Our blogs
Imagine that!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 13th Mar 2024 @ 4:37pm
We had a fabulous time at Imagine that! We made snow, were in a foamy snow storm. We made slime and used our senses to smell and taste. We decorated a magnet, made a bath bomb, decorated a bag and had fun exploring! Last of all we really enjoyed the role play area. It was amazing...lots of areas to use our imaginations!!
We have a bag of goodies to bring home tomorrow... a lovely day :)
Sunflower success!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 12th Mar 2024 @ 12:35pm
So far so good with growing our sunflowers. shoots have appeared, we enjoyed looking at them and recording how the seeds have changed. We measured them the tallest so far was 18 cm.
In maths we had fun playing a game to see which pair could get to 50 first by shaking dice and adding counters to a tens frame. We had to keep score as we went along.
Dont forget our trip tomorrow, we are very excited!
World Book Day - Rockstars, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 10th Mar 2024 @ 3:59pm
We fully embaced the theme of rockstars. Thank you for all your effort in supporting this. We followed and read the song lyrics to a number of songs as well as learning a few classic rock tunes. Thank you to our group and solo performers who performed to us, you were brilliant.
We enjoyed listening to the school story of the Battle between the odds and evens. We loved adding our own section to the story and then hearing the end of it during our assembly at the end of the day.
The children all took home a book - a gift from Longton Primary school as well as the World Book Day voucher to use to redeem a world book day book or money off a book of their choice.
We continued to write our fairy tales with a twist from our Michael Rosen workshop at the beginning of the week. We will share some when they are finished.
Our Final Tipper trucks, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 10th Mar 2024 @ 3:45pm
We are engineering superstars. This week we completed our Primary Engineer Tipper construction project.
We tested them down a ramp to see which one went the furthest and in the straightest line. It was this tipper that would compete against other schools. Congratualtions to Joe, Josh and Ollie on their winning tipper.
Author and Illustrator visit, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 10th Mar 2024 @ 3:16pm
Can you believe it, Michael Rosen was in our classroom. WOW!
We were very lucky to have Michael Rosen, Allen Fatimahran and Jasbinder Bilan visit our classroom this week. They read us some alternative fairy stories and talked to us about how we could create our own fairy story with a twist. We got to watch Allen illustrating the stories as they were read and then he showed us how to draw the frog prince. We all had a go as he showed us step by step.
Dance workshop, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 10th Mar 2024 @ 3:08pm
We were moving and grooving some some excellent tunes during our dance workshop.
Spring Term Projects, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 10th Mar 2024 @ 3:05pm
What an amazing tribe! We had lots of fabulous projects this term to display for parents and to share with each other. The children were very creative and linked lots of their projects to things we have been learning about in class.
Well done Lions.
Computing Microbit Fun!, by Mrs Simpson
Date: 9th Mar 2024 @ 2:12pm
We had a great computing lesson on Friday with Miss Sanders. We used Microbits and Makecode to program LED lights. We'll be using our new knowledge and skills to create a hi-vis band in Design Technology to keep road users such as cyclists, horse riders, dog walkers and pedestrians safe at night. Keep an eye on our blog to see the finished products.
World Book Day Rocks!, by Mrs Simpson
Date: 9th Mar 2024 @ 2:04pm
Multiplying Menace, The Revenge of Rumpelstiltskin by Pam Calvert was our inspiration for World Book Day. We had great fun dressing up as Rock Stars and writing our own story in the same style.
The Rocking Panda Tribe!, by Mr Kennedy
Date: 8th Mar 2024 @ 10:11am
Thank you for making World Book Day 2024 such a lovely experience for the children, we had loads of fun!
We entered WBD National Competition for next years tokens, we explored a range of authors, enjoyed a good book, world book day themed maths & added to the whole school write; The Battle of The Odd and Even Numbers
Y6 Rock Stars, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 8:29pm
Year 6 have had a lovely day celebrating their last World Book Day at Longton.
The day began with an assembly where the class listened to a wonderful story called Multiplying Menace, The Revenge of Rumpelstiltskin. This was a maths themed story involving multiplication of integers and fractions.
Following the assembly half of the class went to the library with their Year 1 buddies. They had a great time and came back with beautiful handmade bookmarks. The children who staued in school worked as a team to write the opening to the whole school story The Battle of the Odd and Even Numbers. They then began to write their own books. The children chose to write stories about rockstars or a maths theme. In the afternoon the children swapped what they were doing meaning that the remainder of the class were able to visit the library with their buddies. As well as writing their stories and making the most amazing book covers the children had the opportunity to complete a book themed code busting puzzle.
As the children worked they listened to and sang along to a range of pop and rock music.
The day finished with another assembly to share the finshed wholes school assesmbly which was fabulous.
Thank you for all your efforts with the costumes, the children all looked fantastic.
Reception Rocking!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 7:37pm
What a great class of rock stars!
Thank you for your help with the amazing outfits! The children rocked all day!!
We enjoyed some new books today and a firm favourite was Pete the cat rocking in his school shoes! The children made reading dens and book marks before hearing another new story linked to our mini beast theme. Creepy Crawlies in a band!
We had a school assembly this morning and Mrs. Fletcher introduced a new story. However just as we were getting settled to hear it all, the story was stopped! The story went to year six who added another part of the story and visited every class before it headed our way late in the afternoon. The penguins had amazing ideas of how to end the story, their imaginations going wild! Please read the story on the blog. Our part starts after the sentence about the sneaky eky odd numbers hiding. The story was read in the afternoon assembly. The penguins were very proud of their ending to the story. I think they will enjoy sharing this with you and they will definitely know which part was from our class.
I have also added a short video of our days of the week song. We didn’t perform this at our assembly as we thought it may make it a little bit too long.
Sharing our favourite books, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 4:43pm
We enjoyed talking about our favourite books and sharing them with our friends.
The Battle of the Odd and Even Numbers, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 3:53pm
Today as part of our World Book Day celebrations the whole school have been involved in a writing project. This morning the children were read the introduction to out story The Battle of the Odd and Even Numbers. Once back in class each class added more to the story before emailing it to the next class for their part. Eventually the story was finished and we enjoyed sharing it in an assembly at the end of the day . We all hope you enjoy reading our incredible story.
Year Five is rocking, by Mr Pearson
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 2:04pm
As part of our Wold Book Day celebrationshe Koala's dressed up fo the ocassion. the theme was Rock Stars and as you can see fom the photos below learning and enjoyment prevailed in Y5.
Library visit, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 11:10am
Year 1 enjoyed their story session at the library with their buddies, they took part in a scavenger hunt and made a book mark. A great start to world book day,
Class assembly, life cycles and celebration assembly in church, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 1st Mar 2024 @ 4:53pm
What a busy week! The super proud penguins just took it all in their stride!
We have been looking at how things follow in a sequence this week - our day, our week, life cycles and even how we make fruit kebabs. The penguins thoroughly enjoyed the blue berries, mango, banana and apple fruit kebabs they made for their afternoon snack.
The penguins were amazing during their first class assembly and they received two class compliments for amazing team work.
Learning about plants, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 26th Feb 2024 @ 4:59pm
This afternoon the Giraffes enjoyed exploring and learning about how plants create seeds , which then grow in to new plants. We also looked at how some plants grow from bulbs. We enjoyed using magnifying glasses to really look closely at the different seeds, bulbs and plants.
We have all planted a sunflower seed, we are going to observe how it grows and changes.
Retelling stories, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 23rd Feb 2024 @ 4:04pm
The children have enjoyed listening to some traditional tales in English, Dragon Dinosaur and The House that Jack built. They really enjoyed acting out all the different characters in The house that Jack built and were great at remembering the order.
In maths we have been exploring doubles and near doubles, we liked shaking dice and trying to roll a double, we won a point every time we shook one!
Have a great weekend, don’t forget Celebration Assembly on Tuesday afternoon. :)
Fun with our buddies, by Mr Pearson
Date: 23rd Feb 2024 @ 9:04am
The Penguins and Koalas spent an hour together developing bonds on Thursday.
