Longton Primary School: : Blog items

First week back, by Iain Pearson

Date: 16th Apr 2021 @ 1:04pm

A great first week back for the Meerkat children.

We have started the new topic areas which are attached on the class page.

We have studying the Viking invasion of Britain and how it effected the Anglo Saxons living in Britain at the time.

Science we are studying animals and their environments and habitats.

We are developing our cricket skills and

Summer Week One Blog, by Richard Kennedy

Date: 16th Apr 2021 @ 12:23pm

First week in the new term

This week we have started learning a lot of things.

Maths: In maths this week we learnt fraction and how to convert them into decimals later in the week. We need to make sure we are focusing on our place values in whole numbers and decimals numbers. Remembering that decimals are tenth, hundredth and thousandth. We have worked very hard this week to get a strong understanding of decimals, understanding thousandths and decimal as fractions E.G 4/10 = 0.4

English: In English we were learning how to proofread our work to get us ready for our next stage of learning key events. We learnt how to get ideas from a picture and videos in preparation for our big writes. We also set up editing and proof reading stations that will help us improve our work!

P.E: In P.E we did a bleep test which is where we here a bleep and run to the other side of the room/Ball cage. After a certain amount of laps you will get to a harder level - this is preparing us for our daily running and endurance building.

#Getfit #Bleeptest

Music: In music we are learning how to use the ukulele. We learnt the C C7 and F Cord.

French: In French we learnt animals and tried to complete a conversation with another person.

Computing: In Computing we looked on a website of a zoo and made a PowerPoint about animals that we can show to the year 1 class.

Grace

Oliver

The Penguins

Welcome to Summer!, by Richard Kennedy

Date: 14th Apr 2021 @ 5:47pm

Hello!

I hope you have all had a well rested break after a busy spring term, and are looking forward to an exciting summer term.

I wanted drop in and let parents know how fantastic the Penguin Tribe has been. They have settled back into the classroom very well and have already demonstrated fantastic learning in our lessons. Also, I wanted to let you know that I have uploaded this terms subject organiser to the website and to Google Classroom. The organiser will give you an overview of what's to come over the next seven weeks.

Please keep up to date with our blog, as each week students from the tribe will be working with me to inform you all about the exciting learning this week - you can keep an eye our to see if your loved one writes the weekly blog or has a little shout out on the Year 5 page.

Wishing you a sunny, safe and joyful summer,

Mr Kennedy.

Summer week 1, by Helen Pratten

Date: 14th Apr 2021 @ 4:09pm

This week we have been thinking about friendships, what makes a good friend, how we can keep our friends and that it is OK to have more than 1 friend. We enjoyed making puppets of our friends and talking about them. Yesterday we enjoyed a yoga taster session.

Lovely to see all the children again and all trying harD with their learning ?

Easter celebrations, by Iain Pearson

Date: 14th Apr 2021 @ 3:00pm

Some photos of the Easter celebrations in the Meerkat tribe.

Welcome Back, by Rebecca Catterall

Date: 12th Apr 2021 @ 10:26pm

It has been fantastic to see everyone again after the Easter break.. We have had a great day today, we started with P.E. then discussed a series of pictures taken from a story - we spent lots of time chatting with our friends about what we could see, what we thought was happening and putting the pictures in order. We then read the story and found out if any of our ideas were true. We continued the morning with fractions in maths using smarties and then reading and planting seeds in Science this afternoon. The weather improved as the day went on and we enjoyed the sunshine outside.

We have a busy half term planned with lots of creative elements to it. We would really appreciate your support by making sure the children have everything they need in school to take part in lessons. Please send in P.E. kits and pencil cases if they are still at home. Reading books are changed on Fridays - School books need to be read each week and returned but please read other books at home as well - make sure it is recorded in the reading diary which needs returning on a Friday when we change books. We are testing times tables every week. please help them with this at home. Daily practise for 10mins makes a huge difference. 2x, 5x, 10x, 3x, 4x, 8x are the expectation for year 3 and then we move on to the 6x, 7x, 9x etc. You might be learning the 4x table but make sure you keep practising all the ones you can already do.

Mrs Atkinson and I are looking forward to a busy and exciting half term. We will be posting photos of our learning here on the blog.

Can you rise to the challenge?, by Sandra Fletcher

Date: 12th Apr 2021 @ 8:05pm

This week the children have been challenged to work quietly when they are asked to. If they meet this challenge their personal star will hang proudly on our recognition board.

I am sure all 30 stars will soon be hanging proudly.

Welcome back, by Sandra Fletcher

Date: 11th Apr 2021 @ 9:13pm

I hope you have all had a lovely break, eaten lots of Easter Eggs and made the most of the lovely weather.

Summer term is now upon us. I have uploaded this terms subject organiser for you to look at. Please remember to bring your PE kits into school-PE will be on Tuesday and Friday.

Reading books need to be brought in on Monday to be changed.

Looking forward to seeing you all in the morning

Mrs Fletcher

Last day fun!, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 26th Mar 2021 @ 8:33pm

Today the Pandas enjoyed bunny hop fun round the track and in the Hall, a big thank you to Kelly , a great Easter bunny! The children also enjoyed a teddy bears picnic this afternoon following on from our bear unit of work in English. Have a lovely holiday , hope the sun shines for us and Happy Easter!

Shadows, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 25th Mar 2021 @ 9:10pm

As part of our light unit in Science we have been exploring shadows. A lovely sunny day.

Easter Cards, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 25th Mar 2021 @ 9:07pm

These look so cute. The children really enjoyed doing them.

Easter Service, by Mr Pearson

Date: 25th Mar 2021 @ 8:49pm

Photographs of the event can be found here

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Easter service, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 25th Mar 2021 @ 3:50pm

We all enjoyed a lovely Easter service alfresco as we said goodbye and thank you to Andrew, the vicar at St Andrews church,who is retiring .We said a poem, ask the children to say it to you, and sang some songs.

Colouring fun this afternoon as we decorated our bears , ready for a teddy bears picinic tomorrow afternoon, after our bunny hop, busy ,busy!!!

Easter shop., by Mrs Catterall

Date: 25th Mar 2021 @ 2:44pm

The Easter Shop was busy today. Lots of Easter treats bought and on their way home.

Wonderful Wednesday, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 24th Mar 2021 @ 4:07pm

The Koalas have had a Wonderful Wednesday.

The day started by tackling comprehensions based on extracts from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The class did an amazing job remembering the steps needed to be great reading detectives.

Next was spelling where great fun was playing a game where they had to solve anagrams for ey words- they enjoyed the game so much that you can now find it as a material, along with 2 other games on Google Classroom.

After a nice run around in the sunshine we came back in , did our fluent in five maths warm up and then began to use base 10 to subtract 2 digit numbers.

We practised our poem for the Easter Service tomorrow and then began to watch the Easter Story.

Lunch was delicious- roat chicken or pasta and yummy chocolate crispie cakes for all who wanted them.

The afternoon has flown by wit coding in computing, learning about colours in French and then singing in music.

A truly WONDERFUL day

Art/DT sculptures, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 24th Mar 2021 @ 3:01pm

We have carried on our work on sculpture this half term, focusing initially on drawing action poses thinking about sketching and our body proportions, we have moved on this week to creating a wire action pose figure.

Birthday Party Day., by Mrs Catterall

Date: 24th Mar 2021 @ 2:56pm

We had lots of fun; cake, balloons, bubbles and some good old party games.

Party fun!, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 24th Mar 2021 @ 8:41am

We had a great day yesterday for our party day.Lots of music, dancing, pass the parcel and of course cake!

We also found time to plant our sunflower seeds🙂

Birthday Fun, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 23rd Mar 2021 @ 6:57pm

Today we have had a lovely day ceebrating the 7th birthday's of 3 members of the class.

We had time in the hall playng corners, musical statues and having a dance. We also did the hokey kokey.

Back in class we made a list of all of the things we would like to do for the rest of our party day. We chose a quix, charades, colouring, dancing, drawing and watching something on the big screen.

After lunch we managed to do all of those things as well as singing happy birthday and eating delicious birthday cake.

It really has been a lovely day .

A busy week!, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 19th Mar 2021 @ 4:21pm

This week the Pandas have enjoyed creating and learning about some of the Mr Men characters, numbers to 50, evergreeen and deciduous trees, rolling skills and gymnastics and to end the week a class compliment treat. Whew!!!

Next week continues with lots of Easter fun.

I have flagged up the French badge information on google classroom again so the children can complete all the bits to get their badges. We will be choosing some more badges to complete after Easter.

Have a good weekend and welll done fantastic Pandas 👍🌟🙂

Thank you Koalas, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 19th Mar 2021 @ 4:04pm

Thank you Koalas for a wonderful week. You have worked hard and done some amazing learning.

Your knowledge of the Great Fire of London is truly outstanding and your enthusisam for our book in English, Vlad and the Great Fire of Londo has been brilliant to see.

In maths some of us have found using base 10 to add 2 two digit numbers a challenge but you jave all shown grit nd determination and you will all get there very soon.

Today learning about the census and linking it with your knowledge of the nativity story was great too. Your skills to draw your own tally charts to record the data we collected for our mini census really impressed me.

It has been a perfect Longton week, well done everyone.

See you all next week for more fantasti learning and lots of Easter fun

Mrs Fletcher

Digital 5 A Day, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 16th Mar 2021 @ 6:13pm

Please take time to have a look at this booklet from the Childrens commisioner

https://view.publitas.com/childrens-commissioners-office/digital-5-a-day/page/14-15

First day back after lockdown, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 8th Mar 2021 @ 5:53pm

It has been really lovely to have all the children back together.