Year 6: The Meerkats: Blog items

Pets at Home, by Miss Adamson

Date: 7th Oct 2016 @ 8:15pm

On Thursday Ben and Mel from Pets at Home in Preston kindly brought some animals to class for us to meet! We learned lots about caring for pets!

Mark Rothko, by Miss Adamson

Date: 7th Oct 2016 @ 8:03pm

On Tuesday we tried mixing primary colours to create our own Mark Rothko style Colour Field paintings.

Sheldon the Snail, by Miss Adamson

Date: 4th Oct 2016 @ 6:32pm

Some more brave Penguins decided that they'd like to hold Sheldon today! We also thought of our own questions we'd like to research about snails and practised using question marks.

Class Pet, by Miss Adamson

Date: 3rd Oct 2016 @ 12:45pm

This week the Penguins are looking after our class pet. He is called Sheldon the Snail. We are also learning about snails. Some brave children even held Sheldon!

Addition Sentences, by Miss Adamson

Date: 2nd Oct 2016 @ 11:45am

This week the Penguins are learning about addition sentences. Here is a fun game that the children could play at home to help them to practise. 

Addition sentences within ten.

Happy playing!

Piet Mondrian, by Miss Adamson

Date: 28th Sep 2016 @ 2:04pm

Take a look at our wonderful Piet Mondrian collages.

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.

Story maps of Lost and Found, by Miss Adamson

Date: 24th Sep 2016 @ 8:45pm

We worked in groups to draw maps to retell the story of Lost and Found by OliverJeffers. Afterwards we orally retold the story. This will help us with our writing next week!

Numicon in action, by Miss Adamson

Date: 24th Sep 2016 @ 8:38pm

This week we have been  working on our number recognition skills. We have played matching games with the Numicon equipment. I was so impressed by how well the Penguins take turns and work with others.

Fixing my writing, by Miss Adamson

Date: 16th Sep 2016 @ 6:32pm

On Tuesday the Penguins kindly fixed some of the sentences that I had made some mistakes with that morning! Thank goodness they can write super sentences!

Sorting, by Miss Adamson

Date: 16th Sep 2016 @ 6:29pm

We have been doings  little bit of sorting in maths. In the end we came up with never evening possibilities for how the animals could be sorted. Some of my favourites were whether they live on land or sea, hot or colds places and farm or Africa. 

Animals in hot and cold places, by Miss Adamson

Date: 16th Sep 2016 @ 6:25pm

On Monday we discussed what animals we thought lived in hot and cold places. We did some cutting and sticking to sort them out! 

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. 

JuJitsu Taster Session, by Miss Adamson

Date: 9th Sep 2016 @ 5:29pm

The Penguins really impressed the Sensai in their Jujitsu taster session! We had lots of fun and learned some tricky moves! 

First week in year one, by Miss Adamson

Date: 9th Sep 2016 @ 5:24pm

The Penguins have done so well in their first week of year one. They have learned lots of new routines and met big year one expectations! I hope they feel really proud of themselves and have a lovely weekend!

Last day of year one, by Miss Adamson

Date: 28th Jul 2016 @ 9:11am

We had a lovely last day yesterday. Thank you for bringing your teddies! I think that the children had a fun day and I certainly did! Here are some of the pictures.

Outstanding Attendance Certificates, by Miss Adamson

Date: 26th Jul 2016 @ 9:04pm

Congratulations to all the children who received a certificate for super attendance! Well done to all the children who didn't get certificates as they have also been dedicated to getting to school and working hard when they get there!

Takeover day, by Miss Adamson

Date: 26th Jul 2016 @ 8:32am

We had so much fun when Maisy, Erin, Matthew and Jack taught us last week! We learned about measuring with rulers, phonics, writing instructions, guided reading Andy he five senses in science. What a brilliant day! Well done to our super teachers. 

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.

Longton's Got Talent, by Miss Adamson

Date: 25th Jul 2016 @ 8:32am

We loved watching Longton's Got Talent on Friday afternoon. Well done to all the Bongos who took part, especially Jasper who came first! Wow wee! 

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

 

The Litter Muncher, by Miss Adamson

Date: 16th Jul 2016 @ 11:35am

Thank you for coming to our class assembly. It took lots of practising and confidence. The children really impressed me with their performance and effort! 

Afternoon Tea, by Miss Adamson

Date: 16th Jul 2016 @ 11:32am

We had a short break from robot building to join in with afternoon tea. Everyone looked brilliant in their fancy dress and it was lots of fun to have our lunch together in the hall with the teachers!

Lego Robotics with Junior STEM, by Miss Adamson

Date: 15th Jul 2016 @ 5:34pm

We had a fantastic day with Mr Hawkins from Junior STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). The children all worked incredibly hard to make a lion robot that moves! Mr Hawkins was so impressed with the children as they did very complicated programming that he usually owner teaches to KS2 children! Well done!

Er and est endings, by Miss Adamson

Date: 9th Jul 2016 @ 12:17pm

We have been writing sentences that include adjectives with er and est endings.

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