Our blogs
Hickory's reading treat!, by Ms Gaskell
Date: 11th Dec 2023 @ 10:08am
We are extremely lucky as a school to reward our children for thier continuous reading throughout the term. Last week we went to Hickory's and enjoyed a milkshake masterclass with pancakes with a huge amount of choice of toppings and sauces. The children made a variety of milkshakes from Lotus to Oreo. What a sweet treat! Well done to those children.
Busy busy, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 8th Dec 2023 @ 6:30pm
The Giraffes really loved the pantomime this week ,especially the flying Man!
In Geography they enjoyed learning about where we live and using the terms rural, coastal and urban.
They're great at using the chrome books and have enjoyed using the drag pad to create jigsaws and yesterday starting to become familiar with the keyboard,
Today they enjoyed mark making in Art.
Have a lovely weekend :)
Super Penguins!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 7th Dec 2023 @ 7:59pm
This week the penguins have shared lots and lots of proud moments and I would love to share some of them with you.
On Monday our class Christmas Post Office opened. The children have been busy wrapping and weighing parcels, writing cards and then taking them to the post office to be stamped and delivered. (If you have any unwanted old / used cards please send them in as we are getting through quite a lot each day!)
On Tuesday the children used the large climbing apparatus in the hall. We were climbing the Beanstalk. The penguins listened carefully to our safety rules and all enjoyed the apparatus. We will use it again next week and attach balance beams to it.
On Wednesday we had a bright and early start with our trip to the pantomime. The children were fantastic and had a lot of fun. They even had a Christmas sing along on the bus with Kelly! The flying man in the pantomime had everyone amazed!
On Thursday, Mrs. Pratten came to visit our classroom. We were busy in drawing club thinking of where Goldilocks could take Baby bear to say sorry for demolishing his chair and guzzling down his porridge. Mrs. Pratten was amazed by the children’s amazing imaginations and also their drawing and writing. Super stars!! Lots of genius gems were awarded.
We also made Gruffalo crumble today. It was a huge hit and everyone said that the smell of it cooking was amazing. Super, brave penguins! Almost everyone tried it and almost everyone had a second helping!
Longton Christmas Bake Off, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 5th Dec 2023 @ 9:59pm
Thank you to all of the children who entered the Longtn Christmas Bakeoff on Friday. The number of entries was fantastic and there were so many wonderful bakes. The Mayor and Mayoress of South Ribble took a long time to judge the bakes. Congratulations to all of our bakers.
Great Longton Bake Off, by Mr Pearson
Date: 5th Dec 2023 @ 11:20am
On Friday the great Longton bake off took place. The Koala tribe entered the most cakes and were successful in winning and coming second in the in KS2 competition. Well done to all especially Amelia, Georgie and Rebecca.
Knowledge harvest, by Mr Pearson
Date: 5th Dec 2023 @ 11:14am
Today we have been harvesting our knowledge of what we have learnt this term and what we have remembered.
A wonderful week!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 30th Nov 2023 @ 8:36pm
What a busy week! Christmas performances, stomping on the crunchy frosty grass, being scientists for the day and even creating some amazing caves for the Gruffalo.
Our traditional Tales topic took us on a journey looking at the different settings of stories. We had a class quiz and really showed that we knew our stories very well! We also looked at a local Author, Nick Park and had a go at creating Gromit the dog.
We talked about stories we read at home and decided that Julia Donaldson was a firm favourite author. We read The Gruffalo and also The Gruffalos Child. We also watched the final clip of the mouse creating the shadow of the big, bad mouse.
This lead us nicely into our super science lesson. We learnt about light and how shadows are made. We then experimented all day. Indoors and outdoors we drew around shadows, created shadow puppets and made our own shadow puppet theatre. Our super scientists discovered that their shadows had changed places later in the day and also that they could make them bigger and smaller depending on how far or close they are from the light source.
It was lovely of Mrs.Watkinson to join us this morning. Mrs. Watkinson is one of our school governors and the children thoroughly enjoyed her visit today.
We hope you enjoyed the Christmas Play. The children enjoyed learning the songs, the actions and the story. They really did want to get on that stage and use the microphone! Thank you for your help organising costumes.
Our homework this week is to focus on our tricky words, phonics and our reading books. Please feel free to cut up the rainbow words and use them as you like. Some ideas from last year were to have them going up the stairs or on kitchen cupboards. Please share any great ideas with us and we will pass them on.
Fantastic Nativity play, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 30th Nov 2023 @ 12:15pm
A big well done to the Giraffes for fabulous performances of there Nativity play. They worked hard learning lines, singing songs and knowing when to come on and off. We were very proud of their confidence...definitely F. A. N. T. A. S. T. I. C!!!!
Busy Day, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 29th Nov 2023 @ 9:08pm
The Elephants have had a really busy day .
The day started with a visit to Longton Library where Helen shared lots of really interesting facts about Christmas. She then read us some Christmas poems and chose some of the children to read poems aloud.
Next the cildren all got to make gorgeous Christmas cards.
Back in school the children worked hard in English to bring scenes from Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and The Tempest to life with actions and dialogue. The rsults ww=ere amazing.
Congratulations, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 26th Nov 2023 @ 5:34pm
The Elephnats have been shining and have earned themseleves a number of class compliments for displaying Longton behaviour. They have now achieved 20 compliments and which means they can choose a class treat.
Well done Elephants- I am super proud of you .
Getting excited ..., by Mrs Pratten
Date: 24th Nov 2023 @ 6:18pm
We have been busy with our play, knowing our lines and improving our songs...we were very excited to try on our costumes. We can’t wait to share it!!
Don t forget to get your tickets for either Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday evening.
We have been using our part whole model to help us write addition and subtraction number sentences.
In History we started to learn about Robert Goddard, the inventor of the first liquid fuelled rocket.
In English we learnt about verbs, doing words and how they change if used in the past or the present eg I am looking.I looked.
Have a good weekend, enjoy some sunshine!
Moving house!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 22nd Nov 2023 @ 8:11pm
What a busy week!
Although we have been singing Christmas songs for a few weeks now our rehearsals have started with year one for our production next week. We are busy creating props, learning songs and dances. The penguins are enjoying themselves and are already asking if they can use the microphone on stage and be narrators like year one.
We have had a little change around in class and now have a breakfast area for our toast and milk. This has already been a success! The children can eat when they are ready, chat to friends, wear the Christmas oven gloves (which seems to be the favourite thing!) and tidy up after themselves.
The penguins have also decided that they would like a post office in the classroom. They decided they would like a wrapping area, weighing parcels area, a post box and lots of cards and papers to stamp. Please save us any old cards or wrapping paper and if you get a tall box delivered please keep it if you think we could work our penguin magic and create a post box. The children also want bikes ready for delivering the mail.
Therefore we have had to move our classroom house! It was a huge team effort but we managed to relocate to one of our large outdoor sheds. We are looking forward to decorating this for Christmas and putting up a tree that can be decorated each day.
Thank you for your help with reading. The children are really shining.
Some picturs to share!
Bringing Shakespeare to Life, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 19th Nov 2023 @ 9:46pm
In drama the children have been bringing their learning in English to life with Mr Sumner. They have been working on Macbeth in their drama lessons and Friday had an amazing time using replica swords to create fight scenes.
Getting ready..., by Mrs Pratten
Date: 17th Nov 2023 @ 4:50pm
This week we have been busy learning our Nativity songs and practising our words, well done and thank you to those who have been reading through at home it is sounding good!
In science we have been continuing to learn about Seasons and seasonal changes,we really enjoyed making season jigsaws, As part of Parliament week we read an interesting book where we found out all about the Houses of Parliament.
Have a lovely weekend :)
Sporting events in the Koalas, by Mr Pearson
Date: 17th Nov 2023 @ 2:35pm
Honing our basketball skills and learning to ride our bikes safely.
Koala enterprise event, by Mr Pearson
Date: 17th Nov 2023 @ 2:29pm
The Koala tribe had a fantastic time making chocolate snowball truffles. The children made a profit of over £60. Huge thanks to chef Jackson who organised and supported the children in production of the truffles.
Trip back on time to WW2, by Mr Pearson
Date: 17th Nov 2023 @ 2:20pm
Today we visited Lancashire Museum in Preston to experience life in WW2.
The beginning of our dance,, by Mr Kennedy
Date: 17th Nov 2023 @ 8:06am
The beginning of something special from the Pandas. We have begun our movements for our Iron Man inspired dance, using physical theatre to create inanimate objects with our bodies - next week, we will be working on adding an ensemble dance piece to our overall performance!
Top Secret Mission!, by Mr Kennedy
Date: 17th Nov 2023 @ 7:56am
The Y4 & Y5 tribe visited the Lancashire History Museum yesterday, where we were on a top secret mission!
Year 4 & year 5
- Spies in the skies – The tribes met a representative from RAF Medmenham and learned about aerial reconnaissance during WWII. The children used photographic interpretation using genuine WWII images to discover enemy secrets.
- D-Day – It's 1944 and rumours of invasion are in the air! The tribes had the important task of sifting through information gathered behind enemy lines to prepare a document for a top-secret briefing. They needed good attention to detail, good teamwork and decisive action to ensure success of their mission.
- SOE Agents – The children discovered the role of the WWII secret agents, and the huge impact they had on the course of the war. Pupils forged their ID papers, made gadgets and learned the tricks of the wartime spy.
- Code breakers – We met a code breaker from Bletchley Park and discovered the secret war they waged that hugely impacted WWII. They discovered and practiced codes and ciphers including Morse code.
I will huff and I will puff!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 16th Nov 2023 @ 9:19pm
This week the penguins have been creating a new home for the three little pigs in their DT work. They had a variety of resources to choose from. When the homes were finished the children took it in turns to talk about their design and explain what they had ‘joined’ and also what they had ‘connected’.
We had upside down houses, dens and even homes that had added sparkle! We then put the homes to the test! We didn’t have a wolf so the next best thing was a hairdryer to huff and puff the houses down.
The homes won! A few wobbled and a few almost took off but they were so well made the three pigs were safe and sound!
The penguins have done amazing phonics work this week as they have had some very tricky sounds. Please continue to read each day to help the children become confident with these sounds.
Already the children are counting down the sleeps until their buddies walk them to church next week for our celebration assembly.
The penguins have chosen their own parts for the year one / reception Christmas play. A letter will come out next week to ask for you to send in any items needed for their costume.
Thank you
Pictures to follow shortly.
Remembrance, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 12th Nov 2023 @ 6:09pm
On Friday we held our Remembrance service, the children showed a great deal of respect throughout the service. Our guided reading texts have been connected to Remembrance this week and in English we have been learning about animals in World War 1. The children were given a free writing task, a poem, prayer, a factsheet. Here are a few of their creations.
Science, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 12th Nov 2023 @ 6:06pm
We have been looking at lots of animals and matching the baby animal with their adult. Some looked their adult some didn't.
Our special remembrance service., by Mrs Thomson
Date: 12th Nov 2023 @ 10:37am
The penguins have embraced their learning this week.
We have been working hard on our ‘Traditional Tales’ topic. We have looked at how some stories change over time, pictures and books from the past and how many of the traditional tales begin - long, long ago and once upon a time. We enjoyed looking at Evies special non fiction book.
We will be baking next week and the penguins are looking forward to this.
We have enjoyed our shape work in maths this week which took us on a journey at looking at the art work produced by Kandinsky. We have recreated his work which has been admired by many children and teachers in school already.
The children are enjoying their writing activities in class. Did they tell you we covered the carpet with wallpaper for them to practise their name writing?
On Friday the penguins joined the whole school for a very special remembrance assembly. The children listened to our very special guest Mr. Turner.
We have started learning our Christmas songs in class! How exciting!
Special Guest, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 10th Nov 2023 @ 8:18pm
This afternoon we welcomed Katherine Fletcher, the Member of Parliament for South Ribble to school. Katherine asked the children lots of questions about what they knew about parlaiment and their answers were fantastic. She then spoke about herself, her interests, former careers. The children then asked a whole variety of execllent questions. A great launchpad for Parliament Week next week.
