Longton Primary School: : Blog items

Date: 5th Jul 2021 @ 3:51pm

An exciting day in the Meerkat tribe. An amazing hour with the Bug man learning about life cycles in animals. The children were captivated as well as Mrs Doherty and myself.Some lucky children got to handle some of the mini beasts.

Growing, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 5th Jul 2021 @ 11:50am

This term we have been planting seeds, caring for the growing seedlings and then the plants.

They have certainly grown. The elephants have green fingers!

The peas and radishes have grown and we have been able to try the peas - they were very sweet.

The bug man visit, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 5th Jul 2021 @ 11:39am

This morning we had a visit from the John Vale. He talked to us about vertebrate and invertebrate as we got to see some animals of different types.

Well done Elephants you were outstanding at listening during the whole session and were very quiet so as not to scare the creatures.

Pippa asked an amazing question and we found out that some animals shrink as they get older.

The slime from an African land scale kills germs. (Elizabeth)

Snakes are venomous not poisionous. (Olive)

I didn’t know that some animals can see hot and cold, that was interesting, it was why we couldn’t look directly at them. (Elizabeth)

Spider’s webs are the strongest material in the world. If it was as thick as a pencil it would stop a jumbo jet. (Noah)

Summer fair stalls, by Mr Pearson

Date: 28th Jun 2021 @ 9:16pm

Well done to Y6 today for organising stalls for this years summer fair Covid edition.

Summer Fair, by Mr Pearson

Date: 28th Jun 2021 @ 9:08pm

The Year 6's delivered a mini Summer fair for the Y4's today. Everyone had a fantastic time.

Eco- Council Reminder, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 27th Jun 2021 @ 2:38pm

Remember to have your presentations ready if you would like to be considered for this role.

LPS+ badges, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 27th Jun 2021 @ 2:37pm

Just a little reminder for those of you who have been working towards your LPS+ badge for this half term (Gardening or World Consevation) to be collecting together your evidence and submitting it to the assignment in Google Classroom.

I'm looking forward to seeing it and us sharing it with the class.

Week beginning 21 st June, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 25th Jun 2021 @ 8:29pm

This week we enjoyed sports day on Monday, move up afternoon Tuesday fractions in Maths finding halves and quarters, English our new story about the queen’s hat, Geography , all about the UK.Can they remember the 4 capitals and countries?! Science, minibeats - phew- busy as always!

Thank you for chocolate donations and red items today , have a great weekend??

Sports Day photos, by Mr Pearson

Date: 22nd Jun 2021 @ 9:46am

Look in your childs tribes gallery at a range of photos from this years Sports Day.

Week beginning 14th June, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 18th Jun 2021 @ 1:16pm

This week we have been learning about fractions in maths, finding halves of shapes.In our jigsaw work we have been looking at life cycles, how they work and how things change. We looked at some photos of how I have changed over the years and the children can bring their own photos of when they were a baby so we can see how they have changed too.

In science we collected leaves and thought how we can sort them.

Welcome Back Koalas, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 17th Jun 2021 @ 12:52am

The children have made a wonderful start to their final term in Year 2.

They are enjoying working on a poem by Michael Rosen called Bathroom Fiddler and will be having a go very soon at writing their very own poems called Desk Fiddler.

In maths we have been looking at addition of 2 digit numbers and looking over other bits of learning from the past. We have started our new topic which is learning about India and made a start on our new unit of work in science all about animals, life cycles and habitats.

The children enjoyed using BBC Dance Mat in computing today which is a great , free site for learning to touch type.

Skeletons - what do they look like?, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 15th Jun 2021 @ 6:42am

We worked individually then in groups to create a drawing of what we thought our skeletons looked like. Then we sorted some given bones into a body outline before playing a race against time game to check our skeletons against a correct one and move the pieces as needed. We finished by naming some of the bones with their common names and their scientific names.

Our final half term in year 3, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 13th Jun 2021 @ 10:28pm

The sun has been shining and I hope you have all had a lovely break. I'm looking forward to finding out all about your half term fun. There are lots of great things planned for our topics this half term and I can't wait to get started.

Please remember to bring to school:

Pencil cases

Water Bottles

PE Kits

Sun hat

Swimming, by Mr Pearson

Date: 13th Jun 2021 @ 8:20am

Don't forget to pack your swimming gear for our trip to the swimming pool tomorrow morning Monday 14th June.

Remember to be in school for 8.30.

Arts Week Friday, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 31st May 2021 @ 7:53am

The final day. We have loved arts Week and learnt lots of new skills. Here are our final toucan prints.

We also made fantastic mask wearing self portraits, when you take off the mask it reveals all our awesome characteristics and our wonderful smiles. They are all amazing the children did a fantastic job.

Arts week day 5, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 28th May 2021 @ 7:53pm

Today we enjoyed painting our rainbows and creating a wanted poster for a sidekick!

Hope you all have a lovely, lovely holiday and enjoy the snshine?

(Thank you so much for the birthday wishes and gifts too,I am very spoilt.The children made some lovely cards too, all very much appreciated ??)

See you all have in June, keep safe and above all have fun ?

Final Superheroes pictures, by Mr Pearson

Date: 28th May 2021 @ 3:52pm

The final water colour superheroes.

Frday Finale, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 28th May 2021 @ 1:59pm

Wow, what a week. We have been so busy inside and out making fabulous creations. Take a look at our displays, creations and the fun we have had!

Arts Week Day 4 and 5, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 28th May 2021 @ 1:48pm

The Koalas have had another couple of busy days. Yesterday children finished their pastel and ink wor, some did some sewing and we used words and symbols to creare graffitti style art .

Today we have painted our clay pots , created super heroes , videoed us singing and finished our time capsule books

Arts Week Thursday, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 27th May 2021 @ 6:05pm

Today we were printing. Earlier in the week we focused on the work of Henri Rousseau- the tiger in the jungle.

We have thought a lot about our outdoor environment and nature during lockdowns with many of us enjoying our country walks. In class we have been learning about the importance of the rainforest so we linked these 2 ideas together to create our own, multi coloured prints.

I only have a 1 photos I’m afraid as my hands have been covered in printing ink most of the day! Final pieces will be photographed tomorrow when they are dry.

This afternoon we took a bit of time out to enjoy some reading in the sunshine, tennis and finished off with a ice pop.

On Monday we make our own art shirts, take a look, can you find inspirational messages or try and spot a rainbow or 2!

Arts Week Wednesday, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 27th May 2021 @ 5:55pm

Here are our final canvases. They look amazing, the children selected the design they wanted and used rainbow colours.

We also made a group fluid art painting.

Arts week day 4, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 27th May 2021 @ 3:59pm

Today we have been thinking about what life has been like during covid. We are making a time capsule of our art work and our ideas so it will be interesting to open in a few years and remember what our lives were like!

We also finished off our superhero capes and transformed into superheroes!

This afternoon we made a self portrait with a face mask, which opened to show what we think we are like, this will go in our time capsule too.

Thursday Art, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 27th May 2021 @ 3:32pm

This week we have focused on two artists, Norman Adams a British artist who used a lot of water colour to paint rainbows and today we have looked at Gaudi and visited Barcelona!

We looked at the tiles and mosaics that enhance the buildings in Barcelona and we have had a go at tiling the toadstools that live in the garden and then making Gaudi style minibeasts using egg shells. Plus lots of other fun too, take another sneaky peek x x x