Our blogs
Lion Adventures., by Mrs Thomson
Date: 22nd Apr 2022 @ 12:57pm
The lions have had a busy week and I must say that it is lovely to be back! We have had lots and lots to catch up on!
Our topic for this half term is called Ticket to Ride. We are looking at transport and vehicles, past and present. We will complete a DT project, be historians, work as scientists and explore and be curious on our class trip next week. (I had a fantastic time last week when I visited the transport museum and I think the lions will love it also).
We are working very hard in class. We are working on our phonics everyday and then using what we have learnt in our writing and reading. Please do try to hear your child read every day and also go through their word and sound cards as often as possible. It is really important that you sign the reading record book and add a comment each time your child reads.
I have attached a list of words from one of the stories we have read this week. Please ask your child if they can remember the actions. We then tried to say the word, do the action, clap and stamp our feet in between each word. Have a go!
You could also ask what mischief the naughty bus got up to in class today!
A new homework pick and mix document is now on the google classroom. I hope you enjoy the activities, they are all linked to our learning this half term.
Over the weekend please save and send into school any half dozen egg boxes and also any small shoe boxes.
Thank you
Mrs. Thomson
Welcome Back, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 21st Apr 2022 @ 8:29pm
Welcome back to school and to the start of the summer term. It has been a busy week for the Pandas. They have started looking at books by the author Simon Bartram in English. The first book being looked at is Man on the Moon ( a day in the life of Bob) , the children have found out informaton from looking at an illustartion, they have written questions, listened to the story and written a character profile of Bob, In spelling the children have been looking at what happens to words ending in y when you add the suffies -ing, -ed, -er and -est.
In maths the children have been brushing up their addition and subtraction skills as their warm up activities and then have been learning about fractions. We have started our new geography topic by looking at physical and human geographical features. Our new DT projet has begun and lots pf fu was had as all of the children tried their hands at sewing , learning how to do running stitch.
Thak you to the parents who came along to the SATs meeting tonight . The PowerPoint has been uploaded onto the class website page and is also on Google Classroom.
The new subject organiser and time table for this term have also been uploaded.
Welcome back - The Summer Term, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 18th Apr 2022 @ 9:09pm
I hope you have all had an enjoyable Easter holidays; plenty of rest, relaxation, fun and lots of easter egg eating of course!
I'm looking forward to hearing all about your adventures.
We have lots to look forward to this half term, it is going to be an action packed 6 weeks.
Please keep checking back on the blog for photos of what we have been getting up to.
Information about our learning this half term can be found on our main class page and also on google classroom. These documents will be uploaded this week.
Please come and speak to myself or Mrs Atkinson if you have any questions or queries, we will be happy to help.
Mrs Catterall
Spring fun!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 1st Apr 2022 @ 4:58pm
Well done to all those children who made an Easter bonnet, they all looked fantastic.
Today the sun shone for our Spring walk to the Brickcroft but it was a bit chilly!
We did manage to spot lots of flowers and trees that we have been learning about at school.
Thank you to all our lovely helpers, have a great Easter, don’t eat too many eggs!
More photos!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 30th Mar 2022 @ 5:01pm
Photos of capacity work! I tried to put too many on?
Busy busy!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 30th Mar 2022 @ 4:21pm
This week in maths we have been finding out about volume, how full or empty a container is and capacity , how big or small the container is. We filled up different containers with a spoon and then a cup. The spoon took ages...because it holds less!
A very exciting week in DT we got to make our own smoothies! We have been chopping, slicin, blitzing and loving it!!! Of course we also got to taste too- delicious!
Dont forget the Brickcroft on Friday... warm coats I think!
R.E. Oscar Romero crosses, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 28th Mar 2022 @ 7:03pm
D.T. Making biscuits, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 28th Mar 2022 @ 6:59pm
Elephants you were amazing. You worked well in a team making sure everyone had a go.
Our super swimmer, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 28th Mar 2022 @ 6:58pm
Congratulations to Thomas on winning all these gold medals at his recent swimming competition.
We are all really proud of you.
D.T. Biscuit tasting, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 28th Mar 2022 @ 6:56pm
This weeks amazing learning, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 25th Mar 2022 @ 2:36pm
This week in maths we have enjoyed finding out about mass, how much things weigh and wether they are heavy or light. We used balance scales to watch what happened too, we thought they were a bit like a seesaw. We have enjoyed the sunshine with some fun phonics outside. In DT today we loved trying smoothies, they tasted delicious.We had to be smoothie detectives and work out what was in each one. Then we tried each ingredient , described them and ticked if we liked it or not. We can’t wait till next week when we get to prepare and chop up fruit to put in smoothies ourselves! Have a go at the weekend at making your own smoothie , tell me all about it on Monday.
On Monday we will be changing school library books , don’t forget to bring them in so you can have a new one for the holidays.
Have a lovely weekend and enjoy the sunshine?
Year 2 Trip, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 11th Mar 2022 @ 2:59pm
We had another wonderful trip yesterday when we visited the Preston Gujarat Society.
We were in awe of the beautiful ceiling and enjoyed learning more about Hinduism in a working temple.
Day 2 Malham, by Mr Pearson
Date: 7th Mar 2022 @ 7:46am
Busy busy, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 4th Mar 2022 @ 2:04pm
This week we have continued to find out more about plants, naming and identifying plants that grow in the garden.We looked around school too to see what was growing.Have a look in your garden over the weekend - what can you see? Can you name them? How can you find out what they are? In DT this week a good link to our Science work, we were sorting items into fruit or vegetable. We learnt that if they have seeds they are a fruit, we enjoyed tasting some! ??
World Book Day, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 3rd Mar 2022 @ 4:33pm
Thank you Year 6 for an amazing World Book Day . I have loved every minute of it and am so proud of uou all. Following the assembly we took some time to share the Christain parable of the Good Samaritan. Whilst listening to the story we thought about how we can be kind and helpful and later in the day have been working with Mrs Morrison to create some beautiful reflection work.
The bulk of our day involved working thriugh a project with MC Grammar. We have sorted books into the order in which they appeared in the song, thought about books we have enjoyed and then identifoed characters we could include in our own rap/songs. You all did an amazing job writing your own verses. We will get them typed up to share.
Thank you for being amazing
Mrs Fletcher
PS ( sorry) homework will be given out tomorrow. It will be on paper this week. As I am a day late handing it out please can I ask that your named work is handed in on Wednesday next week.
World Book Day 2022, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 3rd Mar 2022 @ 4:27pm
What a wonderful day we have had celebrating world book day !
The day started with a whole school assembly to introduce the teme and to share a story we wrote as a school in 2020. It was also when the stimulus for this year's whole school write was revealed. Our youngest children, the Lions started the story and it was then emailed from class to class to be developed. It finally reached year 6 this afternoon and they proofread the story and then added to it. At 2.45 we met back in the hall for the world premiere reading of The Magic Potion. Wow !!!! What a story! Well done, again Longton. Please take some time to share the story as a a family and to ask your child which part their class wrote.
Every class has met up via an online meeting with classes at Barden Primary School in Burnley and Reception and Key Stage 1 have had a visit from Librarian Tom.
At Longton, as well as the World Book Day voucher we like to give the children a book as a gift. Your child will have a lovely book in their book bags this evening. Please enjoy reading them.
World book day, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 3rd Mar 2022 @ 3:56pm
We had a great world book day.We all helped write a fantastic story, each class adding and building on it,look out for it later on the blog. We enjoyed a story session with Tom from the library. We loved sharing our favourite stories with our friends and finally finished our chapter book, Harry the poisonous centipede which we have loved!
Hello Pandas, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 2nd Mar 2022 @ 10:28pm
Hello Pandas I hope you are looking forward to our visit to The Hindu Temple next week as much as I am. I am looking forward to being with you on Tuesday too for our writing session. Well done to the children who read in church this week , you were amazing.
Your homework is on Google Classroom- it is all about verbs, doing words.
Mrs Fletcher
Penguin Update, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 2nd Mar 2022 @ 10:25pm
The Penguin's have been very busy since we returned to school following half term
They have taken part in a webinair on gender stereotypes and another on STEM careers. They have also had a visit from Reece Taylor who spoke to them about living with cerebal palsy. He really was an inspitration to the whole class. We have started a new unit of work in English - Autobiographies and biograpahies- looking at the diary of Anne Frank. This has led to some outstanding discussions about life in Nazi controlled areas during World War 2. Outstanding links to previous learning in History.
In maths they are concentrating on fine tuning their arithmetic skills becoming more accuate in the use of timestables to successfully divide numbers to 2 digits.
Spelling is currently being develpoed through lots of investigations and through a daily morning task revising phase 5 phonics. Yesterday and this morning we have compared the use of traditional book format and online dictionaries whilst invsetigating prefixes and root words.
First week back, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 25th Feb 2022 @ 3:51pm
This week we have been looking at seeds and bulbs and thinking about what a plant is.We have planted sunflower seeds and sweet peas , a big thank you to Chloe’s mum for bringing some in for us to plant :) In history we have been looking at different bridges and their designers and working out which bridge was the oldest /newest and who designed which one - looking for clues in the photos.
Have a lovely weekend.
Exploring gender stereotypes, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 23rd Feb 2022 @ 9:46pm
Today we were lucky enough to take part in a primary futures webinar about gender stereotypes in jobs.
We talked about the types of jobs people can do and played a game with 2 mystery people. We had to ask them questions about their job to see if we could work out what they did. We were only able to ask questions which would have a yes or no answer.
We were really excited when the organiser asked them some of the questions we had sent in the chat.
We then had to guess what we thought their job was. It was really hard. You’ll have to wait to find out. Evie and Noah are going to tell you all about it later this week.
Police dogs, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 23rd Feb 2022 @ 9:39pm
We were very exited to see a police dog because we had lots of questions and we thought it would be cool. There were 2 dogs, a German Shepard and a springer spaniel and they were both very clever. It was great to stroke the springer spaniel and it licked some of us.The 2 dogs, were called Goose and Maverick they were so cute. It took 6 weeks to train Goose and 13 weeks to train Maverick. Maverick is 4 years old and Goose was 6 years old.Maverick is the German Shepard and Goose was the springer spaniel,Goose was older than Maverick by 4years. We had so Much fun stroking the dog.
The dogs live with the police officer and have very important jobs to help keep us safe. Goose was able to find a mobile hidden hidden in a box in the car park.
Science - digestion, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 23rd Feb 2022 @ 9:33pm
Before half term we explored our digestive system by modelling what happens to our food.
The children all took part and had great fun, as you can see it was a messy and gooey job. Luckily this happens inside our bodies!
