Livingstone Primary & Nursery School WK3 JAN 2026

This week we continued exploring traditional tales, focusing on The Gingerbread Man. The children loved bringing the story to life through baking delicious ginger muffins and strengthening their fine motor skills with ginger-scented playdough.

With the weather being wet and muddy, it was the perfect time to get creative in our mud kitchen, where the children enjoyed making their own “recipes.”

We’ve also been working hard on early maths, practising 1- to-1 correspondence up to 5 and 10, and building confidence through counting games. Our week was filled with storytime and singing, especially the much-loved 5 Gingerbread Men song.

Next week, we will continue our traditional tales theme with Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We’re excited to explore the story through role play, sensory activities, and more fun learning experiences.

If you can, please sign up for Mystery Reader! Tuesdays at 2:30pm or for any other time please speak to a member of the Nursery team. Thank you!

Talking Homework

You might like to try some of these simple talking activities at home:

• Talk about The Gingerbread Man: Who were the characters? What happened at the beginning, middle, and end?
• Sing the 5 Gingerbread Men song together and encourage your child to join in with actions or repeated phrases.
• Count everyday objects together (snacks, steps, toys) up to 5 or 10, encouraging one-to-one counting.
• While cooking or baking at home, talk about ingredients and let your child help stir, pour, or count spoonfuls.
• Ask your child what they would cook in a mud kitchen or what recipe they would make for the Three Bears.

The children have continued to enjoy our ‘Naughty Bus’ theme this week. They received their very own set of toy buses which they have been role playing as naughty and nice! They have been junk modelling and painting their own buses, looking at more and less in maths using passengers on the bus, and modelling buses using playdough.

The children were so interested to look at what buses look like around the world and we have loved looking at how London buses have changed over the years. Ask your children about buses in the past and see what they tell you!

In Maths this week, we have completed our learning about money. We have explored finding the change from £1/100p and selected which coins we may receive to make the change. We even role-played going to the shops to buy items and calculate the change. In English, we have been writing our own versions of the narrative 'The Sound of Silence'. We have included expanded noun phrases within our writing to make it descriptive.

In the afternoons, we have completed our Computing unit on digital creativity by creating posters and presenting data using branching trees. We linked our learning to our Science topic about Habitats and Living Things.

A reminder that 'Read with Me' is on every Tuesday in the school library, it is always lovely to see parents/family members enjoying books with the children.

Homework:

Maths - an additional sheet provided 'Make a pound'.

Comprehension - pages 37 to 39 (Tortoise and Hare).

The first achievement award is to Adam for his outstanding work in computing on Purple Mash to create a branching tree to present data about different habitats.

The second achievement award is to Royce for trying extremely hard in Maths to find the change from £1.

Year 3 have had a busy and creative week! In Art, the children explored abstract sculpture, learning about the sculptor Anthony Caro and experimenting with different techniques for joining cardboard. They worked in small groups, using trail and error to refine their ideas. In maths, we developed our understanding of division by making equal groups using concrete resources. In English, the children were very proud to publish their fantastic non-chronological reports all about their own imaginative dragons.

Homework:

Maths p.51 - 52 (53 is optional)

English Comprehension p.16 and 17

Achievement awards this week go to Yashvi and Lou for their brilliant non-chronological reports on their imaginary dragons!

This week, once again, the children blew us away with their excellent understanding of multiplication and division by solving multi-step word problems.

In English, they wrote their narratives of a scene from Beowulf (a Viking epic) and used the grammar they practised: subordinate clauses, hyphens and direct speech.

In History, they used Digimaps and atlases to explore places in England that are influenced by the Vikings' settlement, and learned about how the Viking era ended with the Battle of Hastings.

Homework due by Weds 28th Jan

Maths: pages 51 and 52 (multiplication and division)

Reading: pages 42, 43 and 44 (Julius Caesar)

This week's awards go to Dexter for his excellent problem- solving skills in Maths, and to Gia Khang for his brilliant narrative of Beowulf. Well done!

This week in English we have started looking at non- chronological reports. We researched buses and trains using our chrome books and found out lots of interesting facts.

In Maths we have been practising the formal methods of subtraction. We have also been finding the difference and looking at inverses.