Year 6: The Giraffes: Blog items
Awesome tribe, by Mrs Brown
Date: 4th Feb 2020 @ 2:44pm
Our year 6 children have their heads down and are working exceptionally hard. They are also proving to be amazing role models. Thank you.
If you would like to start your own lunch time club please think about what the cub would be, who would attend, where and when it would take place and how would people know to attend. Then come and discuss your plans with Mrs Brown. If you need any help ask Bronnie and Faith or Tilly and Paige regarding the clubs they already successfully run.
Jam Coding, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 28th Jan 2020 @ 2:49pm
Today jam coding came to our school and spent time with year 5 and 6. They helped us to make online safety animations using stop motion. Everyone was put into groups of 3 and worked together to make our animated safety messages . Everyone had a great time and we learnt a lot. Hopfullysoon we will be putting some pictures of all the fun we had.
by Grace
Charity - Australia fundraising, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 24th Jan 2020 @ 7:50pm
Thankyou to everyone who donated their loose change to our Australian fire campaign. This afternoon the children covered a map of Australia and the words adopt a koala. The coins covered it all perfectly.
Linda will be adding it all up next week and then I’ll let you know the total.
Thank you again.
Food Fair , by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 17th Jan 2020 @ 3:55pm
Well done Giraffes on your successful Food Fair
Reading Rocket, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 8th Jan 2020 @ 10:38am
Our Reading Rocket is now complete.
Well done to Year 3 and Mrs Atkinson and everyone who brought in egg boxes.
Marvellous measuring, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 6th Dec 2019 @ 3:31pm
This week we have been finding out about height and length. We found out who the tallest and shortest were in our class.Next we measured each other using books, straws,whiteboards. Today we compared lengths using a ruler. We had to find things longer and shorter than a ruler.Then we went outside and measured the ball cage using strides.
Rockets launches , by Mr Pearson
Date: 26th Nov 2019 @ 8:14pm
Film of the end of school rocket launches
County Hall Visit, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 10th Nov 2019 @ 3:09pm
On Wednesday members of our school parliament visited County Hall. They listened to a presentation about how Lancashire County Council works delivered by Josh Mynott. The presentation took place in the council chamber. The children were joined by County Councillor Graham Gooch who is also a governor of our school and by County Councillor Jayne Rear who is the lead member for Young People. The children learnt a lot about Lancashire and the work of the council during their visit.
Homework, by Miss Leigh
Date: 1st Nov 2019 @ 3:48pm
Hello,
Giraffes, Can you do a little research ready for next week. We are going to be learning about the Suffragette movements.
Can you find out what this was about? Any famous people? What were they fighting for? Where did this take place?
You don't have to write anything, just be ready to talk about it.
The BBC has some great information and there is a good clip on the Newsround website.
See you next week,
Miss Leigh
Firework safety poster competition, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 11th Oct 2019 @ 3:04pm
Sorry this is late notice, time has flown quickly and posters need to be in well before bonfire night to be judged and prizes awarded before the day.
Children from any class can enter. Just create a poster showing how to be safe on bonfire night and bring it to school on Monday to be sent off to Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service.
Last year we had an overall winner in school, it would be great if someone from Longton could win a prize.
Cricket with Mark, by Miss Leigh
Date: 10th Oct 2019 @ 2:07pm
This week we have done cricket with Mark. We did a race to see who could get the most points at five stations with different things to do. We’ve been working on these skills: batting, bowling, fielding, short throwing and long bounce pass to each other across the hall. Outside we have been putting our skills together and putting them into miniature cricket games. Except we start off with five bats and every time we get caught out or get stumped we lose a cricket bat until we haven’t got any left.
Im glad it didn’t rain.
By Tom.
End of year expectations, by Mr Pearson
Date: 10th Oct 2019 @ 12:04pm
Please click on the link to see the end of year expectations for writing, reading and maths for your child's year group.
Macmillan coffee morning and book read, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 1st Oct 2019 @ 5:39pm
What an amazing morning. We were completely blown away by the number of visitors this morning. Thank you to everyone who came along to support this event, there was plenty of cake for everyone. The children enjoyed reading with their parents/grandparents, reading with the younger children or sat on a bean bag, taking off their shoes and sharing a book with their friends. Thankyou also to the parents who helped our amazing charity ambassadors and heads team.
We had lots of amazing cakes for our moon/space themed competition. There are some very talented bakers out there. The charity ambassadors had some difficult decisions to make when choosing the winner from each class. The winners were informed in assembly today and prizes given out. All children who took part will receive a special certificate later this week.
We will let you know the total amount once it has been totalled up.
Cake competition, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 30th Sep 2019 @ 6:36pm
Thank you to everyone who has entered the cake competition, your entries are amazing. There is still time to bring in your entry on Tuesday morning before we start selling at 9am.
We are also welcoming any cake donations home made or bought for our Macmillan coffee morning and book read.
We look forward to seeing you tomorrow.
Hold your head up high, by Mrs Brown
Date: 29th Sep 2019 @ 7:01pm
Giraffes are awesome, by Mrs Brown
Date: 29th Sep 2019 @ 6:56pm
I just want to share my appreciation for our amazing Giraffes.
You have taken on the roles and responsibility with great gusto and have become true role models for the whole school. Congratulations Giraffes - you are amazing.I just want to share my appreciation for our amazing Giraffes.
You have taken on the roles and responsibility with great gusto and have become true role models for the whole school. Congratulations Giraffes - you are amazing.
Mad Science, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 17th Sep 2019 @ 2:28pm
This afternoon the children found out all about the science of sport from the mad scientist.
50th anniversary of the moon landings., by Mrs Catterall
Date: 20th Jul 2019 @ 12:18pm
Next year we will be exploring moon landings as part of our Geography, Science and Maths work. As this weekend is the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing (Apollo 11) please keep a look out on the TV for information, maybe a newspaper or magazine article, you might like to share them with your class next year.
Bikability, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 15th Jul 2019 @ 9:36am
It’s that time of year again where we get to learn some road safety on our bikes in preparation for secondary school. We’re having a great time so far!
Choir concert , by Miss Reynolds
Date: 11th Jul 2019 @ 3:10pm
All the choir did a concert with the woman’s institute it went very good all the choir was surprised with how good the lady’s choir was!!!
Mrs Bolton took a lot of her spare time making the concert Y2 and Y5 came to whatch they had a great time!!!
Hazel was an amazing piano player for both choirs Y5s favourite song was Barbour shop blues because of the loud music.
Hutton taster day , by Miss Reynolds
Date: 10th Jul 2019 @ 2:57pm
We had a great day doing Solving crimes at Hutton today! Science, Maths and map skills!
A beautiful day in Longton, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 24th Jun 2019 @ 7:36pm
We had a great day with a couple of groups exploring Longton. We’re learning about the local history of our area to make a tourism video for Longton. We also thought that, while we were at it, we could do our bit for the community and do some litter picking.
The highlight of the afternoon had to be having Robins come and feed from our hands in the Brickcroft! We felt like Disney princesses and princes! Thank you very much to the lady that shared her bird feeding secrets with us! We really loved it! Also thank you to Bill for stopping and sharing his knowledge about the Brickcroft with us! It’ll all make the promotional video for Longton!
Miss R x
Book change, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 24th Jun 2019 @ 6:32pm
I know it's late and not many people will read this before tomorrow, but I forgot to tell you we're changing books tomorrow instead of Thursday because of our trip. If you read this, please spread the word! Thank You!
Miss R x
General updates, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 20th Jun 2019 @ 9:39am
Just a few reminders:
- Tomorrow is non-uniform day. Please bring in chocolates or bottles for the Summer fair.
- On Thursday the 27th of June, we will be going to UCLAN for the science festival. Don't forget your pack lunches!
- Wednesday is now Tennis day in the afternoon - feel free to bring your own rackets if you want, but they can't stay in school as we dont have the space to keep them.
- Fridays are cricket days, so please make sure you've got your P.E. kit in school.
- The Bypass run is coming up, so if you'd like to take part, please register! If you sign up for the fun-run, I believe you'll get a medal for participating.
Miss R
Maths homework problems, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 20th Jun 2019 @ 9:16am
Hello Giraffes! I've uploaded a pdf with a load of Maths problems on them - you can do however many you like, but I would like you to try at least 2. But here's the thing, the answers to these problems were in a separate document, which has gone missing! So you need to be very, very sure of your answer, because you are going to have to convince others that you've got the right answer when we discuss this on Wednesday.
Pop the number of the problem that you do in your maths book, any working out should go there and also a short explanation about how you know you've got the correct answer. Have fun and don't forget to test your adults and see if they can manage these tricky problems!
Miss R