Livingstone Primary & Nursery School WK1 DEC 2021

Nursery have been using ICT software 1st Paint to make some patterns. They selected the colours and used their fingers to draw each picture.'

Oh what fun in Reception class this week! We have been working hard to learn our Christmas songs, ready to sing to the parents next week and have been on our best behaviour since the elves have arrived! They arrived on Wednesday in a special box, and we read the story before writing a list of names. When we came into school on Thursday they had chosen their own names and made themselves the stars of the day! We learnt about Hanukkah and some of the children told us all about the traditions that they have at home and how they celebrate. We have worked hard in phonics this week and would like you to practice these sounds at home:

Ms Edwards' group - sounds up to qu, ng and nk

Ms Purse's group - sounds up to y

Ms Knappett's group - recapping m a s d t

Arianna - for being extremely brave in the playground

Holly - for doing brilliantly in phonics this week

This week the children have been working really hard on their Maths and Reading assessments. We are very proud of the progress they have all made. Well done year 2! Keep up the great work!

We have also started our new Geography unit on the polar regions which has been very exciting. We have learnt about the locations of the Arctic Circle and Antarctica within earth and why these places are so cold. We have looked at the locations of them in relation to the equator and how they differ to countries near the equator. We have really enjoyed this topic so far and have enjoyed watching some clips of the Blue Planet where we have seen the icebergs and frozen ice. We have used google earth to locate various places on the globe and this has been really interesting. We look forward to continuing this unit next week where we will start to learn about the animals within these places and the physical features of these parts of the world.

Our achievement awards go to Evie for her brilliant effort and focus in all her assessments and to Lukas for his excellent geographical knowledge and questioning about the polar regions.

This week children have completed a range of tests in Maths and English. They have worked incredibly hard and we are very happy with their results. We are super proud and they should be proud of themselves too. Well done, Year 3! *Round of applause* :D

Our afternoons have been spent rehearsing for our fabulous show. On top of this, we had a brilliant science lesson to end our science topic; Animals Including Humans. We have been learning about the diet of animals and on Tuesday we focused on what a barn owl eats. We learnt all about regurgitation, focusing on the process of owls regurgitating and why this happens. We went onto investigating what was inside an owl pellet. To begin with, the children were a little squeamish but it was followed with big smiles and eager hands to get stuck in and dissect a owl pellet to identify what was inside.

CGP Books

Maths- 8-9

English-pages 36-37

This week's awards go to Cyrus for his brilliant science vocabulary and Medina for her excellent effort with her reading.

Miss Smith and Mr Thomas could not be more proud of the children this week! They have done fantastically in their assessments and shown excellent progress since September - long may their hard work and effort pay off.

In Maths, the children have learned how to multiply and divide numbers by 10, 100 and 1000, including decimals too. It's a tough skill but thankfully, they'll get lots of practise in their arithmetic lessons.

In English, we have continued our work on persuasive adverts. The children have learned how to use colons to introduce a list, conjunctions to extend their sentences and chosen powerful adjectives and adverbs to persuade their reader.

We have started our new DT topic on frame structures (specifically bridges). The children enjoyed practising techniques to strengthen structures using art straws. Next week, they'll be making bridges in small groups - very exciting!

CGP Books

English pages 36-37 (capital letters, full stops and question marks)

Maths pages 21-22 (multiplying and dividing by 10, 100, 1000)

This week's awards go to Qamarzada and Leo for their excellent progress in reading - well done, boys!

It’s been assessment week this week and the children have been working through a number of assessment papers. There has been lots of question reading and the boys have needed to pull out all their previous learning but they have been so grown up and got on with anything asked of them.

In Maths we managed to fit in some Geometry and have been describing turns. We’ve been using vocabulary such as quarter turns, three quarter turns, half turns and full turns as well as learning about clockwise and anticlockwise.

Today was exciting as we had a special visitor too! Ho Ho Ho!

All the boys in KF2 have really tried their best in the assessments and done us proud, so this week the Achievement Award goes to each of them for their great effort and hard work!!