Our blogs
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!
Welcome Back, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 23rd Feb 2022 @ 3:05pm
Welcome back to school Panda's. I hope you all had a lovely half term break. Miss Eglin has now joined our lovely tribe and is working hard to make learning fun for you all. I will be popping in to see you all and also to do writing with you on Tuesday afternoons.
Your homework for this week is on Google Classroom and is a revision task in Maths.
The new subject organiser for this half term is now on the class page .
Class Compliment Afternoon, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 14th Feb 2022 @ 3:08pm
The Lions had a lovely afternoon on Thursday celebrating their achievement of completing their class compliment stars.
They sang and danced, had hot chocolate in their pyjamas, ate cupcakes and crisps and then danced some more. After a class vote they watched a Disney film for the last twenty minutes of the day after a quick energy burst in the ball cage.
Good luck Lions achieving even more class compliments!
Have a great half term, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 11th Feb 2022 @ 1:46pm
Pandas, you have had an amazing half term . You have worked hard , had fun and of course we had our wonderful trip to Manchester Airport.
Next term Miss Eglin will be joining our teamafter half term and I know that she is looking forward to it very much.
Make sure you all have a great break and I am looking forward to seeing what you have been up to in your holiday passports.
Finished windmills, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 10th Feb 2022 @ 3:50pm
Some of our finished wonderful windmills??
Safer Internet Day, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 9th Feb 2022 @ 10:44pm
Tuesday 8th February was Safer Internet Day. The Pandas took part in a Vtes for Schools discussion. They discussed the question Is the Internet bad for friendships?
They reached the conclusion that the internet is good for somethings but it is still better to play with people face to face. Our discussion went on to playing games online with people that we do not really know and how we have to make sure we are safe.
This lead to us watching the first episode of a series of internet safety stories called Hectors World where we learnt about not giving our details online to people we do not know. If you would like to share the rest of these stories with your chld this is the link.
episode 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snbQ3GTXogo
episode 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUAXS3P9sDE
episode 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk6ac-s5pL0
episode 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9uLTG3jrvA
Great Learning!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 9th Feb 2022 @ 10:05pm
Our week is not yet over but I thought you would like to see what the lions have been busy learning. We have made fossils and learnt how palaeontologists could tell what dinosaurs looked like, ate and what they predicted their world looked like because of the fossils they found.
We have been learning a poem about our class pet, Tim the Triceratops and we enjoying putting actions to it.
Today we had a visit from a Police dog handler. They met Maverick and Goose. The children listened and also asked great questions showing their curiosity -
Do you bath the dogs?
Why do they not share a crate in your car?
How fast do they run?
We did PE this morning with lots of climbing, balancing, slithering, jumping and crawling.
Wonderful windmills!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 9th Feb 2022 @ 5:43pm
We have been working hard in DT designing and making windmills.We finished them yesterday and enjoyed sharing our designs with our friends. It had to stand up, Have turbines and an axle.
In art we have enjoyed finishing off our terrific texture pictures.We have made cold landscapes and they look great!
Today we also had an exciting visitor to school, a police dog handler who bought his dogs, Maverick and Goose.We enjoyed meeting them and learnt how clever they are at helping the police.
Home work for the holidays is the holiday passport, I do enjoy reading what you get up to in the holidays.Books I have will come on Thursday, quite a few children must have them still at home, please help the children complete 2 pages with pictures, photos, writing,posters ,stickers however you want to do it!
Dont forget the valentine shop at school to tomorrow and the disco in the evening.Busy Busy!!
Class Compliment Treat, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 8th Feb 2022 @ 10:16pm
The Lions have completed their first class compliment challenge sheet. Their class efforts, team work and behaviour have been noticed around school and visitors and school staff from other classes have awarded compliments.
After some wonderful conversations and truly amazing ideas from the children we have decided that we will have a treat afternoon on Thursday. Please send pyjamas or a onesie into school on Thursday in a named carrier bag. After lunch the children can get changed, have treats, do some party dancing and watch a short film.
This week the children have made fossils, learnt a tongue twister about Mary Anning, made carnivore and herbivore teeth and have been pactising their numbers in shaving foam! We have been getting a little messy recently!
The children are shining with their reading and phonics!
Thank you
Mrs. Thomson
Assembly blog, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 6th Feb 2022 @ 3:07pm
Today in assembly on Tuesday we talked about, animals and how they are the same and if they work well together. The animals we saw were penguins, dolphins and whales, zebras and ostriches and a crocodile and a bird. We also talked about when it’s important to work together.
Our Thursday picture news assembly asked the question ‘What type of events do you think deserve a celebration?’ This question came about as the Queen announced a special competition ahead of her Platinum Jubilee later this year. On the 6th February Queen Elizabeth will have reigned for 70 years!
The competition is to design a pudding. There will also be a 4 day bank holiday in June and other events too. We all like celebrating birthdays and weddings and fireworks.
Harry Potter book night, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 6th Feb 2022 @ 2:54pm
Thank you to the children who came to our Harry Potter night. We enjoyed lots of activities to celebrate 25 years of Harry Potter!
Brickcroft bird spotting LPS+, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 6th Feb 2022 @ 2:48pm
Art work, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 6th Feb 2022 @ 2:45pm
Winter walk, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 4th Feb 2022 @ 4:10pm
Today we had a great walk to the Brickcroft, we saw lots of birds and squirrels.We enjoyed feeding the ducks and the other birds too. We were glad of hot chocolate too warm us up as it was cold!! We also saw trees without leaves as well as some evergreen trees. A lovely morning.
A big thank you to all our helpers for coming along with us, my iPad died unfortunately so not too many photos but you will get the flavour. Have a lovely weekend ?
A new class member!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 4th Feb 2022 @ 7:00am
Yesterday the children were amazed to find a new class member waiting for them in the outside shed. (Please ask the children who Tim is and how they found him with Miss. Lynch!)
We had a great day which started with dance, some amazing phonics work, a wonderful super secret reader, an outdoor science experiment and then finding Tim! The children were wonderful explorers and scientists!
I do apologise but I have not written down our super secret reader for next week - please could you pop in or phone Linda just to remind me what time you are able to come along next week. Also we have no readers on our list for after half term. You would be most welcome into school for your first or second visit so please let any one of us know in the classroom or contact me through google classroom to book a specific date which works for you. I would love to keep this amazing experience going all year!
Thank you
Mrs. Thomson
Terrific Tuesday!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 1st Feb 2022 @ 10:20pm
Lots of adventures for the lions today. A morning of dance with our visitor from The Blue Moose Dance Company. The children created dragon and lion dances.
Super learning in our phonics and maths lessons in class! Lots of team points were given out to our super stars.
This afternoon we had a visit from the fire fighters at Penwortham. We learnt a lot, listened and also asked lots of questions. After looking at the fire engine we have a lot to add to our project class engine!
The children enjoyed trying out the water hose and we all got a little wet! Especially when one of our very own lions got a little mischievous with the help of the fire fighter!
Science - where do our organs go?, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 1st Feb 2022 @ 7:09am
We started our lesson by thinking about how our organs are arranged, what they are called and what function they have as part of our digestive system.
After some research and explanations we were able to create a model of our digestive system and label it.
Outdoor Fun!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 31st Jan 2022 @ 9:39pm
Today we had a busy afternoon. We started to make our own fire engine, we had fun using the hosepipe, buckets and squirty bottles and also created some smaller engines with our friends. Penwortham fire station are hoping to visit us tomorrow afternoon and they are very keen to see our work, talk about how they help people and show us the fire engine.
In the morning we have a very special team of dancers coming to show us dances for Chinese New Year. We are all very excited.
