Livingstone Primary & Nursery School WK2 MAR 2023

This week in the Nursery we have been reading the story of 'The Gingerbread Man'. The children have got to know the story and the characters and have been brilliant with their efforts in saying what happens next in different parts. They have also been making their own gingerbread dough, rolling it out and using the cutters to make their own gingerbread men!

Kingfisher Nursery's key text has also been the gingerbread man. The children having enjoyed counting, colouring, making and decorating and especially eating gingerbread people.

We have also leaned into the weather and the children have been exploring their own igloo in the classroom. They even had a special visit from Olaf from Frozen!

Many thanks to the parents who joined us for Phonics Impact. The children really enjoyed showing you how we learn how to read and spell using Read Write Inc and we hope it was helpful in supporting your children at home.

This week in Year 1, we continued to focus on place value to 50 which you can consolidate in their Maths homework.

Our English lessons were based on the text, The Think-ups, which we heard Claire Alexander read to us at Pickled Pepper Bookshop.

We have finished our Geography topic, and had a fantastic time learning how to use an atlas to locate and find physical and human features in each of the 7 continents.

Next week we will begin our topic of 'past and 'present' in History. Please remember to send in photos of your children as babies, toddlers and Year 1 children.

Have a lovely weekend!

This weeks achievement awards go to Aysha and Daniel for their excellent independent work identifying the continents and oceans of the world.

This week in English, Kingfisher 1 have been continuing to look at stories from other cultures. Our last book featuring Handa is called 'Handa's Noisy Night'. In the text we have explored the sounds of some unusual animals and compared them to everyday sounds. The children have described the emotions felt by the characters at different parts of the story.

In Maths the children have been progressing very well in their understanding of subtraction.

It was lovely to have so many parents join us for impact, we hope that you found it useful.

This week's achievement award goes to Daniel for his excellent reading and writing, well done!

This week in Year 4, we have been looking at equivalent fractions and adding two or more fractions of the same denominator in maths. In English, we have been looking at conjunctions and personifications for our writing next week.

In Science, we've been looking at the types of teeth, their function and how to maintain good oral hygiene. Today, we set up our tooth decay experiment to see how different liquids affect our enamel.

CGP:

Maths: Adding and Subtracting Fractions - pages 30 to 31

SPaG: Verb Agreement - pages 30 to 31

TTRS: 12s

This week's achievement award goes to Elon for his hard working and positive attitude, and to Olivia for her excellent work in science.

This week, Year 6 have completed their fantastic non- chronological reports on WWII and have begun learning about the features of a letter as they are going to write a letter in role based upon a character from our class book 'Letters from a Lighthouse'.

In Maths, the current topic is co-ordinates where the children are applying their existing knowledge to work out the co-ordinates when the axis are un-numbered.

In our foundation lesson, our current topic is 'Celebrating Culture and Seasonality' in DT. The children sampled many different soups this week where they were surprised that they liked some; I know some requests for the soups will have come home to you especially for the red lentil soup! Next week, the children will be creating their own recipes and will then be making them so you can look forward to tasting their creations!

Homework pages

English: pages 26 and 35

Maths: pages 33 and 35

This week's achievement awards go to Aaliyah for her focus during lessons and Nathan for trying all of the soups during our soup tasting.