Livingstone Primary & Nursery School WK1 MAR 2026

This week in Nursery our learning focused on People Who Help Us. The children really enjoyed our fire station role-play area, where they pretended to be firefighters responding to emergencies. In DT, the children created emergency vehicles using junk modelling, practising their cutting and sticking skills as they made fire engines. During our activities, the children also practised counting to 5 and 10 while “putting out fires” using water droplets.

We also had a wonderful time celebrating World Book Day. The children looked fantastic in their creative costumes and loved showing them off during our assembly. They also enjoyed sharing stories with buddies from Y3 and Y5 during our Buddy Reading sessions.

Talking Homework

Please talk with your child about people who help us in our community. You might discuss:

-Who helps us if there is a fire.

-Who helps us when we feel unwell.

-What different emergency vehicles do.

Encourage your child to draw a picture of a person who helps us and be ready to talk about it next week.

Have a lovely weekend!

Reception have had another very exciting week! It has been jam packed with events including Wonky Bars and a very interesting Hand Hygiene workshop. The children were very engaged and had great knowledge of why it is important to wash their hands. They even had the opportunity to see 'germs' on their hands under the light to make sure they were washing properly. We have loved World Book Day activities including dressing up and buddy reading with different classes. We have continued our reading of 'Farmer Duck' and impressed with different activities such as writing and cutting skills inspired by the story. The children are really progressing with their phonics and writing skills now and we encourage you to support them at home to continue making excellent progress.

On Monday, we are so excited to be welcoming in 5 eggs! We don't know what animal will be hatching, so talk to your children daily for updates and keep their curiosity going by discussing it with them.

This week in Year 2, we have finished our Maths unit about Multiplication and Division - we are now superstars at our 2, 5 and 10 times tables! In English we have explored using different forms of punctuation in our sentences such as forming questions, exclamation marks and commas in lists. In the afternoons, we have completed making our moving vehicles using a chassis, axles and wheels. We made the moving mechanism and tested our vehicles on different surfaces - the carpet, tables and even down a wooden ramp. We also had a visit from the community nurse who shared with us important information about how to look after our teeth. This week we have also participated in activities for World Book Day such as buddy reading with pupils from other year groups, dressing up and learning a class poem. Our class poem is Where Teachers Keep Their Pets, please practise the poem at home ready for our in-school performance next week.

Homework:

Maths - pages 64 and 65 (additional extra page 66)

Comprehension - pages 54 - 57 (Teeth)

Please practise our class poem for our performance (see separate sheet - each child has a highlighted section to learn)

The first achievement award is to Ellis for working hard to construct a successful moving vehicle.

The second achievement award is to Adam for working hard to construct a moving vehicle

Well done on completing your 2-week swimming course! We hope you will continue swimming regularly so that you don't lose this life-skill. In maths this week we learnt about calculating perimeter and began learning fractions with a practical lesson. Ms. Burnett and I were so impressed with the children's insights into and questions about worldviews on how the world began in our R.E. Lessons. We are learning the poem The Dragon Who Ate Our School during Guided Reading and look forward to performing it to the school very soon! We had a blast on World Book Day as well.

Homework:

Maths - p.61 and 62 (p.63 is optional)

English - Practise our performance poem - The Dragon Who Ate Our School. Remember to use expression and physical actions. Can you remember all of the words?

Achievement awards this week go to Isaac and Esmae for their amazing progress in swimming!

Year 5 have enjoyed many activities about Book Week, including learning our performance poem (Sick!), buddy reading and dressing-up - their costumes were very impressive!

In Maths, they learned how to calculate perimeter, including finding missing lengths and widths.

In English, they practised using grammar in preparation for their letter-writing next week: the perfect tense, subordinating conjunctions, and punctuating parenthesis with ( ) - ,

They've loved our Science unit on Earth & Space, which we finished today. They learned how the Earth, Moon and Sun move in relation to each other and how this causes day, night and different seasons.

Homework due by Weds 11th March

Maths: pages 72 and 73 (perimeter)

Grammar: pages 52 and 53 (brackets)

This week's awards go to Jordan for his excellent sentences with parenthesis, and to Samyar for his growing confidence and independence - well done, boys!