Our blogs
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.
Outdoor fun in the sun, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 22nd Sep 2016 @ 7:39pm
A fun week!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 22nd Sep 2016 @ 5:51pm
The Tigers have enjoyed exploring circuits this week, working out which circuits would work and why. Flute lesson are going well, good effort and determination being shown!
In maths we had a fun lesson adding up amounts and writing it down in £ 's and pence .
Another exciting day, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 22nd Sep 2016 @ 2:27pm
We have been busy again learning about red riding hood, having a meerkat class picture taken and phonics....plus lots more.
Science investigators , by Mr Pearson
Date: 22nd Sep 2016 @ 2:03pm
Today we have been investigating different materials around school and what we use them for.
Red riding hood week, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 21st Sep 2016 @ 11:21am
Another full and exciting week. We love exploring outside with our friends.
JUMPERS and CARDIGANS, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 19th Sep 2016 @ 6:42pm
The weather is still warm and the children are taking off their jumpers and cardigans. There are a couple of children who seemed to have misplaced theirs, they are named. Please can you have a check to see if anyone has brought home the wrong or an extra one by mistake.
Please ensure you name your child's jumper or cardigan so it can be quickly returned if it gets misplaced.
Many thanks
Mrs Catterall
A busy week, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 19th Sep 2016 @ 6:25pm
What another fantastic week we have had in Year 3. Lots going on with our Roald Dahl day activities and our first swimming lesson.
On Tuesday we enjoyed describing our hunt for the Golden Ticket in school. The Golden ticket is still hiding away in one of the books in school. I wonder who might find it when they change their reading books next week?
In the afternoon we had lots of creative activities going on.
Origami foxes (Fantastic Mr Fox), play doh sweet creations (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), Mr Twit's messy beard (The Twits), dream catchers and dream jars (BFG) as well as some painting (The Giraffe, the Pelly and Me). The children all worked really well and it was lovely to see lots of children helping each other out with some of the more tricky bits of the activities.
On Thursday the children were very excitied to be going swimming. They were patient and waited their turn while Jane assessed their skills. Next week they will get to spend more time swimming in their different groups.
I know it's going to be a great year.
Fixing my writing, by Miss Adamson
Date: 16th Sep 2016 @ 6:32pm
On Tuesday the Penguins kindly fixed some of the sentences that I had made some mistakes with that morning! Thank goodness they can write super sentences!
Sorting, by Miss Adamson
Date: 16th Sep 2016 @ 6:29pm
We have been doings little bit of sorting in maths. In the end we came up with never evening possibilities for how the animals could be sorted. Some of my favourites were whether they live on land or sea, hot or colds places and farm or Africa.
