Date: 21st Mar 2020 @ 11:15am

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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.

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

Spring 2nd half term, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 1st Mar 2020 @ 6:08pm

I hope you all had a lovely half term break despite the terrible weather.

Thank you to those of you who have returned your holiday passports, please send the others in as soon as possible

This half term our main topics are geography - Volcanoes and a science unit on Rocks and fossils, our art work will be linked to these areas.

R.E. Jesus’ call to his disciples.

PSHE Jigsaw Healthy Me. Revision of healthy eating, keeping active setting a physical challenge, drugs, what might they be how do we keep safe - medicines, household products.

P.E. Our final half term swimming. We also have a tennis coach in on Monday afternoons to help us develop our tennis skills.

Homework - currently focus needs to be on learning lines and songs for the play. All children have been given their lines and a copy of the song words. The music is on the blog. As always spellings and times tables are a key focus. At the end of March I will be testing the children on column 4 of the statutory word list. I sent home their previous test so you can see which words still need practising.

A few dates for your diary.

Tuesday 3rd March - sports event 10 children - letters sent to those participating

Tuesday 3rd March - celebration assembly 2pm in church.

Friday 6th March - world book day- science / space related dressing up.

Friday 13th March - Sports Relief, more details to follow.

Year 2 and 3 performance - 6pm Tuesday 17th March and Wednesday 18th March

Wednesday 1st April - Easter shop

Thursday 2nd April - Easter Egg decorating competition. Decorate a hard boiled egg and bring into school for judging on this day.

Friday 3rd April - Easter service in church.

Any questions or queries please feel free to call in and see me.

Play - songs to learn, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 27th Feb 2020 @ 3:10pm

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Surviving the Stone Age, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 4th Feb 2020 @ 8:37pm

We have all had an amazing day today. We have attempted to light a cotton wool ball on fire using flint and steel. Some were more successful than others, one thing is for sure the Meerkats have determination, they never gave up and were determined to succeed. Time was up and it got a bit windy but they want me to bring back the equipment so they can have another go. Super proud of the positive attitude.🙂

We became hunter gathers, finding berries and nuts and recording whether they were safe to eat or not.

We built a shelter and made weapons. At the end of the day they had to try and catch a mammoth!

Lots of mud, fresh air and fun, now time for a bath and a good nights sleep.

Thanks for being amazing Meerkats.

Stone Age Day on Tuesday / tomorrow., by Mrs Catterall

Date: 3rd Feb 2020 @ 8:08pm

Despite driving home in the hailstone I'm staying positive and we are going to have a Stone Age day at school tomorrow as part or our topic work.

Please come to school wearing your own clothes. Lots of warm layers to keep you warm and things you don't mind getting a bit muddy. Hats, gloves and a coat essential. Old trainers or wellies are advised. We will be having dinner time as normal and a day of Stone Age themed activities.

Projects, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 30th Jan 2020 @ 8:45pm

Thank you for all the amazing projects. You are all very talented.

Homework - neighbourhood posters, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 30th Jan 2020 @ 8:43pm

Fantastic posters for homework, here are a few of them.

Investigating shadows, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 27th Jan 2020 @ 10:08pm

Today we explored shadows further. How do we make a shadow bigger/ smaller?

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.

Wolves in the Wall - wolf party, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 24th Jan 2020 @ 7:46pm

We have been really enjoying our book for this half term ‘Wolves in the Wall.’ Today the story took an unsuspecting turn, the wolves who had been portrayed as vicious were found eating jam and popcorn, dancing around and watching TV. We had our own Wolf party to celebrate this turn of events and create our own party food vocabulary.

Harris Museum - Stone Age Trip., by Mrs Catterall

Date: 24th Jan 2020 @ 7:34pm

On Tuesday we had a fantastic day at the Harris museum. We started off by exploring the museum, especially the open art exhibition. We had a story in the library, Mr Majeka - I told the children that when I was little this was a TVProgramme. We have watched the first episode back in class, we loved it. I’m going to get some more of the stories for the classroom.

After lunch we attended a workshop all about the Stone Age, we were archaeologists digging for bones. We found enough for a skeleton, but what animal was it. We read fact cards about different animals and decided it was an elk. In the museum we saw a skeleton of an elk which was found near Poulton le Fylde. We looked at some skulls believed to be of a Stone Age man and woman and other artefacts from the Stone Age and Bronze Age.

The children were amazing and asked lots of great questions.

Fraction Pizzas, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 17th Jan 2020 @ 7:50pm

Today we explored finding a quarter of numbers to fill our pizza with toppings.

3D shapes, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 17th Jan 2020 @ 7:44pm

We have been exploring our new resources by making and describing 3D shapes.

Shadows - what makes a good shadow?, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 13th Jan 2020 @ 10:21pm

Today we explored shadows. We were trying to discover which material would make the best shadow. We know our bodies are good at making shadows - we watched the clip from Britain’s Got Talent of the group of people who used their bodies to make shadows to tell an emotional story.

We tried different materials to make shadows using our puppet theatre, observing which made the best shadow. We explored how much light would travel through different materials. We used the data loggers to see how much light came through different materials. This helped us discover if the material was transparent, translucent or opaque.

We concluded that the best shadows were made by opaque materials as they didn’t let light pass through them.

Cricket session 1, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 13th Jan 2020 @ 10:14pm

Our first cricket session, we braved the cold and went outside to practise our hitting skills. Can you remember all the tips Mark gave you?

Spelling Phonics, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 13th Jan 2020 @ 10:12pm

As well as learning the year 3/4 spelling words we are refreshing our memory of phonics. We have been on a word hunt around the classroom to find and sort words which have the a phoneme. This can be spelt ea, ay, a_e, ai, ey, aigh, eigh. Keep a look out for them when reading.

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.

Welcome Back - Happy New Year, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 8th Jan 2020 @ 10:33am

Happy New Year to you all, I hope you all had a fabulous Christmas. The children were excitied to tell me all about what Santa brought them and I'm looking forward to reading their Holiday Passports over the weekend. If yours is still at home please bring it in as soon as possible.

Thank you again for all my lovely gifts. I bought myself a jewellery box with the voucher, thank you.

This term has lots of activities planned.

Our main theme is going to be History based 'The Stone Age to the Iron Age'.

We will also be looking at Light and Dark in Science, Dreams and Goals in Jigsaw, Islam and the prophet Muhammad (pbuh) in R.E. Swimming continues on a Thursday, we will be doing life saving skills, the children will need to bring starting next week a T.shirt and Shorts to go over their normal swimming gear. I will send more detailed information once I've spoken to Jane at swimming this week.

Projects can be connected to any of our topics or can be about your child's own interests. Projects are due to be in Wednesday 22nd January - Parents evenings are Mon 27th and Wednesday 29th.

We have 18 children attending an athletics event next Tuesday afternoon - letters will go out this week.

We have also got our school trip on Tuesday 21st January, we have booked to go to the Harris Museum in Preston for a workshop all about the Stone Age. Letters and details will be sent out later this week.

The children have returned to school ready to learn and have been shining brightly with their focus and concentration. I'll keep you posted on all our amazing work.

Mrs Catterall.

A huge THANK YOU, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 20th Dec 2019 @ 5:22pm

From myself and on behalf of Mrs Atkinson and Mr Hartnett we would all like to thank you for the lovely gifts we have received this week. We are truly thankful, it has been a pleasure to teach your amazing children this term, they bring us so much joy, enthusiasm and amazing personalities we are blessed to be able to help them care, grow and shine.

There are lots of things planned for another exciting term in 2020. We look forward to seeing you all then and hearing about your holidays.

WE WISH YOU A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR 🥳

Enjoy lots of family time, fun and laughter.

🎅🤶🎄☃️🎉🎊 🎁

Mrs Catterall x

Making Meerkats, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 20th Dec 2019 @ 5:11pm

This week we had our first go at sewing. Hanging Meerkat decorations were the aim of the activity. The Meerkats were marvellous. They got on threading their own needles, helping each other out, it was a lovely time. We will be doing some more sewing next term without pre punched holes, we have some keen seamstresses amoungst us, I can’t wait to see their creations.