Livingstone Primary & Nursery School WK1 JUN 2023

Reception have had a great week getting back to phonics, writing and learning in the classroom. The children thoroughly enjoyed their creative computing activity morning where they worked together to make electronic posters about themselves. They are also learning to type their names using a keyboard!

A reminder that all children need to have named water bottles in school each day. Now that the weather is getting warmer, children should also bring in named sunhats and need suncream applied each day. Thank you.

This weeks awards go to our new classmates!

Well done Sonny and Abid for making such a great start to reception class.

This week we have been reading the book 'Class Three all at Sea'. Th children role-played and acted out scenes from the book and practised expanded noun phrases to describe characters.

In Maths, we are continuing our revision of 2D and 3D shapes and number bonds to 10, 20 and 100.

We have also started our new topic in Design & Technology and the children had the chance to taste different fruit and express their opinion about the taste and smell. They also practised to cut, peel and thread fruit and vegetables using a knife, a peeler and a skewer.

It has been great fun!

Homework: Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling book p. 18-19 and 22-23

This week's achievement awards go to Gia Khang and Renee for their great inference skills in Reading Comprehension.

This week we have started a new book in English 'Tell Me a Dragon'. We will be using this book to write a narrative based on a snowy setting. We have been focusing on new vocabulary to describe the dragon and the setting. On Tuesday, we enjoyed a visit from Chicken shed theatre company. This was one of three workshops they are going to be doing with us which was really enjoyable. In Science, we have started our new unit based on light. With the sun now shining, we will be investigating shadows with the sunlight at different times of the days.

CGP Homework

Maths - pg 52 & 53 time problems

English - pg 44 & 45 sentence practice

Our first achievements this week goes to Holly for her fantastic vocabulary and use of subordinate clauses within sentences to describe a snowy setting.

The second achievement goes to Ryan for his excellent attitude towards all lessons and always pushing himself to do the best he can.

It's been a great first week back for Year 5.

In Maths, the children have learned how to add and subtract decimals and persevered to solve some difficult problems.

In English, we recapped our whole-class text, 'Pig Heart Boy', and started learning about balanced arguments. The children enjoyed debating questions, either being 'for', 'against' or the jury.

We are historians in the afternoons, learning all about The Tudors and the Elizabethan Age from 1485 -1603. The children looked at the Tudor family tree and learned all six Tudor monarchs in chronological order, learned about famous explorers (like Sir Frances Drake) and compared crime and punishment in the Elizabethan Age to today.

Reminder: We have our trip to Knebworth House on Thursday. Please pay and give permission if you haven't done so already via School Money.

CGP Books:

Maths: pages 42-43 (ordering and comparing decimals)

English: pages 48-49 (commas for extra information)

This week's awards go to Uzair for remembering so much about The Tudors, and to Chloe for challenging herself more in Maths.

KF2 have had a good week back after the half term break. They have been learning about recounts in English and identifying their key features, such as past tense. The boys also enjoyed talking and writing about the best day of their holiday.

In Maths, the boys have been working on telling the time past the hour. They have been reading analogue clocks and drawing the hands to make specific times.

This week’s KF2 achievement awards, go to George and Calvin.

George wrote a fab recount of his favourite day in the half term and impressed us when telling the time in 5-minute intervals. He has also been working with more independence.

Calvin worked really well with using tense correctly and did a good job with the challenge of using irregular past tense. He always tries to achieve his best work.