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Livingstone Primary & Nursery School WK4 JUN 2023

Livingstone Newsletter

June Week 4

Friday 30^th June

Summer Fair - Raffle and Bid Up!

When you get this newsletter, it will not be too late to come along to our Summer Fair to enjoy the afternoon, have ago on the raffle and bid for some amazing prizes!

We have wine, toys, Co-op hampers, Soap and Glory Mega Tins, Luxury Perfumes and much more!

The PTA would like to thank:

Co-op East Barnet Village

Willows Farm

Everyman Cinema

Millfield Theatre

Aldenham Country Park

Recovery & Garage Services Welham

Box Sport London

The parents/carers, friends and staff of Livingstone for their donations and contributions to this year's Summer Fair.

Eid!

Wishing all our families celebrating this week a very happy Eid al- Adha.

Teachers' Strike

As you may already be aware, the NEU are planning further strike days because the Government's offer has been rejected by teachers across the country.

The planned strike days are Wednesday 5th and Friday 7th July 2023.

Please ensure that you have a back-up for your child/ren on these days, as we are likely to have class closures or a whole school closure.

We are expecting to get more information from the local authority and the unions and will send any information by text.

Sports Day - Monday 3rd July 2023

We are very much looking forward to sports day this coming Monday and keeping our fingers crossed for suitable weather to stage our annual event.

Children will need to come to school wearing their PE kit.

Please join us in the fun to cheer on your children who will be participating in the variety of sporting activities on the school field with their house teams.

Rec and KS1: 9:00 - 11:00am

KS2: 1:30 - 3:00pm

Nursery will be having their running races according to what session they attend.

AM Nursery: 9:20am

PM Nursery: 1:15pm

Please bear in mind, the day is very much dependent on weather, therefore we may have to cancel on the day. You will be notified by text if the decision to postpone is made and given a new date.

Parent Champions

On Wednesday 28th July, Barnet Council organised an event to celebrate the achievements of all Parent Champions across the borough. We had the chance to meet with other parent champions and exchange experiences, find out about local services and support and maximize networking opportunities.

At Livingstone, we are very proud to have a team of motivated and dedicated Parent Champions who are there to signpost to various local services and provide help to other parents. Without the time and effort they put in, we would not have been able to run all those brilliant coffee mornings.

Thank you so much Livingstone Parent Champions and WELL DONE!

Our last coffee morning for this academic year will be on Friday 14th July. You are all welcome to join for tea, coffee, cake and a chat.

Please use this opportunity to let our team know if there is any specific workshop you would be interested in for the next academic year and we will do our best to make it happen (e.g. money saving tips, children& adult mental health, parenting classes, etc.)

Nursery and Kingfisher Nursery

Nursery's book of the week is the wonderful 'The Rainbow Fish'. The children have been choosing the correct amount of shiny scales to match their numbers for their rainbow fish templates.

Kingfisher Nursery have been learning all about The Farm and enjoyed a great trip to the animal farm at Trent Park. They met lots of different animals, had great fun in the play area and enjoyed eating yummy ice cream and lollies just before it was time to go back to school.

Reception

Reception class have been discussing their exciting future in the rest of the school. They have played in their new playground and have been talking about the exciting learning that they have to look forward to in Year 1!

Please remember to bring in your costumes for our Graduation show on Tuesday and Friday!

Year 1

Year 1 have thoroughly enjoyed designing and creating our own levers and sliders in D&T lessons. The children have showed creativity and resilience during this process.

In English, we are focusing on the magical story of 'The Balloon Tree'. The children acted out the story using excellent expression and rich language from the text. This will help in our writing next week. We are learning how to use commas for lists and apostrophes for contractions.

In Maths, we have begun our topic on time. Please discuss the following concepts with your children: morning, afternoon, evening, yesterday, today and tomorrow. Perhaps you can ask them questions such as: If today is Friday, what day was it yesterday?

Achievement awards go to Filip and Nora for their positive attitude towards learning in all subjects across the curriculum. They challenge themselves, ask questions and work very hard. Well done you two!

Year 2

Year 2 had the best week ever! Our week started off with a trip to the seaside, linking it to our learning about physical and human features of the seaside in Geography. Both children and adults had a fantastic time! We even used our real-life experience of the Southend trip to create a lovely recount in English.

In Maths, we have been revising position, direction and turns (full turn, quarter turn, three quarter turn and full turn).

Homework:

Reasoning- pages 49 and 50

This week's awards go to Kigen for always have a positive attitude in lessons and Lacey for her great recount with exciting vocabulary.

Kingfisher 1

A short week but a busy one!

It was tissues at the ready this week in English as we said read, 'Goodbye Mog.' A moving story which prompted lovely discussions about emotions. The children did some excellent work.

In Maths we continued with multiplication and becoming more confident counting, grouping and repeated adding.

The Year 2 pupils had an amazing time at the seaside and everyone enjoyed our summer fair!

This week's achievement award goes to Dilan and Andreas for their excellent behaviour on their trip to the seaside, well done!

Year 3

This week in Year 3, we have been learning about different kinds of lines in Maths: horizontal, vertical, parallel and perpendicular. Following on from this, we've started to recognise and describe 2-D shapes. We have begun our next D&T unit on textiles, where we are going to be making bags. We have really enjoyed our sewing lessons and trying out both a running and blanket stitch. We are looking forward to creating our bags next week. In English, we completed our grammar and reading comprehension assessments. The children worked very hard and tried their best!

CGP pages:

English - homophones pages 94 & 95

Maths - tables pages 64 & 65

Times Tables:

3x, 4x and 8x table. Our TTR tests have a mixture of all three multiplications so please practise them along with the corresponding facts.

This week our achievements go to Lukas for his brilliant attitude towards our D&T lesson when he was sewing.

The second achievement goes to Soroyian for her dedication and concentration pushing herself to create a difficult blanket stitch.

Year 4

This week in Year 4, we have been learning about the translation of coordinates in Maths, and in English we have started exploring our final pieces of writing for the academic year where we will be looking at applying all the grammatical feature we have learnt to describe the Grotto of the Fire Fiend and Razvani from the 'Firework Maker's Daughter' by Phillip Pullman. In the afternoons, we finished our Science topic living things and their habitats and had a wonderful video call with our french pen pals!

CGP:

Maths: Coordinates and Translations - pages 58 and 59

SPaG: Confusing Words - pages 32 and 33

This week's achievement awards go to Lukas for his excellent singing and to Elon for challenging himself in Maths.

Year 5

In Maths, they converted between different units of length, mass and capacity - including metres, kilometres, millilitres and litres. Despite finding this difficult at first, they persevered and showed good understanding by the end of the week!

In English, they planned a vlog (video log) based on 'Pig Heart Boy'; they're being Alex and creating their own future from the book ten years later. They're really enjoying this last piece of writing and Mr T and I are sure that they're writing next week will be absolutely fantastic!

In Computing, they learned about the importance of consent, and how they can decide what content they post online and what could happen with that content. They also learned about how trolling is a negative thing that has a harmful impact.

CGP Books

Maths: pages 52-53 (metric units)

English: pages 33-35 (standard and non-standard English)

This week's awards go to Bianca for her work on measurement, and to Xander for getting more work done in English and being more independent - well done!

Year 6

Another busy week for Year 6. We are getting show ready and the children are doing amazingly well. Costume letters will be coming home, next week.

The children have begun Art. They are looking at architects and sculptors in preparation for making their own Amazon Rainforest animal sculpture which they will then decorate using mosaic.

Please remember our trip to Kew Gardens is on Tuesday. The children need to wear school uniform with comfortable shoes and bring a packed lunch. Please meet us at 8:15am at Cockfosters tube station and collect your child from Cockfosters tube station at 4pm. Please let us know if your child will be attending Cabin Club so we can bring them back to school.

CGP pages

Maths - pages 88 and 89

English - pages 72 and 73

This week's achievement awards go to Lisa for her fantastic sketching and Catherine for her acting.

Kingfisher 2

Although it’s been a short week, we’ve been busy in KF2.

The boys did a great job, publishing their Willow’s Farm recount in best. We also started our new Maths unit ‘Statistics’ and have been reading and collecting data in tables, tally charts and block diagrams.

With our KS2 show around the corner, there has been lots of practising of lines, songs and choreography.

Well done to...

Freddie – for working hard to complete his work this week and his participation in the show dance practise.

Jacob – for writing up his published work in best and creating a fab ice cream shop out of lego for the EMW challenge.

Barnet Schools Athletics Competition

Last week, we took part in the annual Barnet Athletic Championship Competition representing the country Poland. The children always look forward to this and they trained incredibly hard in their individual/group events.

The day started with the field events where we had many children placing in the top 3. This was followed by the track events and tug of war.

We couldn't be prouder of how well the children represented our school. The stadium area was full of cheer and team spirit.

Throughout the day, we were collating the results, but still we waited anxiously for the final results to be confirmed. As we listened out for the school names, we couldn't contain our excitement. After hearing third and second place, we were thrilled to be announced as the competition winners for all the events, including the tug of war, which we have been undefeated in for the past 6 years. Screams and tears of joy could not be contained!

Our school is full of very talented young people, and it was wonderful to take home the trophies.

Well done to everyone who participated. Thank you to all our supporters.