Our blogs
Fantastic first week back, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 4th Nov 2022 @ 4:51pm
The Lions have settled well back into school routine and have been working hard, definitely some fantastic learning going on!
In Science we have started to think about what the different seasons are and how we know, it has definitely felt colder this week.
In history we discovered why we celebrate bonfire night, what can your child remember, remember about the 5 th November?
Have a good time celebrating but remember to keep safe.
Shakespeare is a hit!, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 4th Nov 2022 @ 3:13pm
Year 6 have started a new unit in English looking at the work of William Shakespeare and they are absolutely loving it! So far they have looked at the story of Romeo and Juliet and learnt about William's life. I n drama the children are working on MacBeth and had a lot of fun creating fight scenes with props.
Autumn two, week one., by Mr Kennedy
Date: 4th Nov 2022 @ 2:30pm
This week our tribe have done lots of learning! We have started our new book for this term, which is called The Great Choloplot! We are very excited to find out where all the chocolate is going!
In science we kicked off our 'states of matter' topic by exploring, extending and engaging in many investigations.
Maths had the tribe making sure their layouts and super neat and making sure we are proud of our working out. I am very proud of the tribe's hard work in maths.
We have been improving our fantastic writing by including fronted adverbials and making sure we have used perfect punctuation.
Our school were very lucky to have had an expert come into work with classes to experience a wonderful yoga session as well!
Have a flick through some of the images below to see some of our learning in action!
The last day before the half term break., by Mrs Thomson
Date: 30th Oct 2022 @ 7:33pm
Some amazing pictures to share with you! What a great day!
Lots of amazing learning at forest school and then a lovely time with our buddies. Hot chocolate and marshmallows went down a treat for the children and their buddies.
Phonics games, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 29th Oct 2022 @ 4:15pm
Science, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 29th Oct 2022 @ 4:13pm
Which team can make the longest curly whirly?
This week we focused on how materials can bend, stretch, rip, squash etc.
Last week of term, by Mr Pearson
Date: 21st Oct 2022 @ 2:19pm
On Monday we did Science and designed lots of brilliant boats.We were working on forces and water resistance. On Tuesday we had a science assembly that the science ambassadors led. They showed us excellent, exciting experiments. On Thursday a famous poet called Paul Cookson came in and held a whole school assembly.He told us hilarious poems that we could join in with, although afterwards he came round each classroom and we accidentally recreated one of his poems. He told us that out of mum’s,dad’s,grandpa's and grandma’s hats, that 90% of people would think that grandma’s hat sounded the funniest. On Friday we did drama and created marvellous masterpieces about the dracula spectacular show.In art we spent an hour doing halloween themed decorative pumpkins. After lunch, we played two intense cricket matches, the blue team against the red team and the yellow team against the green team. At the end of the day, we did Brush Ninja digital citizenship in computing.
Written by Evie and Eve
Science ambassadors, by Mr Pearson
Date: 21st Oct 2022 @ 9:51am
Longton's Science ambassadors led a whole assembly conducting two amazing investigations. Well done
Library visit, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 20th Oct 2022 @ 3:28pm
The Lions loved visiting the library today. We listened to some spooky stories and made dangling ghosts...getting us ready for the Halloween disco tonight!!!
Busy Giraffes!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 19th Oct 2022 @ 9:57pm
The giraffes have been very busy again this week.
In maths we have continued our work on patterns and size. We have had some tricky number puzzles this week that the children have enjoyed. Our maths work was carried out in the water area, in our autumn tray and also in our mark making area.
We have been learning about our bodies, our teeth and our bones. The children are keen to brush their teeth for two minutes and also learn the song attached below.
Because we have been talking about bones we have been reading the ‘Funnybones’ story. You will see from the pictures below that we made a story map. The children have enjoyed retelling the story to each other. Some of the children have created their own Funnybones stories. They were very proud of their stories and read them out to our class! Well done Giraffes!
Thank you for your hard work with reading and learning our sounds. We have changed the books ready for the half term. Please read the books several times and continue to use the sound cards to make very simple words such as ‘rat, cat, pull, rock’.
A homework book will be sent home tomorrow with tasks to be completed over the half term holiday. These tasks build on the skills the children have been developing. Please return the homework book on Tuesday 1st November.
Please continue to send the reading book and reading record book to school each day.
Thank you
Mrs. Thomson
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/nursery-rhymes-brush-your-teeth/zv33hbk
Treat time!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 19th Oct 2022 @ 4:39pm
The Lions enjoyed their well earned class compliment. They watched Inside out, ate pop corn and chilled out with teddies and PJ’s , what more could you want!!!
Learning is fun, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 18th Oct 2022 @ 6:30pm
Yesterday we had an exciting Science lesson using our last sense of touch, we put our hands in jelly, cornflour goo and shaving foam, we came up with some great words to describe how it felt. The rest of the class were describing objects and guessing what they could be in a feely bag. We then swapped over.
In maths we have been learning about the part part whole model which helps us with our adding.
Dont forget our class compliment treat tomorrow, PJ’s and teddies allowed!
Enjoying our classroom, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 17th Oct 2022 @ 9:15pm
Science Materials, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 17th Oct 2022 @ 9:05pm
This half term our science explorations have been about materials.
What words can we use to describe the properties of materials?
Which material would the best to use for the three little pigs house?
What type of material would keep Humpty Dumpty safe when he falls off the wall?
There was lots of exploring, secret planning, testing and making decisions to answer the questions.
Maths, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 17th Oct 2022 @ 8:54pm
This half term our Maths work has been focused around the understanding of 2 digit numbers.
We have read numbers in digits and words. We have used base 10 to make 2 digit numbers and then practised drawing them. The Zebras have been putting them in order, comparing the sizes of them and placing them on number lines.
Remembering Queen Elizabeth II, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 17th Oct 2022 @ 8:46pm
As a mark of respect we made flowers and placed them in our memorial area.
Cricket!, by Mr Kennedy
Date: 17th Oct 2022 @ 4:16pm
The tribe have been working on improving their accuracy in cricket today, both with bowling and batting! Well done tribe for being very supportive of each other and celebrating each other success in PE.
Great work!
A busy DT week!, by Mr Kennedy
Date: 17th Oct 2022 @ 7:31am
The tribe have had great fun understanding ways to create a strong chassis for their slingshot cars!
They worked have to make the body of their cars and are looking forward to bringing everything together this week! Be sure to look out for photos on our class blog.
Last week we also explored The Treasure of the Loch Ness Monster by Lori Don. We magpied some vibrant vocabulary ready to write a fictional tale this week. Today, we will look at expanded noun phrases and adverbs to describe Nessie herself!
Looking forward to the final week of our first half-term! Lots more learning to happen!
English and Maths Sites, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 16th Oct 2022 @ 10:08pm
A list of useful English and maths sites has been uploaded to the class page
Fantastic Friday, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 14th Oct 2022 @ 9:31pm
Today started with our phonics work and everyone going to forest school in groups with Mrs. Jackson. We continued our work on patterns and also read our story for next week which is ‘Funny bones’.
This links with the work we have been doing on ‘all about me’ as we will be talking about our bodies and looking at our finger prints next week.
We had a good look through our dressing up clothes today as you can see from the pictures.
I do apologise if you have not got your child’s reading book for the weekend. With all the excitement of showing each other their art work and also getting the school photographs some reading bags were left in the tray. I will make sure this doesn’t happen again. Please look over our sounds in the wallet as new ones have been added this week.
I had planned for the children to have hot chocolate after forest school today but the children found out today that their year five buddies will be visiting them next Thursday for a story session. The giraffes asked if we could have hot chocolate with their buddies instead of today. I have a feeling I will need to shop for more mini marshmallows but I thought it was a lovely idea from our caring and kind giraffes.
Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs. Thomson
Exploring toys, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 14th Oct 2022 @ 3:39pm
A big thank you to you all for sending in toys for us to explore, it really bought our learning to life. The children loved showing and telling us all about them.
Thank you again for your support , have a great weekend ?
Lion, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 14th Oct 2022 @ 3:15pm
This week in maths we have been learning to compare numbers using symbols < = >
We made greedy crocodiles to help us remember which way they went.
In English we have enjoyed learning lots of rhymes and listening to and spotting the rhyming words.
We enjoyed skipping to some of the rhymes and clapping to keep the rhythm.
Fantastic Day of Learning, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 11th Oct 2022 @ 8:07pm
Well what a fantastic day it has been in Year 6 !
The day began with Maths, a lesson introducing long division. The children were bamboozled at first with the concept of divie, multiply, subtract, parachute, repeat until done. Very soon there were cries of delight as the process began to make sense.
We will be working on this for the rest of the week to make sure that the method is embedded to be able to divide larger numbers by 2 digits . Well done Meerkats for showing grit and determination. I am very proud of you.
This afternoon the fantastic learning continued. This week's science lesson was about fossils and evolutionary relationships- we all learnt so much. The children had great fun using biscuits to learn about evolution. They will apply the skills they learnt in another lesson to look at the way birds evloved to be able to fly.
Patterns everywhere!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 11th Oct 2022 @ 4:42pm
Today the Giraffes have been looking at repeating patterns. Everyone had a turn at creating them inside and also outside. We will be working on patterns all week so please feel free to have a go creating some at home that show a repeating pattern.
We are working well with our phonics and we are very good at spotting our sounds when we are walking through school. New sounds will be added to book bags on Thursday.
