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Livingstone Primary & Nursery School WK3 APRIL 2024

Livingstone Newsletter

April Week 3

70th Anniversary Celebrations - School

Day Timetable

Friday 19^th April

On Friday 17th May the pupils will be performing songs and dances for the 70th Anniversary. However, due to limited space, and in order to allow as many people as possible to come, the pupils will be giving two performances.

Parents and carers will need tickets for the morning and afternoon assemblies as we need to manage numbers in the hall, but anyone can come to the midday performance as this is taking place outside, as part of the family picnic.

Children will be singing and performing songs relating to a specific decade, starting with the 1950s when the school was opened, and they will be asked to come in clothes reflecting that decade - more information will follow next week. In addition to this, throughout the day, pupils will be timetabled to do activities such as going on bouncy castles, making kites ....

Timetable

9.00 -9.30 am Assembly - Nursery AM and KS2 performing (parents/Carers of these pupils can apply to office for tickets)

12.00 pm Family Picnic - school open to all families to join us for lunch

1.30 pm Assembly - Whole school performing together in the playground (all parents/carers welcome - no ticket required)

2.30 -3.00 pm Assembly - Nursery pm, Reception and KS1 performing (parents/Carers of these pupils can apply to office for tickets)

A picnic lunch will be provided for Reception to Year 6. Please contact the school office by Friday 10th May if your child normally has a packed lunch but you would like them to have a school picnic lunch (no charge). Parents/Carers are welcome to bring a picnic and stay from 12pm onwards.

Parents/carers of Nursery pupils can join them at 11:30am to eat packed lunches.

Only Parents/Carers with tickets can attend the indoor performances.

70th Anniversary Celebrations - Evening

Tickets are now on sale on School Money or via the school office. The tickets are priced at £7.00 each and include a drink on entry. This is an over 18s event with a bar serving drinks and small selection of bar food. We have a live band playing covers and a disco and the theme is based on music through the decades, so please come dressed in the style of your favourite era.

Doors open at 7pm and the event finishes at Midnight.

Accessing Teams and Passwords

Pupils experiencing difficulties logging into Teams in the holidays were affected by changes made by LGFL.

Pupils with a password shorter than 8 characters now have to add hastag/s to make it longer.

If your password is 8 or nine characters long such as 12345678 or 123456789, you are ok - but if your password is 1234567 or 12345, you have to change it to 1234567# or 123456##.

Please contact the office or the class teacher if your experience further problems.

Fruit Snack

This is the first week of fruit snack for all the pupils and many pupils have taken up the offer.

Please check with your child if they are in KS2 and find out if they have been choosing to have fruit. If your child is taking fruit everyday, we would appreciate a donation towards the cost as it will make it more likely that we can continue this next academic year. We are asking for £6 for the whole term and this works out to a subsidised cost of less than 10p per day.

Year 5 Secondary Transfer - Aptitude Test Dates

Nursery and Kingfisher Nursery

What an exciting first week back we have had in Nursery and Kingfisher Nursery! We have been focusing on Eric Carle's 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' and we have been counting the fruit, learning the days of the week and looking at different insects, including our very own CATERPILLARS! We are going to be observing their life cycle over the next few weeks and will watch them transform into colourful butterflies. We have been retelling the stories pretending to be the caterpillar who makes a cocoon before its metamorphosis.

In Maths, we have been looking at repeated patterns and symmetry on butterfly wings.

On Thursday, we went on a nature walk to Hadley Wood, where we collected various plants, saw ducks, geese and butterflies around Jack's Lake and sang the song 'Five Little Ducks' to the ducks which had gathered there!

HOME LEARNING TASK: Draw or paint a caterpillar or a butterfly. What colours do you need? What different parts do you need for to draw it? Talk to an adult about your picture and describe what you have done.

Reception

Reception have had a fantastic first week back. We are continuing to learn about life cycles and have enjoyed watching our caterpillars grow! We have had some exciting activities linked to our story 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' and have been artists, athletes, mathematicians and phonics super stars this week!

Royce - for great effort and independent writing

Gina - for fantastic listening and sharing knowledge of phonics

Year 1

Year 1 have come back for the Summer Term with a spring in their step, ready to learn. They have enjoyed finding out about British monarchs in our history lessons. We are counting in tens in maths and distinguishing between equal and unequal groups. In our phonics lessons we are nearly finished Set 3 and focusing on fluency. Please remember to practise reading daily for 10 minutes at home. In English, the children have loved Billy’s Bucket and used their imaginations to write what they would find in their own magic buckets. Welcome back Year 1!

Our first achievement awards goes to Lou for her enthusiasm and excellent work during our history lessons. Our second achievement award goes to Sergio for settling so quickly into Year 1 in the afternoons and joining in the lessons with his peers.

Year 2

Year 2 have had a great first week back. Measurement is our new topic in Maths and this week we have focused on length and height using cm and m. Children have practically measured objects, used rulers to draw different lengths. As well as comparing and ordering different lengths. We have read 'The Rise and Fall of Claude the Magnificent' in English. This is our inspiration for writing and we have discussed Claude's thoughts and feelings and described his character.

Our foundation subject this week has been Computing where we have learnt about using digital devices safely. We have used search engines to find out information written emails and blogs and discussed internet safety.

Homework

Maths. Pages 68 and 69. 70 is optional.

This week's awards go to Alex for his improved reasoning and good problem solving and Diane for her great effort and her measurement work in Maths.

Kingfisher 1

We have a a great first week back and the children have enjoyed being back and seeing their friends.

In English we have been reading The very busy spider. Reception matched initial sounds to different animals and decorated their own spider. Year 1 and 2 used different resources to retell and roleplay the story. The children loved hearing the reason why spiders build their webs to catch their prey.

In maths we were learning all about addition . Some children used dienes to find twin sums for different fact families to 20 and 30. Reception used cars for addition, understanding that addition means more and the number gets bigger.

This week's achievement award goes to Levi for a fabulous week back and blending cvc words.

Year 3

We have had a fantastic first week back in Year 3!

The Year 3 team are so proud of the way the children have returned to school with such positive attitudes. In Maths, we continued our work on fractions: we compared and ordered fractions and looked at fractions in the context of measurement (1/2 metre, 1/4 of a litre, 3/4 of a 1kg). In English, we have started our new unit based on the book, 'Gregory Cool'. Over the next few weeks, we will be learning about how to write a diary in role as the main character Gregory. In the afternoons, we have been completing Computing lessons based on PowerPoint, how to send an e- mail, how to research effectively and how to use charts to present data. In PSHE this week, we learnt about the dangers of smoking and passive smoking.

Homework

English (punctuation): pages 32-33, paragraphs.

Maths: pages 66, 68 and 69.

Times Tables: The children were told before Easter that we would be moving onto our 8x table. Please use Times Tables Rockstars and practise at home.

The first achievement award this week goes to Ryan for working so hard on his 8x times tables. Well done!

The second achievement award goes to Musa for his excellent focus and listening.

Year 4

This week, year 4 have been learning about tenths and hundredths in maths. In English, we have started exploring our new, wordless book, Journey by Aaron Becker which has involved involved us discussing, debating and making inferences about the book so far. In History, we have dived into the world of the Romans in Britain looking at how they have influenced modern day Britain. On Tuesday next week, we are visiting Verulamium Museum. This is ancient Roman city where the Iceni tribe and queen Boudicca were defeated.

Homework:

TTRS: 6,7,8,9

Maths: Decimals A - 75, 76, 78 and 79

This week's achievement awards go to Evie for challenging herself in Maths, and to Dotty for her excellent work on the Romans in History. Well done!

Year 5

In Maths, the children learned about how to read, write, plot and problem solve using co-ordinates to show position and direction.

In English, we looked at our English text, 'The Highwayman', which is a narrative poem set in the 1700s. They showed good understanding of the poem and its themes.

In DT, they are going to be bakers! Our unit is on seasonal food - in this case, bread. They tried different breads, learned what kneading is and why it's important, and researched the nutritional values of various breads.

Homework due by Wednesday 24th April.

Maths: pages 97 and 98 (position and direction)

Reading: pages 22, 23, 24, 25 (The Coming of Raven question set 1)

This week's awards go to Gino for fantastic effort and independent work, and to Leah for her use of facial expressions and reasoning in drama about The Highwayman - well done!

Year 6

Year 6 have had a positive week. They have come back focussed and are showing excellent attitudes towards their learning. This week in Maths, the children have covered statistics and in English, they have revised some grammar areas and reading comprehension techniques as we prepare for SATs beginning on the 13th May.

In Geography, Year 6 have looked at South America and located the Amazon Rainforest and Amazon River, identified the different types of rainforests that exist and looked at the different layers of a tropical rainforest.

CGP Homework

Maths: Arithmetic - pages 36 and 37

English: SPaG - pages 54 and 55

This week's achievement awards go to Xander for his enthusiasm in English and being awesome at Tag Rugby, and Arbel for being an incredible sporting role model as she always shows determination and resilience. Well done to you both!

Kingfisher 2

It’s been a busy first week back.

In Maths, we have worked on representing numbers using place value and number lines and we have started exploring a new text by Vivian French 'Caterpillar Butterfly'. The boys were able to predict and infer information from the front cover, we looked at opinion verses facts and wrote about the two types of butterflies that featured in the story.

We are very lucky to have real caterpillars in our EYFS so we will be able to watch the metamorphosis first hand. Exciting!!

This week’s awards go to:

George – For his ‘back to work’ attitude and demonstrating independence when completing his maths work.

Tag Rugby League

Tag Rugby season has begun! We had our first match against St.Johns N20 on Thursday. Despite an early try by the opposing team, our resilient players showcased teamwork and determination throughout the game. They quickly regrouped and launched a relentless offensive, securing try after try with impressive skill and agility. We are thrilled to announce that we won our first competitive game 11-4. Their talents is reflective from all of their hard work at Tag Rugby club along with everyone who attends on a Monday.

Well done to Anastasia, Zaniab, Charlotte, Chloe, Arbel, Brychan, Xander, Eva and Nadine.

Chickenshed Wonder Walk

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