography of both areas.
Homework
- 3 reads
- Maths Challenge – Go on a door number hunt. Can you read the numbers on each door? What is the highest number you can find?
- Spellings – see your slip in your reading diary.
Thank you for your continued support, please come and see me if you have and questions or concerns.
Miss Gillam
Week beginning 7.10.19, by Mrs Evans
Date: 2nd Oct 2019 @ 10:21pm
Another busy week and Goldfinches have produced lots of work to make us proud.
We welcomed Mr Mellor this week who will be with us until February while on placement for his PGCE teaching degree.
Goldfinches worked hard on their performance poem for the Harvest service and we would like to thank everyone who donated to the Mid Cheshire Food Bank. (We are happy to continue to pass on any further donations which arrive in school)
Remember this Friday 4th October the children have an extra PE session with Mr Ault on Friday morning.
Coming up next week:
COME AND JOIN US: Wed 9th 2pm-3pm. Bring your trainers!
Please could you send in any empty glass jars which have been washed and lables removed for a project later this half term.
Writing: We loved reading the final part of Gorilla this week and will be working on writing our own stories based on the same theme.
Reading: More of Voices in the Park as this week we spent time focusing on the preparation of the Harvest Poem.
Spellings: Words with the suffix 'ly'
Maths: We will focus on Roman Numerals and, over the next few weeks, will begin to look at addition and subtraction methods. More times tables: reviewing the 5x and learning the 6x tables.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=BingoMultiplicationv9
Have a go at the TOPMARKS times table Bingo game to help your child with their fluency and recall.
Science: Teeth - types and how to keep them healthy.
Art: We will be exploring sketching and learning to draw a human figure in proportion. Please send an old (named) t-shirt or shirt for your child to keep in school and wear during messy art sessions.
History: We will be learning about ancient Greek art and the stories its artwork can tell us.
PE- Games with Mr Ault on Monday morning. While the weather is still dry enough, lessons will be working outside. Children can bring a tracksuit (joggers and top) to keep them a bit warmer. Also, as the grass may be a little wet first thing in the morning, please pack spare socks in PE kits.
Cricket on Wednesday. We would love parents/grandparents to bring their trainers and participate in our cricket session alongside the children on Wednesday during our Come and Join Us session. (2pm-3pm Wednesday 9th October)
Finally, just a gentle reminder for children with long hair to please have it tied back for school.
Thank you for your continued support,
Mrs Evans, Mrs Brennan and Mrs O'Marah
Week beginning 7.10.19, by Miss Thwaites
Date: 2nd Oct 2019 @ 7:51pm
Hi all,
Skylarks have had a fantastic week this week. I am extremely proud and pleased with the children's telling of the stone soup story at our harvest service. The children have completed some great maths work on place value this week and have made an excellent start to our new topic of addition and subtraction. The children have also written some great reports using different viewpoints about Annie Edson Taylor.
Looking forward to the new week:
Please come and share our KS2 come join with us event on the 9th October at 2pm. The children will be delving deeper into their understanding of addition and subtraction. We will be continuing to produce work based on our 'Queen of the Falls' book.
The children have been allocated their instruments this week and letters will be sent out in the next couple of weeks to give permission to take instruments home.
Homework:
Maths CGP books pages 6 and 11
Times tables rockstars
Reading
Spellings- see document attached.
Thank you
Miss Thwaites
Week Beginning 07.10.19, by Miss Beattie
Date: 2nd Oct 2019 @ 5:45pm
Wow, another very busy week in Robins Class! Firstly, I want to say how proud I am of the children - their attitude towards their learning has been fantastic this week which has allowed us to produce some outstanding work! Also, a big well done Robins for your lovely prayer during our Harvest Festival.
Next week, we will be focussing on the different settings in our book ‘Seal Surfer’. We will be identifying high quality language used to describe the different seasons in the book and applying this in our very own setting descriptions. In maths, we will be using bar modelling to identify related number facts, and we will continue to practice mental strategies for adding and subtracting. In science, we will be investigating what makes a ‘good’ shadow, applying our knowledge of transparent, translucent and opaque materials. Next Friday 11th October, we will be making Apple Crumble as part of our DT topic on seasonality. If you have any questions about this, please come and have a chat with me.
Our spellings next week will continue to look at the im- prefix: impartial, improper, improbable, impatiently, immovable, immeasurable, important, immaturity
We would love it if you could attend our KS2 Come and Join Us session from 2pm on Wednesday 9th October where will be looking at the Artist William Kentridge and applying his charcoal techniques in our very own cave paintings.
Many thanks,
Miss Beattie and Mrs Esling
Toucans week beg. 07.10.19, by Mrs Whittingham
Date: 2nd Oct 2019 @ 5:26pm
Toucans had a fantastic visit to Safety Central on Monday. Their behaviour was impeccable and their interest and engagement with all the activities was of the highest standard. It was ‘like being on a movie set’, said one pupil excitedly. The children learned about how to keep themselves safe on the road, by water and at the train station. They also looked at possible dangers within the home which could cause a fire. Ask them about shopping at Tesco, they had a great time learning about how to keep their bodies healthy!
Next week, the children will be continuing their writing based on our book 'Star of Fear, Star of Hope'. In Maths, they will be looking at written division methods, incorporated with reasoning and problem solving activities involving the four operations that we have covered – addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. To help prepare for our trip to the Imperial War Museum on Wednesday 13th November, the children will begin to select an aspect of conflict that interests them most and begin their enquiry study on this. In RE, we will be finishing off our non-chronological report on Judaism. In PE, the children will continue to work on invasion games on Thursday with Mrs Whittingham and with Mr Ault on Friday.
KS2 Come and Join Wednesday 9th October 2pm
Come and join your child as they embark on their enquiry based study on an aspect of conflict e.g. propaganda, women during the wars, weapons etc.
Maths Homework
Thank you for helping your child to complete their maths homework last week. We were glad to see that by self-checking their own work the children were immediately able to explain what they found easy/difficult. Don’t forget if your child has found a topic particularly difficult, mark the page with a red dot and then we will work on these weaknesses as part of our intervention sessions in school.
Just to remind you, each week, your child will circle and date the page numbers that we would like them to complete that week, they can write it in their homework diaries and we will also put on the blog each week, the page numbers we would like them to do too! The books will go home on a Friday each week and will be due in on the following Wednesday.
This week, we would like them to complete pages 14 and 15 (Written Adding and Subtracting) due in on Wednesday 9th October.
Spellings
Our spelling words next week will focus on suffixes – less, ful, ness, ment, ly:
careless, flavourless, hopeful, deceitful, meanness, lateness, achievement, amazement, definitely, thoroughly,
Youth Trust Award
The children will be finishing their project work for this award that they started last year by doing some litter picking in our local community on Thursday or Friday, weather permitting.
Aladdin
Any outstanding roles for our Christmas Production will be assigned on Friday 11th October and your child should have their own script. At the moment we are just working on roles in school but will let you know when we may need your child to stay behind after school to work on their acting/singing.
Some of our children will also be taking part in a girls’ football competition at Rudheath Senior Academy on Friday afternoon 1 – 3pm.
Y2 Wk beg 30.09.19, by Mrs Rice
Date: 27th Sep 2019 @ 8:42am
Swallows have had a great week. We have really enjoyed a variety of sporting activities for national fitness week. Please ensure that your child has their PE kit in school every day, even after an after school club. The children have been using noun phrases well in thier writing to describe characters from our story Troll Swap. Next week, we will be introducing the < and > signs in Maths (more than and less than) to compare numbers. The children will be exploring the moral issue of bringing artefacts from the Titanic wreck back up to the surface for research purposes. We will explore is this "right"?
Our spellings are: city, cell, icy, cycle, rice, mice, fancy, race, circle, police. We are looking at how 'c' can say 's' it is known as the 'soft c'.
Please ensure that your child is reading at home three times a week in order for their progress to continue. Our children are working really well with our school rules of "Ready, Respectful and Safe."
Many thanks
Mrs Rice and Mrs Elson
Toucans week beg. 11.11.19, by Mrs Whittingham
Date: 26th Sep 2019 @ 10:30am
Imperial War Museum
We are all looking forward to our trip to the Imperial War Museum on Wednesday 13th November. In preparation for our visit, we have been finding out about the Yemen Crisis, the museum itself and focusing on what we will find out about WW1 and Rationing, in particular.
PE
PE will continue after half term on Thursdays with Mrs Whittingham and Fridays with Mr Ault. On Monday the 11th November they will have an extra PE session.
Maths Homework
Thank you for your on-going support with the Maths Homework. We hope you are finding our new books useful tools for revision.
This week, we would like them to complete pages 26 and 27 (Prime Numbers, Square and Cube Numbers) due in on Wednesday 13th November
Spellings
Our spelling words next week will focus on suffixes:
happily, copier, applied, mysterious, spying, busier, heavily, trying, beautiful, happiness
Aladdin
Please help your child to learn their lines for our school production and ask them to work on any songs that they need to learn. Also please come and see me if you are struggling to get any costumes.
The children will be rehearsing for their roles on Friday afternoon during school time.
As always, just pop in and see us if you have any questions at all.
Mrs Downing, Mrs Whittingham & Mr Beswick
Week beginning 30.9.19, by Mrs Evans
Date: 25th Sep 2019 @ 9:29pm
This week:
What a sporty week Goldfinches have had! We have seen such enthusiasm and perseverence from them all.
Well done to all of the children who stood for the class councillor role. We were so impressed by their confidence in delivering their speeches. We had a democratic vote and used a ballot box. Congratulations to the newly elected councillors Layla and Kailum.
Thank you for all of the hard work you are all putting in to your reading, spellings and times tables at home. We are all so proud of you all.
Coming up next week:
Harvest: We will be preparing for our Harvest Festival in Church on Wednesday morning. Please help us to support the Mid Cheshire Food Bank by sending your child with packet or tinned foods. Thank you.
Literacy: We will continue to use our book 'Gorilla' to practise writing in direct speech. Our speech sandwich will help us to add extra detail.
Shared Reading: We have enjoyed reading 'Voices in the Park' and will continue to develop our retrieval, inference and comparative skills next week.
Spelling: We will focus on some of the spellings from the first column of the Y3/4 Statutory spelling list and will use these to help us develop our joined handwriting.
Maths: More work on rounding to the nearest 10, 100, 1000. Have a go at 'Rounding Rockets' on the topmarks site. We will continue to focus on the 6x table whilst revising the 2x, 10x and 5x tables. Please keep playing on TTRockstars to help build fluency and accuracy.
Science: More work on digestion this week and then we will begin to look at teeth.
History: We will use our knowledge of negative numbers to add key people and events from Ancient Greece and Rome to a number line using BC and AD.
PE: Monday morning with Mr Ault. Cricket on Wednesday afternoon. An extra PE session with Mr Ault on Friday morning.
Year One - Week Beginning 30.9.19, by Miss Gillam
Date: 25th Sep 2019 @ 9:26pm
Hello and welcome back to Starlings Class Blog,
WOW! Starlings have had such busy and exciting week. We went on our fantastic school trip to Northwich and learnt lots of facts about our local history. Many members of the public commented on how smart and sensible the children were. We also enjoyed two wonderful sport workshops, both featuring on our school Twitter page.
We have yet another busy week ahead of us next week.
Reminders
- Gymnastics on Tuesday afternoon – PE kits needed (PM)
- Come and Join us - 2pm - Wednesday 2nd October
- Harvest Celebration in Church – 9:15 - Wednesday 2nd October
Maths
In Maths we are continuing to focus on comparing groups of objects using the words greater than, less than and equal to. We will be using the mathematical symbols for each of these words (> < =). We will be solving problems involving comparing numbers and learning about ordinal number (1st, 2nd,3rd).
Vocabulary: count greater than less that equal to groups compare same different
Writing
Starlings are loving their class text, Lost and Found. Next week, we will continue our journey though the text, considering how Penguin’s thoughts and feelings change along the way. We will then compare this to the thoughts and feelings of the boy in the story. Towards the end of the week, we will finish reading the story and begin learning it using pictures and actions ready for our big write re-tell next week.
Topic
In our Topic lessons we will be continuing to research well-known buildings from both Northwich and Lostock Gralam. We will create a timeline to show which buildings are the oldest and newest. We will complete Art activities focusing on our science topic of ‘Seasonal Changes’.
Homework
- 3 reads
- Maths Challenge – What is doubling? Can you use objects in your house to represent doubles to 10? 1+1 2+2 3+3 4+4 etc
- Spellings – see your slip in your reading diary.
Thank you for your continued support, please come and see me if you have and questions or concerns.
Miss Gillam
30.9.19, by Mrs Campion
Date: 25th Sep 2019 @ 8:45pm
Wow another super busy week in Owls class. We had an amazing time taking part in a fitness workshop this week and we now know lots of new sounds.
You will find it the book bags a set of sound cards. These cover the sounds we have covered so far in phonics. Please practise these sounds with your child and begin to put the cards together to make words. E.g it sit mat sat pin. It is important that the children sound out each individual sound and then blend the sounds together to make the word. If you are unsure please come and ask.
In Literacy, we are continuing to use 'Peace at Last' to help us with our writing. We will be looking at pictures from the story and beginning to identify the initial sound in some of the objects we can see and may even begin to write some labels.
In Maths, we will be sorting into groups and will learn that collections of objects can be sorted into sets based on size, colour and shape. They will begin to understand that the same collection of objects can be sorted in different ways and will come up with their own criteria to sort objects, Our number of the week is number 5. Please help rite this number at home and count 5 claps, 5 toys etc.
The children are really enjoying their night time topic. We will be learning why it is important to get enough sleep at night and making dream catchers.
Harvest Festival is at Church at 9:15 on Wednesday 2nd October. Can each child please bring a donation for the foodbank. You are very welcome to come and join us. We will be singing a special song.
It is a 'Come and Join us' session also on Wednesday at 2pm. This is an opportunity for you to come and spend time with your child in the classroom.We would love it if you could come along!
Thank you for all your support at home with the children with reading and practising writing letters. Please can you record any reading/homework you do with your child in their blue diary.
As always, please come and ask if you are unsure about anything or have any questions.
Thank you for all of your support.
Mrs Campion & Mrs Hoskins.
Week beginning 30.9.19, by Miss Thwaites
Date: 25th Sep 2019 @ 5:24pm
Hi everyone,
This week in Skylarks class we have produced some fantastic pieces of writing. We have been writing letters to Annie Edson Taylor telling her why she should and should not go down Niagara Falls in a barrel. Next week, we will be working towards creating a newspaper report announcing Annie's arrival to Niagara. The chidren have continued to work on their place value and will be looking more at negative numbers next week.
Homework:
Times tables Rockstars
Spellings- see format attached
Reading
CGP books- Please complete pages 9 and 10. Should your child need any help, please bring in the homework on Wednesday for support.
Thank you
Miss Thwaites
Week Beginning 30.09.19, by Miss Beattie
Date: 25th Sep 2019 @ 4:36pm
Hi everyone and welcome back to Robins Class Blog
We have had another busy week this week and all of the children have continued to work very hard!
Next week we will be focusing on using paragraphs correctly in our writing lessons. This will lead to the children planning and writing their own diary entry in role as a character from our book ‘Seal Surfer’. In maths, the children will be estimating and writing numbers on number lines. We will also begin to look at mental strategies for addition and subtraction. In topic we will be carrying out research on Thomas Edison and his invention of the lightbulb – we will be linking this to our science topic ‘light’ as well as our history topic ‘The Stone Age’.
Thank you so much for your continued support with reading at home and homework. Can I please remind you to sign your child’s diary when they have read so we can keep track of where they are up to. Please look in your child’s homework diary for their Spelling List and Times Tables focus for the week.
Our spellings next week will look at the im- prefix: impossible, imperfect, impolite, impatient, immoral, immature, immortal, immobile
Reminder: Whole School Harvest Service in the Church at 9.15am on Wednesday 2nd October. please could each child bring a donation for the food bank.
As always, please don’t hesitate to speak to me if you have any concerns or problems.
Many thanks,
Miss Beattie and Mrs Esling
23.9.19, by Mrs Campion
Date: 19th Sep 2019 @ 8:16am
We are so proud of all our Owls and how well they are settling into their new daily routine.
We continue to have our phonics daily so please continue to practise letter formation at home. We are practising every day in school.
We have read our new class text 'Peace at last' and we will be looking at images from the story and and trying to identify the inital sound. We will begin to look at pictures of Mr Bear's house and the different rooms. We will then try to draw a floor plan of our own house. We will begin to write some labels to go on our plans. At this stage, we will be looking at initial sounds and what the word begins with.
In Maths, our number of the week is number 4. We will be looking at groups of objects to see if we can estimate how many there are and then counting to check. We will continue to practise writing numbers.
Any questions please come and ask.
Have a wonderful week.
Mrs Campion & Mrs Hoskins.
Year One- Week Beginning 23.9/19, by Miss Gillam
Date: 19th Sep 2019 @ 7:53am
Hello and welcome back to Starlings Class Blog.
Starlings have had such a busy week and have made Miss Gillam very proud of them.
We have another busy week ahead of us next week.
Reminders
- We have gymnastics on Tuesday afternoon – PE kits needed (PM)
- We have our school trip to Northwich next Wednesday 25th September (AM)
- National Fitness Day – Wednesday 25th September – PE kits needed (PM)
- Tennis Workshop on Thursday – PE kits needed
Maths
In Maths we are continuing to focus on Place Value. We are going to be comparing groups of objects using the words greater than, less than and equal to. We will then learn the mathematical symbols for each of these words (><=). We will be solving problems involving comparing numbers towards the end of the week.
Vocabulary: count greater than less that equal to groups compare same different
Writing
Next week we will continue to write factual sentences about penguins during our writing lessons. We will be really focusing on our handwriting and letter formation, ensuring our letters are sitting on the line. Towards the end of the week we will be helping George and the penguin from our story ‘Lost and Found’ to write a list of things to pack in their suitcase.
Topic
We will be continuing to focus on Geography during our topic lessons this week, completing activities linking to what we have learnt on our exciting school trip to Northwich on Wednesday 25th September. We will be researching well-known buildings and writing informative leaflets to teach others about where we live.
Homework
- 3 reads
- Maths Challenge – How many ways can you make 10? Collect 10 objects (socks, coins, pebbles etc). How many different ways can you make 10 using your objects? Eg. 7 socks add 3 socks = 10 socks. This is a practical activity and does not need recording.
1+__ 2+ __ 3+ ___ 4+___ 5+__ 6+__ 7+__ 8+__ 9+__ 10+__
- Spellings – see your slip in your reading diary.
Thank you for your continued support, please come and see me if you have and questions or concerns.
Miss Gillam
Week beginning 23.9.19, by Mrs Evans
Date: 18th Sep 2019 @ 10:33pm
Goldfinches have had a hard working week and are settling well into the Y4 routines. We enjoyed a boogie to 'Happy' to celebrate everybody's name being on the Recognition Board and are now working hard on 'Stopping straight away' as our next target.
It is wonderful to see how hard our Goldfinches are working on their reading, spellings and times tables at home and thank you all so much for all the comments in their diaries.
SPORTS AND PE
Please make sure your child has their school PE kit and trainers in school all week as WB 23rd September will be a very active week for us:
Mon 23rd - PE as usual with Mr Ault.
Wed 25th - Fitness session with Theresa and Cricket with our coaches.
Thurs 26th - Tennis session with coaches from the Tennis club.
In Literacy will be continuing to explore our Gorilla text. We will look at the book 'Seen and Not Heard' in guided reading which is a wonderful text for grabbing the children's attention and interest.
Maths will continue to focus on negative numbers, rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000 and practising the 6x table.
In RE we will explore the concept of 'belief' by sharing our beliefs as Christians and comparing them with Sikh beliefs.
In History (now we have found out where Greece, Athens, Italy and Rome are in the world) we will be placing Ancient Greece and Roman times onto a timeline. This will help us to learn more about BC and AD parts of a timeline. In science the children will continue their journey through the digestive system and learn about its functions!
In computing the children will begin to explore the Codu programme in which they learn to use coding to create a virtual world!
In spelling we will further consolidate the 'sure' spellings and practise the new set which are words with the prefix 'auto'. On Friday, Mrs O'Marah will continue to focus on the first column of the Statutory Y3/4 spellings (attached)
We will continue to 'Get Heart Smart' and follow the My Happy Mind programme within PSHE.
Thank you for all of your continued support,
Mrs Evans, Mrs Brennan and Mrs O'Marah
Week Beginning 23.09.19, by Miss Beattie
Date: 18th Sep 2019 @ 8:13pm
Robins have had another busy week! Our Stone Age workshop was definitely the highlight - we learnt so much and had fun at the same time!
Next week, Robins will be carrying on their writing based on our text 'Seal Surfer'. We will be thinking specifically about characters and using drama to infer their thoughts and feelings. We will then use this drama to help us punctuate direct speech. In maths, we will be continuing to look at place value, in particular finding 10 and 100 more or less than a given number. We will also be exploring shadows in science.
The children will be taking part in National Fitness Day on Wednesday and will have a Tennis taster session on Thursday. This is in addition to their regular PE slot on Monday with Mr Ault. Children will therefore need their PE kits in school on these days.
In spellings this week, we are continuing to look at the prefixes dis- and in-, as well as revising the prefix un-.
This week's spellings are: Disobey, disadvantage, disconnect, inactive, incredible, informal, unlock, unhappy, unsafe, unkind
If you have any questions, please pop in to see me.
Many thanks,
Miss Beattie and Mrs Esling
Week beginning 23.9.19, by Miss Thwaites
Date: 18th Sep 2019 @ 5:54pm
Week beginning 23.9.19
Hi Everyone,
Skylarks class have been working super hard this week and have produced some great quality pieces of work in maths and writing. We had a great time at the go run for fun event at Moss Farm leisure centre. Looking into next week, we will continue to work on our place value skills in maths and we will be working on and completing letter writing to Annie Edson Taylor (from our class book ‘Queen of the falls’). The children will be taking part in our National fitness day on the 25th September. They will be working with Teresa in the morning and there is lots of activities ready for the children to take part in.
Our new GCP books for maths homework have arrived in school and the children will be given them this Friday and they will self-mark the pages they have been given and bring their homework back in on the following Friday. Should anyone need any help with the homework before then, please bring these books back in on Wednesday. From this, I can support the children with aspects of the homework they do not understand.
Homework:
Times tables rockstars
Reading
Spellings- these are in blue diaries but a copy is added to the blog
Maths homework- CGP books- pages 7 and 8
Kind regards,
Miss Thwaites
Y6 Week beginning 23.9.19, by Mrs Downing
Date: 18th Sep 2019 @ 5:46pm
Toucans class have worked so hard over the past week. They particularly enjoyed taking part in the Go Run for Fun event at Moss Farm on Wednesday afternoon. They were among 1500 children who took part and everyone received a t-shirt and a medal for their efforts!
Next week, the children will be continuing their writing based on our book 'Star of Fear, Star of Hope'. In Maths, they will be looking at written addition and subtraction methods. In Science, the children will be looking at the topic of 'Light' – What is light? What does it do? Can you see more than just your face in a mirror? Our on-going theme of conflict, sees us focusing on our Geography skills by locating oceans and continents so we gain a better understanding of where some of the wars have taken place. In History, we will begin to research the Civil Wars that took place in Great Britain. In RE, we will be exploring the big question: Who is a Jew? In PE, the children will be taking part in National Fitness Day which will take place on Wednesday this week so they need their PE kits on this day too. This workshop will be delivered by Theresa. They will also have their PE lesson with Mr Ault on Friday.
New this week…
Your children will come home with a new Maths revision book ‘KS2 Maths SATs Question Book’ on Friday. We briefly mentioned this at the ‘Meet the Teacher’ sessions but this is going to be our maths homework this year. The maths homework books are designed for the children to be able to complete independently and the answers are provided at the back of the books. However, if you can support your child by going through any answers they have got wrong this would help enormously. The books won’t be marked by us as they are designed to be marked at home as part of the revision process so that any incorrect answers are identified immediately and corrected. However, if your child has found a topic particularly difficult, mark the page with a red dot and then we will work on these weaknesses as part of our intervention sessions in school.
Each week, we will circle and date the page numbers that we would like them to complete that week, they can write it in their homework diaries and we will also put on the blog each week, the page numbers we would like them to do too! The books will go home on a Friday each week and will be due in on the following Wednesday.
This week, we would like them to complete pages 6 and 7 (Ordering Numbers) due in on Wednesday 25th September.
Our spelling words next week will focus on suffixes: -er, -ing, -y, -ed and –tion.
trader making grimy persuaded creating tickled appreciated observant fading creation
Some of our children will also be taking part in a football competition at Rudheath Senior Academy on Friday afternoon.
Thank you so much for all of your help with encouraging your children to read at home. We have really enjoyed discussing their books with them and reading your comments.
As always, just pop in and see us if you have any questions at all.
Mrs Downing, Mrs Whittingham & Mr Beswick
Y2 Wk beg 23rd September 2019, by Mrs Rice
Date: 18th Sep 2019 @ 1:46pm
Hi Everyone
The children have been so busy with their learning, Mrs Elson and I are particularly proud of the presentation of maths work in our books, well done Swallows. This week we will have a session with Teresa on Wednesday 25th September as it is National Fitness Day. Our weekly gymnastics lesson is every Tuesday afternoon. Please can all children have their PE kits in school every day, as if we have a nice afternoon, we may sneak an extra session in! The children will be creating a new troll character in our writing lessons that we will use in a story shortly. We will continue to explore the conjunctions 'and, but and because' as well as creating exciting noun phrases eg The shy, unusual troll hides in the shadows during the day but at night time, he roams the streets searching for new friends. We will deepen our understanding of how sources of evidence can teach us about the past in our Titanic lessons as we read letters that were found from passengers to their families. In Maths, the children will be exploring how to add and subtract multiples of 10 from a 2 digit number by exploring patterns and relationships. Just a reminder about home reading. Please can the children read with an adult at home at least three times a week as this is so important for their progress. Thank you for all of your continued support. It is lovely to welcome such happy, smiling children every day.
Many thanks
Mrs Rice and Mrs Elson
Week beginning 16.9.19, by Mrs Evans
Date: 12th Sep 2019 @ 2:21pm
Thank you to all parents who attended the meet the teacher evening last week. It was lovely to meet you all!
Please note our Class Assembly is Wednesday 3rd June.
We have had a busy couple of weeks settling in to our new classroom routines and I am really impressed with how organised they are with their diaries.
This week we are continuing to focus on our class text ‘Gorilla’ by Anthony Browne. In maths our place value work will focus on counting in steps of 25, 50 and 1000 and counting back to include negative numbers.
Our times table focus is 6x table. Have a go at playing Hit the Button to help your child practise. https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
The children are really getting into our shared reading text ‘The Firework Maker’s Daughter’ by Phillip Pullman and we will continue to read and focus on retrieval questions using skimming and scanning techniques.
Our spelling focus this week is words containing ‘sure’. After our spelling test last week the children highlighted the words they got correct.
Please have outdoor PE kit in school on Mondays and Wednesdays.
Goldfinches Class are really working hard to follow our ‘Ready, Respectful, Safe’ rules and are enjoying achieving the class reward when all names are on the recognition board. Keep it up Goldfinches!
Mrs Evans, Mrs O’Marah,, Mrs Brennan.
Y2 Wk beg 16.09.19, by Mrs Rice
Date: 12th Sep 2019 @ 11:21am
This week the children will be delving deeper into our class text 'Troll Swap'. They will be learning how to use noun phrases effectively to describe characters and setting as well as how to use the conjunctions 'and, because and but.' We will be consolidating the skill of 'find and copy' in our reading lessons, using evidence from the text to support our thinking. I have asked the children to be the teacher when they read with you at home and ask you their own 'find and copy' questions! In Maths we will be learning the value of 2 digit numbers and partitioning them into their tens and ones. The children will be counting in steps of 2, 5 and 10 and learning their ten times tables by looking at patterns and the realtionships between the multiplication and division fact eg 3 x 10 = 30 so there are 3 lots of 10 in 30 so 30 divided by 10 = 3. Our topic work is becoming more and more exciting as we explore the theme of 'Help'. Who helped during the Titanic disaster? Did the right help arrive on time? How could the help have been improved? It is great to see the children being so enthusiastic in their learning. Mrs Elson and I are continuing to reinforce the ideas of being Ready, Respectful and Safe with the children.
A reminder that our visit to the Liverpool Maritime Museum is on Tuesday 19th November. Further details to follow nearer the time.
As always please come and talk with myself or Mrs Elson if you have any queries. Please find attached this week's spelling list which focuses on question words. We have a little spelling test each Friday.
Many thanks
Mrs Rice