Year 5: The Koalas: Blog items
Internet Safety, by Mr Pearson
Date: 5th May 2020 @ 4:31pm
Internet safety during lockdown is extremely important.
Here are a couple of things to do and watch to remind ourselves what is safe and right to do online.
Information and a short video from the National Crime Agency to share with your child.
A short film on YouTube to remind the children what to do if they come across something they are not sure about while online.
Home Learning Update, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 1st May 2020 @ 1:27pm
Last week Home Learning plans were uploaded onto each class page under the heading Blog Items.
From Monday 4th May they will be upladed undere the heading New Items. This can be found directly above the blog section on each class page .
Glossary for spelling , punctuation and grammar, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 30th Apr 2020 @ 12:36pm
You may find this glossary for spelling , punctuation and grammar useful during home learning.
This weeks super star learners, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 30th Apr 2020 @ 9:43am
Hope everyone is enjoying their learning this week and choosing some activities to do from the weekly timetable.
Have a look at what Petra, Ethan and Oliver have been up to.
Don't forget to share your learning too! 
How Preston fought back previous epidemics, by Mr Pearson
Date: 29th Apr 2020 @ 5:14pm
An interesting article in the LEP that Neil Scalan our Chair of Governors has passed across about how Preston has fought back against previous epidemics
Click here to read LEP
Mathletics back working again, by Mr Pearson
Date: 27th Apr 2020 @ 11:11am
Hello
Mathletics is back up and working.
Thanks Team at Longton
Weekly planning 27th April, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 23rd Apr 2020 @ 10:55am
Hi Koalas and Koala parents,
Hope you are all well, I have attached the plans for the week in the file manager to the left , hopefully you will be able to access all the links, if not copy and paste them.As it says at the end of plans do what you can do , anything is better than nothing.
I am available via the koala email to answer any questions ( 9-12 ) and would love to see some photos of your learning.
Missing you all
Mrs Pratten x
Reading Eggs, by Mr Pearson
Date: 20th Apr 2020 @ 11:59am
You will have received your Reading Eggs password.
You need to login into Reading Eggs not Reading Eggspress.
Enjoy
Virtual Links, by Mr Pearson
Date: 20th Apr 2020 @ 11:22am
The virtual lessons link can be found here
Home Learning updates, by Mr Pearson
Date: 31st Mar 2020 @ 11:46am
Lots of updated ideas and websites to aid home learning.
Now in a tiered sections
3. Worth trying but not essential
4. For your information - You might be interested.
Check them all at Home Learning
Kool Koalas!!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 26th Mar 2020 @ 5:18pm
Koalas you are all fantastic, just seen the video that Frankie’s dad made of some you- love it!🌟🌟🌟🌟🤪😜🙃😊 It really made my day and bought a huge smile to my face, missing you all loads, hope you are keeping safe and doing lots of learning👍🌈❤️
Daily maths lessons , by Mr Pearson
Date: 24th Mar 2020 @ 8:12am
Fantastic daily maths lesson including video, activity sheet and answers. Closely linked to what your child would have been learning in school.
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/
We as a school use White Rose maths as a scheme of learning in aiding our planning and supporting our teaching of maths.
Twinkl free password, by Mrs Brown
Date: 21st Mar 2020 @ 11:15am
Hello,
As the Coronavirus spreads, we’re aware that more schools are closing and pupils’ learning is being disrupted. Parents, carers and teachers are looking for ways to ensure the continuity of education during school closures so that no children miss out on valuable learning time.
To support you during this period, Twinkl is offering every teacher in England access to all Twinkl resources with a One Month Ultimate Membership, totally free of charge. We’re also extending this to every parent and carer in your school so your pupils can still have access to high-quality learning during any periods of disruption.
Setting this up is really easy to do - go to www.twinkl.co.uk/offer and enter the code UKTWINKLHELPS
We’d like your support to get this message out. Please let your wider school and leadership team know about this opportunity so that you can all share it with your school community.
Please also share this code with parents and share the link above on your website so parents know where to activate their code.
We’ve also put together some helpful guidance to outline a few ideas for how you can support parents and carers during school closures, ensure high quality learning continues and support teachers, parents and carers to make the most from this offer of help.
If you are an existing Twinkl subscriber on Core or Extra you will be able to use this code to upgrade your current membership using the same link as above.
It’s easy to arrange access yourself through our website. If you do have any questions please get in touch with our TwinklCares team. As we are supporting people globally please bear in mind that we are receiving a large number of enquiries so please only get in touch if your enquiry is of an urgent nature at twinklcares@twinkl.co.uk
You can also visit our website - www.twinkl.co.uk
Our thoughts are with everyone affected by the Coronavirus outbreak and we hope that this will go some way towards helping.
Home learning, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 20th Mar 2020 @ 12:23pm
Just to help a bit more with some active maths warm ups google
Jack Hartman ,and then eg counting in hundreds, months of the years,counting in 2’s etc
There are lots and the children love them and he gets them moving! ( and you too!!!)
Another one they like for songs is ,Sratch garden there are some for counting in 2 5 and 10,
Good luck ,just keep them learning!😁
Home Learning whilst closed, by Mrs Brown
Date: 18th Mar 2020 @ 10:50pm
Following the Government’s announcement, we are currently closed. Please engage with the home learning which has been set up for your child. You can obviously be creative and add to these. We would love to see what you get up to. If you email the odd photo of what you are up to we will try our best to add to the website - bursar@longton.lancs.sch.uk.
For home learning go to the curriculum tab on our website, go to the bottom and you will find the home learning link. Depending on how long we are closed will depend on how much will be added. We hope you all stay happy and healthy and enjoy time with your families and loved ones.
St Oswald visit, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 16th Mar 2020 @ 3:23pm
As part of our RE work we had a walk down to St Oswalds Catholic Church and met Father Michael. He told us all about the lovely church, how old it was, the stained glass windows, the different statues and lots more.It was very interesting and we learnt a lot .
World book day , by Mrs Pratten
Date: 6th Mar 2020 @ 12:40pm
The Koalas have had a great time today .They bought in their favourite books to share with their friends and then with their Y6 buddies. We then looked at non fiction books and then they worked in small groups to produce their own fact book all about animals. They all looked amazing and have had a great world book day.
World Book Day 2020 science and space, by Mrs Masterson
Date: 6th Mar 2020 @ 11:21am
This world book day most people came in and science or space themed outfits to fit with our whole school year theme of moon landings. We loved the fact that most people went with the principle of it is the thought that counts not the cost of the outfits - very eco! Luckily, our school is very creative and we have seen some amazing ideas for the theme. Today we have also included another whole school write,starting in year six all the way to reception and seeing what wonderful story writing can be comprehended into it! At the end of the day we will have a big assembly and read through the excellent work we have created.
by Eddie and Emily J
Magnificent Myerscough, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 2nd Mar 2020 @ 5:30pm
We had a great day of learning at Plant world today. We explored the grounds looking for different trees and Spring flowers. Found out that plants need different conditions to grow like cactus, looked in the tropical and temperate houses and saw terrapins (we found a frog outside too!) Stroked rabbits,guinea pigs, hens and even saw a tarantula! Smelt herbs and lovely leaves ,planted a sunflower seed and sat on a tractor. no wonder we were tired on the way back!
An amazing day!
Doubling and plants!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 28th Feb 2020 @ 6:24pm
A great week back for the Koalas, starting to learn about plants ( don’t forget our trip on Monday to Myerscough, wrap up warm and definitely wear wellies!!) doubling and enjoying the story of Jack and the beanstalk. Lots of great language used to describe the giant - Well done Koalas!
A busy week of learning!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 7th Feb 2020 @ 3:56pm
This week we have carried on with our story , No Way Home, we are really enjoying it and doing some fantastic writing , we are all impressing Mrs Pratten👍🌟😆
In Maths we have been learning about weighing,comparing weights and using scales and cubes to measure.
We have been artists too, finding out all about primary colours. We created pictures in the style of Piet Mondrian using torn paper.This afternoon we have used primary colour paints to mix all the other colours.A tricky challenge but we were awesome at it and were very proud of our finished pictures
Class compliment treat, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 3rd Feb 2020 @ 3:49pm
The Koalas had a great afternoon watching their film and munching on popcorn and cookies - a very well deserved treat!
We do have some mix ups with school iniform so please could you check you have the correct T-shirt, jumper etc- thank you!!
This weeks learning, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 30th Jan 2020 @ 5:02pm
This week the Koalas have been building on their understanding of place value using bundles of straws to help.Lots of partner work, making numbers and counting to work them out.
We have also carried on with our animal topic learning all about fish, having to to sorting different animals to find the fish, Mrs Pratten tried to trick us but we were too smart!
We had fun today with our football skills, kicking, dribbling and trapping different sized balls and kicking though a target.
We have really enjoyed looking at all the fantastic projects , lovely to see how proud the children are and they are amazing so a big thank you for all your support.
Dint forget our treat afternoon tomorrow 🙂👍😜🌟🙃😁😆
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.
Foody fractions, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 17th Jan 2020 @ 3:51pm
Today we enjoyed a foody fractions session. We chopped up cakes into halves and quarters and saw how the pieces became smaller as we chopped it up, especially into thirtieths! We got into groups of 4 to divide a whole kitkat into halves and then quarters, of course the best part was eating the kitkat👍🙃😜🙂
