Our blogs

Elephants Excel, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 9th Feb 2020 @ 8:59pm

The Elephants have completed their compliment sheet and will be having their compliment treat on Friday 14th February. They have voted to have a party afternoon with games and activities. They will be making their own egg and cress sandwiches on Friday morning to eat at the party using cress that we have been growing in our science lessons,

The children have been working really hard in class and are enjoying collecting ideas and vocabulary for their own historical stories.

A busy week of learning!, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 7th Feb 2020 @ 3:56pm

This week we have carried on with our story , No Way Home, we are really enjoying it and doing some fantastic writing , we are all impressing Mrs Pratten👍🌟😆

In Maths we have been learning about weighing,comparing weights and using scales and cubes to measure.

We have been artists too, finding out all about primary colours. We created pictures in the style of Piet Mondrian using torn paper.This afternoon we have used primary colour paints to mix all the other colours.A tricky challenge but we were awesome at it and were very proud of our finished pictures

Surviving the Stone Age, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 4th Feb 2020 @ 8:37pm

We have all had an amazing day today. We have attempted to light a cotton wool ball on fire using flint and steel. Some were more successful than others, one thing is for sure the Meerkats have determination, they never gave up and were determined to succeed.  Time was up and it got a bit windy but they want me to bring back the equipment so they can have another go.  Super proud of the positive attitude.🙂

We became hunter gathers, finding berries and nuts and recording whether they were safe to eat or not. 

We built a shelter and made weapons. At the end of the day they had to try and catch a mammoth!

Lots of mud, fresh air and fun, now time for a bath and a good nights sleep.

Thanks for being amazing Meerkats. 

Awesome tribe, by Mrs Brown

Date: 4th Feb 2020 @ 2:44pm

Our year 6 children have their heads down and are working exceptionally hard.  They are also proving to be amazing role models.  Thank you.

If you would like to start your own lunch time club please think about what the cub would be, who would attend, where and when it would take place and how would people know to attend.  Then come and discuss your plans with Mrs Brown.  If you need any help ask Bronnie and Faith or Tilly and Paige regarding the clubs they already successfully run.

Stone Age Day on Tuesday / tomorrow., by Mrs Catterall

Date: 3rd Feb 2020 @ 8:08pm

Despite driving home in the hailstone I'm staying positive and we are going to have a Stone Age day at school tomorrow as part or our topic work. 

Please come to school wearing your own clothes.  Lots of warm layers to keep you warm and things you don't mind getting a bit muddy.  Hats, gloves and a coat essential. Old trainers or wellies are advised. We will be having dinner time as normal and a day of Stone Age themed activities. 

Class compliment treat, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 3rd Feb 2020 @ 3:49pm

The Koalas had a great afternoon watching their film and munching on popcorn and cookies - a very well deserved treat!

We do have some mix ups with school iniform so please could you check you have the correct T-shirt, jumper etc- thank you!!

Penguin Projects, by Mr Pearson

Date: 3rd Feb 2020 @ 1:32pm

Another set of amazing projects from the Penguin children and parents,

Penguins spellings, by Mr Pearson

Date: 3rd Feb 2020 @ 1:17pm

This weeks spelling focus words are 

early

Earth

eight

enough

exercise

experience

experiment 

extreme

All the e words from the Y3/4 word list

Week ending 31 January, by Mr Pearson

Date: 3rd Feb 2020 @ 1:17pm

This week in our English we had a new topic Aladdin and a new way to do our story writing. The way it worked was we write what Mr Pearson does on the right hand side of the page and then we write indepentently of our own.

In our maths lessons this week we leant about what is the same between a fraction and the decimal.

In our grammar lesson, we learnt our weekly spellings which were ‘mixture adventure, capture, feature, moisture, nature, picture and vulture’ we learnt different ways to learn them one of them were practicing them by pyramids.

In our topic lessons we learnt about roman baths by explaining the parts and then we wrote a fact file saying all the parts in it.

In our French lesson we recapped everything we have done like numbers up to 20, the rooms of houses and learnt people’s names like mum in French is ma mere.

In our Cricket we did catching throwing and bowling drills in teams of 5 in 5 teams.

In our I.T lesson we had a go at online instruments like piano guitar and others.

In guided reading we did a whole class comprehension called pharaohs and mummies from Mr Pearson booklet called comprehension ninjas .

  By Oliver and Lucie with help of Evie  😊

Projects, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 2nd Feb 2020 @ 4:37pm

It was great to chat to so many oarents at the Parents evening meetings this wee. 

Thank you for all of the amazing prjects thaty have been brought into school. They are all wonderful and we appreciate all of the hard work that has gone into them.

Homework this week is in the red homework bags and is a comprehension task. The children are all used to this type of activity so should just need encouragement to get it done.

Projects, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 30th Jan 2020 @ 8:45pm

Thank you for all the amazing projects.  You are all very talented. 

Homework - neighbourhood posters, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 30th Jan 2020 @ 8:43pm

Fantastic posters for homework, here are a few of them. 

This weeks learning, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 30th Jan 2020 @ 5:02pm

This week the Koalas have been building on their understanding of place value using  bundles of straws to help.Lots of partner work, making numbers and counting to work them out.

We have also carried on with our animal topic learning all about fish, having to to sorting different animals  to find the fish, Mrs Pratten tried to trick us but we were too smart!

We had fun today with our football skills, kicking, dribbling  and trapping different sized balls and kicking though a target.

We have really enjoyed looking at all the  fantastic projects , lovely to see how proud the children are and they are amazing so a big thank you for all your support.

Dint forget our treat afternoon tomorrow 🙂👍😜🌟🙃😁😆

Jam Coding, by Miss Reynolds

Date: 28th Jan 2020 @ 2:49pm

Today jam coding came to our school and spent time with year 5 and 6. They helped us to make online safety animations using stop motion. Everyone was put into groups of 3 and worked together to make our animated safety messages . Everyone had a great time and we learnt a lot. Hopfullysoon we will be putting some pictures of all the fun we had.

by Grace 

Investigating shadows, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 27th Jan 2020 @ 10:08pm

Today we explored shadows further. How do we make a shadow bigger/ smaller? 

Chinese New Year, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 25th Jan 2020 @ 8:43am

We have had a lovely few days finding out about the Chinese New Year. We made dragons, tapped a beat and did a dragon dance and made special red packets and put a gold coin in. Kung Hey Fat Choy !

Charity - Australia fundraising, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 24th Jan 2020 @ 7:50pm

Thankyou to everyone who donated their loose change to our Australian fire campaign.  This afternoon the children covered a map of Australia and the words adopt a koala.  The coins covered it all perfectly.

Linda will be adding it all up next week and then I’ll let you know the total. 

Thank you again. 

Wolves in the Wall - wolf party, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 24th Jan 2020 @ 7:46pm

We have been really enjoying our book for this half term ‘Wolves in the Wall.’ Today the story took an unsuspecting turn, the wolves who had been portrayed as vicious were found eating jam and popcorn, dancing around and watching TV.  We had our own Wolf party to celebrate this turn of events and create our own party food vocabulary. 

Harris Museum - Stone Age Trip., by Mrs Catterall

Date: 24th Jan 2020 @ 7:34pm

On Tuesday we had a fantastic day at the Harris museum. We started off by exploring the museum, especially the open art exhibition. We had a story in the library, Mr Majeka - I told the children that when I was little this was a TVProgramme.  We have watched the first episode back in class, we loved it.  I’m going to get some more of the stories for the classroom.

After lunch we attended a workshop all about the Stone Age, we were archaeologists digging for bones.  We found enough for a skeleton, but what animal was it. We read fact cards about different animals and decided it was an elk.  In the museum we saw a skeleton of an elk which was found near Poulton le Fylde.  We looked at some skulls believed to be of a Stone Age man and woman and other artefacts from the Stone Age and Bronze Age.

The children were amazing and asked lots of great questions. 

Week ending 24 Jan, by Mr Pearson

Date: 24th Jan 2020 @ 1:16pm

At the start of the week in our maths lesson we did our division and multiplication method however the questions had remainders in the answers. We have been focussing on our times tables as well. Please check out the maths section of our class page for links to some amazing resources to help you learn them.

In our English lessons this week, we planned our ideal weekend we were given a temporary pen license, which is why we had to write it in ink.

In our topic lesson we were learning all about the digestive system on.

In our grammar lessons in our weekly spellings which are ‘guardian, guide, guitar, guilty, guest, guard, guarantee, guinea pig, guillotine guess’

In our French lesson, we watched a three little pig video in French and in music we have playing our recorders and have been learning time table songs.

In sport we did some running techniques and used the running track. We the had Mark the cricket coach in to give advice how to throw and hit the wicket.

Times table test website, by Mr Pearson

Date: 23rd Jan 2020 @ 11:49am

Dear Parents

As you will be aware in June this year all Year 4 children will be assessed on their times tables knowledge. This means that your child will need to be fluent in all of the times tables up to 12 x 12.

To prepare for the assessment our maths homework for the immediate future will be to learn a focus times table each week. The children will need to know the answers in a random order and not just be able to count on, as in the test the children only have 6 seconds to answer each question. We will assess the children on a Tuesday in the back of their maths homework book to enable you to keep a check on how your child is progressing. We would hope all children would score full marks, however any child who makes several errors will keep that times tables focus for the following week. Your support in this matter is invaluable and will benefit your child greatly as they progress through school.

This is the website we will be using to practice for the test in June

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

Harris Museum Trip, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 21st Jan 2020 @ 8:13pm

We have had a lovely day at the Harris museum.

Seed dispersal, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 21st Jan 2020 @ 2:32pm

This afternoon the children have once again been scientists. They have been learning about seed dispersal and then had fun making sycamore seeds which are an example of a helicopter seed that disperses in the wind . 

Penguin's spellings 20 Jan, by Mr Pearson

Date: 20th Jan 2020 @ 8:01am

This weeks spelling focus is words that begin with 'gu' including the following

Week ending 17 Jan , by Mr Pearson

Date: 19th Jan 2020 @ 5:22pm

This week has been check up week and we have competed tests in maths, reading and grammar, punctuation and spelling.

This week in English we learnt all about complex sentences on Monday, we have also been looking at inverted commas. We then used a short film based on the Romans to write our story.

We have studied how the Romans built their roads and the reasons why.

We have been learning our lines and songs for our class assembly.

In this week’s maths lesson, we have been learning a lot about fractions of amounts for example 7/10 of 60 = 42. We keep learning and practising our times tables this week we are focusing on 8’s

Moving on to French, we learnt all about the 8 rooms in the house learnt in French.

Instead of P.E maths we did drama and retold the story of snow white, then did our own story to not talk to strangers.

On Friday we presented our class assembly based on our topic the Romans. Everyone agreed it was great acting and singing and we shared our knowledge with parents and the rest of the school.