WK 26 - APRIL 21ST 2014

                                             

Our learning week beginning Monday 21st April 2014

     This week has been a shorter week than usual. Monday was Easter Monday and the girls enjoyed a day of fun and eating their Easter eggs.

     On Tuesday we had our annual inspection from the Education officer for Blackpool Borough Council. She was here for about three hours and looked at all aspects of their work and spoke to all three girls about what they had been doing and their progress. She also looked at their environment for learning and will now produce a report of her findings in due course.

     This week Louise has been working on the MEP maths unit of Number Patterns. 

      In English Louise has started to study the novel "The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde".

      In Geography Louise has continued with unit "Population and Settlement".

      In history Louise has been working on researching the "Schleiffen Plan" and how it shaped the start of the First World War.


      Katie has been studying the mep maths book and continuing to complete the exercises and work.

     In English she has started to read  the novel "War Horse".     

     In History and Geography, Katie has continued to look at the places the First World War took place and the role of animals in it. 

      Lily has been continuing to use her maths and English work books. 
   

    This week the girls have  been to all their clubs or activities.

MESSY CHURCH FRIDAY 18TH APRIL 2014

This time Messy Church was held on Good Friday.

    

     

They sang songs.

They made Easter bread with poppy seeds on.

They played games.

They made Easter baskets and chose 5 items each to put in them.

They made a spinny wheel.

WK 25 - APRIL 14TH 2014

     Our learning week beginning Monday 14th April 2014.

     This week was a shorter week than usual with it being Easter and Good Friday this week. 

 

     This week Louise has been working on the maths unit of Fractions and Percentage. 

       In English Louise has been continuing to study the book "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde".

       In History she has started to produce her lapbook on "Depth Study A: The First World War, 1914–18".

     In Geography, Louise has started to produce her lapbook on the topic of "Population and Settlements".

     Katie has been continuing to work from the MEP maths syllabus and is progressing well. 

     In English she has been continuing with "War Horse" and has started to complete a workbook about the book and aspects from it which involve research and writting.

     History and Geography has been a continuation of the First World War and the use of animals.

      Lily has been completing some different worksheets this week for Maths and English from a very popular home learning company called U R BRAINY. She has enjoyed using these sheets and has progressed very well indeed.

      Literacy work today for Lily consisted of reading a passage about "going to visit Grandma". Lily read this well and then answered the questions relating to the story.

     All clubs have been off this week with the schools being on Easter Holiday. They did go to Messy Church on Good Friday and their is a later post about this.

WK 24 - APRIL 7TH 2014

Our learning week beginning Wednesday 9th April 2014

     This week has been a shorter week than normal as we only returned from holiday on Monday and had some hospital appointments to attend on Tuesday. We started work from Wednesday.

     This week Louise has not done any MEP maths units but will return to these next week.

      In English Louise has started working on the novel "The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde".

      In Geography she has started the IGCSE unit "Population and Settlement". We have discussed the information that she will need to process in order to be able to complete the exam on this subject.

      In History Louise has started working on the unit "Depth Study A: The First World War, 1914–18". This was a case again of going through the unit with her and discussing what she will need to learn.

    
     Katie has started to study the First World War and the role animals played in it. This unit will also cover her Geography in finding where places were that became involved with the war and countries who came to help or gave help. 

     In English she has started to read the novel "War Horse". No Maths was done this week.

    

      Lily has continued to use her maths and English work books. 

    

    This week all clubs and activities have been carried out as usual (apart from Monday when we were travelling back from holidays).

MARCH 24th 2014 HOLIDAYS!!!!

From Monday 24th March until Tuesday 8th April we were on holiday. We stayed at a Haven Holiday park in North Wales near Pwhelli. The girls really enjoyed the holiday and it was a well deserved break.