Livingstone Primary & Nursery School WK3 JUNE 2021

Reception have shown amazing resilience and positivity towards our home learning on the VLE and during the daily Zooms this week. They enjoyed continuing our firefighter topic and learning about capacity. Creative Wednesday was fun too as we made cards for people we love and remembered how to help around the house: making our beds, tidying our rooms, preparing dinner and washing up too. Thank you to all of the parents for your support during our isolation period; it is very much appreciated. We look forward to being back in Reception class on Tuesday!

This week's first achievement awards goes to Orla for her excellent discussion with her mum all about the capacity of different shaped containers. The second achievement award goes to Lola for her super star- enthusiasm for all aspects of home learning.

As part of our hydroponics farm in the classroom that we set up last week, we have all been watching our bean plants germinate and start to grow in their bags. It has been fascinating to see! Some partner groups have got many seeds germinating and we have even had one bean grow many roots and a shoot. In science, we have also set up another experiment investigating how plants grow in different places and without as much water. We have six groups of plants in different places, one in direct sunlight, one in the dark cupboard, one in the fridge, one in a warm place, one with no water and one with too much water. We are going to observe and see how each group's cress grows.

We have started a new unit of art based on plant art and this week we have been experimenting with primary and secondary colours creating shades and tints. We were adding white to our colours and black to make the shades, which we found quite tricky.

In English, we have been writing our stories of the snail and the whale. We have been using lots of description in our writing and we are looking forward to publishing these next week in our writing folders!

This week our achievement awards go to:

Abdullah, for his fantastic writing using wonderful description in his retell of the snail and the whale.

Muthara, for her excellent art work exploring shades and tints very carefully. Well done!

In English, we have started reading, James and the Giant Peach written by one of our favourite authors. We are preparing ourselves to write a newspaper article and have spent the week reading newspaper articles to understand its features.

The children have worked incredibly hard in Science to secure their subject knowledge all about Light. We have taken part in investigations to identify which objects are transparent, translucent or opaque and which materials/objects are reflective. Along with taking part in observations to learn about how shadows are made. Well done, Year 3!

This week's rewards go to Chloe for her amazing effort and attitude towards all of our lessons and Arber for his improved work ethic and participating more in class.

This week, Year 5 have been re-adjusting to home learning. Thank you to all the parents and carers for helping them settle back into it. We are due back at school on Monday 28th June.

For Maths, the children have been learning about position by reading and writing coordinates, and in geometry they've shown a good understanding of regular and irregular polygons and the properties of 2D and 3D shapes.

In English, they've worked hard on practising grammar for our balanced argument writing. They've learned about passive voice, relative clauses and colon lists.

Finally, in Art we finished our unit on street art with the children creating their own stencils and art with a strong message about issues in the world. The children have been so enthusiastic about this unit and have produced some excellent pieces of artwork.

This week's awards go to Lexi for working more independently, and to Chloe for her discussions about 3D shapes and their properties. Well done, girls!

This week in Maths we have been focusing on using different methods for addition. The children have done really well at using number facts, counting on using their fingers and using Dienes to help calculate with larger numbers.

In English, we have enjoyed studying 'Spyfox' an adventure film about a spy who saves the world. The children have written their own fabulous spy stories inspired by the film.

This week's award goes to Josh for his excellent independent Maths work. He was able to use Numicon to find number bonds and could also derive number facts.