Longton Primary School: Year 6: The Elephants: Blog items

Science, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 30th Jan 2022 @ 10:34pm

We looked at the teeth of different animals and then used what we knew about the function of different teeth to decide whether an animal was a carnivore, herbivore or omnivore.

We were unsure where to place the frog. Evie did a bit of research and discovered a frog is a carnivore but a tadpole is a herbivore.

Assembly blog, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 23rd Jan 2022 @ 1:48pm

In our assembly on Tuesday we focused on dreams and goals. We are learning to face the big fears of our mountains / challenges. We read a story about a rescue dog that helps in the cold misty mountains and a little boys life, that story taught us not to give up.

On Thursday we had our picture news assembly with the question - is it ever fair to treat others differently because of their looks? We discussed that a Chinese footballer had to cover up his tattoo and he had no choice. We also thought about other jobs like nurses, soldiers and chefs etc. We talked about how it’s not right to judge people by their looks or their culture.

Lucy year 6

Class Assembly, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 20th Jan 2022 @ 10:58am

The elephants shone brightly this morning putting on their class assembly for their families. Thank you for coming to watch, the children loved being able to share this eexperience with you.

I’m sure you will agree they did a brilliant job. I am very proud of them, they spoke clearly and with confidence.

Projects, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 17th Jan 2022 @ 8:36pm

A few children have been asking about projects. These can be linked to any area of the curriculum, please look at the subject organiser on our main class page to see our learning for this half term. Projects can also be linked to something they are personally interested in.

I’m looking forward to seeing them next week.

Swimming, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 17th Jan 2022 @ 8:31pm

Remember your swimming kits and T.shirt and shorts on Tuesday.

Class Compliment, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 16th Jan 2022 @ 3:11pm

We had a fantastic afternoon playing games. Great fun, laughs and giggles as well as great team work. Well done Elephants.

Assembly blog, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 16th Jan 2022 @ 3:09pm

On Tuesday in assembly, we were taking about what our Jigsaw lessons are all about - Friendships, how to be respectful, ways to keep safe, working together as a team, how our bodies change as we get older. This half term our topic is all about dreams and goals. We also mentioned what we might want to do in the future for a job. We thought about how the journey to this might be a bit of a roller coaster, there can be ups and downs and sometimes people change direction to end up doing a different job than the one they first wanted. But all the way we have to remember our learning powers to work hard and self improve, to show commitment, resilience and perseverance.

On Thursday our picture news assembly was all about the James Webb Telescope. This is in the news this week because NASA have sent it up into space to find out what our Universe looks like.

I wonder if when we grow up we might get to go into space ourselves. Does anyone want to be an astronaut? Scientists, engineers, designers will all work together to design the space telescope, it takes a long time to create and test. These people both boys and girls will have had to use their learning powers like we talked about in assembly on Tuesday.

Happy New Year, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 5th Jan 2022 @ 7:06am

Happy New Year and welcome back to the Spring Term. It's been a chilly start start yesterday so make sure you wrap up warm with coats, hats and gloves.

Thank you so much for all the lovely gifts I recieved for Christmas it was a lovely surprise. I hope you have all enjoyed Christmas and managed to meet up with friends and family where possible. I know some of you are having belated Christmases for a variety of reasons, I sure this will be just as special. Thank you for all the kind messages regarding my husband. He is home from hospital and slowly getting back to his normal self.

Please find on our main class page the subject organiser for this term, this gives you lots of information about the content of our topics. Please continue with reading daily, and times table practice.

My door is always open, please get in touch if you have any questions or queries.

Another exciting half term, watch this space for updates.

Mrs Catterall x

Trip to Blackpool to watch Aladdin, by Mr Pearson

Date: 1st Dec 2021 @ 2:46pm

Today the whole school got on 3 double deckers and travelled to Blackpool Globe Theatre pleasure land to watch Aladdin. We all had a fabulous time thank you very much to all our volunteers who came to help and to Anna for organising.

Science melting chocolate, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 23rd Nov 2021 @ 7:37pm

Q: what effects how fast chocolate melts?

We used heat packs and different chocolate to explore and observe how they melted. Most groups discovered the aero chocolate started to melt first and thought this was because it air pockets in it so the chocolate wasn’t as thick in some places. After a period of time most groups discovered it was actually the white chocolate that completely melted first. It was the galaxy or dairy milk chocolate that melted the least.

Why did each group get different results? What affected our results?

Would we get the same results if the chocolate was in our hands?

Remembrance day, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 11th Nov 2021 @ 7:44pm

Today was a lovely day in school. The Elephant tribe yet again shone brightly. We enjoyed listening to Mr Turner and his stories from his childhood about his dad going off to war. We showed respect during our 2 minutes silence to all those who have died as a result of war, sang a beautiful song and reflected on our word of the year 'UNITY', thinking about how we can be united together.

We have enjoyed several art based activities today. Take a look at our fabulous work and our amazing outfits.

The children have written their own thoughts and reflections on the things we have talked about today, you will be able to read their work which is in their google drive. I will post a few on here shortly.

Thank you Elephants for a lovely day.

Happy Diwali, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 4th Nov 2021 @ 9:04pm

A huge thankyou to Xavi for bringing into school some sweet treats for Diwali to share with the class. It was a lovely treat and opportunity to try something new.

A crime and punishment review, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 4th Nov 2021 @ 8:17pm

We have been learning about crime and punishment in history this term. We know the crime and punishments in Roman times. One of them isThe Lions where you get thrown into a pit of lions. If you were a slave of a poor person, the Emperor had nothing to take away from you so you would be executed by drowning or you would be thrown in a barrel with a monkey, dog , snake and many more animals. You might have one of your limbs cut off. There are many more punishments!

Crimes in the Victorian times were like stealing food from a local food stall or they could murder someone by stabbing or shooting people.

Olive and Edward

Ethan, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 4th Nov 2021 @ 8:06pm

The children loved our electricity topic. Ethan brought in a fabulous kit, we loved it. Thank you ?

Snow White production, by Mr Pearson

Date: 2nd Nov 2021 @ 2:23pm

A special treat for all the children today, Mrs Brown organised for a pantomime to come into school based on Snow White. All the children had a fantastic time.

Autumn 2nd half term, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 30th Oct 2021 @ 7:37pm

I'm looking forward to seeing you all on Monday with stories about your holidays.

We have an exciting event planned, in the afternoon we will get to experience all about 'The Americas' using the latest Virtual reality headsets. Permission forms and payment information is available on Scopay.

I have added this half terms subject organiser to the main part of our class page so you can see in more detail the topics we will be covering.

I will add this to the google classroom information as well.

Please keep checking back on the blog for information and pictures of our lessons, we love sharing them with you.

REMEMBER - Reading books to change on Monday please and PE kits. Swimming will continue to be on a Tuesday morning.

Mrs Catterall

Trafalgar Square sculpture, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 28th Oct 2021 @ 4:44pm

I thought I'd share this photo. It is of a sculpture I saw in Trafalgar Square

Does it remind you of an artist we looked at in Year 3? We made our own 3D sculptures using Modroc.

The artist we looked at was called Claes Oldenburg. This sculpture was created by Britush artist Heather Phillipson.

The Tower of London, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 28th Oct 2021 @ 4:36pm

I've had a busy few days in London. Unfortunately there wasn't many photos to be taken relating to our topic. I did get a good photo of a replica of 'The Rack' though.

I also found out some facts about the bridges near the Houses of Parliament. I'll tell you all about it next week as part of Parliament Week.

Hope you are having a great half term. See you Monday.

Happy half term holidays, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 22nd Oct 2021 @ 3:04pm

Thank you to all the elephants and your families. We have had a fantastic first half term in school. Your enthusiasm has been infectious and you have all shone with your learning, aiming to be your best self. I wish you all a lovely half term. I'm off to London for a few days and will visit the Tower of London. I'll see what photos I can take related to our learning on Crime and Punishment. I have uploaded an assignment in google classroom for your Holiday Passports in case you haven't got your book.

I'll see you in a week for some more amazing learning.

Stay safe

Mrs Catterall

Music - Ukelele, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 22nd Oct 2021 @ 3:02pm

The children have made great progress in their ukulele playing. They have been playing chords, reading musical notes and playing and singing. Today’s performances were just ‘WOW’

Crime and punishment, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 22nd Oct 2021 @ 3:00pm

We have loved our topic on crime and punishment.

Edward and Olive have written us a review.

Halloween Party Fun, by Mr Pearson

Date: 22nd Oct 2021 @ 10:20am

Lots of fun was had at the school's first disco for 18 months.

D.T. Our Diwali designs., by Mrs Catterall

Date: 17th Oct 2021 @ 1:35pm

We have been busy creating diagrams of our designs for our light up Diwali signs. Once drawn out and labelled we uploaded them to our google slide show for this project.

We cant wait to start the making process on Tuesday next week.