Longton Primary School: Our blogs

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.

Remembrance Day, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 10th Nov 2023 @ 7:10pm

This morning we had our anual Remebrance Service in the hall. We were once again joined by Mr Turner from the Royal British Legion.

This year Thiomas played the Last Post on his trombone- he was magnificent.

Remembrance Day, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 10th Nov 2023 @ 5:23pm

We had an interesting morning learning all about Remembrance Day, we talked about why we celebrate, looked at old photos of WW2 , took part in our special assembly and talked about we we had dressed up as.

The children all looked amazing, thank you for supporting, the sun was their eyes for the photos hence some are grimacing!!!

Enjoy your weekend. :)

Fire Service Visit, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 5th Nov 2023 @ 7:30pm

We had a visitor to our classroom this week, Firefighter Josh.

He told us about his different roles; putting out fires, rescuing farm animals from ditches, carrying out fire safety checks, helping when there is a flood, cutting people out of cars in an accident and dealing with grass fires and chemical spills. One job he has never personally had to do was rescue a cat from a tree - an idea from the tribe.

He talked about Stop, Drop and Roll. This is what you do if part of your clothing caught on fire. Well done Oliver for an excellent demonstration.

We listened to a fire alarm and discussed how we would get out of the house, checking door handles to see if they were hot and crawling along the floor to keep out of the rising smoke.

Once out stay out, you must never go back in for anything.

D.T. Structures, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 5th Nov 2023 @ 7:23pm

This week we began our DT topic by exploring the stability of different structures.

A wonderful week for the Panda Tribe, by Mr Kennedy

Date: 3rd Nov 2023 @ 5:38pm

What a great week we have had to kick start our second half-term of Autumn. The children have started their new science topic (State of Matter) through exploring, extending and engaging in investigations of matter, we gained knowledge of bees in reading response through information texts and finished the week with a playscript. We developed our atlas skills in our geography unit (Britain from the air) and began training with our new tennis coach, Joe.

A great week for the tribe, the even achieved three class compliments on the tracker! Well done Pandas!

Class compliment, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 3rd Nov 2023 @ 5:06pm

Today the Graffe enjoyed a well deserved class compliment treat.They voted to watch a film and have some popcorn.

Have a lovely weekend, enjoy the fireworks , keep safe 🌟

Engineers and photographers!, by Mrs Thomson

Date: 3rd Nov 2023 @ 7:02am

Welcome back Penguins!

It is lovely to have everyone back with lots of stories to share and of course our ‘All about me’ books to talk about. We have had a lovely first week back.

The penguins would love to tell you about their Jack and the Beanstalk PE, the firework pictures they have made using their own paint ‘swisslers’, the parcel that was delivered to our class, the baby hedgehog on our playground and our work on the gingerbread man! Yesterday the penguins spent the day as engineers. They had to plan and build escape routes for the gingerbread man! Bridges and boats were made, tested, rebuilt, made stronger, then longer and when they finally thought they had the great escape they got to test our class gingerbread man on it. He did get quite soggy!

The penguins have been helping to take a picture of their number work this week using the iPad. They had a lot of fun and enjoyed the task. However 751 pictures has taken Mrs. Thomson a long time to work through!

The children have enjoyed their new sounds this week. They have learnt the name of our new two letter sounds - digraph (two letters that make only one sound). New sounds have been put in your book bag for you to add to your sound wallet.

Homework this week is letter formation. All of the letters on the sheet start with the curly c. Once the children have mastered this letter the rest will seem a little less tricky. I always remind the children that my pencil shoots up like a rocket to start each curly c.

Thank you for your support over the holidays with reading. Please continue to read each night to help embed the new sounds that are taught each week. A big thank you from Mrs. Morrison for signing your record books or adding a comment to let us know your child has read at home. This is a great help.

Pip Penguin will be coming home each weekend with a child who has made a wonderful effort in their reading. He will be bringing a book to share with you over the weekend and a hot chocilate treat for your penguin to enjoy.

Eco Halloween, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 2nd Nov 2023 @ 8:19am

A big thank you to some of the Eco team who helped Kelly create some funky Halloween decorations out of milk cartons They looked fab..and the team enjoyed helping out!