Longton Primary School: Our blogs

Date: 24th Apr 2017 @ 5:58pm

Our learning this week:

Math : Fractions- addition and subtraction of unlike fractions, equivalent fractions and fractions on a number line.

English: Using commas to correctly punctuate subordinate clauses, ei and ie words, and descriptive writing. We will even be doing a little drama to consider the feelings and experineces of characters and will be having a go at using this to improve our writing. We will be editing and improving our work each day.

Science: Plant Life cycles

Art: Drawing large scale leaves, enlarging sketches

RE/PHSE: Judasim. The 10 commandments. What would life be like without rules?

PE: Skill development and gymastics (Monday and Tuesday)

Geography: Layers of the rainforest. Why do animals and plants live in particular layers?

Homework this week will be an extended writing piece. It will be due in on 3rd May. We will use this writing in our work on Thursday 4th May.

Poppy appeal award, by Miss Leigh

Date: 24th Apr 2017 @ 3:09pm

Mr Turner came into our assembly today to present a very special award to us. We raised the staggering amount of £669 for the Royal British Legion! Wow! He thanked us for our ongoing support and shared some of the fantastic ways in which the money will be used. Well done everyone!

Aiming high, by Mr Coxhead

Date: 23rd Apr 2017 @ 4:34pm

Year 6 are aiming high! They're putting in a lot of hard work as they approach the end of their primary school journey.

We have a jam-packed, exciting term ahead. Let's make it one to remember!

The Week Ahead - Monday 24th April 2017, by Miss Adamson

Date: 23rd Apr 2017 @ 4:07pm

I hope that you have settled into the school routine nicely! I really enjoyed reading your holiday passports and the writing that the children did about their holiday on Tuesday. All of the children had lots of exciting things to talk about!

Here's the plan for this week:

Maths	In maths we're practising addition and subtraction in the context of data analysis.We'll be reading block graphs, comparing numbers and calculating with the data.
English	In English we will be studying Percy the Park Keeper again. We'll focus on The Bumpy Ride, this week. At the end of the week we will write our own Percy the Park Keeper story.
Phonics	Mrs Gray's grouping are learning some alternative spellings for sounds we already know. Miss Adamson's group are using suffixes for spelling (where there is a change to the root word).
Handwriting	In handwriting we are continuing to work through the groups of letters that we began last week.
Science	In science we are identifying and classfying objects and materials.
PE	In PE we will review catching a ball and learn to bounce a ball.
Geography	We will make a map of our school.
Run	We will continue to do our daily 15 minute run which we began last Thursday.

I look forward to seeing you tomorrow,

Miss Adamson

Spellodrome, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 23rd Apr 2017 @ 3:08pm

Please remeber to use Spellodrome. Theer are not many Bongos using it at the moment.

I will leave the current lists on for a few days more so you can all have a go.

If you have lost your login details please ask for a new one.

The Bongos week ahead, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 23rd Apr 2017 @ 2:59pm

I hope everybody has enjoyed the sunshine this weekend and that those of you have been on St George's parade had fun.

Here is an outline of what the children will be getting up to with Mrs Fletcher this week.

Monday :

identifying verbs in sentences and then using verbs in sentences of their own.
adding two digit numbers
adding ing, ed, er and est to the end of words
learning about the countries that make up the United Kingdom.

Tuesday:

Comprehension activities in Guided reeading
continuing to add endings outlined previously
subtraction of 2 digit numbers
character studies of the main characters in The Wind in The Willows
learning about Sikh Gurdwara

Wednesday:

recognising singular and plurarls using s and es
using analogy to improve spelling
maths arithmetic- using addition and subtraction to find missing numbers
maths rerasoning- addition word problems
handwriting- clear joins, consistent size of letters

Friday:

Maths reasoning- subtraction word problems
look at a, au, aw and oor in spellings icluding l or ll
Fantasy story writing on the theme of Bubbles
Look at the work of the artist Henri Rousseau

IT'S GOING TO BE A BRILLIANT WEEK !

English - Play scripts., by Mrs Catterall

Date: 23rd Apr 2017 @ 2:15pm

This half term we are learning about Playscripts in English.

This week we have been annotating scripts to identify their features and also highlighting the script for our own part.

We have practised our lines and have explored a drama technique 'sculpt and the sculpted'. The group had to sculpt one of their actors into a position and give direction as to their facial expressions for one of the scenes in their play. They worked fantastically well in their teams. Here a few of the photos we captured. I'm sure they will make you smile?

Tomorrows Trip, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 23rd Apr 2017 @ 2:09pm

I hope you are all enjoying the sunny weather this weekend.

Just a few reminders for tomorrow.

Having looked at the weather forecast, it looks like the weather is going to turn and be quite cold and possibly windy.

As we will be spending the afternoon walking around Chester with our Legionary guide please ensure the children come to school wearing a warm coat. I have told the children that they may wear trainers if they want to as we will be walking around, however all other normal school uniform rules apply.

Lunches have been ordered from the kitchen for those who requested one. If you are bringing your own packed lunch please no fizzy drinks, chocolate or sweets.

The children may wish to bring an additional bottle of water if they are thirsty walking around in the afternoon. This can be put in their pocket or a small rucksack with their lunch. I can put some in my bag but I won't fit 30!

We will be leaving Chester at approximately 2:15 and aim to be back at school for 3:45.

I'm sure it will be a great day. We will tell you all about it in our forthcoming class assembly.

Mrs Catterall

Tens and ones, by Miss Adamson

Date: 21st Apr 2017 @ 5:11pm

We played exchange up to help us recognise tens and ones.

Our Easter Holidays, by Miss Adamson

Date: 21st Apr 2017 @ 5:10pm

I was so impressed by the children's effort when they wrote about their Easter holidays!

Run a Mile, by Miss Adamson

Date: 21st Apr 2017 @ 5:06pm

We had lots of fun on our run and enjoyed the smoothies too! Thank you for your support!

James and William Mc No.15, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 21st Apr 2017 @ 3:05pm

Welcome to a new term! In Year 4, we have a new topic in Geography, Rivers! We are now learning about the River Ribble. We have also started running a mile a day. Yesterday, we had some nice slushes mixed with smoothies! Today, we did a fun run on the field. We had a good time and everyone enjoyed it. We did 3-Legged races,Running, Hula hooping, dribbling with a football and wheelbarrows! We had a Realy good time and we can't wait for next week!

By James And William Mc (Writers and developers of the Blog) 😀🐯

Art, by Miss Leigh

Date: 21st Apr 2017 @ 2:04pm

The front of school is looking rather beautiful so instead of drawing flowers from a vase, we ventured out and sketched what we saw. We focused on drawing what we could see and trying to show depth in our sketches.

It's been a busy week., by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 21st Apr 2017 @ 1:49pm

Well what a busy week! It's been four jam packed days of fun and learning. The Bongos have come back after their Easter break ready to impress with their behaviour for learning. Highlights of the week have been the assembly by Isaac Towers, the smoothies, move a mile, acting out emotions as we come through a door, telling Mrs Fletcher that she has 47 fingers !!!!

The children have worked hard in maths this week showing just how amazing their place value knowledge is - well done everybody 😀

The children have also impressed me with their work on past and present tense and have been showing off their knowledge of grammar and punctuation in today's writing lesson.

Don't forget to have a go on Spellodrome over the weekend .

What an action packed day! , by Mrs Catterall

Date: 20th Apr 2017 @ 9:45pm

Today has been an exciting day in lots of ways.

We spent the first half an hour this morning sat in our newly extended room, taking in our new surroundings, being excited by the space and the freshly painted walls. Then the move started. The children were extremely sensible carrying the tables and moving all our belongings into our room. We are still in the process of putting everything back in its place so photos will follow next week.

After play we had a special assembly as we welcomed Isaac into school. Isaac Towers is 18 years old and a paralympian athlete who competed in Rio last year. He explained his bike to us and we got to see his medals, they were quite heavy!

This afternoon we completed our move for 15 mins. There were some very red faces at the end, I don't think they realised that running for 15 mins without stopping was going to be so tough. Everyone got into the spirit and we had some skipping and hopping as well. We finished off with our delicious smoothies.

As well as Art and History it has certainly been a fantastic action packed day.

Monday's times table practise., by Mrs Catterall

Date: 20th Apr 2017 @ 9:25pm

On Monday we had great fun making a quick game to help us practise our 4x and 8x tables. We wrote the calculation on one side of a piece of card and the answer on the other. We showed our partner the calculation and they recalled the answer to win the card. The second time around the person was shown the answer and they had to recall the calculation. There was hardly a sound in class as they all concentrated hard to win the cards. Many of the children chose to take their game home to continue practising.

Space - hooray!, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 19th Apr 2017 @ 9:14pm

We moved back into our classroom today , hooray, we love it!!!

What a wonderful day., by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 18th Apr 2017 @ 9:31pm

Well the sun was shining, the children were full of excitement about their Easter holidays and as usual we were outside.

This Week - Tuesday 18th April 2017, by Miss Adamson

Date: 18th Apr 2017 @ 8:47pm

Happy Easter!

I hope that you have had a wonderful time over the Easter break!

This is what the Penguins are doing this week.

Maths	We are learning about number and place value. We are reviewing the difference between tens and ones and finding ten more and ten less.
English	We are reading Percy the Park Keeper stories, writing questions, learning about the main character and planning our own story.
Phonics and GPS	Mrs Gray's group and Miss Adamson's group are revising alternative spellings. Miss Adamson's group are also practising spelling words with double consonants and contractions and revising different word types which we learned about before the holidays.
Handwriting	We are practising letter formation of different groups of letters (curly caterpillars, ladder letters, zig-zag monsters and one-armed robots.
PE	We are learning about catching.
Science	We are beginning to learn about objects as part of our materials topic.

Curriculum letter will come home in book bags this week. I'll pop an electronic copy on the class page.

Warm regards,

Miss Adamson

Welcome back, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 18th Apr 2017 @ 7:22pm

Hope you all had a great Easter, had a good rest and are ready for more exciting learning!

This week in English we are starting our new class book 'The Mousehole Cat' . We are looking at the characters and using lots of descriptive language for the setting.

In spelling the focus is on words spelt with 'sc' which make the sound 's' e.g. Scent

Maths this week is looking at at continuous data graphs, collecting our own data and drawing graphs. We are also revising adding 4 digits.

Geography work will be looking at what a river is and locating local rivers and other water features e.g. lakes,canals,seas using ordanance survey maps.

We will start thinking about our DT projects, this week ,which is to designate wallet/ purse. Our first lesson will be looking at a selection of different wallets and purses to see how they fasten, what material they are made from. Bring in your favourite wallet/ purse for us to look at.

It is our turn for the enterprise challenge next week, if you have any ideas for a savoury snack we could make,or would like to come in and help us cook, you are more than welcome, please let me know.

The most exciting news for us us that we can move back into our new and improved classroom, we can't wait!

Wecome back to the Summer Term , by Miss Leigh

Date: 18th Apr 2017 @ 3:09pm

Welcome back and I hope you've had a chocolatly visit from the Easter Bunny and had plenty of great adventures in the 2 weeks off. Today has been a wonderful start to the Summer term with the sun welcoming us to a very exciting week ahead.

Our theme this term is Amazon Adventure

English - We will be writing descriptions of tropical rainforests and begining to read our class novel. Journey to the River Sea.

Guided Reading - this week will be slightly different with us focusing on whole class reading activities. We will be using Kensuke's Kingdom to do this.

Maths- Mean, Mode and Median followed by exploring decimals and application of decimals in context.

Art: We will be looking at and sketching different kinds of leaves

PE: Will be Gymnastics and we will be working on ABC with Dylan.

Science: We will begin our work on life cycles, starting with plants.

Geography : We will learn about the 2 different kinds of Rainforest as well as where they are located and how they are different.

I have also sent home thi terms curriculumn outline.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.

Miss Leigh

The Week Ahead - Tuesday 18th April 2017, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 17th Apr 2017 @ 9:36pm

I hope you have all enjoyed a relaxing Easter break and are looking forward to the Summer Term. Hopefully the weather will become warmer.

Each week I will be posting an overview of the sorts of things we will be learning about over the week.

Maths We will be developing our understanding and speed in recalling times table and related division facts.

2x 3x 4x 5x 8x 10x. We will look at multiplying larger numbers by 50 or 100. This will include using the grid method and solving problems using data from tables and graphs.

English Our unit for the next few weeks will be 'Play scripts'. There will be lots of opportunities to work in a group to read and perform some scenes as well as looking at the layout and features of a playscript text.

GPS This week our focus is on spelling words with the suffix ed, ing, s, es, identifying adverbs in sentences and continuing to look for examples of main and subordinate clauses.

P.E. Our unit for this half term is Games, we will be developing skills in sending a receiving a ball and moving into a space to recieve a pass.

History This half term we are learning about The Romans. We will begin by learning about how the Romans came to Britain and about the story of Boudicca's rebellion against the Romans.

Art We will be looking at examples of Roman Mosaics.

R.E. This week we will be exploring 'leaders'. Who are leaders in our local community, the country, the world? What/Who do they lead? How do they lead?

I look forward to seeing you all tomorrow and finding out about your Easter adventures.

Mrs Catterall

The Week Ahead, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 17th Apr 2017 @ 5:26pm

I hope everybody has had a good holiday and that the Easter Bunny visited you all.

Here is a brief outline of some of the things we will be getting up to over the next few days.

English Maths

guided reading estimating the position of numbers on number lines
past and present tense counting on and back in 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s
prediction partitioning numbers in different ways
inference using = < and > to compare numbers
spelling words ending in el and le
sory writing- Through The Door

RE think about the significance of doors and the feelings they instil in us when they are opened or closed. Talk about different doors we know and use.

Music learn Paul McCartney's song Little Willow

As well as thiese activities the children will be doing English, Maths, ICT,PE and Science with Mr Pearson on Thursday.

I am looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow morning, with Jury Service and the holidays it seems a long time since I was with you all. I have missed you all.

Journeys around the world and more....., by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 17th Apr 2017 @ 11:32am

Hope you have all had a lovely Easter holiday and a good rest ready for the last full term of being in Reception. This half term we are learning about different places around the world and using different forms of transport to get there. A curriculum letter will be sent out in the first week.

Week commencing 18th April we will be thinking about our Easter holidays and what Easter means to us, this is a great start to our half term as children have had experience of Easter and so will be able to share some ideas with their friends. We will also be looking at a story called the naughty bus. This is a great link for PSHE and thinking about friendships and behaviour. The naughty bus will get up to all kinds of mischief. Next week we will then think about travelling around the UK by train and that is where our journey will begin with a story called the train ride and then we will think about the UK.

See you all on Tuesday.

A few more hats...., by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 30th Mar 2017 @ 8:54pm