Our blogs
Mark Rothko, by Miss Adamson
Date: 7th Oct 2016 @ 8:03pm
On Tuesday we tried mixing primary colours to create our own Mark Rothko style Colour Field paintings.
James' blog No.1, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 7th Oct 2016 @ 2:50pm
This Week Has Been Great And The Class Has Realy Had Fun. We Had German Lessons And Have Discoverd A Lot Of Intresting Facts. I Loved Doing The German Coulers And The Rainbow Song But It Was Super Hard.We Have Also Been Doing Warm Fuzzys From A Story That We Read On The First Week Of Year 4.This Has Been A Great Week And We Can't Wait For Next Week!
Orienteering, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 6th Oct 2016 @ 9:34am
I have been very lucky seeing the Bongos in action today doing their orienteering.They have impressed me with their teamwork and map reading skills
D&T: Structures, by Mr Coxhead
Date: 5th Oct 2016 @ 5:25pm
We began our D&T topic on structures today. We have some potential structural engineers within the class!
After looking at examples of different free-standing structures that we come across in everyday life, the children split into groups and came up with designs for free-standing towers that could be made from only art straws and sellotape. Each group was limited to 20 straws. Once designs had been finalised, the groups went ahead and built their towers. The towers started well with some sound structural decisions made by each engineering team. However, things took a turn for the worse when our budding engineers got their heads 'stuck in the clouds' by trying to make their towers taller and taller. This resulted in a few towers toppling to the ground.
Next week, the children will make marble runs using cereal boxes. Thank you for all of the boxes so far. Please make sure all remaining cereal boxes are sent in by next Wednesay at the very latest.
Sheldon the Snail, by Miss Adamson
Date: 4th Oct 2016 @ 6:32pm
Some more brave Penguins decided that they'd like to hold Sheldon today! We also thought of our own questions we'd like to research about snails and practised using question marks.
Harvest photographs, by Mr Pearson
Date: 3rd Oct 2016 @ 8:16pm
Check out the the classes area for harvest photos on the gallery
Class Pet, by Miss Adamson
Date: 3rd Oct 2016 @ 12:45pm
This week the Penguins are looking after our class pet. He is called Sheldon the Snail. We are also learning about snails. Some brave children even held Sheldon!
Addition Sentences, by Miss Adamson
Date: 2nd Oct 2016 @ 11:45am
This week the Penguins are learning about addition sentences. Here is a fun game that the children could play at home to help them to practise.
Addition sentences within ten.
Happy playing!
Orienteering, by Mr Coxhead
Date: 30th Sep 2016 @ 7:28pm
Little red hen , by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 29th Sep 2016 @ 10:16am
Take a look at some of our fine motor games and fun we have been getting up to this week.
Bongos Library, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 28th Sep 2016 @ 7:41pm
The Bongos Library will be open after school on Friday.
Piet Mondrian, by Miss Adamson
Date: 28th Sep 2016 @ 2:04pm
Take a look at our wonderful Piet Mondrian collages.
Tremendous Tuesday, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 27th Sep 2016 @ 1:55pm
Tuesday has been tremendous !
The Bongos had a great guided reading session this morning where they all worked hard learning how to answer comprehension questions. Spelling was great fun as the class worked with their spelling partners to write lists of homophones.
Maths was a very busy lesson with a number bonds to 20 challenge as the warm up. There were then lots of different activities going on in the room. some children did number bonds to 20 on building blocks, some worked with a partner to make a beanstalk with leaves added in pairs to make 50 and some were set the challenge of finding tricky pairs such as 65+35 to make 100. This group then worked with me to do partitioning leading on to partitioning to add 2 digit numbers.
This afternoon we have had another look at the landscapes of Jean Metzinger and created our own mosaic landscapes. Using squares was much easier then the hexagons we tried last week.
Heute Nachmittag, by Mr Coxhead
Date: 26th Sep 2016 @ 9:46pm
Heute, haben wir Deutsch alles nachmittag gelernt.
Today, we learnt German all afternoon.
Wir hat gelernt:
We learnt:
Guten morgen (Good morning)
Guten tag (Good day)
Guten nachmittag (Good afternoon)
Ich heisse... (I am called...)
Ich bin... (I am...)
Mein Name ist... (My name is...)
Ich komme aus... (I come from...)
Ich wohne in... (I live in...)
We also revised German numbers and practised saying our phone number in German. Everyone made a Germany-themed bookmark to remind them of some of the vocabulary.
European Day of Languages, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 26th Sep 2016 @ 8:10pm
This afternoon the children celebrated European Day of Languages by taking part in lots of Language themed activities.
The Penguins ( Year 1) learnt the colours of the rainbow in German
The Bongos ( Year 2 ) learnt greetings, classroom instructions, numbers to 10 and how to tell somebody their name and age in French.
The Giraffes ( Year 3) looked at the work of Paul Klee, a Swiss-German artist and learnt the names of colours.
They tried to make dark colours like his paintings. E.g. Dunkelrot. = dark red
The Tigers ( Year 4) learnt lots of intersesting facts about germant such as there are 400 zoos in Germany and tasted German food.
The Bears (Year 5) learnt greetings, times of day and how to say introduce themselves in Spanish.
The Kangaroos (Year 6) made bookmarks. On one side they decorated them with symbols of Germany, such as the flag, car badges and on the other they wrote about themselves in German.
At the end of the afternoon the children had the opportunity to share what they had been doing in assembly.
German afternoon, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 26th Sep 2016 @ 7:29pm
We had an arty afternoon today as part of Eurpoean Languages Day. We looked at the paintings of Paul Klee and the dark colours he used. We learnt the German words for colours and created our own Paul Klee painting, as well as practising our 'word' skills changing the colours of text.
European languages day, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 26th Sep 2016 @ 5:03pm
The Tigers enjoyed finding out facts about Germany. did you know that they have blue strawberries in Germany and over 400 zoos!We also had fun preparing and tasting some German food and finding out how school life is different in Germany, ask me to tell you 2 things!
Story maps of Lost and Found, by Miss Adamson
Date: 24th Sep 2016 @ 8:45pm
We worked in groups to draw maps to retell the story of Lost and Found by OliverJeffers. Afterwards we orally retold the story. This will help us with our writing next week!
Numicon in action, by Miss Adamson
Date: 24th Sep 2016 @ 8:38pm
This week we have been working on our number recognition skills. We have played matching games with the Numicon equipment. I was so impressed by how well the Penguins take turns and work with others.
Roles & Responsibilities, by Mr Coxhead
Date: 24th Sep 2016 @ 9:34am
Year 6 have started their new 'jobs' with a healthy level of enthusiasm. Keep it up!
PE: Handball & Outdoor Adventure, by Mr Coxhead
Date: 24th Sep 2016 @ 9:21am
Our PE lessons this term are split between 'outdoor adventure' and the Olympic sport of Handball...
Looking the part..., by Mr Coxhead
Date: 24th Sep 2016 @ 9:12am
We posed for a few class photos this week!
Writing Fun, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 23rd Sep 2016 @ 4:02pm
This week we have been having great fun learning the first part of the story A Lion in the Meadow off by heart. We have used talk for writing to help us. There have bneen pictures and actions which have made it all very funny. Today the children have been having a go at using their story voices to write their very own animal stories. We have had all sorts of great ideas such as A Cow int the Bath, An Elephant in The Fridge and A Snake in the Cupboard.
There was lots of enthusiasm in the room for the writing task today.
Well done everybody .
As I said on yesterdays blog the handout from last nights meet the teacher session has been put in the book bags for those of you unable to attend. It is also attched to yesterday blog along with some of the slides that were shown.
Have a great week end. See you all on Monday .
Cake treat, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 23rd Sep 2016 @ 2:45pm
We made and then ate cakes like red riding hood made for granny. It was our minion treat.
Meet The Teacher, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 22nd Sep 2016 @ 7:55pm
Thank you for coming to the meeting tonight it was good to meet you all properly. For those of you unable to attend I will put the handout in book bags tomorrow as well as on our class page. I will also attach the powerpoint.