CHINESE NEW YEAR FEAST!!! SATURDAY FEBRUARY 1ST 2014

CHINESE NEW YEAR FEAST!!!

     Following on from all the work that Katie and Lily had done about China and Chinese New Year, we concluded our activities with a Chinese Feast on Chinese New Years Day.

     The girls invited family and friends to Grandma and Ray's house to sample a range of Chinese food.

     Katie did quite well with using chop sticks but most people stuck with using a fork and spoon!

     Everybody had a great time and it was wonderful way to end our work on China.

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WK 16 - JANUARY 27TH 2014

Our learning week beginning Monday 27th January 2014

        This week in Maths, Louise has been working on the MEP maths unit of Data Analysis. 

      In English Louise has continued looking at the work of Thomas Hardy. 

      In Geography Louise is still working on the unit "Weather, Climate and Natural Vegetation". 

      In history Louise is still working on the lead up to the start of the First World War. She has been looking at programmes and media clips to gain further information and research 
from.

     This week both Katie and Lily have been working on their lapbooks about China and Chinese New Year. They have both produced some great work and as a special treat they had a Chinese Feast on Saturday night  - which was Chinese New Year - to celebrate. They should complete the lapbooks next week. They have also made Chinese Dragons and other chinese decorations.

    Clubs and activities have been carried out as usual.

Have a great party!!

WK 15 - JANUARY 20TH 2014

Our learning week beginning Monday 20th January 2014



     This week has basically been a repeat of last week. All three girls are still working on the same topics as they were and are making good progress with them.

     Their non curriculum activities have all been attended this week.

Keep up the good work girls!

WK 14 - JANUARY 13TH 2014

Our learning week beginning Monday 13th January 2014

     This week Louise has been working on the MEP maths unit of Number Systems. She will be continuing using the MEP syllabus for her maths as it is still suitable for working with the new exam board.

      In English Louise has started working on the new IGCSE syllabus. This week she has started reading the Thomas Hardy texts, The Darkling Thrush. On the Departure Platform,  The Pine Planters, The Convergence of the Twain, and The Going. She has been looking at the way in which they were written and their meanings and comparing his works.

      In Geography Louise has started the IGCSE unit "Weather, Climate and Natural Vegetation". We have started this unit with a look to how information about the weather is collected and how the data is measured.

      In history Louise has started working on researching the events that lead up to the start of the First World War.

     These units are likely to take until Easter to complete with various

     In numeracy this week Katie has started using the MEP maths book 6a. This book contains all the maths that she should have gained the knowledge of up to the end of Key Stage 2. We are using this as a method to see that she has gained the sufficient knowledge before she progresses onto Key Stage 3 later in the year. The exercises are going to be completed in a random method so that she is completing different types of maths all the time and not just one topic so hopefully this will help in remembering the information she has gained. She has made a good start with this.
    
     For the next few weeks in English, History and Geography, Katie will be looking at the topic of China and Chinese New Year. We will be looking at different aspects of China and carrying out research along with making notes from presentations and reading notes and books. She will use this information to produce two lapbooks and complete a number of worksheets. Katie will produce one book about the country of China and another about the Chinese New Year. This unit will take up most of the learning time and entail using her English, Geography, History, I.T and art and craft skills. This unit will last a number of weeks. She has got off to a good start and has made her lapbooks and started to produce her work to put inside them.

     

      Lily will be continuing to use her maths and English work books and has progressed up a level to the next stage. 

     Lily will also complete work on China and Chinese New Year and produce lapbooks about both like Katie. Obviously this will be at a lower level than Katie. Like Katie she has made her lapbooks and started to produce some work to put inside them

    This week all clubs and activities have been carried out as usual.

Thankyou girls for trying your best and having a great week.

WK 13 - JANUARY 6TH 2014 HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

     Happy New Year from us all.

     This week the girls got on with learning after they had a well deserved and relaxing few weeks over the festive period. 

     They were each bought a tablet for Christmas so they can use them to do their work on and also be able to use them for work outside of home.

     Unfortunately just before Christmas I found out that the exam centre we were going to use for Louise to sit her GCSE examinations in May 2015 has informed us that they will not now be a centre for the Edexcell Exam Board. This basically means that we have two options that are open for us. We can either find somewhere else for Louise to sit her exams or we change to a different exam board and basically start over again and most of the work Louise has done since September will be wasted.  

     This has lead to a lot of further research and some hard decisions had to be made. Louise, mum and I decided that with the nearest exam centre that accepted private candidates to sit the Edexcell exams being in either Manchester or Leeds it would be worse for Louise to have to go there than it would be having to try and catch and catch up with the work and be able sit them in a centre in Blackpool which she would be happier with doing. 

     So, we are back to the start and will now be working towards sitting the Cambridge International GCSE's. This actually made Louise happier as all the subjects she is taking are now entirly exam based and they no longer rely on course work to be completed. These exams are recognised not only in this country but are widely accepted throughout the world.

     This week Louise was concentrating on her maths work, as what she has learnt already is still mostly relavant for her new exams, while I work on preparing her syallabus for the other subjects she is taking so she can start work on those next week.

     Katie and Lily have been doing maths and english as well as their art and craft, reading and cooking.

CHRISTMAS PARTY AT THE TOWER - SUNDAY 22ND DECEMBER 2013

     On Sunday 22nd December, Mum took Louise, Lily, Katie to the Blackpool Tower Children's Christmas Party. Their friend Sophie and her mum came along too. 

     The party was in the magnificent Tower Ballroom.

 

     They saw Father Christmas and they got a selection box each.

      They had a dance competition and Lily won, she won a cuddly Jungle Jim.

      They saw Jungle Jim who is the mascot for Jungle Jims play area.

     There was party food and drinks along with singing, dancing and entertainment. Lots of fun was had by all and has really started the festive period nicely for them.

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Young Carers Christmas Party 19th December 2013

LETS PARTY!!!!!!!

     On Thursday 19th December all three girls went to Blackpool Yong Carers Youth Club Christmas Party. It was held at Holy Cross Church Hall on Central Drive in South Shore. 

     This is where Louise volunteers every Thursday when she helps with the running of the club.

     This is what Louise did to help with the party;

"I helped put all the presents out onto the tables for all the children, i helped make the food and drinks, helped the DJ, they played pass the parcels (there were 5 parcels), they played loads of games, they saw father Christmas, they had popcorn and they had their face painted and loads more".

     All three girls came home with presents from Father Christmas and they all had a great time.

PANTO TIME THURSDAY 19TH DECEMBER 2013

ITS THE PANTOMIME!!   OH NO IT ISN'T............OH YES IT IS!!!


     On Thursday 19th December Lily and Katie went with Mum along to the Grand Theatre to see the pantomime.

    This year the pantomime was the favourite Peter Pan.

Katie and Lily were taken on a magical theatricle journey to visit Edwardian London where Wendy Darling was telling a bedtime story to her brothers Michael and John of swashbuckling swordplay with the formidable pirate leader Captain Hook and the heroics of the playful Peter Pan  which leads to leads them over moonlit flying over rooftops to the lush jungles of the mysterious kingdom of Neverland.

    The girls were thrilled to see Tom Lister (Emmerdale's Carl King), and Radio Wave Breakfast show host Hayley Kay.


   They enjoyed the comedy acrobats The Nitwits and the very talented boys and girls from Barbara Jacksons schools of Dance.

      I am sure Katie and Lily would have loved to have joined Wendy and her brothers in an exhilarating life, free of grown-up rules, while also facing the inevitable showdown with Hook and his pirates.

     They all absolutely enjoyed the pantomime (I think Sarah has actually fallen in love with Tom Lister!!) that they are already wanting to book for next Christmas and the panto Sleeping Beauty.  

DECEMBER 16TH CHRISTMAS HOLS!!!!!

         

We finished for the festive holiday period on Friday 13th December and will return to learning on Monday 6th January 2014.

WK 12 - DECEMBER 9TH 2013

Our learning week beginning Monday 9th December 2013


     This was our last week before we finished for the Christmas break.

This week Louise did volunteering at the Blackpool Carers Shop for most of the week.

Katie and Lily did lots of maths, English and art and craft activities that were connect with Christmas and Winter. They also produced a lovely scene on our display wall.

They both enjoyed all the work this week.

We have now finished until the 6th January 2014.

MESSY CHURCH SATURDAY 7TH DECEMBER 2013

WK 11 - DECEMBER 2ND 2013

Our learning week beginning Monday 2nd December 2013

      Louise has  been working on the MEP maths unit of Probability. 

     She has not done any specific English work this week as she has been concentrating on trying to complete her Geography and History units.

                                 

     Katie has done her numeracy and literacy work. She has had tests in both subjects this week to check how well she has remembered her work. Katie worked well with these tests through the questions and even though there were some areas that she struggled on she is really excelling with her work now and is at the level she should be at for her age.

     Lily has been unwell most of this week so she has mainly been reading and reading and reading!

       

     Louise and Katie have both worked really well this week and have strived to do their best and complete all their work ready for the festive break. Well done girls!   


     Once again  Katie has been to the youth club at Blackpool Young Carers and visited the library. Lily was ill so she did not want to go. 

      Louise also went to her  2 youth groups at FCBI - Fylde  Coast Be Involved as well as volunteering at the Carers Charity shop and also the Young Carers Youth clubs. 

     

 

WK 10 - NOVEMBER 25TH 2013

Our learning week beginning Monday 25th November 2013

      Louise has started working on the MEP maths unit of Probability. The same pattern as usual has been followed and she has been working through the set exercises with one to one as required. 

      In English she has been producing descriptive writing pieces about on a number of different scenarios that she has been given.

      In Geography and history Louise is reaching the final stages of the unit on "urban environments" and "changes in medicine 1845 - 1945".

                                 

     Katie has spent most of this week producing her lapbook on "Memorials of The Fylde Coast". She has really enjoyed working on this.

          Lily has again worked really hard and well in her books for maths and English. Lily has also done a lot of reading this week and is really improving and will read everything she can and where she can. Even when we are out or she is in shops!

     Like usual they all worked well and are really enjoying their selves. Well done again girls!   


     All clubs were on as usual this week.

 

WK 9 - NOVEMBER 18TH 2013

Our learning week beginning Monday 18th November 2013

      This week Louise has continued working on the MEP maths unit of Trigonometry. She has been working through the set exercises and has made good progress and completed the unit with very good results.

      In English she has been producing an information leaflet on the topic of "Young Carers" and the way in which there is support available from different charities.

      In Geography and history Louise is still working on the topics of urban environments and the changes in medicine 1845 - 1945.

     This week Katie and Lily have been travelling around all the different memorials on the Fylde Coast. They have recorded information about the memorials such as what are they for?, what are made of?, what they are like and many other questions I have set them. (this has mainly been for Katie to do the research and Lily has drawn pictures) taken photos. This has taken up most of the week and we have done some maths work from their booklets.

      Next week Katie will put the information together to make a lapbook about the Memorials of the Fylde Coast.

                            

     All clubs and activities have been attended as usual this week

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HOLIDAYS- NOVEMBER 11TH 2013

This week has been our mid session break.

WK 8 - NOVEMBER 4TH 2013

   Our learning week beginning Monday 4th November 2013

 This week Louise has been doing volunteer work in the Charity shop in Bispham village for the Blackpool Carers Charity.  

                                

   

     This week Katie has been using her research she gathered last week to produce articles about Remembrance Day. She has produced a display poster and work to go into a lapbook. After our weeks break next week she will be travelling around the Fylde Coast carrying out research on the different War Memorials there are. 

     

      Lily has continued using the maths and English work books. Lily again has worked really well and always looks forward to doing her work. She has also completed a poster about the fireworks she saw.

    

     All groups and clubs were on again this week so they have all enjoyed their
non academic activities

      Another good week and the girls are looking forward to their holiday next week.
  

WK 7 - OCTOBER 28TH 2013

Our learning week beginning Monday 28th October 2013

      Louise has this week started on the MEP maths unit of Trigonometry. She has been working through the set exercises and has needed a lot of one to one input as this is new to her and I have obviously need to discuss the topic with her and show her how to achieve the right results. Even though this a new unit she has made good progress. 

      In English the reading of Romeo and Juliet has been come to an end. She is now concentrating on completing her character analysis and answering the questions in the work booklet.

     Geography is a continuation on Urban Environments and in History she is continuing working on the unit Changes in medicine 1845 - 1945.

                                 

     Katie has continued with her numeracy and literacy work. Numeracy this week was concentrated mainly on fractions.

     Literacy has seen Katie produce some excellent descriptive articles about the topic of "A night in a haunted house". She has enjoyed this type of writing and has managed to scare us!!!

     In History Katie has been researching the topic of Remembrance Day and Remembrance Sunday. This research will be used next week when she will spend  the week completing work on the topic of Remembrance.

     

   Lily has been using her maths and English books and is continuing to work through the topics and grasp an understanding of the methods involved with the minimal of input needed. She has wanted to do this work most of the week so no other subjects were done this week.

     

   There have been no clubs for the girls this week as all clubs are closed with the schools being on half term.

   
  

MESSY CHURCH SATURDAY 2ND NOVEMBER 2013

     This month was a little bit different at Messy Church. As well as having all the usual fun and games along with the religious parts there was a firework display with hot dogs and burgers. A great time was had by Katie, Lily and their friends.