Livingstone Primary & Nursery School WK4 APR 2026

This week in Nursery we have had a very busy and exciting time exploring our topic of Life Cycles. Our focus book has been The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, which the children have thoroughly enjoyed listening to and retelling.

We have also been learning a fun focus rhyme: “There’s a hungry caterpillar on a leaf, wiggle wiggle!”

The children have been busy creating their own days of the week caterpillar calendar, helping them to sequence the story and build their understanding of time. They have shown great enthusiasm when retelling the story in their own words.

To support their fine motor skills, the children enjoyed a fun activity feeding the hungry caterpillar by posting different fruits through its mouth. This helped develop their hand-eye coordination and finger strength.

For children who are preparing to start Reception in September, we have continued with phonics this week. The children learned:

‘a’ for apple and ‘s’ for snake

If you would like to support your child at home, please encourage them to practise writing these sounds. It would also be very helpful to reinforce the rhymes we use at school, using the Read Write Inc. sheet that was sent home in their bookbags on Tuesday.

Talking Homework:

Please spend some time talking with your child about the story. You could ask:

What did the caterpillar eat? What happened on each day of the week? How did the caterpillar change at the end of the story?

You might also like to look for caterpillars or butterflies outside and talk about how they grow and change.

The class have settled so well following Mrs Mills going on maternity leave, and it’s been really lovely to see their confidence continue to grow. I’ve really enjoyed getting to know them all and am looking forward to finishing the year together.

This week in Reception, we have started our focus on traditional tales with The Three Little Pigs. The children have been fully immersed in the story, making their own playdough characters and lollipop stick puppets, which they’ve used in their role play. They’ve also been exploring building houses using sticks, bricks and straw, and have discovered just how tricky it can be to make something strong and stable! Some of the children used their creativity and imagination to design and build bigger houses where all three pigs could live together. We’ve been really impressed with their independence too, particularly when creating their own speech bubble writing using key words and captions from the story.

We’re looking forward to building on this story and developing their ideas further next week.

This week our awards go to…

Humza, for independently using his fantastic phonic knowledge to write his own sentence and choosing to challenge himself!

Kiaan, for using his problem-solving skills and showing perseverance to successfully build a house out of sticks that was strong enough to withstand our huffing and puffing!

Tomoru, for using his creativity and construction skills to design and build a bridge to cross a river, showing fantastic focus and sustained attention throughout.

This week in Year 2 in Maths, we begun our new unit all about fractions where we have learnt about parts and wholes and equal and unequal parts. We have worked tremendously hard on our 'long write' which was a recount in the form of a letter all about our school trip to The Transport Museum. We have finished our History unit about 'Transport' and have started our new Art unit called 'Life in Colour'. We mixed primary and secondary colours using paint and we also learnt about how texture can be created with paint.

Homework

Maths: pages 81 and 82 (page 83 optional challenge but have a go!)

English: nouns and noun phrases sheet.

The first achievement award goes to Gina for her fantastic attitude and focus during our 'long write' this week. The second goes to Vinny for always showing positive behaviour for learning and such great enthusiasm in Art.

Year 3 had a fantastic time practising our orienteering and climbing skills at Cuffley Camp at the start of the week. We continued our work on mass and capacity in maths. In English, we learnt all about imperative verbs, adverbs and prepositional phrases in preparation for writing our own set of instructions next week. We completed our Art topic of drawing with a final colourful abstract piece inspired by the artist Georgia O'Keeffe.

Our first achievement award goes to Lou for her excellent instructions in English. Our second achievement award goes to Sienna for her brilliant Georgia O'Keefe inspired art work.

This week in Maths, the children learned how to calculate missing angles on a straight line and around a point.

In English, they practised the grammar they'll be using next week to write romantic letters based on The Highwayman: conjunctions, metaphors and using language from the poem itself.

In DT, they planned a loaf of bread for their partner and today was a busy day preparing the dough, scoring the top, baking, tasting and evaluating the loaves.

Reminder: please complete the form about the Music Festival. Any places not taken up by Y5 will be offered to members of the choir on Monday.

Homework due by Weds 29th April

Maths: pages 90 and 91 (angles)

Grammar: pages 22 and 23 (subordinating conjunctions)

Singing: please encourage your child to practise the songs that are on Teams

This week's awards go to Dilan for his excellent work on calculating missing angles in Maths, and to Orla for her effective use of metaphors and conjunctions about The Highwayman. Well done!

This week in Maths we have been using our knowledge of place value to work out related number facts. We have also been comparing number sentences using our skills in addition and subtraction.

In English, we have been writing our own versions of the story 'Aliens love underpants.' We have really enjoyed thinking about funny antics that the aliens could get up to!