Livingstone Primary & Nursery School WK4 JUNE 2026

Despite the hot weather this week, the children have enjoyed taking part in all the activities across the nursery. To prepare for our visit to the ice-cream farm on Tuesday, we recreated a Farmers' Market role-play area where the children have been busy buying and selling fruit and vegetables, developing their communication and mathematical skills through play. To cool down, the children made frozen strawberry milkshake which they enjoyed for their snack. Outdoors, our new mud kitchen is finally open and already proving very popular! The children have loved making mud pies, mixing ingredients, sharing resources and engaging in imaginative play with their friends. Our focus sound this week have been /h/ for horse and /r/ for robot.

Talking Homework

This week, encourage your child to tell you about a time they visited a shop or market. What did they buy? What fruits and vegetables can they name? You could also talk about their favourite ice cream flavour and where milk comes from. To support our phonics learning, see if your child can spot objects beginning with h (horse, hat, house) or r (rat, rose) at home or when out and about.

This week in Reception, the children have enjoyed using Colourful Semantics to support their independent writing, helping them to build and write simple sentences with increasing confidence. In Maths, they were introduced to coordinates, and the children had great fun following coordinate instructions to add features to their own treasure maps. Outdoors, our new mud kitchen has been a huge hit, with the children showing fantastic imagination, teamwork and creativity in their role play. Despite the very hot weather this week, the children have coped brilliantly and continued to work hard in all of their learning.

We have really enjoyed sharing the baby photos that have been sent in and talking about how much the children have grown and changed over the years. Thank you to everyone who has already emailed a photo. If you haven't had chance to send one in yet, please do so as soon as possible so that your child can join in with this special activity.

We have also continued rehearsing for our class assembly. The children are becoming more familiar with their lines, and we would really appreciate your continued support in practising them at home using big, clear voices to help build their confidence.

This week's awards go to:

Joshua for coming to school every day with a smile, a positive attitude and always being ready to learn.

Samuel for independently choosing to challenge himself by writing his own sentences about his chosen picture.

Well done boys!

Year 2 have made us all very proud with how they have coped in the heat this week! They have worked hard and maintained positive attitudes. In Maths, we have completed our reasoning and arithmetic assessments, and we have started our new unit on 'Statistics' by learning about tally charts. In English, we have been publishing our instructions in our neatest handwriting. In RE, we have begun our new unit which is all based on the big question, 'How do we know?'. The children brought in objects that are special to them and we asked each other questions about these objects. We also then explored special objects (artefacts) from Christianity.

A gentle reminder that objects from home such as bracelets, toys, blue-tac and other accessories should not be brought into school. Many thanks for your support with this.

Homework

Maths - Times Tables Rockstars worksheet

English - comprehensions about The United Kingdom and Sports

The first award goes to Ben for sharing great ideas and working hard on his Maths assessment. The second achievement award goes to Riley for confidently telling the whole class about her special object in RE and also listening respectfully to others.

This week we completed our Geography topic on hills and mountains. The children are more skilled at using atlases and identifying human and physical features of famous mountains in the UK and around the world. The children thought carefully about our academic year together and typed up their reflections for their reports, which I'm sure you are looking forward to reading very soon. In maths, we have been consolidating our 2, 3, 4, 5 and 8 times tables as well as understanding angles and lines.

Homework:

Maths - p. 111 - 112 (113 is optional)

English Punctuation p.44 and 45

Achievement awards this week go to Evan and Frankie for their excellent understanding of angles.

This week in Maths, the children converted between different measurements of length and mass, and learned how to calculate volume.

In English, they edited and published their formal arguments based on Pig Heart Boy, and are now gearing up for their final piece of Y5 writing: writing the ending of the book. They analysed the example and planned their own endings where Cam finally meets his baby sibling.

In Art, the children planned a futuristic piece called '2126: A Vision of the Future' and made textured printing plates to use to print their backgrounds.

Homework due by Weds 1st July

Maths: pages 118 and 119 (measurement)

Reading: pages 82, 83, 84 and 85 (Hacker)

This week's awards go to Jordan for always working hard and challenging himself, and to Lola for her excellent analysis of our narrative WAGOLL. Well done!

This week Kingfisher 2 did incredibly well this week despite the heat! In Maths, we have been learning about data handling- creating and interpreting bar charts and pictograms.

In English, we have written non-chronological reports about some of our favourite animals and enjoyed learning and sharing new facts.