Longton Primary School: Our blogs

Date: 2nd Dec 2020 @ 4:13pm

Yesterday we performed our play to our buddies and were amazing!😊

Tomorrow it is being filmed and will be sent out to you at some point, here is a sneaky preview of the children in their costumes.

Today we had fun thinking about the different characters in stories, we had to choose who we thought was the greediest,sneakiest, kindest etc.What do you think?

costumes

Penguins Birthday Party, by Mr Croft

Date: 1st Dec 2020 @ 3:51pm

Last Tuesday we had our class party. We all had so much fun, even if it wasn't our party yet.
We had 5 suprises! The 1st suprise was doing Just Dance and the best dancers got sweets.

Our 2nd suprise was a drawing competition and Teagan came 3rd, Neve came 2nd and Abi came 1st.

Our 3rd suprise was a film. We watched Nativity 2. We then had lunch which was really yummy especialy when you have been dancing half the morning.

Our 4th surprise was a Vocab trail in which there was a word and a theme. Whoever has the most letters win if all the words are right.

And our 5th suprise was a delicious, yummy cake.

Thanks for reading the Penguins weekly blog.

A Christmas Recipe dress rehearsal, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 1st Dec 2020 @ 2:23pm

We had a little go at our play with our year 5 buddies as an audience.....social distanced of course.

Achievement Autumn Awards, by Mr Pearson

Date: 29th Nov 2020 @ 8:05pm

Congratulations, to the children who were awarded the Autumn term achievement awards.

Chocolate investigation, by Mr Pearson

Date: 29th Nov 2020 @ 8:00pm

On Friday, the Meerkats investigated the melting point of Cadbury and Galaxy chocolate. We used the school’s new data collector probes to measure the temperature> An exciting morning of fantastic science.

Lots of News, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 29th Nov 2020 @ 7:40pm

This has been a busy week.

On Tuesday afternoon we had fun celebrating the autumn birthdays with a party, film and delicious cake.

On Wednesday morning the children earned their 20th class compliment and will be having their compliment treat on Friday 4th December.

Friday was celebration asssembly via Google Classroom, congratulations to all of the children who were awarded certificates this term.

Now that we have settled back into school we are ready to start up our school parliament. If you want to stand for election to need to prepare a short speech ready for Friday 4th December.Please create a poster or be able to talk about why you think you would be a good person to represent our class. The children will need to be reliable , attend meetings , be confident to speak and have some ideas about how we can improve school.

School parliament, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 29th Nov 2020 @ 10:16am

We are starting our school parliament up again and need 2 children to represent our class. Please create a poster or be able to talk about why you think you would be a good person to represent our class. The children will need to be reliable , attending meetings , be confident to speak and have some ideas about how we can improve school.

Please be ready to share by the end of the week, 4th December,🙂

Celebration assembly, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 27th Nov 2020 @ 4:18pm

Well done to all the children who were awarded certificates in today’s special celebration assembly, all were well deserved 🙂

This afternoon we enjoyed art , creating lovely Christmas baubles with ripped paper.

Have a lovely weekend, keep safe we will see you all next week ready for our big production!!

Don't forget to hear the children read , books are changed on Mondays and Thursdays.

Celebration assembly and snack and chat, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 27th Nov 2020 @ 3:54pm

Today we have had our second snack and chat with Mrs Brown. Sophie went to show the heads team and Mrs Brown the amazing achievements that she has made in English since she started school. The in the afternoon we had our celebration Assembly which we usually have at church. We had lots of children that gained certificates, take a look at the pictures.

The panto, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 25th Nov 2020 @ 2:52pm

Today the panto came to school. We watched the night before Christmas x it was fabulous x x

Birthday Party Fun, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 24th Nov 2020 @ 7:46pm

We have had a fabulous birthday afternoon today to celebrate the birthdays of 10 members of our tribe.

Just dance disco moves, balloon under and over, teaching me some dance moves of there own and I got to show off my floss move, extra outdoor playtime, birthday singing, birthday cake, pass the parcel and we finished off the day with a Tom and Jerry cartoon.

We had a fabulous time.

Party party!, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 24th Nov 2020 @ 3:18pm

We had a fab party,played pass the parcel, corners did the Hokey Cokey and the conga all good fun!

Thank you for all your contributions 😁

Birthday Party Day, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 24th Nov 2020 @ 2:49pm

We have had a fantastic day.lots of traditional party games, fun and laughter.

Designing rockets, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 20th Nov 2020 @ 8:33pm

The Pandas had a fun afternoon creating some fantastic rockets, some brilliant designs ready to blast off!

Well done!

Next week we will practising our play, thank you for helping children by reading through words. Don’t worry about costumes school will provide all!

Hope you all have a restful weekend and thank you for your continued support🙂

Tree work so far......., by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 20th Nov 2020 @ 3:31pm

Look at the fantastic trees we have made this week.

Preloved uniform, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 20th Nov 2020 @ 2:47pm

We have lots of preloved uniform for sale in school. We have lots of items from reception to year 6 all for £1.00. If you’re interested just speak to a class teacher who will take your order and pass it on to Kelly. Or see Anna in the office or ask Kelly herself.

Sadie Children in Need challenge, by Mr Pearson

Date: 17th Nov 2020 @ 11:48am

Sadie has completed a challenge of counting to eight in eight different languages.

What an achievement we are all very proud of her.

She also rasied over £150

What a superstar.

Click here to watch Sadie

Science - Friction., by Mrs Catterall

Date: 14th Nov 2020 @ 11:02am

We carried out an investigation into friction / grip. We wanted to discover which surface had the best grip. We worked in teams to find out at what height the ramp needed to be for the car to start to move. Each ramp was covered in a different material. We discussed what we had to do to make it a fair test. Some groups results showed that sandpaper had the must grip, while others showed plastic. The children thought this might be due to each groups car having different wheels.

Zoom meeting with Barden primary school, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 14th Nov 2020 @ 10:58am

On Thursday afternoon we enjoyed a zoom meeting with the year 3 children at Barden Primary School. We told them about our experiences of lockdown and how school is different now. We learnt that the children had done similar things to us and that they wash their hands as soon as they come into school like us. They have also been eating their lunch in the classrooms. They have started a topic on being archaeologists and will be learning about the Stone Age. We shared some of our knowledge and promised to send them more which they can use for research.

We look forward to connecting with them again throughout the year.

Week ending Friday 13th, by Mr Pearson

Date: 13th Nov 2020 @ 6:25pm

Maths

In maths this week we have been focusing on perimeters. We have had to work out the perimeter of shapes that didn’t have the full lengths of the shape.

English

We have been preparing for writing our own float story’s for early next week and have been writing our own amazing sentences for the picture book.

Computing

We have been using noobnotes play the piano online and did some classical tunes even the super Mario bros theme tune!

Art

We have been printing out pictures out and then started to simple them down to pinch pots. The most common was different forms of a dog.

Drama

We have been making up scripts for the grinch and doing rehearsals for with our groups.

French

We have been learning about food and completed a code cracking of different words.

Science

In science this week we have been exploring the differences between solids, liquids and gases.

PE

Gymnastics time again. Forward rolls and cartwheels this week.

Geography

We have been looking at the main geographical feature of Longton. We went back in history and learned at the Brickcroft and the railway line that ran through the village. If it were still there today Mr Pearson could get a train from his house straight to school. He now has to drive. We have also been taught about the differences about physical and human geography.

Remembrance Day, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 12th Nov 2020 @ 4:41pm

Thank you for making the effort with costumes for Remembrance Day, the children all looked fantastic and it definitely helped with their learning. We enjoyed listening to Mr Turner via zoom, visited the peace garden and learnt a little more about why we wear poppies.

Remembrance Day 2020, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 11th Nov 2020 @ 8:10pm

This morning we all took part in our whole school Remembrance service via Zoom. Mr Turner from The Royal British Legion spoke to us about his childhood memories of World War 2 and how we came to wear poppies as a symbol of remembrance.

After lunch we visited he Peace Garden to look at the poppy wreath and to have a few moments of reflection. Back in class we talked about remebrance, watched some clips from remembrance services and then the children split into groups to complete a task.

Each group were given 13 photographs linked to November 11th. Their task was to choose the photograph that they felt said the most to them . Many of the groups chose the photograph of the Commonwealth War Cemetry and said that they had chosen it as it showed how many people had died for us. As the children ordered their photos there was lots of great discussion going on.

Remembrance Day, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 11th Nov 2020 @ 6:19pm

The children were exceptional today. We held our Remembrance service via zoom, listening respectfully to Mr Turner and his memories of wartime. We discussed WWII and found out about the blackouts, air raid sirens and the Anderson shelters people would use to try and keep safe. We linked this to our understanding of when people have to shelter during earthquakes.

This afternoon we completed our poppies and added lovely poems to them. We went outside to our war memorial area, read a few prayers, recited Flanders fields and had a few quite moments of reflection.