Longton Primary School: Our blogs

Date: 13th Jul 2017 @ 2:51pm

On Wednesday and Thursday a brilliant artist came in and his name is Peter Bourne. We have been painting our selves on a large piece of wood and the whole school have done it to!! We have extremely enjoyed recreating our portrait.

Thomas and Molly

School parliament, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 13th Jul 2017 @ 1:52pm

A message from Miss Reynolds, if your child is interested in representing our tribe on the school parliament please prepare something (poster, bullet points , power point etc) for next Tuesday afternoon. The children will share why they would be a good representative and a vote will be taken! if you have not yet written your letter to Miss Reynolds please bring that in on Tuesday too.

Many thanks

Mrs Pratten

DT workshop, by Mr Coxhead

Date: 13th Jul 2017 @ 10:27am

Year 6 are enjoying an absolutely fantastic half-day DT workshop with TransTech!

Music Mania, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 12th Jul 2017 @ 6:58pm

The members of the choir from year 3 and 4 spent the day at Penwortham Girls High today. They were holding there very own Arts Week and had invited us to take part in Music Mania. The children had the opportunity to play either a steel drum or a drum known as a Djembe and compose a piece of music. During the day they also practised 2 songs which they had been learning in school with our very own Mrs Bolton and Mrs Little from Girls High.

At the end of the afternoon, parents arrived to watch their performances. We were also treated to an advance showing of songs and drama sketches from Girls High children.

It has been a fabulous day, the children behaved impeccably and were amazing. Well done.

Maths -drawing a table and bar chart. , by Mrs Catterall

Date: 12th Jul 2017 @ 6:48pm

On Monday we drew a table, collected data and represented it as a tally. We then created a bar chart of the data. It was quite tricky to remember all the criteria for a graph. The most important being use a ruler!

There were some fabulous tables and graphs.

The week ahead - 10th July, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 12th Jul 2017 @ 6:37pm

Sorry for the late post, I have come to put on some photos from today and realised I'd not clicked the button to post the information.

English - we will be writing our final non fiction text on plants, incorporating all our science knowledge and writing skills.

Maths - interpreting data and drawing tables and graphs. We are going to link this to our Science exploration on seed dispersal.

Art - this week we have Pete Bourne in school creating some art work with the children.

Science - designing and exploring seed dispersal.

P.E. Athletics and Volleyball.

R.E. we will be learning about Martin Luther King and how he was a leader, what did he accomplish, how did he achieve this?

Move up afternoon will take place on Tuesday and the choir will be going to Girls High on Wednesday to take part in Music Mania.

Mrs Catterall

Swimming at Hutton, by Mr Coxhead

Date: 12th Jul 2017 @ 5:02pm

A huge thank you to Hutton Grammar School for hosting us. Thanks also to Dave and Mrs Cowburn (from Aquability) for supervising the session.

A Visit to Year One, by Miss Adamson

Date: 11th Jul 2017 @ 5:58pm

What a treat to have the Meerkats in Year One! All the children should be so proud - they were a delight to have in class. We can't wait to have you back soon!

Croft Bakery, by Mr Coxhead

Date: 11th Jul 2017 @ 3:31pm

The cakes were delicious!

A huge thanks to Barbara and the team for having us.

Crown Green Bowling, by Mr Coxhead

Date: 11th Jul 2017 @ 8:03am

We enjoyed a fantastic Crown Green Bowling taster session yesterday. A huge thank you goes to Andy and all the team at Longton Bowling Club.

The Week Ahead - Monday 10th July 2017, by Miss Adamson

Date: 8th Jul 2017 @ 6:59pm

Hello :)

I hope that you are enjoying the sunshine.

This is what we are doing next week:

English	We are reading Whatever Next! in fitting with are stories about space. I was particularly impressed by the children's writing about Back to Earth with a Bump last week.
Maths	We are learning about money. We will recognise coins and notes, order them according to their value and solve money problems.
GPS	We have a little work to finish on past tense. The children worked hard on verbs with ed endings. We now need to learn about irregular verbs in the past tense.
PE	We are trying to develop our overarm throw.
Science	We are learning about the five senses and going on a senses scavenger hunt.
Year 2	On Tuesday, the children will spend the afternoon in their Year 2 classroom with Mrs Pratten. They will have a taster of what it's like to be at the top of KS1!

I look forward to seeing you all on Monday!

Miss Adamson

Differences between humans, by Miss Adamson

Date: 8th Jul 2017 @ 4:25pm

We drew detailed pictures of our classmates and tried to work out who the pictures were of. We had to look very closely.

James And Kaylie Blog No.32, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 7th Jul 2017 @ 3:04pm

This Week In Y4, we have enjoyed having Kaylie as she is leaving today and it's PJ day! We had a party for Kaylie😺! Also, we had a VERY difficult maths challenge.It was a fidget spinner mystery. Mr Simpson dunked the Y5 fidget spinners in the bucket of paint and he left them to dry so the fidget spinners could not spin (This was a fake mystery and NO Y5 fidget spinners were harmed in the making of the puzzle!)

By James And Kaylie (Who is sadly leaving)

Designing resorts, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 7th Jul 2017 @ 1:53pm

This afternoon the Bongos have been designing their ideal holiday resort. The resort had to be sea side themed.

Thanks everyone for coming in you pyjamas you have supported the Rotakids brilliantly

P.E., by Mrs Catterall

Date: 7th Jul 2017 @ 7:19am

Yesterday afternoon we did P.E. outside in the sunshine. We developed our athletics skilled and had great fun.

Here are some of the photos, there are some fantastic action shots!

James And Max Blog No. 31, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 5th Jul 2017 @ 3:07pm

This Week In Year 4, it's been takeover week and the Y4 had lots of fun! In P.E we had a go at footballl and it was lots of fun Max's team won and they got a lottery ticket. In Maths, we learnt 2 step problems and had a go at some word problems. In G.P.S, we learnt about apostrophes and their plural form. In Science, we were learning about sound and we went on a sound walk and heard lots of interesting stuff!

By James And Max

Takeover Day: Letter To Parents, by Mr Coxhead

Date: 5th Jul 2017 @ 11:38am

Below is a letter from Daniel and Matthew (our Year 6 pupils who have taken on the roles of Headteacher and Deputy Headteacher for the day):

Dear Parents,

Today Year 6 pupils have taken over teaching for the day as a reward they have earned. There are around 4 pupils teaching each class and have been given a timetable for the day.

Reception has been doing some amazing phonics work, music lessons too and all the teachers are doing a good job. Year 1 have enjoyed doing PE involving throwing and catching and for a treat, football. They also did guided reading work with the teachers helping each child. Year 2 have done some great science work finding out about bugs and have looked all over the bog garden to find some. Year 3 have started off today by doing some fantastic singing. They then did science, learning about flowers and purposes of them. Year 4 have been doing some math problem solving involving multiplication work, after that they work on GPS. Year 5 were doing spelling on suffixes and play rehearsal for their big performance night ahead of them.

Yours Sincerely, Mr Holmes (Deputy Head)

Mr Stillings (Head Teacher)

Signs in the village, by Miss Adamson

Date: 4th Jul 2017 @ 5:44pm

Following our pedestrian training last week the children made some road signs for our mini village!

Science plants, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 3rd Jul 2017 @ 3:30pm

This afternoon we have set up a few experiments. We have put a stick of celery and a white rose into some water with red food colouring in. I wonder what will happen? We also dissected lily and then drew a diagram of it in our books.

The week ahead - w/c 3rd July, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 2nd Jul 2017 @ 11:17pm

I hope you have all had a relaxing weekend.

This week we have lots of exciting activities planned.

English - writing explanation texts about plants, how they grow and how seeds are dispersed.

Maths - Fractions.

Science - exploring parts of a plant and how seeds are dispersed.

R.E. - researching leaders, Desmond Tutu and Martin Luther King.

P.E. - Elite coach Gymnastic session, athletics.

On Tuesday afternoon we will be watching the year 5 performance

On Wednesday year 6 will be taking over and teaching the children for the day.

On Friday we will be in our Pyjamas or onesies to raise money for charity. It will be the last day for one member of our tribe as well as the fact they have earnt yet another class reward for a completed compliment chart. Therefore we will enjoy spending time with our friends, baking cakes, playing games and relaxing.

Deepdale Duck, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 2nd Jul 2017 @ 11:01pm

On Thursday we had a visit from Deepdale duck. We were told all about going to watch PNE and a competition the children can enter to win the chance to be the team mascot for a match.

Emotion Cogs, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 2nd Jul 2017 @ 10:58pm

This week we developed our knowledge of the emotion cogs. We thought of a feeling (orange cog) and discussed how our bodies felt when we experienced this feeling (red cog). Next we discussed the behaviours we show during this feeling (green cog). We explored a new yellow cog, this shows the triggers for that emotion. We thought about what can make us happy, sad, angry, worried and scared.

We had some great discussions and team work with everyone recording their ideas and opinions.

We finished our lesson with our favourite song and dance 'I feel good'.

The Week Ahead - Monday 3rd July 2017, by Miss Adamson

Date: 2nd Jul 2017 @ 8:46am

Good morning :)

I hope that you will enjoy the sunshine today!

This is what we are doing this week:

English	We are reading Back to Earth With a Bump. It is about a little boy called Hal who travels into space on his bed! We will retell the story and write our own space postcards. We are also finding out about a day in the life of an astronaut. We will write our own space diaries.
Maths	We are working on division this week. We are learning about division as sharing and division as grouping.
GPS	We are learning about verbs in the past tense. We will review verbs, learn that regular verbs in the past tense end in -ed and look at some irregular verbs in the past tense.
PE	We are using tactics to trick our opponents in games involving catching balls.