Year 6: The Elephants: Blog items
Fathers day, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 12th Jun 2018 @ 9:41pm
Week Beginning Monday 11th June 2018, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 9th Jun 2018 @ 11:18am
Hello :)
I hope you have had a wonderful holiday.
Here is the plan for next week:
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Phonics |
This week the Meerkats will be completing the national phonics check. The checks will be administered on Tuesday and Wednesday. On Monday we will spend time reviewing all we've learned in phonics so far. |
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English |
We are going to review our holidays and write a recipe for a perfect holliday. |
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Maths |
We are reviewing telling the time and solving problems involving earlier and later. |
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Jigsaw |
We are beginning our Chaning Me topic. This week's lesson is about is about human and animal life cycles. |
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PE |
We are practising running and throwing in athletics. |
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Enterprise |
We are preparing for our class enterprise afternoon which will be on Wednesday 20th June. |
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History |
We will begin to learn about the life of Grace Darling. |
I look forward to seeing you all on Monday!
Mrs Coxhead
Scottish Dance, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 24th May 2018 @ 6:18pm
We learned a Scottish Dance this afternoon.
Ndebele Houses, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 24th May 2018 @ 6:17pm
We looked at some of the Ndebele house painting in South Africa and created our own versions.
Diva lamp painting, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 24th May 2018 @ 6:15pm
Once our clay had dried we painted our lamps and added some glitter to catch the light.
Peacock, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 22nd May 2018 @ 5:08pm
We learned that peacocks are the national bird of India. We watched a video of the peacock dance and painted our own using pearly paints.
Diva Lamps, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 22nd May 2018 @ 5:06pm
We used clay to make diva lamp holders. We will paint them once they’re dry.
Brass and woodwind, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 22nd May 2018 @ 5:05pm
Teachers and students from Penwortham Girls High School played us some music from different countries of the Commonwealth.
Fibre Artist, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 22nd May 2018 @ 5:02pm
This morning Caroline Finnigan came to school to show us how she turns sheeps wool into yarn that she can knit with and how she dyes the wool to make different colours.
Week Beginning Monday 21st May 2018, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 19th May 2018 @ 12:52pm
Hello,
I hope you are enjoying your weekend and the Royal Wedding, if you are watching.
Next week is our annual Arts Week so our timetable will be quite different! This year the theme is The Commonwealth. On Monday, we have a visit from a Deputy Lieutent for Lancashire who will teach the children a little about The Commonwealth. We also have a local artist, Peter Bourne, coming to school to make decorate fish with the children. On Tuesday, a local fibre artist will be sharing an assembly with the children about spinning wool and creating textiles. Some wind instrument players from Penwortham Girls High School will be coming to perform some of the songs they've been practising to Reception, Year One and Year Two. On Wednesday afternoon it is Sports Day (weather permitting). On Thursday, a dance group are coming to teach us some traditional Scottish dance. On Friday, a local artist who specialises in clay sculpture is coming to teach Year One some clay skills. Also, Peter Bourne is returning on Friday to help us to paint some poppies. On Monday, Wednesday and Friday we will practise for Dance from the Heart which is an annual dance event that takes place after half-term. We will also be doing our own art activities in class throughout the week based on countries from The Commonwealth.
We will change books on Friday as normal and check spellings. We will send home holidays passports instead of usual homework to complete over the half-term.
Please send in some kind of named old top/overall on Monday to keep in school all week. This is to protect the children's school uniform.
I look forward to seeing you on Monday,
Mrs Coxhead
Castle Decorating, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 18th May 2018 @ 8:33pm
On Monday we decorated our castles. They are very impressive!
Royal Wedding Lunch, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 18th May 2018 @ 8:29pm
Here are some pictures from the special lunch on Thursday.
Model castles, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 12th May 2018 @ 11:30am
Here we are beginning our model castles. We worked together with our partners.
Yoga, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 12th May 2018 @ 11:28am
We tried yoga with Emma. We followed a story as we learned different yoga positions.
Week Beginning Monday 14th May 2018, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 12th May 2018 @ 11:26am
Hello
Here is what we are doing next week:
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English |
We are writing information booklets about banquets - comparing medieval banquets in the past to royal banquets today. |
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Maths |
We are reviewing telling the time to the half hour and learning about position and direction. |
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Reading |
We are choosing the correct pronounciation for graphemes and using clues to answer inference questions. |
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Phonics |
We are reviewing everything we have learned to practise for our phonics check. |
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DT |
We are completing our castle models from last week. |
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Science/Geography |
We are studying the weather at this time of year and learning about weather forecasts. |
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Jigsaw |
We are learning to recognise our qualities as a person and a friend. |
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PE |
We are practising ball skills. |
I look forward to seeing you next week!
Mrs Coxhead
Week Beginning Monday 7th May 2018, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 7th May 2018 @ 1:57pm
Hello,
I hope you have been able to make the most the all the sunny weather this weekend.
This week is a little different than usual as it is our termly check-up week. Children will complete check-ups in Reading, Maths and Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling and Phonics.
Aside from check-ups, we will be making model castles in Design and Technology and learning about materials in Science. In PE we will have a practise of our races for sports day and practise our ball skills.
I look forward to seeing you tomorrow!
Many thanks,
Mrs Coxhead
Castle Paintings, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 4th May 2018 @ 5:50pm
We experimented with different colours and brushes in order to create castles pictures.
Scratch Junior, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 4th May 2018 @ 5:49pm
We tinkered on Scratch Junior. We made algorithms that made our characters move.
All stars Cricket, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 4th May 2018 @ 5:47pm
We enjoyed trying cricket with Mark from New Longton.
Week Beginning Monday 30th April 2018, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 28th Apr 2018 @ 1:03pm
Hello :)
I hope that you are enjoying your weekend. Here is what we are doing this week:
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English |
We are learning traditional rhymes, looking for rhyming words, sharing our preferences and writing our own version of a traditional rhyme. |
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Maths |
We are continuing our learning about number and place value. Specifically, we are comparing groups of objects and numbers and ordering groups of objects and numbers. |
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Phonics |
Mrs Thomson's group are learning about silent letters and Mrs Coxhead's group are learning unusual graphemes for vowel sounds. |
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PE |
On Thursday morning the Cricket Roadshow is coming to Year One so we will learn about and try a little cricket. We are also practising some of our ball skills. |
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Jigsaw |
We are continuing our topic about relationships by learning about people who help us. |
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Computing |
We are using ICT to design castle pictures. |
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Reading |
Books are changed on Friday this week. |
I look forward to seeing you all on Monday,
Mrs Coxhead
Greetings, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 27th Apr 2018 @ 5:46pm
In Jigsaw we were learning about greeting people. We made our own greetings in pairs.
Planning a story about The Three Wishes, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 27th Apr 2018 @ 8:15am
We made story maps to help us plan our stories about The Three Wishes.
Assembly blog, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 27th Apr 2018 @ 7:32am
Friendship was the theme in today's assembly. When we walked into the hall there was a question, that question was what does being a good friend mean to you ? We had a challenge where we had to finish a sentence with a different thing about our friends. One of the sentence starters was my friend is different to me because... we came up with because we are all unique! We then had some time to think about the qualities of our best friend. Good friends listen, so we looked at, the rules of listening. The rules of listening are: be still, look at the speaker, nod and look interested and ask questions that relate on what the speaker is saying. We were talking about how a good friend says nice things to us and how it makes us feel happy. We said that you can give your friends a positive stroke. We don't physically stroke them, but we give them a compliment or say well done. This makes the person you said it to feel happy, just like when you stroke a cat, it feels good and makes them happy and purr.
by Gracie and Abigail
Picture News - British Values - w/c 23rd April, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 27th Apr 2018 @ 7:27am
Sorry for the dealy, I didnt make it go live!
If you have Gracie and Abigail's Assembly Blog from Monday you will have discovered our topic for discussion this week was Loneliness.