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Kind Kangaroos!, by Mrs Thomson

Date: 13th Sep 2024 @ 3:41pm

What a wonderful week! Superstar children!!

Kind words, kind hands and kind feet! Our classroom has been cared for and the children have shown kindess to each other!

A lovely day of phonics, music, drama and dancing! I think your kangaroo may be ready for a rest over weekend!

Yesterday I sent home a plastic wallet of sounds. I hope your kangaroo taught you the actions and the sounds! They did say they were going to be Mrs.Thomson!

Please look at these sounds as often as you can because this will help when the reading books come home. Please send the wallet back to school in your book bag every Thursday morning. New cards and words will be added to the wallet each Thursday.

Highlights from our week -

• The kangaroos met their year 5 buddy. They got to share their 'All about Me' books with their new year five friends
• We started learning a song for our Harvest celebration. We will sing it and also sign it in Makaton.
• We have started our phonics adventure! A new sound has appeared everyday!
• We all found a new friend to play with by finding who had the missing piece to a heart.
• We joined in with year one and year two singing practice.

Welcome to Year 6, by Mr Pearson

Date: 12th Sep 2024 @ 9:43am

Year 6 have been busy this week completing the 2022 SAT's tests to allow Mr Pearson to get a baseline for the coming year ahead. 

We are looking to our residential to York in a couple of weeks time. 

An exciting day tomorrow!, by Mrs Thomson

Date: 9th Sep 2024 @ 9:01pm

Tomorrow the kangaroos will meet their year five buddies. Both classes are so excitied! Our buddies will come and have story sessions with us, play afternoons and they will hold our hands when we walk to church for celebration assemblies. Tomorrow we will be sharing our 'All about me' books with them and have a story time together.

Today we started our phonics learning. The kangaroos did a sorting game finding objects which start with the 's' sound, we had a practise of writing the sound holding a pencil correctly. We did an activity on the scissor station and also set up our 'wow' washing line to hang up pictures, writing and crafts that we are proud of! Super busy kangaroos!

Lots of kangaroos had their name on one of our 'super stars' today. Our mission for this week is to 'use kind words'. Everytime we hear someone using kind words in class and around school the kangaroos find their name star and pop it on the board. 

Perfect start for the Penguins, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 6th Sep 2024 @ 3:45pm

The lovely Penguins have settled in really well to Year 1 and have enjoyed being back together as a tribe, becoming familiar with routines and finding their way around the classroom. 
This morning they enjoyed, computing - programming coding pets,music  - finding the pulse and drama - fun games - all superstars!!

Hope you all have a lovely weekend and enjoy the sunshine😎

A first week review, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 5th Sep 2024 @ 7:47pm

I have enjoyed our maths work this week, we had fun matching up 2 digit numbers with their words and base 10 pictures. EQ

I’ve liked learning to join up my letters.  PS

I enjoyed designing cards ready for making our cauliflower cards next week. JB

I’ve liked learning the names of the 5 oceans. HS

I’ve enjoyed learning about nouns in grammar. LC

I have liked the start of our story, The way home for wolf.  I can’t wait to find out what happens next. HH

The Giraffes are amazing, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 4th Sep 2024 @ 9:47pm

We have made a fantastic start to the week in Year 2.  The children have come back to school shining brightly.  They have shown excellent manners and have already recived 3 class compliments from 3 different members of staff who have come into our classroom and seen them working hard. They have produced some lovely non fiction texts about wolves today and their knowledge and understanding of 2 digit numbers has been fantastic.  I can't wait to watch them grow, you are amazing Giraffes, keep up the amazing work. 

Wonderful Wednesday!, by Mrs Thomson

Date: 4th Sep 2024 @ 7:01pm

The kangaroos have been superstars today!

Our day began with a PE lesson in the hall. We worked on moving safely, finding spaces, working on positions (next to, around, behind and in front of) and also our driving skills. Our hearts were beating very fast and we worked up an appetite for our toast and milk.

We have been using scissors, writing our name, painting a self portrait and exploring our classroom and outdoor area. We managed to get the bikes out today whilst the sun was shining.

Mrs.Morrison took groups of children on a Longton Primary School tour this afternoon. You can see from the pictures that they met lots of our staff and visited lots of classes today.

I am looking forward to chatting to you next week at our 'meet the teacher' afternoon. I have lots of exciting news to share with you!

Mrs.Thomson

Y4 classroom, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 30th Aug 2024 @ 12:15pm

We are looking forward to welcoming you back.

Y3 classroom, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 30th Aug 2024 @ 12:12pm

We are looking forward to welcoming you back.

Y2 classroom, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 30th Aug 2024 @ 12:10pm

We are looking forward to welcoming you back on Monday.

Y1 classroom, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 30th Aug 2024 @ 12:09pm

We are looking forward to welcoming you back on Monday 

A fantastic last day, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 22nd Jul 2024 @ 3:53pm

We've had a lovely last day today, good fun with the lovely giraffes as always. They have been a fabulous class to teach, with lovely supportive parents,so thank you too!

Mrs Regan and I have both been spoilt with lovely cards and gifts so thank you  (again) not expected but much appreciated.

Have a great holiday, let's hope we get a little sunshine!!

See you all in September ❤️

Last day enjoyment with our buddies, by Mr Pearson

Date: 22nd Jul 2024 @ 11:17am

First lesson t.oday the Penguin and Koala tribes came together for some challenges in the hall. Buddies had to build the highest towers, throw and catch different sized balls 20 times to each other.  Next challenge was to design an imaginary animal.

Finally we had team challenge using the giant parachute.

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Last week fun!, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 19th Jul 2024 @ 1:12pm

On Monday the giraffes loved DT day, learning all about wheels and axles. Their wheeled vehicles were fantastic and worked well.
They enjoyed pyjama day, the bog eyed jog and especially waving their flags!

In maths we have finished our place value work and enjoyed exploring coins. Learning the different values of coins and notes and how to combine them to make different amounts.

Have a lovely weekend and see you on Monday! 😄😎

A fantastic day!, by Mrs Thomson

Date: 17th Jul 2024 @ 10:16pm

Yesterday started in a perfect way! The children did a morning bog eyed jog around the school field. We ran, danced, sang and chatted all the way! We chatted so much that we had no idea how many laps we did! We then had breakfast outside with our school friends before setting off on a whole school walking bus around the village. 
The penguins loved playing the 50 pence slide! Evie was in the lead before Hugo just beat her with his last slide! I think this game will be played a lot over the summer on your shiny floors.

We had a very special singing afternoon before Mrs.Wooley and Mrs.Fletcher were awarded their final school reports. 

We are excited to go litter picking in Longton tomorrow and then we will be busy making our ice pops.

Summer at the Brickcroft!, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 12th Jul 2024 @ 1:14pm

The giraffes completed the last of their seasonal walks to the Brickcroft. A bit wet but not cold...we carried out a  litter pick too.We didn't find much which was good! 
In maths we enjoyed some place value work, comparing numbers with the same number of tens.

Have a lovely weekend...Come on England!!!,

Trip to Story Homes, by Mr Pearson

Date: 12th Jul 2024 @ 11:46am

The Koalas enjoyed a fascinating trip to a building site on Thursday. Donning hardhats and high visibility jackets, not forgetting our wellies, we were shown around the development. We learnt that it takes 3 years to complete your training to operate a fork lift truck, that motor is made on site from dry materials and then mixed with water. We explored a semi-built house and learnt about how it is made. Do you know that to build a house there is approximately, 21 different trades involved and over 60 people are involved in the process in total?

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Malham 2024, by Mr Pearson

Date: 12th Jul 2024 @ 9:56am

A fantstic experience had by the Year 5 children at Malham 

Year 6 awards, by Mr Pearson

Date: 12th Jul 2024 @ 9:20am

An amazing event was held at Longotn to recognise the amazing achievements the Year 6 children have made over their time here. 

A message from Mrs.Regan, by Mrs Thomson

Date: 12th Jul 2024 @ 7:48am

Mrs.Regan is excited to see your sunflowers. Over the weekend please can you measure your sunflower and if possible send a picture of your penguin stood next to it. Mrs.Regan will announce the winner of the tallest sunflower towards the end of the week.

Thank you

Takeover day!, by Mrs Thomson

Date: 11th Jul 2024 @ 9:16pm

On Monday it was a very special day. The year six pupils took over the school and the penguins had three new teachers for the day. The maths, phonics, topic time and show and tell was planned to perfection and the penguins had a truly amazing day.

On Tuesday the penguins enjoyed going to church for the celebration assembly. They enjoyed spending some time with their buddies.

On Wednesday work began in our outdoor play area. An aeroplane, check in desk, tunnel to the aeroplane and airport cafe was opened by our very creative penguins. (If you are buying new suitcases this year and have a small suitcase that is no longer used please let us know)

Today a representative came into class from the 'Story Homes' building site. He gave us a talk about being safe near building sites and how builders stay safe in their work. We then had a surprise visit from the 'build a bear' The penguins enjoyed wearing the hard hats and high visibility jackets. In their back packs that the children were given today is information about a poster competition. Please take a look.

We enjoyed our assembly today by learning about the summer reading challenge at Longton library. The penguins were very excited about this.

Next week we will be talking about how we can look after our world. We will spend one morning in the community, litter picking. Please make sure coats (and summer caps) are sent each day.

Happy homework - the children have been given a summer scavenger hunt. If you are able to go for a short walk or spend some time in the garden to complete this I would be very grateful as this links with an activity planned for next week. (A huge thank you for the homework sent in from last week! It was so interesting and the children enjoyed sharing their information with the class. We had our globe and map out to spot the different countries).

Come rain or shine!, by Mrs Thomson

Date: 7th Jul 2024 @ 11:53am

This week the penguins received a message in a bottle. It was from Pirate Polly. She wrote to tell us that she had arrived in China. We have been finding out lots of information about China and some penguins have had a go at writing their name in Chinese whilst others created a huge outdoor 'Great Wall of China'.

We had a visitor from the HSBC and she talked to us about our money and how to look after it. She told us a story about Cinderella who worked hard at her job designing trainers to earn her money.

The penguins enjoyed their own Wimbledon this week. 
Our Andy Warhol pop art project is now finished. We are now ready for some DT work and art using food!

We are looking forward to visiting our Y1 classroom again next week.

Superstars, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 28th Jun 2024 @ 4:00pm

This week the children have been busy with end of year checkups but in Science we still managed to find time to sort minibeasts using a venn diagram. In Geography, learn more about the UK, capitals and seas. In maths we have continued with our position work, finding out about different turns, half, quarter , three quarter and full. Yesterday trying to learn left and right...tricky tricky ! Today forwards and backwards, we enjoyed giving our partner directions to move,

We definitely deserved our treat in the sun on Wednesday during storytime outside in the shade .

Have a great weekend😄

The sun has got his hat on!, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 26th Jun 2024 @ 11:46pm

It has been a lovely week so far.  Please make sure children come to school with a water bottle and a hat to keep the sun off their head would be great. 

We have enjoyed using our outside area today.  

Science - Microhabitats, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 26th Jun 2024 @ 11:41pm

Our science work has led us outside to explore the mircohabitas in our school grounds.  The plants around the shed, the wooden sculptures in the bog garden, under tree stumps in our forest school area and the trunk of a tree.

We found a collection of worms, slugs, woodlice and beetles.  We have also gently collected some woodlice to find out what conditions they like to live in.  We places them in a container which was divided inot 4 different conditions, dark and dry, dark and damp, bright and dry, bright and damp.   The woodlice quickly moved into the dark area, there were more woodlice in the damp area than the dry area.