Livingstone Primary & Nursery School WK2 JUNE 2021

Reception are very excited about our new topic: People who help us. We painted emergency vehicles, wrote about our favourite key workers and subtracted using rungs on a firefighter ladder outside. We also trained to be firefighters in PE. We are fit, fast and have impressive core strength! What a great way to start our final term in Reception.

Today, we said goodbye to our tadpoles who have matured into strong, healthy young frogs and now will be released back into the wild!

Achievement awards this week go to George for his positive attitude to learning and excellent work in phonics as well as Biori for his ingenuity and care in our doctor’s surgery.

We have had a great first week back at school! In English, we have been focusing on the story The Snail and the Whale. We have created our own story maps using pictures and descriptive language. We then used our story maps to read aloud the story and this will help us structure our sentences when we retell the story next week in our writing.

In Maths, we have been learning about position and direction, learning our left from our right! We have created different tasks where we have focused on using the correct language to describe an objections position (right, left, forwards, backwards). We have enjoyed learning outside also giving our partners instructions to follow.

We are still enjoying learning about plants and this week have set up our own hydroponics farm in the classroom growing beans. In pairs, we have beans growing in a plastic bag with kitchen paper and water. Every three days, we are checking our beans some of which have already stared to germinate! We will continue to watch these and see how they grow.

This week our awards go to Sheena for her enthusiasm in her English work really working hard on her story mapping. The second award goes to Muthara for her excellent questioning regarding her science knowledge, always keen to learn more.

On Tuesday, Year 3 had an incredible day learning about Ancient Egypt with Mr Egypt himself!

We started the day learning about what life was like in Ancient Egypt and the different roles in society. Specifically, children and the differences between what girls and boys did in Ancient Egypt. We discussed many famous pharaohs, their tombs and sarcophagus. In particular, Tutankhamun’s tomb discovery and the valley of the kings. Later, we got to explore a range of artefacts linked to gods/goddesses and the importance of the afterlife with a focus on mummification. We learnt a lot of history today but that didn’t stop us from including a little English and Maths. We wrote our name in hieroglyphics and cracked the number system codes to solve some sums. It is safe to say we all left feeling inspired and a few of us wanting to be Egyptologists!

This week's rewards go to Sina for his fantastic enthusiasm towards our topic lessons and Brychan for his excellent reasoning and problem solving.

This week, Year 5 have become street artists for our unit in art, where they've been learning about the difference between street art and vandalism, learning about different types of street art, and creating their own graffiti 'throwies'.

In English, they've been learning about balanced arguments and took part in some very interesting debates.

In Maths, the children have continued their learning about angles.

This week's awards go to Tyler and Freddie for their fantastic debating skills in English - great work, boys!

Nightingales have been learning about place value and ordering numbers in Maths.

In English, the have been working from a Short Film called Spy Fox. Spy Fox saves the world from destruction and Nightingales have been learning how to use verbs to describe the action in the film and noun phrases to describe their hero's secret weapon.

The children wrote a poem with similes at the end of last week and each of them made a very confident presentation of their poem.

Our achievement award this week goes to Jaydon for the good progress he is making with his reading. Well done Jaydon.