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.

WK 23 - MARCH 17TH 2014

Our learning week beginning Monday 17th March 2014

     This week Louise has been carrying out revision on all the maths topics that she has done since the start of January. She has been completing revision booklets on each subject.

     In English she has been looking at a further five texts from the syllabus.

     In Geography and History she has been finishing off her units and completing the lapbooks fully ready to use for revision purposes.

     This week Katie has been back to using her MEP maths book and as been doing some English tests to see how she has been progressing.

     Lily has been doing the same as she usually does and has been working very well considering she is finding it hard to manage with her leg as it is.   

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

    I am really pleased with the way in which all three girls have worked since returning after Christmas. They have all worked really hard without having a break for holidays like they would have done if they were in a school. 

     I feel that they have thoroughly earned a holiday and they are now going to have two weeks off.

     Have a great time girls you deserve it!!

WK 22 - MARCH 10TH 2014

Our learning week beginning Monday 10th March 2014

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

     In English Louise has been continuing to study the texts from "Songs of Ourselves Volume 2"which are on the syllabus:

       In Geography Louise has continued  looking at the interaction between the natural environment and human activities, with reference to natural hazards, landscape processes, climate and the ecosystems in the unit "Weather, Climate and Natural Vegetation".  

      In history Louise has putting the final work together for her lapbook on the events that led up to the start of the First World War.

   Katie has this week finished all her work on the Winter Olympic Games and Russia. She has produced some great work and I will post some photos once they have been sorted out.

      Lily has been continuing to use her maths and English work books and using maths apps on her tablet as well as reading. 

     

    This week all clubs and activities have been carried out as usual as Mum has taken Lily to youth club and stayed with her there so that she would be allowed to attend it.

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

MESSY CHURCH SATURDAY 8TH MARCH 2014

WK 21 - MARCH 3RD 2014

Our learning week beginning Monday 3rd March 2014

     This week has been quite an eventful week. The three girls all went to the Young Carers Youth Club on Tuesday evening as they normally do. It wasn't long before we received a phone call from the leader of the club to say that Lily had fallen over and had hurt her leg, was upset and wanted her Mum. We went to the centre where youth club was being held to see Lily sat outside on one of the benches with her leg up. Mum looked at her leg and said "we need to call an ambulance it looks as though she has broken it".

     So to cut a long story short Lily went on a nice ride in an ambulance to Victoria Hospital where it turns out she had indeed broken her leg near to her foot. Where she has broken it was on the growth plate. They were thinking of keeping her in hospital overnight for the Consultant to see if they were wanting to operate on it the following morning. They decided to let her come home for the night and to return to the clinic in the morning when they make a decision regarding and operation. So Lily had her leg put in plaster and came home to spend the night.

     The following morning (Wednesday) , Mum took her back to the hospital to see the consultant. He decided that they were not going to operate at the moment but wait and see how it managed to repair itself. He said that she needed to have it plastered in a particular position and she must not, at any time, be weight bearing on it.

     She ended up with a nice pink plaster on it and we had to get a wheel chair with a leg rest on it to bring her home. So she has to go back in six weeks to see how it is and they may even decide to operate on it then. Let's hope it heals it properly and there is no need to.

     So now Lily is lapping up all the attention and loves being waited on.

Poor Louise and Katie don't know what has hit them!!!


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

     In English Louise has been begining to study texts from "Songs of Ourselves Volume 2", and has been looking at the following texts out of the 14 on the syllabus:

 William Blake, ‘Clod and Pebble’
 Lady Mary Wroth, ‘Song’
 Kathleen Raine, ‘Passion’
 George Herbet, ‘Love’
 John Donne, ‘Love’s Infiniteness’
 William Wordsworth, ‘She was a Phantom of delight’.

      In Geography Louise has continued with the unit "Weather, Climate and Natural Vegetation".  She has been looking at the interaction between the natural environment and human activities, with reference to natural hazards, landscape processes, climate and the ecosystems.

      In history Louise has putting together her lapbook on the events that led up to the start of the First World War.

       

    Katie has continued her work on the Winter Olympic Games and the country of Russia. She has been concluding her research along with putting all this information into her two lapbooks. Lots of effort and time has been put into these lapbooks and should be amazing when she has finished them. She has also produced work to go on the wall dispaly.

     

      Lily has had a quiet week this week as she has been in a lot of pain with her leg. She has read quite a lot and been using her tablet for the maths apps.

    This week all clubs and activities have been carried out as usual with the exception of Lily who has not been able to.

WK 20 - FEBRUARY 24TH 2014

Our learning week beginning Monday 24th February 2014

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

     In English Louise has once again this week still been looking at the Thomas Hardy texts - At the Word ‘Farewell’, During Wind and Rain, In Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations’, No Buyers: A Secret Scene and Nobody Comes. Once again she been studying the way in which they were written and their meanings and comparing his works.

      In Geography Louise has been researching the two type of ecosystems and their distribution and characteristics. She has also been looking at the relationship of each type of natural vegetation to the features of the two climates.

      In history Louise is coming to an end researching the events that lead up to the start of the First World War.

      

     

      Katie is working well using the MEP maths book. 
    
     The work on Russia and the Olympics is continuing at a great pace. She has been watching different sports events and been producing booklets and foldables for her lapbooks.   

     

      This week, as if you can't guess, Lily has continued to use her maths and English work books and enjoys working in them immensely.  

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

WK 19 - FEBRUARY 17TH 2014

Our learning week beginning Monday 17th February 2014

     This week has seen the girls doing mainly the same work as last week and carrying on with all their subjects.

     They have all worked very well indeed.

    This week all clubs and activities have not been on as the schools have been on holiday.

WK 18 - FEBRUARY 10TH 2014

Our learning week beginning Monday 10th February 2014

     This week Louise has continued working on the MEP maths unit of Data Handling. 

      In English Louise has has been looking at the Thomas Hardy texts - At the Word ‘Farewell’, During Wind and Rain, In Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations’, No Buyers: A Secret Scene and Nobody Comes. Once again she been studying the way in which they were written and their meanings and comparing his works.

      In Geography Louise has continued the unit "Weather, Climate and Natural Vegetation". She has moved on to the "Climate" section of this unit. This week she has been carrying out research so she can describe and explain the characteristics of climate and natural vegetation.

      In history Louise has continued working on researching the different people who played a major role in the key events that lead up to the start of the First World War.

    

                    

      Katie is continuing to use the MEP maths book 6a. She is completing the exercises and is showing a good understanding and remembering of the information she has gained. She has needed some guidance and was over the moon that she has now mastered a new way of completing multiplication sums. She can complete some really complicated sums of lots of digits really quickly and a lot quicker than doing them the usual method of long multiplication. She uses the cross grid method.

     She has become become a real whiz at this method and it has given her the confidence to do multiplication sums that she did not have before.

    
     For the next few weeks in English, History and Geography, Katie will be looking at the topic of Russia and The Winter Olympics. She will be looking at different aspects of China and carrying out research along with making notes from presentations, reading notes and books and watching the Winter Olympic Games on television.. She will use this information to produce two lapbooks . Katie will produce one book about the country of Russia and another about the Winter Olympic Games. 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 great start and has started to produce a display for the wall.
   

      Lily,as usual, will be continuing to do what she loves best. This is to use her maths and English work books and complete as much as she can! 

     

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

WK 17 - FEBRUARY 3RD 2014

                      

      

Our learning week beginning Monday 3rd February 2014

     This week has been a special one because we have had two birthdays to celebrate! The first birthday was on Monday 3rd when Lily was 7. Then on Thursday 6th Louise was 15. Happy Birthday girls you are both growing up way too fast! To celebrate their birthdays they all went out for a meal on each of their birthdays and went shopping to buy gifts and spend their money. Lily is having a party at Planet Kaos to celebrate with her friends and children who she used to go to school with. 

     They both had a great day and had lots of fun and received lots of presents and ate lots of cake!!

 Louise has been working on the MEP maths unit of Data Handling, the English works of Thomas Hardy, the role of the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente prior to World War One and the Geography unit Weather, Climate and Natural Vegetation. 

                          

     This week both Katie and Lily have concentrated on completing their lapbooks. They have also produced a great wall display about Chinese New Year.

    This week they have not been any clubs.

MESSY CHURCH SATURDAY 1ST FEBRUARY 2014

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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