Livingstone Primary & Nursery School WK2 SEP 2023

Welcome to all our old and new pupils!

This week, the children have started to settle in and are getting to know each other as well as the new teaching teams. They have been very busy playing, making constructions, reading stories, role-playing and creating birthday cakes for our September birthday boys and girls.

It has been a great start of the school year, and we are looking forward to growing and learning together.

Mrs Segal and Mrs. Hunter were treated to another fantastic week in Year 1.

We are learning about where we live in our Geography lessons. Please ask your children to name the four countries in the United Kingdom. Challenge them by asking them to find the UK on a map, and even spot the capital cities! Next week we will be going on a local walk to find physical and human geographical features.

We continue to work on place value and sorting in Maths, so please do pages 4 and 5 in their maths practice journal. We have started learning new sounds in our phonics lessons and one of our best-loved times of the school day is when Mrs. Hunter or Mrs. Segal reads us the 'star of the day's favourite story. We look forward to seeing you at Read with Me on Monday.

Our first achievement award this week goes to Lou for her excellent number line she created out of numicon and unifix cubes. Our second achievement award goes to Naz for her abounding enthusiasm for all aspects of Year 1. Keep up this positive behaviour for learning.

This week we welcomed our Reception children, there was a lot of excitement in class about meeting new friends.

In Maths this week the children counted with Dienes.

In English we continued working on our 'all about me' topic.

The children enjoyed the 'New Pet' story and were engaged in talking about their favourite pets.

This week's achievement award goes to all our reception children for a great first week at school.

This week, we've have looked at numbers up to 1,000 in Maths and explored our new book 'Into the Forest' by Anthony Browne, focusing on inferences, predictions and emotive language. In Science, we have investigated sound absorbing materials and how pitch can be changed and how it differs to the amplitude.

This week's achievement award goes to Christina for her excellent work in Maths and Junior for his brilliant explanation in Maths. Well done :)

It has been a very busy week for Year 6. They have begun to think about their ideas for their first long write which is a Victorian narrative. The grammar they've looked at so far is fronted adverbials, conjunctions and how they can incorporate their senses within their writing. We have also begun our class book 'Cogheart" by Peter Bunzil which is set in Victorian England.

In History, the children have been looking at the different inventions that the Victorians created and how they have evolved for modern day society.

This week, Year 6 also got to watch and be involved in a production of 'Macbeth'. The children were incredibly enthusiastic, and I can see we have some budding actors amongst us.

Homework

Every week, Year 6 will be bringing home homework in the form of CGP books. They will have allocated pages to complete. Please only do these pages as it is consolidating the learning they have completed during the week, so we use it as assessment to see if the topic needs to be covered further.

CGP pages this week.

Reading: pages 4-9 - Working in the Warehouse

Maths: pages 6 and 7

This week's achievement awards go to Brychan for sharing his extensive knowledge about the Victorians with us and Grace for always being focused and completing her work to a high standard. Well done!