Longton Primary School: Our blogs

Date: 8th Mar 2023 @ 8:03pm

On Monday afternoon we welcomed Anne from the NSPCC into our classroom. We learnt about the work of the NSPCCC and Childline.

Mid-week notice., by Mr Kennedy

Date: 8th Mar 2023 @ 7:35am

A great start to this week.

We have started a new text in guided reading - Escape From Pompeii. We have explore vocabulary and infered how an ancient poem would have been performed. We have also continue developing our tennis skills in PE.

Tuesday news., by Mrs Thomson

Date: 7th Mar 2023 @ 4:57pm

We have had some lovely news news today. A letter from Tiboo the triceratops! We are all happy to hear he has settled in his new home and we are going to write to him this week.

We have enjoyed the sunshine today by practicing our throwing and catching, skipping, balancing and bike skills.

We have been reading stories that have fruit and vegetables in them. We have been creating fruit faces and bowls of fruit with play dough.

World Book Day 2023, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 5th Mar 2023 @ 6:38pm

Where’s Wally theme was a huge success. The children looked fantastic, they have written some amazing postcards all about what Wally saw on one of his adventures.

The children have brought home their very own Where’s Wally activity book, as a gift from us, so they can continue to enjoy reading for pleasure at home as well as school.

A lovely week!, by Mr Kennedy

Date: 3rd Mar 2023 @ 4:49pm

What a week we have had! The Koala tribe should be so incredibly proud each other, they have been troopers!

This week started with a bang with spellings, new fractions and problem solving all whilst exploring the climate in the North West. The following day, we ventured down to our local library, we shared stories and selected a new favourite book. A reminder that books pupils have got from the local library are due to be returned on the 14th March 2023.

Of course, we celebrated each other in celebration assembly and we continued our learning on Wednesday. Yesterday we have a fantastic world book day!

I have to say year 4, that how fast you all found Wally blew our minds! Incredible.

We finished the week with a science investigation of sound through a sound walk through school.

Well done for a fab week year 4, enjoy your weekend.

Enjoy some of our photos from this week below!

A wonderful week!, by Mrs Thomson

Date: 3rd Mar 2023 @ 3:05pm

What a great week!

World book day, IT with the Beebots, a visit to the library and making sandwiches with the cress we grew in class.

A big thank you for your help and support. The children all looked fantastic on world book day and enjoyed themselves at the library in the afternoon. We have some amazing new books in our classroom.

The children are doing great with their reading and we will continue to send Dash bear home every weekend if the children are able to read each day for 10mins.

We are busy getting ready for our class assembly next week. I will send a note home on Monday if an items of clothing are required. (This only applies to several of the children and it will clothing linked to their hobbies)

Have a lovely weekend.

WELL DONE!, by Ms Gaskell

Date: 3rd Mar 2023 @ 2:23pm

Congratulations to these girls who were awarded for their dancing in a competition in Bury. They worked incredibly hard and gained 1st and 2nd place. Well done!

World Book Day 2023, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 3rd Mar 2023 @ 8:02am

The Meerkats have had a great day celebrating World Book Day.

Our day started with visit to the library. Helen the librarian read the class a poem called Twas the Night Before World Book Day which was a re write of the famous Christmas poem Twas the Night Before Christmas - we all enjoyed it. Next the class learnt about the sevices Longton Library and Lancashir Library services offer. Great fun was then had as the children, in teams of four, took part in a book themed scavenger challenge. Book mark making was next and then with new character badges we wandered happily back to school.

The whole school assembly follwed where we thiught about the joy of reading before a much deserved late playtime.

Back in class the children created mini Where's Wally scenes and then wrote postcards to describe the setting without actually naming it.

Art was next where the children ahave created unique Where's Wally pictures using their interests and hidden a Wally in them. They will look stunning when we put them on display.

Thank you mums and dads for the costumes the whole class looked great.

World book day, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 2nd Mar 2023 @ 3:32pm

We have had a wonderful world book today. The children all looked fabulous and loved sharing their favourite books with their friends.

We wrote a postcard from a cold where’s Wally location and managed to spot him too! We made a book mark and enjoyed an eye spy activity. A lovely day!

Where, by Mr Pearson

Date: 2nd Mar 2023 @ 12:03pm

World Book Day in the Elephant tribe we have Wally, Odlaw, Wizard Whitebeard, Wenda and some explores (including Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Dent)

History, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 27th Feb 2023 @ 8:47pm

We have started a new topic on The Great Fire of London. We looked at some pictures of London now and then, we found similarities and differences.

Spelling, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 27th Feb 2023 @ 8:44pm

We are learning about how root words change when we add suffixes to them. We have been playing some games to help us.

Investigating the affect of voltage on the brightness of bulbs, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 27th Feb 2023 @ 2:01pm

The Meerkats are busy investigating the affect voltage has on the brightness of bulbs. They are making a variety of circuits which include varying numbers of componenets from 1 bulb, 2 wires and 1 battery up to 3 bulbs, 6 wires and 3 batteries.

A busy first week, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 24th Feb 2023 @ 12:41pm

This week we have been busy starting our new topics. In science this half term we are finding out all about plants. We looked at different seeds, talked about where seeds come from and planted some sunflower seeds . We are going to observe how they grow each week and what they need to help them.

In History we looked at different bridges and thought about which was the oldest and which was the newest.We matched up who we thought had designed each bridge.

In computing we learnt how to use a paint programme and created some fun pictures!

Week 1 of Spring 2, by Mr Kennedy

Date: 24th Feb 2023 @ 10:56am

Welcome back to another fantastic half term.

We have kicked off this half term with a bang! Getting right into all of our topics and starting our new unit of Aladdin in English!

Below are some images of exploring our key qestions in science - which is all about sound.

Thank you for a fantastic first week back year 4 - I look forward to next week.

Next week we will be having a celebration assembly at church and visiting the library as well.

Also, don't forget to check out our gallary for some up to date images of the Koala tribe.

Have a great weekend!

Investigating Bridges, by Mr Pearson

Date: 23rd Feb 2023 @ 2:33pm

Today we have learnt about beam and arch bridges

Pancakes for our brain break!, by Mrs Thomson

Date: 22nd Feb 2023 @ 7:29pm

It has been lovely to have the giraffes back! They have had lots of news to tell us along with their wonderful ‘All about me’ books to share with their friends. Thank you for helping with these books. The children are very proud of these very special books.

Please send your book back if it has not already come back this week.

We are working hard with our cursive writing and everyday we are practising different letters to ensure they all ‘swoosh up and have a flick at the end’.

Our number work has been great fun. We have been adding, counting in 2’s and counting in 10’ s this week. We have also been using our clocks to show o clock. The giraffes are experts at spotting 12 o clock - lunch time!

On Tuesday after our number work we decided to have a brain break and make pancakes.

Thank you for your support with reading. We are doing lots of reading in class, talking about the story, predicting the ending and talking about the characters and also the setting. Please continue to do this at home to ensure the children are understanding their stories as well as reading the words.

P.E., by Mrs Catterall

Date: 21st Feb 2023 @ 7:33pm

Today we started our football unit of work.

To warm up we played the bean game. Can you tell what type of bean we are acting out?

We had to practice kicking a ball straight using the inside of our foot. We practised dribbling a ball between cones trying to keep it close to our feet so we had control of the ball.

Measuring length, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 21st Feb 2023 @ 7:30pm

This week our maths lessons are all about length. Here we are using metre rulers to find things longer and shorter than a metre.

Why don’t you practise at home. Find objects, write them down then use a ruler or tape measure to find out how long they are. Remember to put the units of measure. cm or m.

Do you know how many cm are in a metre?

Sewing our waistcoats, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 20th Feb 2023 @ 10:07pm

The children have started to sew their waistcoats today.

They are doing a great job.

Spring 2nd half term Subject organiser, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 19th Feb 2023 @ 4:13pm

Welcome back to the 2nd half of the spring term.

Please see the document below which will tell you all about what we will be learning about this half term.

Mrs Catterall

Year 2 Spring 2 subject organiser.pdf

Eco team swap shop, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 19th Feb 2023 @ 1:50pm

A big thank you to the Eco team for organising the swap shop, hope you are enjoying your new swaps, thank you for supporting and we are going to arrange another one in the summer term :)

Brickcroft winter walk, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 19th Feb 2023 @ 1:39pm

Apologies for the delay - the website has been down - we had a great walk to the Brickcroft at the end of last half term, spotting lots of signs of winter. We enjoyed our hot chocolate to warm us up!