Our blogs
Balancing clowns, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 9th Dec 2019 @ 8:17pm
How can you make the clown balance on a string?
Friction ramps, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 9th Dec 2019 @ 8:16pm
What is Friction? How do different surfaces affect the travel of a car down a ramp? We collected data and found an average for each surface.
Magnet Games, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 9th Dec 2019 @ 8:07pm
Last week we had an amazing time, designing and making magnetic games. We had a dartboard, fishing games and maze games, all with a Christmas theme. We took them down to the Pandas on Friday and played our games together. We had a great time.
Modroc food, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 9th Dec 2019 @ 7:58pm
We started making these a while ago, today we completed them. Here are some photos of the amazing Meerkats and their work.
Class Treat, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 9th Dec 2019 @ 3:33pm
We have earnt our Class treat! On Thursday afternoon, we are going to be watching a movie and having a chilled afternoon. Children are welcome to bring pj's and teddies with them for the event, but please no extra snacks. Well done Bongos for working so hard and earning it!
Miss R
Fabulous Koalas, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 6th Dec 2019 @ 3:39pm
We really enjoyed putting on our nativity play and think we were amazing! We all spoke our lines clearly and sang our songs fantastically.We hope you all enjoyed it!
week ending 6 12 19, by Mr Pearson
Date: 6th Dec 2019 @ 3:36pm
At the start of the week we went to Barden Primary School and watched there Y3 and Y4 Christmas play. We kind of got to meet them, introduce ourselves to them.
In writing, we were focusing on the story `The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. We started reading the book and write what would happen next and then on Friday we started watching the film.
In maths, we did fractions into decimals. So, what we had to do was Mr Pearson gave us a fraction and we had to write the decimal of it 23/100 = 0.23. We have also been investigating equal fractions.
We have been doing lots of times tables and Mr Pearson has been testing us on our understanding.
A quick message all of you need to know your times tables by June ready for the test.
By Oliver and Lucie ð
Marvellous measuring, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 6th Dec 2019 @ 3:31pm
This week we have been finding out about height and length. We found out who the tallest and shortest were in our class.Next we measured each other using books, straws,whiteboards. Today we compared lengths using a ruler. We had to find things longer and shorter than a ruler.Then we went outside and measured the ball cage using strides.
Magnets, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 3rd Dec 2019 @ 7:19pm
This week has been all about Science so far. We have been exploring magnets. How to they work? How strong are they? What materials are magnetic? What are magnets used for?
We have looked at examples of magnetic games this afternoon and started to plan and design our own Christmas themed magnetic games.
Barden trip, by Mr Pearson
Date: 1st Dec 2019 @ 8:29pm
Don't forget tomorrow (Monday 2 December) we are going to Barden Primary school in the afternoon.
we are aiming to be back by the end of school, however depending on traffic we maybe a few minutes late. I will update the twitter account on our journey back.
Times tables , by Mr Pearson
Date: 29th Nov 2019 @ 4:19pm
This is a a good page for support with times tables
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCllFxIfCNYQvsRepWxT7n8A/search?query=times+tables
Click here to practise a test
Reading rocket, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 28th Nov 2019 @ 6:33pm
Work has started on our egg box reading rocket, we will post another photo when it has been completed.
Watch this space.
Space rocket day, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 28th Nov 2019 @ 6:19pm
Wow! We had an amazing day on Tuesday thanks to Steve from Starchaser. The children thoroughly enjoyed making their rockets and watching them fly high into the sky. If you were in Longton I wouldn’t be surprised if you could hear their ohhhs and ahhhs!
We went outside to look at the Nova 2 rocket. It has cost £500,000 and 10 years to develop. We are looking forward to seeing it blast off into space at the end of a May 2020.
We made some spaghetti bolognese from expedition freeze dried food similar to that which astronauts eat.
Thanks to all the parents who came along to watch, we hope you enjoyed it as much as the children.
Penguins 23 November, by Mr Pearson
Date: 28th Nov 2019 @ 12:00pm
In P.E, we had to find different ways to get across a bench and some gymnasts did cartwheels across the bench. At the end of the bench we had to do some sort of jump onto the mat.
In Geography, we did a facts file about Antarctica. How we got the information was from sheets with facts and the internet. We have looked at the weather in the topics and have started planning our own weather report.
In maths, we were mostly trying to learn all our times tables and different strategies in multiplication mentally.
In English, we learnt about conjunctions and putting them into sentences and using them in our writing we have started looking at information texts.
In French, we decided food with like, dislike, love and dislike.
In Grammar, we tried to understand the difference between nouns and pronouns.
On Friday, we did a class write we based on the film Artic Circle we had to rewrite the film.
From Oliver, Lucie and Mr Peason ð ðð
Rocket Day, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 26th Nov 2019 @ 9:29pm
It has been a truly amazing day . We started with an assembly where Steve from Starchaser told us about his company, how he bacame interested in rockets, his career and the Nova 2 rocket.
We also went outside to look at the rocket . It had been made smaller so it can be moved around the roads. When it blasts off in May it will be 12 meters long, the longest rocket to be launched in the UK.
Next we had fun looking in the special space box learning about the materials used to build rockets, rubberised rocket fuel, astronaut food and lots more.
As a treat the Elephants got to taste some astronaut freeze dried ice cream . They learnt how it was made and thought about its taste and texture.
Writing was next. We looked at videos of the command capsule of Apollo 11 , we found out that the astronauts were lying down when they blasted off. As we watched the rocket lift off we used our senses to imagine what it would have been like to have been on the mission to the moon. The children were using very impressive vocabulary.
The day finished outside where parents and grandparents joined us to watch 2 rockets be launched. Our very own Poppy was selected to launch one of the rockets.
A wonderful day of learning and life long memories .
Films of Penguins rockets, by Mr Pearson
Date: 26th Nov 2019 @ 8:26pm
Rockets launches , by Mr Pearson
Date: 26th Nov 2019 @ 8:14pm
Film of the end of school rocket launches
Roaring rockets!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 26th Nov 2019 @ 5:13pm
What a fabulous day! The Koalas really enjoyed seeing the rocket come to school and reinforcing our super knowledge on rockets from last half term. We loved looking at the special artefacts,the space food, meteorites and lots more. The rocket launch after school was amazing and we even spied on our buddies launching their rockets in the ball cage.We were really impressed they went very high! A great day creating lots of fantastic memories,thank you Mrs Catterall for organising ððð
Well done the boys in the after school club who were inspired to create these great rocket pictures, good job boys.ðĪŠ
Rocket at school, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 26th Nov 2019 @ 2:52pm
We have had so much fun at school, the rocket was amazing.
Rocket fun, by Mr Pearson
Date: 26th Nov 2019 @ 12:46pm
Launching our own rockets with Steve the founder of Starchaser.
Super swimmers, by Mr Pearson
Date: 26th Nov 2019 @ 4:29am
We know penguins are excellent swimmers, well two of our Penguins here at Longton have been successful in the pool. Oliver and Lucie have been successful in Their swimming club gala. Two days of swimming at the weekend definitely paid off. Congratulations
Guided Reading, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 25th Nov 2019 @ 7:53pm
Today the Elephants have had an amazing guided reading session. Mrs Fletcher’s groups looked at The Littlest Dragon through their phonics and grammar lens. They did a great job choosing a word they could read and explaining why it was a tricky word using their phonics.
Busy Elephants , by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 24th Nov 2019 @ 9:20pm
The Elephants have had another busy week. They continued to learn about the moon, have learnt facts about the USA and been scary aliens in dance.
They have enjoyed the challenge of have a go spelling and rainbow spelling this week and did an amazing job learning the progressive past and present tense in English. In maths we have been busy learning about multiplication
Please can any remaining boxes , tubes etc come into school this coming week so we can begin making our space buggies. Also any bits of yellow packaging, paper, fabric would be much appreciated for our candle to go in church.
Repeating patterns, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 22nd Nov 2019 @ 3:49pm
This week the Koalas have been busy being pattern detectives .They have created their own repeating patterns and have been amazing at spotting the rules for lots of different patterns.ð
