Year 7(: The Bongos: Blog items

Happy Holidays, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 5th Apr 2019 @ 4:01pm

Have a wonderful Easter holiday's whatever you are doing. You have all worked hard this term and made coming to school  lots of fun .Thank you for making me proud and for making me smile every day.

Remember to learn your lines and lyrics ready for rehearsals on the first day back.

Mrs Fletcher

Production songs, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 5th Apr 2019 @ 8:00am

Please spend ome time over the holidays going through the songs, especially A Land Fit For Heroes.  We would love it if everyone could know the words by the time we come back to school.

Happy Singing.

Time, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 29th Mar 2019 @ 11:57am

Time has flown by this week.. our maths topic has been time. We made out own clocks to shadow what we knew about time, we have looked at analogue and digital time, the calendar , learnt about 24 hour time and spent time explaining our answers to reasoning questions.

We have also spent time being historians , thinking about what the Romans did for us , discussing a whole host of things we were left with when the Romans left Britain.The discussions were outstanding as we all chose our 8 most important things and explained why we had chosen them. 

 

Our week , by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 22nd Mar 2019 @ 11:04am

This week we have been very busy, as usual! 

Maths- we have become experts on negative numbers , shown off our times tables knowledge and thought about the wonder of number.

Science- this week has been all about producers, consumers, prey and predators, habitats and food chains . 

English- first person pronouns, words ending in cian, ssion, sion, tion. We have also done some work around the characters of Michael Morpurgo’s book Beowulf which is set in Viking Scandinavia.

Posters  and planning has been done for our enterprise and the Bongo Butty Bar will be open for business later on today. 

More class compliments have been earned this week as the children head towards their third treat of the year. 

Learning about Islam, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 14th Mar 2019 @ 8:15pm

The children have used their maths and DT skills to make model mosques. They have learnt about the different parts of the mosque. 

Great fun has been had today learning how to write the Arabic alphabet and some colours in Arabic. 

Scientists at work , by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 12th Mar 2019 @ 8:54pm

Today the Bongos had great fun showing off how much they know about the human digestive system. They did this using a knitted body borrowed from UCLAN. Once out of his box our new friend was christened Barry. I was very impressed with the scientific knowledge shown by the class. Well done Bongos.

Charity Toy Sale, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 11th Mar 2019 @ 8:38pm

Thank you to everyone who supported our Toy sale over the last 2 weeks, whether you donated or bought.

The children voted on the charity they wished to support, with an overwhelming majority they chose Guide Dogs for the Blind.  

We are contacting them to arrange for them to come into school so we can present them with the money and find out a little more about the work they do.

THANKYOU we raised £

Investigating the affects of popular drinks on our teeth , by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 11th Mar 2019 @ 2:19pm

Faith Week, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 11th Mar 2019 @ 2:17pm

We have kicke started Faith week by learning about Islamic art in maths and how geometric shapes are used to create patterns. In English we retold 2 Islamic stories called The Phrophet and the Ants and The Prophet and the Crying Camel . We have also learnt some facts about Islam and about the 5 Pillars of Islam.

World Book Day 2019, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 8th Mar 2019 @ 10:35am

The Bongos all look amazing in their costumes. This morning they have shared the opening pages of Alice Dent and The Incredible Germs by Gwen Lowe. They have looked at cartoon illustrations of germs and learnt how to draw cartoons in the style of the author/illustrator Calvin Innes and are now creating their own germ cartoon characters.  

We have been to the library for a story session with Tom. The first story was called Morris the mankiest monster and when the children heard something disgusting they had to shout urrgh . There were lots of things in this book that were truly disgusting however we all enjoyed hearing the story. 

 

I Say Ooh You Say Aah was the next story which we had to listen to carefully as it was full of instructions to follow. The children got to shout aah, shout underpants and pat their heads. It really was great fun.

 

Next we played a story telling game. Everyone had to stand up in a circle. , Tom started the game with a word and we all had to say a word. It was more great fun .

This afternoon the children have been busy creating bookmarks to use when they are reading for pleasure . 

 

Well done Bongos, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 7th Mar 2019 @ 8:12am

Congratulations to the Bongos for being awarded tribe of the term a thoroughly deserved accolade. 

Miss Connell will be giving out the homework tasks this week on my behalf. 

It’s been busy!, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 1st Mar 2019 @ 2:21pm

It has been an incredibly busy first week back.  The Bongos have got straight back into the swing of school life and have been working incredibly hard. They have produced some wonderful English work on our new merpeople theme. It has been a Science week learning about teeth and setting up a tooth decay investigation which we will start on Monday . 

Brilliant Bongos, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 15th Feb 2019 @ 1:25pm

The Bongos have had a truly wonderful half term. They have all shown themselves to have outstanding attitudes to learning and have been having lots of fun as well as working hard. 

This afternoon they are enjoying a movie to celebrate gaining their 20th class compliment. In fact since the middle of November they have gained 25 , an achievement they are very proud of.

I hope you all have a great half term. Remember to pop something in your passport, enjoy a book and have a go on Times Table Rockstars. 

 

Bringing the human digestive system to life, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 13th Feb 2019 @ 2:34pm

This afternoon the Bongos have had fun bringing the human digestive system to life. They have recreated every step of the journey our food takes, including poo at the end ,;

Engineers at work, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 8th Feb 2019 @ 1:39pm

The Bongos have learnt about engineering today, what an engineer does and different types of engineering. They have then become engineers working to design and make Roman aqueducts using plastic cups and straws. 

Photography , by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 5th Feb 2019 @ 1:31pm

The class have enjoyed an afternoon of photography with Olivia 

This morning we created a Bongo Guide to Friendship which we have all agreed to follow. 

Scientific afternoon, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 28th Jan 2019 @ 9:13pm

The Bongos have been scientists this afternoon. They have been investigating states of matter and have had lots of fun with rice, shower foam and different frozen liquids.

 

Mosaic design, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 25th Jan 2019 @ 11:39am

The Bongos are continuing their busy day. They are now designing mosaics which they will print next week. 

Awesome partner work, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 25th Jan 2019 @ 10:49am

This morning half of the class have been working in the computer suite typing fantasy stories whilst the other half have been busy investigating area in pairs.

There have been lots of great mathematical discussions. 

A Great Day Out, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 21st Jan 2019 @ 6:46pm

The Bongos have been linking with 4H from Barden Primary School in Burnley. They have spent today at Burnley Youth Theatre getting to know new friends and thinking about our similarities and differences. On arrival the two classes were split in half and sent to work with either Laura or Alice from the theatre. Lots of fun was had playing ice breaker games, the children then worked in pairs to find 3 differences and 3 similarities which would become part of the group working with Alice final performance. Next in larger groups they added the end to the sentence starters we dream, we hope we are. To round of the performance the children sang the opening of This is Me from The Greatest Showman. 

At lunchtime the children were challenged to sit with people from each other’s schools and lots of chatting and laughter accompanied the packed lunches.

After lunch more games and rehearsals ready for the final  performance. At around quarter to two we joined together to watch each groups work, the performances were brilliant. 

Soon it was time to say goodbye , we exchanged work about each other and made our way back to our schools. it really has been a wonderful day meeting new friends. The Bongos have learnt a lot and really appreciated the fact that even though people can come from very different backgrounds there will be differences but there will also be lots of similarities such as enjoying football, having pets, being born in the UK. 

Brilliant Bongos, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 18th Jan 2019 @ 3:02pm

Thank you to everyone who came along to watch our assembly. We have had 2 class compliments for our performance. We are very proud of ourselves because we all spoke clearly and remembered our lines. We even impressed Mrs Fletcher and Mr Kennedy because we knew the Tyger poem by William Blake off by heart ! The theme of our assembly was awe and wonder, we think we were AWESOME . 

Looking forward to next week we are all looking forward to going to Burnley Youth Theatre to meet our new friends from Barden Primary School .

Trip to Burnley Youth Theatre, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 17th Jan 2019 @ 8:19am

Please send your permission slips back today or tomorrow for our exciting day of drama on Monday. 

Class Assembly, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 17th Jan 2019 @ 8:18am

We look forward to seeing you at our class assembly tomorrow, Friday 18th January. We will be starting at around 9am. 

French with Madame Palm , by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 14th Jan 2019 @ 2:37pm

This afternoon we were lucky enough to have a French lesson with Madame Palk a French teacher from Hutton . We met Bob and told him our names. We went over our numbers with actions . 

We then used actions to say our ages and then to extend our number knowledge. We played guess the number using plus haut -( higher )and plus bas - (lower ).

Next we learnt the days of the week and discussed grammatical differences .

we had a lot of fun 

Active Start , by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 14th Jan 2019 @ 9:09am

We have started the week singing and dancing the 12 times table with Chirpy Cockerel on BBC Sport Super Movers 

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