Year 6: The Elephants: Blog items

Spring 1 Curriculum, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 3rd Jan 2021 @ 7:52pm

Please find below and on our main class page the subject organiser for this half term.  It covers our learning for the next 6 weeks.

Topics which you could explore for your projects are:

Fruit and vegetable sculptures.  Make a picture using food and then enjoy eating it - make sure you take a photo first.

Roman mosaics

Making a roman road, helmet, shield.

Poster about healthy eating / food hygiene.

Research - What types of food do different animals eat?

 

 

Happy New Year, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 3rd Jan 2021 @ 4:14pm

Happy New Year to all the Elephants and your families.    I hope you have had a lovely Christmas.  I'm looking foward to hearing all your news when we return back to school tomorrow.

                           Please remember your pencil cases and your PE kits. 

Mrs Atkinson and I have lots of exciting things planned for you this half term and we can't wait to tell you all about it this week. 

See you tomorrow 

Christmas thank you, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 31st Dec 2020 @ 7:39pm

Thank you all so much for the lovely gifts I received for Christmas, it was a wonderful surprise. I know lots of you donated to the Rosemere Cancer Foundation, thank you so much, this is such a fabulous charity. 

I hope you have all had a lovely Christmas with your families whether that was in person or virtually.  I’m looking forward to hearing all about it in the new year. 

Hockey Stars training session., by Mrs Catterall

Date: 31st Dec 2020 @ 7:31pm

We are very lucky to have 2 brilliant hockey players in our class.  We ended our term with a demo and a quick training session from them.  We hope to learn more next term. 

DT Magnet games, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 31st Dec 2020 @ 7:27pm

Elephants you are amazing.  I am so proud of your magnet games.  They look fantastic, are fun to play and you did brilliantly sewing your own shape. 

I hope you have had fun playing them at home with your family during Christmas. 

Party Afternoon, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 31st Dec 2020 @ 7:22pm

We had a great time at our Christmas party. Games and dancing throughout the afternoon.

Christmas cards, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 31st Dec 2020 @ 7:18pm

Well done Elephants you made great snowman Christmas cards for your family.  I also dropped off the cards you made for the residents of Longton Nursing home, thank you. 

School Parliament., by Mrs Catterall

Date: 4th Dec 2020 @ 7:41am

We will be voting for our new school parliament representatives on the 14th December.  If you would like to put yourself forward please make a poster, letter, PowerPoint  and be ready to present it to the class on this day.

Art - painting - Stonehenge, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 4th Dec 2020 @ 7:38am

We have continued to develop our colour mixing skills to create an image of Stonehenge.  

Science - Magnets, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 4th Dec 2020 @ 7:36am

We have been continuing our learning about magnets this week.  Which materials are magnetic? Are all metals magnetic? Are all magnets the same strength?

Birthday Party Fun, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 24th Nov 2020 @ 7:46pm

We have had a fabulous birthday afternoon today to celebrate the birthdays of 10 members of our tribe. 

Just dance disco moves, balloon under and over, teaching me some dance moves of there own and I got to show off my floss move, extra outdoor playtime, birthday singing, birthday cake, pass the parcel and we finished off the day with a Tom and Jerry cartoon. 

We had a fabulous time.  

 

Science - Friction., by Mrs Catterall

Date: 14th Nov 2020 @ 11:02am

We carried out an investigation into friction / grip.  We wanted to discover which surface had the best grip. We worked in teams to find out at what height the ramp needed to be for the car to start to move.  Each ramp was covered in a different material. We discussed what we had to do to make it a fair test.  Some groups results showed that sandpaper had the must grip, while others showed plastic.  The children thought this might be due to each groups car having different wheels. 

Zoom meeting with Barden primary school, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 14th Nov 2020 @ 10:58am

On Thursday afternoon we enjoyed a zoom meeting with the year 3 children at Barden Primary School.  We told them about our experiences of lockdown and how school is different now. We learnt that the children had done similar things to us and that they wash their hands as soon as they come into school like us.  They have also been eating their lunch in the classrooms.  They have started a topic on being archaeologists and will be learning about the Stone Age. We shared some of our knowledge and promised to send them more which they can use for research.  

We look forward to connecting with them again throughout the year. 

Remembrance Day, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 11th Nov 2020 @ 6:19pm

The children were exceptional today.  We held our Remembrance service via zoom, listening respectfully to Mr Turner and his memories of wartime.  We discussed WWII and found out about the blackouts,  air raid sirens and the Anderson shelters people would use to try and keep safe.  We linked this to our understanding of when people have to shelter during earthquakes.

This afternoon we completed our poppies and added lovely poems to them.  We went outside to our war memorial area, read a few prayers, recited Flanders fields and had a few quite moments of reflection. 

 

Art - painting - colour mixing, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 3rd Nov 2020 @ 8:06pm

Today we began our art topic. We looked at some work by the artist Georgia O’Keeffe, her vivid flowers and some of her later work on landscapes showing mountains.

Today we used the 3 primary colours to make secondary colours. We then choose a either red or blue and added black or white to make different shades of the colour.  We learnt that you only need a little bit of black paint!

 

AUTUMN 2nd HALF TERM, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 1st Nov 2020 @ 7:39pm

I can’t wait to see you all in the morning.  I hope you have had a lovely family half term break.  We have lots of exciting things planned for the next 7 weeks.

On our main class page you will find our long term curriculum plan which gives you information about our topics for this half term.  

Our main maths focus will be multiplication and division.  Make sure you are learning those times tables. smiley

Swimming update, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 1st Nov 2020 @ 7:34pm

Unfortunately we won’t be going swimming this half term. As soon as the situation changes we will let you know. 

Our finished fossils, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 1st Nov 2020 @ 7:30pm

Geography - developing our skills using an atlas., by Mrs Catterall

Date: 1st Nov 2020 @ 7:29pm

We have been using atlases a lot this last few weeks.  Today we used physical maps to locate the main mountain ranges of the world. 

Marshmallows everywhere., by Mrs Catterall

Date: 1st Nov 2020 @ 7:27pm

Thank you to everyone who supported our enterprise.  We made over 230 marshmallow kebabs for you all to enjoy.

The children get to decide what to do with their profit.  Half will go to charity (exact one yet to be decided) the rest has been spent on Christmas sewing kits and magnets for a Christmas science and DT project.  If there is any left we are going to buy more books for our class library. 

 

 

Multiplication 2x 5x 10x, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 1st Nov 2020 @ 7:20pm

We worked out the missing numbers from the calculations, we practiced using a top marks game and played multiplication board games. 

London Landmark research, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 1st Nov 2020 @ 7:01pm

As part of our non-fiction writing we took Paddington to different London landmarks.  We researched them by creating a quiz, swapping them with our friends and then trying to find the answers. 

Stone Age drawing, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 1st Nov 2020 @ 6:59pm

Here are a few pictures of us creating our Stone Age cave pictures. 

How to find the parents evening link, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 12th Oct 2020 @ 12:23pm

Log on to your child’s google classroom account.

Click to enter the Elephants classroom.

In the top right hand corner you should see 9 dots arranged in a square.

 

 

Click on these and select calendar.   

There you should find a link to the parent’s meeting. 

Click on it and then join with google meet.

Keep your fingers crossed  x

How to access parents evening appointments, by Mr Pearson

Date: 7th Oct 2020 @ 2:43pm

Please find a short PowerPoint below demonstrating how to access your child's parents evening appointment using Google Classroom. I would suggest you check if your appoinment works on your device over the weekend by accessing your child's Google account. Any questions please ask your class teacher or ring Anna. 

Google Classroom appointments.

Contact the School

Longton Primary School

School Ln
Longton
Lancashire
PR4 5YA

Main Contact: Linda Masterson

Tel: 01772 612 495
Bursar@longton.lancs.sch.uk

SEN Contact: Rebecca Catterall and Di Regan

SEN Email: Senco@longton.lancs.sch.uk