Our blogs
Fraction Pizzas, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 17th Jan 2020 @ 7:50pm
Today we explored finding a quarter of numbers to fill our pizza with toppings.
Class Assembly, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 17th Jan 2020 @ 7:46pm
Well done on an amazing assembly Penguins. We all learnt lots of facts about the Romans.
Mrs Catterall
3D shapes, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 17th Jan 2020 @ 7:44pm
We have been exploring our new resources by making and describing 3D shapes.
Fantastic start to 2020, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 17th Jan 2020 @ 6:41pm
The Pandas have started the New Year with a fantastic mindset. We are focusing on storytelling, reading and writing. Take a look at some of the activities we have been up to.
Food Fair , by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 17th Jan 2020 @ 3:55pm
Well done Giraffes on your successful Food Fair
Foody fractions, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 17th Jan 2020 @ 3:51pm
Today we enjoyed a foody fractions session. We chopped up cakes into halves and quarters and saw how the pieces became smaller as we chopped it up, especially into thirtieths! We got into groups of 4 to divide a whole kitkat into halves and then quarters, of course the best part was eating the kitkat👍🙃😜🙂
Royal Learning , by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 17th Jan 2020 @ 2:56pm
Today we have started to learn the history of the British Monarchy . King Thomas of London and Queen Cara of Cardiff have had a coronation . Say your elephant what their royal name is .
This week!, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 16th Jan 2020 @ 3:12pm
This week it has been check up week, we have done a maths test, a G.P.S test and a reading test. It has been hard work but we all did really well and we are prepearing for are sats next year.
In maths we have been doing perimiter, which some of us found hard work but some of us mastered it, sometimes we had too work out the missing sides but sometimes we just had to add it up it was quite tricky to notice the sides that were missing and miss reynalds had to keep reminding us it wasd not too scale. Now we are just about to start learning about graphs wich alot of us find hard. In topic (like in maths) we have been doing line graphs about the weather and temperature.
In R.E we have learnt about budism and its story. Siddhartha is the man that became the first budda and he found out what its like outside of the palace and foun out we all die at some point
Shadows - what makes a good shadow?, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 13th Jan 2020 @ 10:21pm
Today we explored shadows. We were trying to discover which material would make the best shadow. We know our bodies are good at making shadows - we watched the clip from Britain’s Got Talent of the group of people who used their bodies to make shadows to tell an emotional story.
We tried different materials to make shadows using our puppet theatre, observing which made the best shadow. We explored how much light would travel through different materials. We used the data loggers to see how much light came through different materials. This helped us discover if the material was transparent, translucent or opaque.
We concluded that the best shadows were made by opaque materials as they didn’t let light pass through them.
Cricket session 1, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 13th Jan 2020 @ 10:14pm
Our first cricket session, we braved the cold and went outside to practise our hitting skills. Can you remember all the tips Mark gave you?
Spelling Phonics, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 13th Jan 2020 @ 10:12pm
As well as learning the year 3/4 spelling words we are refreshing our memory of phonics. We have been on a word hunt around the classroom to find and sort words which have the a phoneme. This can be spelt ea, ay, a_e, ai, ey, aigh, eigh. Keep a look out for them when reading.
A fantastic first week back!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 10th Jan 2020 @ 3:45pm
The Koalas have settled back really well and have been fantastic learners this week.
We have enjoyed the story No Thank You! all about animals getting the wrong food. We had to order the animals and give them a name.Today we thought of our own animals and used our imaginations to feed them some funny food!
We have also been thinking about finding half and have learnt that half is 2 pieces which have to be the same. We even did chocolate fractions and had to try to half a twix with our partner, the best bit was eating the twix, unlucky if you had smaller piece and didn’t quite make it a half!
We have also been learning about mammals and other animals and where they live, we used a map of the world to help us. We know there are 7 continents I wonder if the Koalas can remember what they are...?
spring one , by Miss Reynolds
Date: 9th Jan 2020 @ 3:05pm
HAPPY NEW YEAR to all . hope you all had a wonderful christmas time . This half term we are doing shang dynasty this topic is based in China. it happened between 1746 BC AND 1046 BC. In math we are learning about the perimiter of shapes and in english we have been doing relative clauses. today we had to write any story of our choice but it had to contain relative clauses . in science we are learning about living things and there .
by Evie and Grace
Reading Rocket, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 8th Jan 2020 @ 10:38am
Our Reading Rocket is now complete.
Well done to Year 3 and Mrs Atkinson and everyone who brought in egg boxes.
Welcome Back - Happy New Year, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 8th Jan 2020 @ 10:33am
Happy New Year to you all, I hope you all had a fabulous Christmas. The children were excitied to tell me all about what Santa brought them and I'm looking forward to reading their Holiday Passports over the weekend. If yours is still at home please bring it in as soon as possible.
Thank you again for all my lovely gifts. I bought myself a jewellery box with the voucher, thank you.
This term has lots of activities planned.
Our main theme is going to be History based 'The Stone Age to the Iron Age'.
We will also be looking at Light and Dark in Science, Dreams and Goals in Jigsaw, Islam and the prophet Muhammad (pbuh) in R.E. Swimming continues on a Thursday, we will be doing life saving skills, the children will need to bring starting next week a T.shirt and Shorts to go over their normal swimming gear. I will send more detailed information once I've spoken to Jane at swimming this week.
Projects can be connected to any of our topics or can be about your child's own interests. Projects are due to be in Wednesday 22nd January - Parents evenings are Mon 27th and Wednesday 29th.
We have 18 children attending an athletics event next Tuesday afternoon - letters will go out this week.
We have also got our school trip on Tuesday 21st January, we have booked to go to the Harris Museum in Preston for a workshop all about the Stone Age. Letters and details will be sent out later this week.
The children have returned to school ready to learn and have been shining brightly with their focus and concentration. I'll keep you posted on all our amazing work.
Mrs Catterall.
A huge THANK YOU, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 20th Dec 2019 @ 5:22pm
From myself and on behalf of Mrs Atkinson and Mr Hartnett we would all like to thank you for the lovely gifts we have received this week. We are truly thankful, it has been a pleasure to teach your amazing children this term, they bring us so much joy, enthusiasm and amazing personalities we are blessed to be able to help them care, grow and shine.
There are lots of things planned for another exciting term in 2020. We look forward to seeing you all then and hearing about your holidays.
WE WISH YOU A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR 🥳
Enjoy lots of family time, fun and laughter.
🎅🤶🎄☃️🎉🎊 🎁
Mrs Catterall x
Making Meerkats, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 20th Dec 2019 @ 5:11pm
This week we had our first go at sewing. Hanging Meerkat decorations were the aim of the activity. The Meerkats were marvellous. They got on threading their own needles, helping each other out, it was a lovely time. We will be doing some more sewing next term without pre punched holes, we have some keen seamstresses amoungst us, I can’t wait to see their creations.
Christmas party., by Mrs Catterall
Date: 20th Dec 2019 @ 5:06pm
I few pictures of the party, I was busy dancing away most of the time, 😂
Breakfast with Santa, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 20th Dec 2019 @ 5:01pm
We enjoyed breakfast with Santa this week. Here are a few photos that weren’t too blurry.
Calendars, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 20th Dec 2019 @ 4:58pm
The Meerkats have made some fantastic calendars. A scenic picture created using a range of patterns and colours.
Christmas wishes, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 20th Dec 2019 @ 3:39pm
Well done Koalas for all being fantastic this half term.Mrs Thomson and I both wish you all a very Merry Christmas and best wishes for the New Year. Have a wonderful time this Christmas, thank you too for the lovely gifts, not expected but much appreciated. Enjoy the holidays🎅👍
Christmas wishes, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 20th Dec 2019 @ 3:39pm
Well done Koalas for all being fantastic this half term.Mrs Thomson and I both wish you all a very Merry Christmas and best wishes for the New Year. Have a wonderful time this Christmas, thank you too for the lovely gifts, not expected but much appreciated. Enjoy the holidays🎅👍
Christmas party fun, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 19th Dec 2019 @ 4:02pm
The Koalas had a great time at our party this afternoon, dancing, games and a story with Father Christmas, fabulous!
A 2D shape puzzle and designing and describing2D shape snowmen, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 19th Dec 2019 @ 3:59pm
We had fun today working together to make a 2D shape puzzle.We each had different pieces and had to work out what shapes we thought we might have. Then we all helped to put it together, one group find 3 different ways!
We also had fun creating crazy snowmen out of 2 D shapes , we gave them a name and had to name and describe the shapes we had used.
Christmas party for reception year 1 and year 2, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 19th Dec 2019 @ 1:47pm
