Livingstone Primary & Nursery School WK2 JAN 2025

Reception have had such a busy week on the Naughty Bus! They have really enjoyed our key text and explored a range of activities to develop their understanding and learning. We have painted and labelled buses, asked and answered questions about the story and buses and even made our own virtual reality bus in the classroom this week! The children have been looking at maps and routes and are very excited to be going on a double decker bus next Wednesday. We are getting the bus all the way to Enfield before spotting some other buses and making the journey back.

We're really looking forward to extending the learning about our story and can't wait to see what other amazing routes we can go down. Beep, beep!

Year 2 have been counting pounds and pence in Maths. We have made different amounts and compared amounts of money. In English, children wrote informative fact files about Polar Animals using a range of punctuation. As part of our Science unit, we went to the woods to explore our local habitat and identified different microhabitats where we can find animals. In Computing, our topic is about creative computing where we use technology to create different resources. We used Purple Mash to create pictograms and bar graphs and we will be continuing this next week.

Homework

Maths-45 and 46.

Reading-41 and 42.

This week's achievements go to Frankie for his excellent efforts in our reading comprehension lessons and Naz for her fantastic Maths work focused on money.

Year 3 keep showing increased independence and maturity this week. It has been amazing! Our budding chefs enjoyed making their original sandwich ideas and testing their products. In science, they have been thinking about the everyday uses of magnets, their properties and sorting materials into magnetic and non-magnetic groups. In Maths they have been building on the times table knowledge and applying it to knowing how to multiply a 2-digit number by 1 digit. We have been this using dienes and drawing it pictorially to help us understand what is happening to our tens and ones when we are multplying.

Homework

Maths: pages 45 -46 (page 47 is optional)

Comprehension: pages 18 and 19

Achievements this week go to Liam and Mollie. They have been challenging themselves in their learning by being effective participators and using reflective thinking in their responses to scientific enquiries. Sami also receives an achievement certificate for his 'can do' attitude, always trying and never ever giving up.

This week, the children learned how to multiply using the column method and how to divide using the bus stop method - they were very confident with this!

In English, they learned the following grammar in preparation for their story-writing next week: semi-colons, hyphens, direct speech and show not tell.

In Computing, they enjoyed creating their own games based on Beowulf, as well as creating blog posts about e-safety.

Reminder: please encourage your child to read the song words at home.

Homework due by Weds 22nd Jan

Maths: pages 48 and 49 (multiplication and division)

Punctuation: pages 30 and 31 (punctuating speech)

This week's awards go to Amelia for being a helpful member of the class, and to Ryann for her excellent work on direct speech - well done, girls!

In Maths this week we have been practising our skills in addition. We have looked at counting on and the formal methods.

In English we have continued looking at 'Little Red Riding Hood.' We used our plans to type our own retellings of the story. We worked hard on our independent skills and produced great stories.

This week's award goes to Daniel for trying hard to include descriptions in his writing. Well done Daniel!