Longton Primary School: Our blogs

Date: 19th Jun 2016 @ 5:47pm

I am delighted with the positive attitude and effort shown by all the Bongos during our phonics screening on Tuesday. I hope the children all feel very proud as they have worked extremely hard on their phonics this year. Thank you ever so much for all your support - it has made a huge difference! Of course we will still keep using our phonics to support our reading and writing but we can have a little break from alien words for now!

Robots, by Miss Adamson

Date: 19th Jun 2016 @ 5:42pm

This half-term our topic is robots. We have been reading a book called No-bot and learning about the human body by comparing it to a robot. I hope that we will all enjoy our last topic of year one!

Subject Showcase, by Miss Adamson

Date: 19th Jun 2016 @ 5:34pm

if you were able to attend the subject showcase on Thursday evening, I hope that you found it really helpful. The Bongos went to have a little look at what children are learning throughout the school on Friday morning.

Cricketing fun!, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 17th Jun 2016 @ 3:36pm

The Bears enjoyed a great session of kick cricket, some excellent batting but I think some work needs to be done on our bowling and fielding skills!

Dance from the Heart, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 17th Jun 2016 @ 8:21am

Well done Bears for creating the fantastic art work for the Dance from the Heart roadshow. They looked fantastic!

Busy week in Tigers so far...., by Mrs Moxham

Date: 15th Jun 2016 @ 11:13pm

Tigers have had a busy week. We spent Monday learning about Queen Elizabeth after her official 90 birthday. We made scones for a morning ' Afternoon Tea' on Tuesday. They were so tasty!

We learned how to keep pace in music and wrote some amazing explanation texts.

We are having a big focus on handwriting and key maths focus on times tables. Each week they will be bringing home times table homework on top of other areas.

Projects for this term are in for next Friday. Our topic areas are plants and the Romans. Any question , please feel free to come into school.

Brilliant dance from the heart roadshow, by Mrs Moxham

Date: 15th Jun 2016 @ 2:53pm

The whole school joined the sports development team today for a dance for Rio 2016.

What fun.

We had a visit from some extreme sportsmen on stunt and box bikes. They were awesome.

Sports Festival, by Mr Monckton

Date: 15th Jun 2016 @ 10:05am

It's been great at Penwortham Girls today. We attended the festival with New Longton and we were split into 3 mixed groups and we worked on lots of different skills. One of the skills we worked on was team work. We were split into 3 mixed groups where we did lots of getting to know you sessions first off all finding out some different facts about our new team. We then had to put ourselves in height order before we started our team game where we had to get across our river as a team. This was so exciting! We also took part in athletics in the dance studio and some skills on the netball court.
After lunch we took part in a massive netball tournament. We really had a great day.

What was even better was the amazing dance from the heart workshop when we got back to school.

Computing Workshop at Girls High, by Mr Coxhead

Date: 14th Jun 2016 @ 3:38pm

Year 6 have had a great afternoon extending their understanding of computer programming at Girls High. A big thank you to Mr Riley for hosting us!

St. John's Ambulance, by Mrs Thomson

Date: 27th May 2016 @ 6:55pm

Wednesday was another great day for everyone in year six! Rory, a trainer from St. John's Ambulance spent the whole day teaching us about how to deal with bleeding, what to do if someone drank a poisonous liquid, how to deal with choking and what we should do if we find someone who is unconscious.

After practising the recovery position several times, bandaging each other up and taking it in turns to remember DRS ABC, Rory decided to set us all a homework task. Please expect lots of first aid tuition at home!

Art week - The Spooky Storyteller!, by Mrs Thomson

Date: 27th May 2016 @ 6:11pm

On Thursday this week we started our day with a special visitor in our assembly, Dominic the storyteller. Dominic introduced himself and explained that he has over one hundred stories in his head and travels all around the world telling stories to children and adults. He told lots of stories in the hall and had everyone laughing at his story about a boy called Jack.

Dominic then came into our classroom. He told us more stories and we all asked for a 'spooky story'. He had one ready in his head and it certainly had an ending that shocked us all!

Dominic worked with everyone in year six and explained how to make stories up, how to read them to others and what tricks he uses to capture the audience. We enjoyed working in pairs to retell his story in eighty seconds.

Art week - Clay., by Mrs Thomson

Date: 27th May 2016 @ 6:00pm

On Thursday this week, year six had a visitor in their classroom called Sam. Sam brought tips, techniques, ideas and inspiration for the pupils when using clay.

After a very messy and dusty hour, year six had some fantastic creations. Some models were linked to the Olympics whilst others just came from amazing imagination! Turtles, elephants, witches, penguins and cup cakes!

The models will take a while to dry out before they are painted and decorated.

Arts Week Friday, by Mrs Ainsworth

Date: 27th May 2016 @ 4:18pm

What a fantastic end to our Arts Week, we have spent today with lots of visitors. The day started with an amazing Olympic themed assembly before having a session with an artist Sam where we created clay Olympic mascots. We then had a workshop with our visiting musicians.

Our day ended with a fantastic whole school celebration.

It's been a great week!

Hope everyone has a great half term! See you in two weeks!

What a wonderful week, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 27th May 2016 @ 4:00pm

The Giraffes have had a wonderful week. Every child has enjoyed the activities they have been doing and they have all used their growth mindset to be the best that they can be.

I hope you all have a fantastic holiday. You have all been superstars!

See you all in two weeks time.

Clay medals, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 27th May 2016 @ 11:35am

The Bears had fun using clay to make Olmpic medals , we made patterns with clay tools, stuck beads and buttons in.When they are dry we will paint them in gold, silver and bronze!

Story telling, by Miss Adamson

Date: 27th May 2016 @ 10:02am

A story teller came into school to share some stories with us. We even got to download stories to one another and pretend that we were witches!

Dance day, by Miss Adamson

Date: 27th May 2016 @ 8:22am

It was so much fun to spend a whole day learning about dance and working together with other children from year one to year six. Everyone worked so hard, despite the heat! I am so impressed with the hard work that everyone put in to learn the dance and make up their own choreography.

Arts Week update, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 26th May 2016 @ 6:40pm

Thursday started with a visit from Sam Art. The children created sports people using card and wool.After play when MrsAinsworth took over they had a visit from Dominic, a story teller. This afternoon they learnt about basic first aid. I am looking forward to hearing about the story teller and the first aid when I am back in class tomorrow.

Arts Week Thursday, by Mr Monckton

Date: 26th May 2016 @ 3:54pm

Today has been a fantastic day. We started the day with Rory our first aid trainer from St John's Ambulance. We had a fantastic morning learning all about why first aid is important, what to do if someone had an asthma attack and also what to put in our first aid kits. After break we looked at what to do if we found someone unconscious and using our primary survey and our DRS ABC (Danger, Response, Shout, Airway, Breathing, Circulation). We also managed to put each other in the recovery position and how to deal with choking. We finished by looking at bleeding and dressing wounds. Rory also set us some homework and make sure we are talking about first aid.

This afternoon, some of the boys had a great - Dominic a story teller came and told us all some great stories whilst the rest of the class were out at choir. He even managed to retell the story in 75 seconds before we tried it ourselves.

A massive thank you to Mrs Little from Penwortham Girls High who came and performed a samba song with us.

We finished the day with our buddies in Reception sharing some stories from our Arts Week and also had a chance to meet the baby pheasants and ducklings.

This week has flown by! We can't wait for our final day of Arts Week with Mrs Ainsworth.