Year 7(: The Bongos: Blog items

Trips this year, by Mr Pearson

Date: 4th Oct 2017 @ 11:44am

Hello

Dates for your diary ๐ŸšŒ

we are on a free trip to Springfields Power Plant on Tuesday 5th December to support our electricity topic.

Even better news the trip is free.

We are going to the World Museum at Liverpool on Monday 18th June to aid our topic on Egyptians.

Just waiting for conformation for the River study trip in April. 

This weeks spelling focus words, by Mr Pearson

Date: 4th Oct 2017 @ 9:39am

medal

meddle

missed

mist

scene

seen

board

bored

which

witch

Teamwork Challenge, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 29th Sep 2017 @ 1:31pm

This afternoon the Giraffes have started their Jigsaw session with a teamwork engineering challenge. Using only art straws and newspaper the children have been challenged to build the tallest free standing structure they can. 

Yoga , by Mr Pearson

Date: 29th Sep 2017 @ 10:49am

Yoga time for the Giraffes this morning.

Mr Pearson was the photographer!

Week beginning 25th September , by Mr Pearson

Date: 25th Sep 2017 @ 3:00pm

Maths focus subtraction column method up to thousands and then to 2decimal places.

we will be moving on to solving problems by Friday.

English focus writing in paragraphs, using James and the Giant Peach as a theme for our writing

GPS Spelling words we are focusing on have been given to the children. Further work on inverted commas for speech and adverts for speech will be covered.

Projects, by Mr Pearson

Date: 21st Sep 2017 @ 3:41pm

Projects

Project theme for this term can be on anthing the children have an interest in, however our main focus within the class is electricity and James and the Giant Peach at the moment.

Any questions please let me know.

 

Maths eating at Mr Pearsonโ€™s restaurant , by Mr Pearson

Date: 21st Sep 2017 @ 11:57am

Today we visited Mr Pearson’s restaurant. We added up prices of the food then bought the food, to do this we used a formal method. At the end we added up the prices for the week we had spent, it was fun.

Random dice ๐ŸŽฒ website, by Mr Pearson

Date: 19th Sep 2017 @ 4:54pm

To play our favourite maths game at home you can use this website 

https://www.random.org/dice/?num=3

to provide you with random dice throws

 

Terrific Tuesday , by Mr Pearson

Date: 19th Sep 2017 @ 4:52pm

This week in Science we have been learning about electricity. We had a go at writing a script for a presenter of a TV show to explain how it is generated. We have also looked at the dangers of electricity at home.

In maths we have been doing standard written method of addition.  Today we have done letters that stood for numbers and then we added the numbers and tried to get the biggest number possible.

Also we did a mathematical bingo game we picked six numbers between 20 -40 then rolled three dice and we did lots of different methods to work out the answers in our books the person who crossed all there numbers of first is the winner.

In English Have been writing  descriptions of characters from James and the Giant Peach using adjectives.

wopps in the morning, learning how to play the flute.

Dance taster, by Mr Pearson

Date: 18th Sep 2017 @ 8:37pm

The giraffes had fun this morning during a dancing taster. 

Fronted adverbial , by Mr Pearson

Date: 18th Sep 2017 @ 10:00am

In GPS this morning we have been looking at fronted adverbials.

 

This weeks prize box winners , by Mr Pearson

Date: 15th Sep 2017 @ 12:19pm

This weeks prize winners are

Juliette  

Saskia

Jasmine

well done 

Roald Dahl day, by Mr Pearson

Date: 14th Sep 2017 @ 12:47pm

On Roald Dahl day we read part of James and the giant peach .

We also completed our cauliflower cards!  All ready for Christmas ๐ŸŽ„ 

Christmas cards in September!!!, by Mr Pearson

Date: 13th Sep 2017 @ 1:51pm

The giraffes have today been completing their Christmas cards, ready to send to the printers for time for Christmas.

An enjoyable afternoon, I hope lists for presents are not appearing too soon. ๐Ÿ˜€

Happy birthday to Baliee

Exciting Electric , by Mr Pearson

Date: 11th Sep 2017 @ 3:14pm

Today we have started our topic about electricity and Mr Pearson took us outside to look at lightening conductors on the school chimney and the Church.

we have also studied similes in English, in maths we have studied decimal points to two places. 

In GPS we have started to investigate frontal adverbials.

A very productive day.

Our first week with Mr Pearson, by Mr Pearson

Date: 8th Sep 2017 @ 12:59pm

This week we learnt about rounding numbers up to 10,100 and 1000 in maths.

Also we had to find the difference of the two numbers and to half that number then add it on.

We really enjoy maths even if it's year  2 work and we've done it before.

We love writing it is the one thing that lets us write stories off the top off our head.

we do different morning tasks every day.

 

 

 

Thankyou, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 26th Jul 2017 @ 7:43pm

To parents and children of the Giraffe Tribe

I am overwhelmed, thank you all very much for the amazing gifts, it was extremely generous and thoughtful.  As a said to a few people this morning, it has been my pleasure to teach your children this year and gifts aren't necessary, but with the theme of the year, they are appreciated and will certainly be enjoyed. The children have written some touching messages,thank you.  I have thoroughly enjoyed my first year at Longton, thank you to all for your support and for your amazing children. 

Giraffes you are all superstars and I am very proud of each one of you.  Have a well deserved holiday. smiley

I look forward to you hearing all about your adventures in September, you will only be next door. 

Many Thanks again

Mrs Catterall 

Poetry, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 18th Jul 2017 @ 6:48pm

Today we have been reading the poem - The Spider and the Fly. After discussing the meaning of the poem we worked in groups to practise reciting a section.  We then read the poem out. Tomorrow we are going to look at a different version of the same poem to compare and contrast. 

 

Longton Live , by Mrs Catterall

Date: 18th Jul 2017 @ 6:45pm

On a Friday we enjoyed listening to year 5 sing in church as part of Longton Live.  They were fantastic, thanks for inviting us.

 

Science - designing a seed , by Mrs Catterall

Date: 18th Jul 2017 @ 6:43pm

On Friday last week we made a simple spinner and explored where the seed was best placed, where would the weight go?  We used paper clips and found the ones which spun the best had 3 paper clips fastened to the bottom. 

 

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 

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!

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