Livingstone Newsletter
June Week 2
Friday 16th June
Rock School Guitar Assembly
This week we had our own early 'Rock School' when Edward Partridge's pupils showcased their guitar skills following weeks of lessons. The children rocked to Sonny, Cairo, Ruby, Aidan and Emily performing individually and to backing tracks - all were 'Most Excellent!'
Come and see Edward performing at the Summer Fair on the Friday 30th June and please let us know if you are interested in having private guitar lessons.
Tag Rugby League
Livingstone have set another new record! On Tuesday this week, Livingstone played Sunnyfields in the Barnet Borough Finals of the Tag Rugby League. After 30 minutes of hard-fought competitive rugby, we came away victorious winning the match 5-4 and were crowned champions! A huge congratulations to Matteo, Jack D, Qama, Albion, Alex, Lois, Hattie, Catherine and Geethesri who took part in the final, but also a massive thank you to everyone who took part in Tag Rugby over the year and made all of this possible. You should all be exceptionally proud of your achievements as a team!
Open classroom-Tuesday 20th June 2.45pm
All the classrooms will be open on Tuesday 20th June to all parents/and carers from 2.45pm onwards to view the work done in the Foundation Subjects throughout the year.
The pupils will be encouraged to talk about their work and teachers and support staff will be there to answer any questions.
Parents/Carers who cannot make this date can make an appointment to come in at 8.50am on Thursday 29th June.
Children's Summer Party and Family Summer BBQ
SUMMER PARTY
Dear Parent(s)/Carer(s),
The Livingstone Summer Party is taking place on Friday 30th June 2023.
It will be held in the hall from 1.45pm until 3.00pm.
There will be a charge of £5.00 which will include: Music, Drinks Station, Games, 3 Bouncy Castles and an ice lolly to cool them down.
Spending money
Please place this in a named purse/envelope ON THE DAY OF THE SUMMER PARTY.
Children will be able to spend their money on:
Glitter Tattoos / Glow in the dark tattoos
Face Glitter
Stick on Tattoos
Popcorn
Inflatables
Pocket money stall and many more
Prices range from 50p to £3.00.
Clothes
Children can come to school dressed in their own clothes.
FOLLOWED BY:
Livingstone’s Summer BBQ in the KS1 play area. There will be stalls, a bar serving beer, cocktails and prosecco and music followed by Karaoke.
Parents / Carers will pick up Children at 3.15pm and can enter Summer BBQ via the car park entrance. There will be a £1 entrance charge for adults.
The choir will be performing at 3.30pm.
Payments for The Summer Party can be made via School Money. Please have payments in by Thursday 29th June.
See you there!
The PTA Team
Nursery and Kingfisher Nursery
This week in the Nursery we are making Father's Day cards for special male members of our families and continuing to work on our sea creature theme. The children have been working hard to create some lovely painted handprint fish cards!
Reception
Reception have been enjoying the adventures of 'Supertato' this week. They have made and written about their very own superhero potatoes, have been using numicon to count evil peas, have been creating patterns with vegetable printing and learning about the artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo. We have had some brilliant portraits and some fantastic writing this week. Well done reception, potatoes have never looked so cute!
A note about 'Show and tell'....
Our class love show and tell, it has been greatly beneficial for their social and communication skills! However, now children have been told that we may not get to do show and tell every day, only if we have time!
Your child can bring in a show and tell only if they want to on their colour group day:
Monday - Red group
Tuesday - Yellow group
Thursday - Green group
Friday - Blue group
Your children should not be bringing in toys, shows, or tells on Wednesdays or any other day than their colour group day. Thank you for understanding :)
Achievement Awards!
Evan - for always being friendly and trying all activities.
Benji - for trying really hard with his writing.
Year 1
Year 1 were keen historians this week and learnt all about Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II. We discussed their reigns and the most important events that happened in their lifetimes. We have nearly completed the phonics screening check and are very proud of all of the children! In preparation for Year 2, we will now focus on the children's fluency and comprehension. In English, we reinvented our own versions of the story 'Look Up'. In Maths this week, we completed our place value topic, building, comparing and finding one more and one less than numbers up to 100. We will be starting D&T next week, so if anyone has any pop-up books at home, please can you bring them in on Monday so we can have a gentle look at them.
The first achievement award this week goes to Enzo for his amazing progress and achievement in phonics. The second achievement award goes to Jonathan for his excellent creative writing.
Year 2
Year 2 have enjoyed reading 'Class Three at Sea'. The children pretended to be a character from the story and wrote in role to create a diary entry about what happened. As well as creating their own pirate and writing a fabulous character description.
In Maths, we have been recapping how to tell the time including o'clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to.
We have been alternating our foundation subjects this week. We have done dance, computing, science and D.T where we are planning to make fruit kebabs.
Homework
Reasoning: Pages 38 and 39.
This week's certificates go to Lola for her exceptional writing and Eli for his hard work in math and telling the time throughout the school day.
Kingfisher 1
This week in Kingfisher 1 we have continued with our author study of Judith Kerr. The children were excited to see Mog back in the classroom and have done some excellent writing and role playing around the story.
In Maths we have been adding and subtracting using a number line, we drew large lines in the playground to help consolidate the concept, the children showed a big improvement using this method.
This week's achievement award goes to Dilan for accessing Nessy and making good progress in it.
Year 3
This week in Year 3, we have been learning all about shadows in Science! We have been learning about the difference between opaque, translucent and transparent and how the position of the sun changes the size of a shadow. In English, we have been writing some amazing sentences all about an ice dragon in a snowy setting from our book, 'Tell Me a Dragon'. We have been using a range of fronted adverbials and powerful vocabulary.
In Maths, we have been continuing our learning on time. We have been learning about time durations and years, months, days and hours.
Year 3 have also enjoyed another Chickenshed Workshop, working on a project called 'Amplify'.
CGP Pages
English - Apostrophes for single possession, pages 52 and 53
Maths - Clocks, page 51
Times Tables
We are currently revising our 3s, 4s and 8s so please make sure you are practising on Times Tables Rockstars!
The achievement awards this week go to Amelia and Sufyan for their fantastic, creative sentences in English this week. Well done!
Year 4
We have been very busy this week in Year 4. We have finally completed the Multiplication Tables Check. All their hard work this year has paid off and everyone should be exceptionally proud of their achievements!
In English, we have continued looking at persuasive techniques by using to drama to create an M&S style an advert. It's fair to say Mrs Craddock and I were left feeling hungry after watching them.
After being caught in the rain in science, we have continued looking at living things and their habitats and how human activity has resulted in certain species being endangered or extinct.
CGP
Maths: Finding line of symmetry and completing symmetrical figures - pages 56 and 57
SPaG: Staying in the same tense - page 29
This week's achievement award goes to the whole of Year 4 for their excellent work with times tables throughout the year! Well done everyone :)
Year 5
The children had a fantastic time on our trip to Knebworth House yesterday! They did some calligraphy, played Tudor instruments and practised Tudor dancing, learned all about the ingredients needed for a grand Tudor banquet and reinforced everything they've learned about the Tudors. They impressed all the adults with their knowledge and curiosity. See the photos below :)
In Maths, they continued working on decimals by multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000.
In English, they practised the grammar they'll use for their balanced arguments based on our whole-class text, 'Pig Heart Boy'.
In History, they learned about Elizabeth I's rivalry with Mary, Queen of Scots. They also learned about the Spanish Armada in 1588, and why we were rivals with Spain.
CGP Books
Maths: page 31 (thousandths)
English: pages 18-19 (trickier relative clauses)
Achievement Awards!
This week's awards go to Leah for her curiosity on our trip to Knebworth House, and to Anastasia for her analysis of primary sources about the Spanish Armada - well done, girls!
Year 6
This week in Year 6, show rehearsals are continuing in the classroom before we move to the stage, next week. Please encourage your child/ren to learn their lines and remind them to bring their script into school everyday.
In Science, we have begun to look at the heart, it's role in our body and how to keep it healthy. In the next couple of weeks, the children will be dissecting a lambs heart to explore the parts of the heart in further detail. Please look out for a letter, which will be emailed to you' with further details.
Today, the children have had a road safety workshop which reinforced how to cross the road safely without distractions and what hazards could be potential dangers. As the children become independent travellers this will have been very beneficial for them.
CGP Homework
English - pages 88 and 89
Maths - pages 66 and 67
This week's achievement awards go to Hattie for her excellent portrayal of her character in the show and Matteo for his kindness and thoughtfulness towards his peers.
Kingfisher 2
This week in Kingfisher 2 we had a great time at Willows Farm!
Despite the heat, everyone enjoyed riding the tractors, petting and feeding the various animals and playing in the adventure playground! We even met Peter Rabbit!
In English, we have been learning about fact and opinion and sequencing key events in preparation for our recount writing about our day trip to the farm. We have lots to write about!
In Maths, we have continued to learn about time and are getting really confident to tell the time past/to the hour.
This week’s achievement award goes to Mario for his writing about the Willows farm trip and his fab work telling the time to O’clock and half past.
Non-Uniform Days
In order to ensure that we have a wide variety of prizes, we are asking for your donations to be guided by these suggestions.
Please feel free to donate anything that you feel could be used to fund-raise for the school as all donations are appreciated by the PTA.
Friday 23rd June
Rec & Nur -New Children’s Gifts and Toys for Tombola
Yr1 and Yr2 - New Adult Gifts and Toys for Tombola
Yr3 and Yr4 - New Children’s Gifts and Toys
Yr5 and Yr6 - New Adult Gifts and Toys for Tombola
Thursday 29th June
Rec & Nur - Toys and Cakes
Yr1 and Yr2 - Toys and Cakes
Yr3 and Yr4 - Toys and Cakes
Yr5 and Yr6 -Toys and Cakes
Thank you for your support in doing this for us, as all funds raised will be reinvested in improving the school for your child/ren
Monday 19th:
- Choir to Arts Depot for Barnet Music Festival
Tuesday 20th:
- Years 3 and 4 Chickenshed Workshop
- Open Classroom to Parents/Carers from 2:45pm
Friday 23rd:
- Non-uniform Day (read further down for required donations)
- Selected KS2 Athletic Competition
- Year 4 Camp Evening
Monday 26th:
- INSET Day - school closed to pupils
Tuesday 27th:
- New Reception intake meeting - 9am
Thursday 29th:
- Non-uniform Day (read further down for required donations)
Friday 30th:
- Summer Party and Family BBQ (see below for non-uniform days and more info)
JULY 2023
Monday 3rd:
- Sports Day for whole School - more info to follow
Tuesday 4th:
- Years 5 and 6 Sex and Relationships - workshop for Parents at 8:30 - 9:00 AM
- Reception Graduation Show 2:30pm
Wednesday 5th:
- Girls Football Final - John King Cup 3:30pm
Thursday 6th:
- Year 6 Barnet Secondary School Transition Day
Monday 10th:
- Kingfisher Music Assembly
Tuesday 11th:
- Year 6 Sports Transition Day - HOME
Wednesday 12th:
- International Dance Day
Thursday 13th:
- Year 6 'School of Rock' Show with Years 4 and 5 to rest of the school
- Years 5 and 6 Football Festival for Selected Pupils
Friday 14th:
- Year 5 and 6 Sex and Relationship Workshops
- Year 6 'School of Rock' Show to Parents/Carers 1:45 - 3:00 PM
- After School Activity Clubs finish for the term.
Monday 17th:
- Year 6 'School of Rock' Show to Parents/Carers 6:30 - 8:00 PM
Wednesday 19th:
- Year 6 Prom Night 6:30-8:45 PM
Thursday 20th:
- Year 6 Leaving Assembly 9am - Year 6 Parents/Carers to attend
END OF TERM - School closes at 2pm (No Cabin Club)