Year 6: The Elephants: Blog items
Enjoying the sunshine 🌞 , by Mrs Pratten
Date: 27th Jun 2019 @ 12:29pm
Today Year 1 as part of their Geography work, went out and about exploring Longton. They had to look for human and physical features. We found lots of human activity and decided that this was beacause we live in a village.
Thank you for sending in the baby photos, we had a lot of fun guessing who was who, they were all very cute!
Water ,water everywhere!!!!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 21st Jun 2019 @ 7:55am
The Elephants have had great fun this week learning about capacity.They have been exploring how many cupfuls will fit In different containers, using language such as half full, empty, nearly full. The highlight was definitely making space cocktails where they had to measure out different quantities of juices.
I have put on the recipes on for you too have a go at home or make up your own,
First week fun, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 14th Jun 2019 @ 4:08pm
This week we have been learning how to measure using counters, cubes, our hands etc.We have also learnt how to measure using a ruler.
In Geograohy we have been using symbols for recording a route and drawing a plan of the classroom from an aerial viewpoint.
A great end to arts week, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 24th May 2019 @ 5:14pm
Yesterday the Elephants had a great morning designing tiles and then using them to make prints, they look amazing.Today they worked with Kate learning about and exploring how to use clay clay, they made some coil pots and birds.
We hope you all have a fabulous holiday and we will see you all soon , Mrs Pratten,Mrs Thomson and Miss Howarth😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎
Whole school WW1 beach art, by Mrs Brown
Date: 22nd May 2019 @ 7:27pm
We had the most amazing day at the beach creating works of Art in the sand.
A brilliant day on the beach😎, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 21st May 2019 @ 6:33pm
We all had a fabulous day on the beach, making sandcastles, digging holes, exploring the sand dunes and helping with the whole school art work. Amazing!!!
Arts week ~ Day 1, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 20th May 2019 @ 6:11pm
Today we have been very busy practicing our painting skills.
First we painted shapes very carefully and then we learnt about primary colours and the colour wheel. We had to mix our own colours from red, yellow and blue.
Next we had a go at making shades by adding white or black, we then used our new found skills to paint a background all ready to add some more detail later in the week in the style of Paul and John Nash. ( WW1artists)
We amazed our teachers with our fantastic painting skills🙂
Looking forward to the beach tomorrow- don’t forget your bucket and spade!!!
Maths treasure hunt, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 17th May 2019 @ 2:41pm
Today we enjoyed a fun adding and subtraction treasure hunt.We had to work with a partner to find and solve clues hidden on the field. We were amazing and really impressed Miss Howarth🙂
Hand washing!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 14th May 2019 @ 6:48pm
Today we had a visit from Tanya who showed us how to wash our hands properly and why it is so important.
We learnt that you should keep washing your hands while you sing Happy Birthday through twice and then you have washed them for long enough.
We tested this out on Eve and Bobby, it was Eves birthday today so we sang to her.
They put their hands in a special machine that showed all the germs, then went to wash their hands.Eve washed hers better than Bobby with nearly no germs left, great hand washing Eve🙂
Class assembly , by Mrs Pratten
Date: 9th May 2019 @ 3:44pm
A big well done to the Elephants for a fantastic class assembly, you were all amazing.🙂
Hope you all enjoyed finding out what we have been learning and looking at our fabulous photographs from Imagine That and a big thank you for supporting us!👍
Sorting materials, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 3rd May 2019 @ 2:46pm
This afternoon we sorted materials into groups.They all had to have something that was the same .Can you guess how we sorted them?
Imagine that !, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 1st May 2019 @ 7:17pm
We had a fab day at Imagine That today, photos to follow at our assembly next week.The children will bring home their slime (!) , bath bomb and fridge magnet tomorrow.
Monday fun,, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 29th Apr 2019 @ 4:57pm
Today we had a fun lesson learning about numberlines. We jumped along outside and then did activities in the classroom.
In science we continued our materials investigations, helping ted choose a material to make a new umbrella.
We had make a prediction and then test different materials to see how well they worked.To make it fair we used a pipette ,so that the same amount of water was used each time. We were brilliant scientists and most of us were right in our predictions, the flower fabric was the best. ( Mrs Prattens old rain coat!)
Welcome back, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 23rd Apr 2019 @ 7:28pm
We have had a great start to our new term, lovely to catch up with the exciting holiday news and see everyone again.
We started our new science topic this afternoon , thinking about different materials and what things are made of. We enjoyed looking around school for things made of wood, metal, brick, plastic, fabric, rubber and paper.
Eggcellent Easter bonnets, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 4th Apr 2019 @ 6:55pm
Well done all the Elephants who made fantastic Easter bonnets for our parade, they were all different and all amazing😊 and the children were rightly proud of their beautiful bonnets.
Today we also enjoyed working in expert groups to share information about the different animal groupings. Some wrote about mammals,some birds,reptiles,amphibians and fish. We then shared our facts and used them to write our own factfiles. We impressed our teachers with our fabulous writing.
We also had fun teaching Jigsaw Jack how to cross the road safely.
Easter fun!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 2nd Apr 2019 @ 5:56pm
We had fun this afternoon making our Easter chicks,lots of cutting out ,decorating and attaching with split pins, they all look great,
Cooking fun!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 29th Mar 2019 @ 11:37am
We have been busy this week making some lovely cakes for Mother’s Day. Today we had fun choosing how to decorate our cakes with Miss Howarth. They look yummy!
We hope you all have a lovely day with your families on Sunday😊🙃🤪 They
Position work at the park, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 25th Mar 2019 @ 3:59pm
Today we enjoyed Maths at the park in the sunshine. We were learning about positions, under,over,and around.We also learnt our left and right and did some half turns and whole turns. Then we had a sneaky play because we had done some fantastic learning!
Sharing fun, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 21st Mar 2019 @ 9:05am
This week the elephants have enjoyed sharing things equally with Miss Howarth, they shared money, counters and even chocolate! Then they tackled some tricky problems .
Our English work this week has been all about writing instructions, we worked as groups to write instructions, had to listen to instructions on how to draw a pigeon and then write our own.
In our plant work we have been looking at wild flowers and sorting them using a key and answering questions.
more photos, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 12th Mar 2019 @ 7:11pm
In the jungle! We saw lots of interesting leaves and plants.
Myerscough trip, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 12th Mar 2019 @ 6:55pm
Today we had a great day out at Myrscough, we explored the gardens, visited the tropical and temperate houses.We also had a sneaky look at some animals and stick insects. They let us smell lots of herbs and different plant leaves they smelt delicious, we also looked at different seeds and bulbs.We planted our own sunflower seeds, don’t forget to water them!
Charity Toy Sale, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 11th Mar 2019 @ 8:38pm
Thank you to everyone who supported our Toy sale over the last 2 weeks, whether you donated or bought.
The children voted on the charity they wished to support, with an overwhelming majority they chose Guide Dogs for the Blind.
We are contacting them to arrange for them to come into school so we can present them with the money and find out a little more about the work they do.
THANKYOU we raised £
Class compliment fun, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 11th Mar 2019 @ 6:00pm
This afternoon we had our class compliment, we chose a games / party activities as outperform trip. We bought our own toys in, used some of the classroom activities, played pass the parcel and had some party treats. It was a lovely afternoon, well done Elephants!
Afternoon fun, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 8th Mar 2019 @ 3:59pm
This afternoon some children enjoyed swapping their books and a big thank you to all those parents who came in to read with the children, they all loved it!
