Year 7(: The Bongos: Blog items
Biscuits 1, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 11th Nov 2016 @ 10:58pm
This afternoon the children showed great team work while baking chocolate chip biscuits. Each week they will be making and evaluating a different type of biscuit and then deciding which ones to make and sell at the Christmas play performances. I hope there are a few extra biscuits every week, I really enjoyed them today.
Skeletons, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 11th Nov 2016 @ 10:48pm
On Monday this week we had great fun exploring what we already know about our skeletons. There were some very interesting ideas. Throughout the afternoon we developed our understanding of where bones go and what shape they are and have begun to learn the scientific names for them. Over the next few weeks we will be comparing animal skeletons, looking at how our muscles work and then designing our owns skeletons for a specific task. Watch this space.
Biographies, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 26th Oct 2016 @ 11:49pm
For the last 2 weeks we have been focusing on Biographies in our English lessons. I have been impressed by the children's dedication to researching facts about the author 'Dick King Smith'. They have worked together in pairs cooperatively and have organised their facts under subheadings. This week we have been focusing on writing in paragraphs. I can't wait to read their finished biographies which they are going to publish using the computer skills we have been learning this half term.
Shadows, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 24th Oct 2016 @ 7:53pm
The sun was shining this afternoon and we took the opportunity to look at our shadows and compare them to the predictions we made on Friday last week. The children discovered the position of their afternoon shadow was correct, however soon realised their shadow was an outline and didn't have hair, eyes and socks like their predicted shadows did! With the knowledge of how to make shadows larger and smaller using puppets on Friday they have shown a good understanding of shadows and had fun outdoors researching it. Let's hope we have some sun in the morning to test out our am shadow position predictions.
Saturday gardening day, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 22nd Oct 2016 @ 3:15pm
Thank you to all parents, children and staff who came along today, it was very much appreciated.We have cleared leaves, stained sheds and benches, cleared brambles, made a mud kitchen, filled two trailers with rubbish and generally had a really fun time. I think!
Take a look at what we have achieved when we all worked together.
Sheldon the Snail, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 20th Oct 2016 @ 11:07pm
This week we have been looking after Sheldon the snail. On Wednesday the children had the chance to hold Sheldon as we cleaned out his home and gave him some fresh food. Although it took him a while to wake up, the children enjoyed holding him.
GPS Afternoon with Parents!, by Mr Coxhead
Date: 19th Oct 2016 @ 11:25pm
Our children thoroughly enjoyed welcoming parents to class to work on some grammar, punctuation and spelling (GPS) activities.
The afternoon began with a talk in the hall about why GPS is so important and how we're striving for excellence in GPS at Longton.
Enterprise Day, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 12th Oct 2016 @ 7:31pm
What an amazing achievement Giraffes! Over the last week we have been busy preparing for our enterprise day, planning, researching and today making our products then selling them after school. It was a great success, with only a few items left unsold. Thank you to Mrs Parker for helping out this afternoon with Mrs Regan.
We will look forward to adding up the money tomorrow and calculating our profit. We can then decide on what we would like to buy for our classroom.
I'm very proud teacher, a super team tribe effort Giraffes, well done.
Thank you to everyone who supported the event.
European Day of Languages, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 26th Sep 2016 @ 8:10pm
This afternoon the children celebrated European Day of Languages by taking part in lots of Language themed activities.
The Penguins ( Year 1) learnt the colours of the rainbow in German
The Bongos ( Year 2 ) learnt greetings, classroom instructions, numbers to 10 and how to tell somebody their name and age in French.
The Giraffes ( Year 3) looked at the work of Paul Klee, a Swiss-German artist and learnt the names of colours.
They tried to make dark colours like his paintings. E.g. Dunkelrot. = dark red
The Tigers ( Year 4) learnt lots of intersesting facts about germant such as there are 400 zoos in Germany and tasted German food.
The Bears (Year 5) learnt greetings, times of day and how to say introduce themselves in Spanish.
The Kangaroos (Year 6) made bookmarks. On one side they decorated them with symbols of Germany, such as the flag, car badges and on the other they wrote about themselves in German.
At the end of the afternoon the children had the opportunity to share what they had been doing in assembly.
German afternoon, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 26th Sep 2016 @ 7:29pm
We had an arty afternoon today as part of Eurpoean Languages Day. We looked at the paintings of Paul Klee and the dark colours he used. We learnt the German words for colours and created our own Paul Klee painting, as well as practising our 'word' skills changing the colours of text.
JUMPERS and CARDIGANS, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 19th Sep 2016 @ 6:42pm
The weather is still warm and the children are taking off their jumpers and cardigans. There are a couple of children who seemed to have misplaced theirs, they are named. Please can you have a check to see if anyone has brought home the wrong or an extra one by mistake.
Please ensure you name your child's jumper or cardigan so it can be quickly returned if it gets misplaced.
Many thanks
Mrs Catterall
A busy week, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 19th Sep 2016 @ 6:25pm
What another fantastic week we have had in Year 3. Lots going on with our Roald Dahl day activities and our first swimming lesson.
On Tuesday we enjoyed describing our hunt for the Golden Ticket in school. The Golden ticket is still hiding away in one of the books in school. I wonder who might find it when they change their reading books next week?
In the afternoon we had lots of creative activities going on.
Origami foxes (Fantastic Mr Fox), play doh sweet creations (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), Mr Twit's messy beard (The Twits), dream catchers and dream jars (BFG) as well as some painting (The Giraffe, the Pelly and Me). The children all worked really well and it was lovely to see lots of children helping each other out with some of the more tricky bits of the activities.
On Thursday the children were very excitied to be going swimming. They were patient and waited their turn while Jane assessed their skills. Next week they will get to spend more time swimming in their different groups.
I know it's going to be a great year.
Roald Dahl Day, by Mr Coxhead
Date: 13th Sep 2016 @ 6:18pm
Roald Dahl Day has been a thriving success!
We all gathered for an assembly at the end of the day to share some of the fantastic work produced in each class. Year 6 performed a poem from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory which you can see a video of below. Years 1 to 5 shared a wide range of dazzling work (from extended writing to various styles of artwork) - photographs can be seen below!
During the assembly, we drew names from the BFG's 'dream jar' to find out who had won the Association's Gloriumptious Roald Dahl competition. We invited three very special people to the stage to draw names from the jar (all of whom share their birthday with Roald Dahl!): Stanley in Y2, Bailey in Y3 and our very own Sandye!
The overall winner of the 29-CD Roald Dahl Audiobook Collection was Sara (Y5). Five runner-up prizes (a BFG Activity & Sticker Book) were also won.
Thank you to everyone who donated £1 by entering the competition! We have raised over £140 to replenish the stock of Roald Dahl novels in our school library.
WELCOME BACK, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 11th Sep 2016 @ 5:15pm
A warm welcome back to the new school year. Giraffes are now in Key Stage 2!
We have had a lovely first week back in school getting to know each other. We have been in the computer suite, used the ipads, had a try at Jujitsu, practised our German and used the Atlases as part of our topic work.
We have lots more new experiences waiting for us next week with Roald Dahl day activities on Tuesday and our first swimming lesson on Thursday.
The Giraffes have made an excellent start to the year. Well done.
Wonderful tigers- wonderful parents, by Mrs Moxham
Date: 28th Jul 2016 @ 6:36pm
Thank you - a huge thank you for your kind words and generous gifts on our last day. It was very emotional , for so many reasons but we both feel so privileged to have been able to teach your wonderful children and would like to wish them all the best for their future.
Thank you to you all, supportive and friendly parent- you to we wish every happiness.
As we leave for pastures new, we leave you all in the capable hands of a brilliant school, full of dedicated teachers who really do go that extra mile and our new staff members who are excited to join such an ' outstanding' team.
Have a lovely summer and best wishes,
Mrs Moxham and Mrs Robinson.
Sports day fun!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 25th Jul 2016 @ 7:22pm
Hooray! We finally managed to hold sports day! The children all had fun, well done to the red team who won overall, and to the individual teams who came joint first.
A big thank you to those parents who managed to come at short notice, your support was very much appreciated.
Talent show, by Mrs Moxham
Date: 22nd Jul 2016 @ 3:19pm
Well done all entries for the talent show- truly inspirational children.
Winner : Jasper year 1 Dance
2nd : Bromwyn year 2 Poetry
Year 6 shared one if their leavers assembly dances- wearing the faces of teachers. Very surreal!
Well Done
Year 3 storytelling, by Mrs Moxham
Date: 21st Jul 2016 @ 12:27am
We had a collaborative approach to storytelling this week, with year 3 creating a huge story map adventure story.
We we also took advantage of the weather by reading in our outside classrooms.
Swimming / year 3, by Mrs Moxham
Date: 20th Jul 2016 @ 7:59pm
Just a reminder that there is no swimming for year 3 this week.
Thanks
Sorry, by Mrs Moxham
Date: 17th Jul 2016 @ 11:25pm
I've just realised that I have been adding our class blogs on the website as news over the last half term. If you wish to view, they are on the home page under the Longton Early Press area. I will ensure that they are correctly placed on the blog area from now one 😀
I added some some of the recent images for you.
Eco Team at the Brickcroft, by Mr Monckton
Date: 9th Jul 2016 @ 10:30am
The Eco team have had a lovely afternoon pond dipping at the Brickcroft. We found lots of interesting water animals from tadpoles to water snails. The children really enjoyed themselves and really helped Longton shine this afternoon. We must thank Sue from the Brickcroft and Gill Garside our Eco governor for their support.
Science Festival, by Mrs Moxham
Date: 4th Jul 2016 @ 12:52pm
Many Tigers visited the Science Festival at Uclan this weekend and had a great time.
Tigers, by Mrs Moxham
Date: 28th Jun 2016 @ 7:21pm
Roman E Book for the Tigers, by Mrs Moxham
Date: 27th Jun 2016 @ 12:50am
Please find an E book for our lessons this week on the Romans.
LEP Education Award 2016, by Mr Pearson
Date: 24th Jun 2016 @ 11:19am
Yesterday, staff and pupils of Longton Primary attend the LEP Education Awards for Lancashire at the Charter Theatre, we are extremely pleased to announce that Longton Primary won the Health and Welling Award for recognition of our work on emotional health and mindset within school.
Our excellent Head Teacher Mrs Brown was highly recommend in the Head Teacher award category up against a strong field of both Primary and Secondary Heads.
Finally, the school was highly recommended in the Primary School of the Year category for the amazing experiences, high standards and dedicated staff.
From the extremely proud team at Longton.
