Longton Primary School: Our blogs

James And William B Blog No.23, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 22nd May 2017 @ 3:08pm

This Week it's ARTS WEEK! We have made lots of stuff and our topic is FRANCE! We have had a famous poet in and have looked at George Seurat. His style of paintings were little dots and we had a go and had lots of fun! We also made and designed our scetch books and sketched in them.

By James and William B 🐯😀

Arts Week, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 21st May 2017 @ 5:47pm

Monday	The day will begin with an assembly by Ash Dickinson. We will be doing a poetry workshop with Ash between 10.30 and 11.00 We will be making our sketch books- please remeber your cardboard and any bits and pieces you would like to use to decorate the cover. We will begin work on our Monet Project which will reult in a display in the corridor The day will end with a dance worshop with Amanda Rogers from Hutton Grammar Scool
Tuesday	We will be working with an artist called Jac Balmer who will be helpig us to create Rousseau animal masks We will complete our Monet project.
Wednesday	This is changeover day. We will be in a mixed class of Year Ones, Twos and Threes. We will do French based arts activities with Mrs Catterall, Mrs Fletcher and Miss Adamson.
Thursday	We are learning about the British artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh . We will be looking at some of his work in particular his drawings of churches. We will be using our sketch books to sketch St Andrew's church from the field and from within the church yard. We will be visited by two French teachers for a special assembly about French language and culture.
Friday	We will be completing our Charles Rennie Mackintosh work using pens and inks to do detailed drawings of St Andrews church. In the afternoon we will We will work with Mrs Bradley- she will be teaching us how to do artwork with glass. We will be using the sticks and twigs that we have brought into school to make some fairy houses.

It is going to be a fun week.

See you all tomorrow

Sports Day 2017, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 21st May 2017 @ 11:46am

Sports Day was a great success. The children had lots of fun and displayed amazing teamwork and behaviour throughout every activity.

Thank you to everyone who came along to support the afternoon.

The Week Ahead - Arts Week!, by Miss Adamson

Date: 20th May 2017 @ 4:31pm

This week is our whole school Arts Week. Our usual timetable is suspended while we have one whole week of art! This is what we will be doing:

Monday	We have a visit from Ash Dickinson (poet) for an assembly then workshop. We are making our sketchbooks. We have a dance session with Amanda Rogers. We are beginning work on our Monet project.
Tuesday	We have a visit from Jac Balmer (artist) who will be teaching us about Rousseau and help us create a piece of work based on his artwork. We will complete our Monet project.
Wednesday	This is our changeover day. We will be in a mixed class of Year Ones, Twos and Threes. We will do French based arts activities with Mrs Catterall, Mrs Fletcher and Miss Adamson.
Thursday	We are learning about Charles Rennie Mackintosh and beginning our Mackintosh project. We will be visited by two French teachers for a special assembly about French language and culture.
Friday	We will complete our Mackintosh project. We will have a visit from Mrs Bradley to do some artwork with glass. We will make some fairy houses.
Dance from the Heart	We will begin practising for Dance from the Heart after the holidays.

I hope that you will have great fun this week!

Thank you for helping me with the twigs. Remember your cardboard pieces on Monday morning. A4 size is ideal but a little bigger or smaller won't hurt!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Miss Adamson

ICT with Year Six, by Miss Adamson

Date: 20th May 2017 @ 1:40pm

Year 6 planned ICT lessons for our class. We learned about algorithms!

James and Thomas Blog No.22, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 19th May 2017 @ 11:43am

This Week In Year 4, we can't wait for Sports Day! It is coming up later today and we have sorted out our own teams. In D&T, we have started sewing and we have had lots of fun doing it. Yesterday, we practiced our violin and learnt how to use the bow very faintly but we stil learned a lot. We also had a recap on the strings of the violin and learnt that they are GDAE. We have also learnt lots about kenning poems and how they are written. We are also learning about Haiku poems and how they are written (It goes like this 5-7-5 syllables). In Science, we are learning about precipitation (Rain) and clouds. We did an experiment with water shaving foam and food colouring and something exiting happened!

By James Platt (Writer) And Thomas Ballar (Writer,Idea Genarator)

Y6 teach Computing to Y1, by Mr Coxhead

Date: 18th May 2017 @ 1:38pm

Navigation walk to Litte Hoole, by Mr Coxhead

Date: 18th May 2017 @ 12:33pm

We're back from a brilliant countryside walk to Walmer Bridge park. The challenge was successfully completed - we didn't walk along any roads.

Idyllic weather!

James And Jack J Blog No.21, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 17th May 2017 @ 3:06pm

This Week In Year 4, we have had Test Week! We are also having a new whiteboard fitted. It is exiting and we can't wait for it to be fully fitted! In English, we have been learning Haiku poems and their styles (3 lines and 5-7-5 syllables in them). We have made our own Haiku poems and also made one as a group they are Awesome! We have also been learning the chunking method and the bustop method it was really Challenging and Hard but we got it in the end and all had fun. In Test Week we had some really tricky questions but solved them quite easily. In the Math we encountered some crazy and challenging questions but once we got the hang of it, we wized through the questions and we had a great time! We can't wait for the rest of the week and we bet it will be fun! Some people have learnt their tables! Well done on getting your silver stars!

By James (Writer) And Jack J (Writer,Idea Generator) P.S Sorry We Have No Pictures. We have been to busy but we guarantee that we will have pictures on Friday! 😀🐯

Taxes!, by Mr Coxhead

Date: 16th May 2017 @ 8:19pm

This morning, Year 6 enjoyed a visit from Mr Bates (father of Matthew in Y2) who delivered a session all about taxes! It was an excellent session. Year 6 explored different forms of taxation in the UK and learnt about how the government uses taxes to fund the provision of public services.

The video below was watched by Year 6 as part of the presentation - well worth a look!

Brass Monkeys, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 15th May 2017 @ 9:12pm

This morning we enjoyed a fabulous assembly from the music service. We learnt all about some of the different brass instruments. We listened to a range of music and had to guess the film or TV theme tune.

The week ahead - 15th May, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 15th May 2017 @ 9:09pm

We welcome back Miss Stocker this week to help us with our learning. She will be in school this week and next.

English / Geography / Computing - we will be continuing our research on the Lake District and creating our Powerpoints.

Maths - we are learning about money. Adding up price lists and finding change, writing amounts in £ and in p.

P.E. - Games.

R.E. - The Guru Granith Sahib.

Sports Day - fingers crossed for good weather.

This week is also check- up week so will will be completing a variety of assessment activities throughout the week.

15th to 19th MAY, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 14th May 2017 @ 3:18pm

In English this week the Bongos will become poets. We will be looking at the humourous poem Aliens Stole My Unerpants and The Michael Rosen Rap. Spelling this week will be looking at the possessive apostrophe, words ending in al, el and le.

Maths this week will be looking at reading temperature, capacity, weight, money and time.

In RE we will be learning about Guru Nanak.

The Bongos will complete their Henri Rousseau themed masterpieces in art ( if sports day is postponed) and use percussion instruments in music.

We will be outside for PE doing some athletics

Well Done Bongos, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 13th May 2017 @ 8:03pm

Well done Bongos, you have had an amazing week. You have shone brightly doing your SATs. Everyone has used their growth mindset and believed that they can , can, can.

All of your teachers are very proud of you.

Have a lovely, fun filled weekend.

The Week Ahead - Monday 15th May 2017, by Miss Adamson

Date: 13th May 2017 @ 11:30am

Hello All,

I hope that you have enjoyed the weekend!

This is what the Penguins will be doing this week. This week is called our check-up week so we will be doing assessments throughout the week.

English	We will do two reading comprehension papers and a big write.
Maths	We will do two maths papers - a reasoning paper and an arithmetic paper.
Reading	We will do individual reading colour book band assements as appropriate.
GPS	We will do one combined grammar, punctuation and spelling assessment.
Phonics	We will not do a formal phonics assessment as our phonics screening check is only one month away.
Class Assembly	We hope you can make it to our class assembly - Percy's Bumpy Ride - at 9am on Thursday 18th May.
Sports Day	It's our first attempt of Sports Day on Friday afternoon - fingers crossed for sunshine!

I look forward to seeing you on Monday!

Warm regards,

Miss Adamson

Tens frames, by Miss Adamson

Date: 12th May 2017 @ 5:48pm

We used tens frames and counters to help us to solve missing number sentences.

Badger notes, by Miss Adamson

Date: 12th May 2017 @ 5:47pm

We took notes while we watched a video clip to help us with our writing about badgers.

Enterprise day, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 12th May 2017 @ 4:57pm

Wednesday 17th May is the receptions enterprise day. We will be selling lollies...iced lollies, fruit lollies, yoghurt lollies, chocolate lollies all at 50p. We will sell them after school for 50p under the quad. We have been busy making posters to tell our friends.

James And Lennon Blog No.20!, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 12th May 2017 @ 2:46pm

This week we went to Cuerden valley park. It was for our knowledge of rivers and Geography and we definitely had fun! The river that we went to was the River Lostock. We had a tour of the river and went fishing with nets. We measured the river's speed and its height. James got drenched but he still had fun! Also we did a little mini beast hunt,what we had to do was grab a net and stand behind it and move your feet for 30 seconds.

We also scooped up pebbles And quartz,marble and amber.

By James Platt (The Writer) and Lennon Sindall (Co. Writer) 🐯😀

Woodland Wednesday on Thursday...., by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 11th May 2017 @ 7:36pm

Today we had woodland Wednesday even though it was Thursday! Princess Fairybelle arrived and we thought about our woodland rules. We played a game of 123 were are we, and then we made a woodland friend.

Research questions - English, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 9th May 2017 @ 9:26pm

This morning we started to think about our unit of work on the Lake District. We found it on a map and watched a video of the hills and lakes from the sky. It was breathtaking.

We thought of lots of questions we could try and answer through research and grouped them into different topics.

Tomorrow we are going to look at leaflets of places to visit in the Lake District in order to gather ideas and inspiration for our own information leaflet.

Measuring Monday, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 8th May 2017 @ 8:17pm

This week we are measuring in different ways. Weighing, filling and emptying containers, seeing how long or short objects are......today we measured objects in the classroom using unifix cubes.

Mosaics, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 8th May 2017 @ 3:54pm

This afternoon we used a variety of techniques to create mosaics; magnets, painting, an online mosaic maker and paper and glue.

Here are some of our creations.

The Week Ahead - Monday 8th May, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 8th May 2017 @ 3:52pm

Another exciting week for the Giraffes.

English - For the next 2 weeks we will be focusing on Non fiction texts and linking it all together with our Geography unit of the Lake District and our Computing work, making a PowerPoint. We will generate a list of key questions to research and begin to find the answers.

Grammar - we will be focusing on using conjunctions. Co-ordinating conjunctions (FANBOYS -for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so) and subordinating conjunctions (while, if, when, since, before, until, although)

Maths - this week we will be covering all 4 number operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) and using what we know to solve problems.

P.E. - We will continue to developing our throwing and catching skiills and begin to understand and practise the skill of marking an opponent.

R.E. - Sikhism, exploring the Gurus.

Class Assembly, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 8th May 2017 @ 3:29pm

I was a super proud teacher last week as the giraffes put on their class assembly for their parents. The children worked amazingly well to research their given area, write a script and make some of the props they were going to need. They spoke clearly and were very informative. Well Done Giraffes.