Our blogs
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.
Remembrance Day 2, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 11th Nov 2020 @ 2:47pm
Remembrance Day, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 11th Nov 2020 @ 2:44pm
Look at our fabulous outfits for Remembrance Day.
Remembering those people who served our county, by Mrs Doherty
Date: 11th Nov 2020 @ 1:22pm
Meeting New Friends, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 10th Nov 2020 @ 8:46pm
We had a lovely time this afternoon meeting the Swallows. The Swallows are one of the Year 2 classes at Barden Primary School in Burnley. We shared a PowerPoint about our school and the children from Barden shared memories of lockdown.
We are very proud of our PowerPoint as we chose what we wanted to talk about and we all decided where we should take photographs.
Where the poppies now grow, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 10th Nov 2020 @ 2:46pm
This week our focus story is where the poppies now grow by Hilary Robinson. We have been making suncatcher poppies, painting poppies and really thinking about the soldiers, armed forces and why people choose to wear a poppy.
A Christmas recipe, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 10th Nov 2020 @ 12:05pm
Hi
Sorry, it is a message about Christmas. We will be doing a nativity play in reception and we are busy learning songs and getting costumes. Please can you encourage your child to learn their words if they have them for the play and also sing the songs.
We will record the play and then you can all see the children online x x x
A great week back, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 6th Nov 2020 @ 4:54pm
The Pandas have enjoyed learning about part part whole to help them with their addition. In English and History they enjoyed learning about rockets and space, finding about Robert Goddard.Ask them what he did! They were also interested to find out about Guy Fawkes and the gun powder plot. We discussed how we know about things in the past, some great ideas.
Have a good weekend, keep safe see you on Monday 🙂🙃🙂
First week back, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 6th Nov 2020 @ 2:38pm
It has been a very busy first week back. The children have enjoyed all of their learning and have made an enthusiastic start to our new geography topic on Preston Docks.
Please can you write a comment in the new yellow reading record every time your child reads. Reading books MUST be changed on MONDAYS and can be changed again on Wednesday and Friday. They will only be changed if we have evidence in the reading records that they have been read.
Some of our castle engineers have been at work today and have added a moving drawbridge to their castles.
We have been out and about today taking phoyographs ready to show the Cchildren at Barden Primaary School in Burnley on Tuesday afternoon.
Y4 Blog, by Mr Pearson
Date: 6th Nov 2020 @ 1:08pm
Maths
This week we have been doing lengths such as km, cm, and mm. We have been doing questions like 1m+123cm and 90mm+20cm.
English
We have made our own paper boats with origami and started thinking about writing our own story about the picture book called Float (picture books mean no words).
Music
We have been performing a bonfire night song on the chime bar boxes called its bonfire night and we also played games with the chime bar boxes.
Computing
We have been making music online and doing a fact file all about how tech changed music in a way that makes it techno poppy.
Drama
We have been sorted into groups to perform the gGrinch in the next few weeks some people have been making scripts rather than improvisation
y5 class blog by Grace Martha and Anya, by Mr Croft
Date: 6th Nov 2020 @ 12:28pm
On Monday we practiced equiviliant fractions in Maths and learned about different compass points in Geography. In grammar we looked at relative clauses.
On Tuesday we did The Hand Jive in PE and continued to practice equivilant fractions in Maths. In English we practiced our complex sentence skills and we finished the day by creating Marble Run's in DT.
On Wednesday we compared different types of fractions in Maths and had French, ICT and Music with Mr. Richards in the afternoon.
Thursday we did Dadaism in Art and continued to practice our musical beats. We continued to practice our fractions skills in Maths and ended the day by speeding up our Hand Jive and adding new movements in PE.
On Friday we created portraits of our faces in a Dada style as a surprise for our art teacher next week and we did a few tests in the morning to practice our skills.
by Anya, Grace and Martha
Homework, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 5th Nov 2020 @ 1:30pm
This weeks homework can be found on Google Classroom. It is a maths activity to make 20. The missing number in each calculation needs to be typed in .
Who is Julia Donaldson?, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 4th Nov 2020 @ 7:59am
Welcome back to school for another half term full of fun and learning. Our topic this half term is looking at the books of Julia Donaldson. We kick off this topic with the story Room on the Broom. I will be sending out the new topic letter, pick and mix homework by paper copies, but I have also added them along with other bits and bobs to the class page under files for you to download.
Hope you are all keeping safe and well.
Art - painting - colour mixing, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 3rd Nov 2020 @ 8:06pm
Today we began our art topic. We looked at some work by the artist Georgia O’Keeffe, her vivid flowers and some of her later work on landscapes showing mountains.
Today we used the 3 primary colours to make secondary colours. We then choose a either red or blue and added black or white to make different shades of the colour. We learnt that you only need a little bit of black paint!
AUTUMN 2nd HALF TERM, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 1st Nov 2020 @ 7:39pm
I can’t wait to see you all in the morning. I hope you have had a lovely family half term break. We have lots of exciting things planned for the next 7 weeks.
On our main class page you will find our long term curriculum plan which gives you information about our topics for this half term.
Our main maths focus will be multiplication and division. Make sure you are learning those times tables. 
Swimming update, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 1st Nov 2020 @ 7:34pm
Unfortunately we won’t be going swimming this half term. As soon as the situation changes we will let you know.