Year 7: The Penguins: Blog items
Playscript writing, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 24th Apr 2018 @ 12:04pm
We have had a brilliant morning working together to create a play script for a video called "Dum Spiro".
Mondays assembly blog, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 23rd Apr 2018 @ 8:09pm
Blog written by our year 6 PSHE leaders
Today's assembly was about what does loneliness feel like? Loneliness may be when you are homeless , alone and left out. The U.K., sadly, has loneliness problems. Many people assume that it is just elderly people who are lonely, but 1 in 20 Young people have actually said they are lonely, they are the heart of the problem. Some of the cause of being lonely are if you are starting a new school or if you are just naturally shy. We looked at some pictures with groups of children in them, we had to think, which child was feeling lonely, on one, one of the people were on there own, so we knew that that child was lonely. We then looked at a letter in which a mum had wrote about her daughter because she was shy, had no brother or sisters and the mum was asking for advice. Once we had read the letter we thought of ways we would include the little girl. We had lots of ideas like: invite her to parties, ask her to play a game with you in the playground and make the effort. We got set a challenge to look out for people who were a bit lonely in the playground and see if they would like to play a game with you. We also need to remember that sometimes people aren't lonely, they might just want some alone time.
Play practice, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 20th Apr 2018 @ 7:11am
I'm so excited. Over the last two days the children have been working in small groups to rehearse a play. They have chosen their groups and play script, annotated their text for their part, practised their lines and put together some actions. I have been extremely impressed with them all, many have sourced their own props and costumes.
Today I will get to watch their performances, I know they are going to be amazing.
Thursday assembly blog, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 20th Apr 2018 @ 7:07am
In assembly today we started off thinking about the word devotion and what are we devoted to. We shared our thoughts about how we know someone I'd devoted to a football team or a pop band. We listened to a story from India. This story happened 300 years ago! In our reflection we thought about some famous words one of the gurus in our story said. We also thought about how we can be brave and little things we would do that we were, in the past, afraid to do.
Beatrix Potter - art, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 17th Apr 2018 @ 9:00pm
This week we have begun to explore creating a watercolour style paint and begun to develop skills in using different grades of pencils to develop our sketching and shading techniques.
Eve was our photographer today, well done
Tuesday Assembly Blog, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 17th Apr 2018 @ 8:53pm
Written by our Year 6 PSHE leaders
Today in our jigsaw assembly we learnt about friendships and relationships. Our title in jigsaw this half term is about friendships. We were talking about how baking a chocolate cake is like making a new friend. We put in our suggestions about the ingredients of a friendship, we had: loyalty, kindness, fun, and a friend that is always our friend. We had some time to think about if we had been kind to our friends today. We always have to remember to listen to our friends, to share with our friends, be kind to our friends and of course have fun with our friends!
Monday Assembly Blog, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 17th Apr 2018 @ 8:50pm
Written by our year 6 PSHE leaders
Today's assembly was about, how much of our lives should we share with others? In the news this week it said about how lots of people's private information was leaked all over Facebook. We learnt about how things in the past have now changed, like how in the past we would go to the travel agents if we wanted to go on holiday, but now we can go onto the internet and book there instead. We have also been thinking about how you would act in different situations like how you would act when arguing with your brother or sister. Facebook is now thinking about a messenger app for kids, as lots of adults use it. Parents will be able to look at what their child has been doing on this app. It will allow children to communicate even if they do not have a phone number. Our reflection today was about the rules of law and we had a lot of questions.
Picture News - British Values - w/c 16th April, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 16th Apr 2018 @ 8:05am
Please find attached a copy of the picture news resource we will be discussing in assembly this week.
Take some time to chat about it at home.
The Week Ahead - 16th April, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 16th Apr 2018 @ 8:03am
Good Morning.
The 2nd week back already, not looking too great outside this morning but apparently we are in for a heat wave later in the week - fingers crossed.
This week we will be learning about -
English - Playscripts, reading and performing them.
Maths - Each Monday we will be going over the 4 operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division)
Throughout the rest of the week we will be focusing on data in tables, graphs and pictograms.
P.E. swimming has now finished. Our PE lessons will be outside, so could happen on any day, we will go with the weather. Please ensure your child has their kit in school every day.
Jigsaw - Our new unit of work is all about Relationships
Our topic work. This term it will take on a slightly different format, the children will have a series of tasks /projects to complete. It will involve History (Romans), Geography (The Lake District), DT (designing and maing their own hydroplane) Art (drawing and watercolours - Beatrix Potter) and Science (plants).
All this and more can be found on the curriculum overviews on our main class page.
Holiday passports , by Mrs Catterall
Date: 15th Apr 2018 @ 1:15pm
Thank you for all the holiday passports that have been returned so far. I have really enjoyed reading all about your holiday adventures.
Mondays excerise challenges, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 14th Apr 2018 @ 5:01pm
Here are a few photos from our jigsaw work. We had a go at several exercise challenges, timing how many we could do in 1 minute or how far we could jump etc. We worked hard to practise and see if we could improve our scores.
Picture News , by Mrs Catterall
Date: 13th Apr 2018 @ 11:07pm
Dear parents
Picture News is a resource we use in our assemblies to share and dicusss with the children.
This week our assembly was titled, 'Who does the World belong to?' This also linked with our assembly about 'Earth Day'.
A Picture News - home resources is attached to this blog. Please look out for a parent mail giving you more infomation and look back at the blog each week to find out more about the news topics we will be exploring in school.
Mrs Catterall
The SUMMER term, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 13th Apr 2018 @ 10:57pm
Welcome back to our final term of Year 3. I hope you all had a relaxing and enjoyable Easter holidays, I'm looking forward to reading all about them in your holiday apssports this weekend.
We have had a lovely week back in class, writing newspaper reports on Jack and the Beanstalk and a description of a robot, addition, subtraction multiplication and division in Maths, suffixes in spelling and reading an extract from Stig of the Dump and ordering biography information about its author Clive King. In the afternoons we have been completing our Jigsaw unit on being healthy, lots of sports activities on Monday, discussions about medicines and smoking as well as keeping safe in our homes.
I have uploaded our curriculum overview and Summer term letter to the main class page. They can also be found on the parent notice board in the classroom window.
Trip information was sent out via parent mail this week and letters were also put in homework bags.
Mrs Catterall
Science Week, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 29th Mar 2018 @ 9:45pm
Our Science week was full of exploration. Our theme was rocks. Here are a few photos to show what we got up to.
Maths - shape activities, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 29th Mar 2018 @ 9:43pm
Vote, pupil,voice, issues which are important to us., by Mrs Catterall
Date: 29th Mar 2018 @ 9:41pm
In class we have been discussing issues in the news. As part of this work the children had to create a poster to campaign for an issue that was important to them, something they would like to see change. The children had some amazing ideas, I am very proud of their commitment to understand some big issues in the world and care about how these will effect them in the future.
Our Stone Age presentations., by Mrs Catterall
Date: 29th Mar 2018 @ 9:33pm
We have thoroughly enjoyed our Stone Age topic this half term. The children worked in groups to research an aspect of Stone Age life and then presented it to the rest of the class.
We had making of Stone Age clothes, a Stonehenge PowerPoint, Stone Age recipe books, some painting of Stone Age animals, a model of a camp etc.
Rock cake baking, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 29th Mar 2018 @ 9:29pm
Our Spring term baking was linked to our Stone Age topic. We made rock cakes, we adapted the recipe to add red jam to make it more Stone Age. I'm sure you can imagine what it represented! There was plenty to go around and we enjoyed a great rock cake feast.
Musical moment , by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 21st Mar 2018 @ 10:43am
This morning Year 3 and Year 4 performed a concert for their parents and grandparents. We had flutes, recorders, glocks and voices. It was a fantastic occasion. Thank you to Mrs Bolton and Mrs Gray for all of their hard work with the children.
Anderton Centre - Trip, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 12th Mar 2018 @ 7:17pm
We have had an amazing day today. The children have been a credit to themselves, well-behaved, asked great questions and had lots of fun despite the wet start to the day.
Thank you to Mr Scanlan, Mrs Bradley, Mr Kennedy, Miss Gardner and Mrs Gray for all their help today.
Here are just a few of the many photos.
The Week Ahead - 12th March, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 11th Mar 2018 @ 8:00pm
We have an exciting week ahead as always.
On Monday we will be going to the Anderton centre for a Stone Age experience day.
English - this week we will be building upon our trip experiences to write instructions for how to build a fire and a shelter and write a survival guide to the Stone Aage,
Maths - Shape
Music - Preparation for our Music concert on Wednesday 21st March 9am.
P.E. - Swimming
PSHE/Jigsaw - Healthy me - focus on drugs. What are they? Do they all look the same? How can we stay safe around them?
R,E.- We will be practising for our Easter Service.
Last weeks photos, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 11th Mar 2018 @ 7:44pm
Last Week's photos will be appearing soon.
I left my ipad at school! Mrs Catterall
Here we are - Mother's Day Lunch and English posters on hunting and farming in the Stone Age
Happy Mothers Day, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 7th Mar 2018 @ 6:31pm
Happy Mothers Day to all the lovely ladies of Longton.
Curriculum Overview Spring 2, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 4th Mar 2018 @ 12:45pm
The curriculum overviews for this half term are in the Files to Download section of our class page.
World Book Day - winter Olympic themed, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 3rd Mar 2018 @ 4:32pm
We had some great costumes in the Bongo tribe. Well done everyone. During the day we shared books with each other and members of our families. We read the story of Snowman Paul and the Winter Olympics. We developed our co-ordinate understanding through creation of figures in Winter Olympic sporting poses.
In the afternoon we had to imagine Longton Primary School were taking part in the Bobsleigh event. We designed a Longton Primary School Bobsleigh as well as the outfit the competeters would wear. In groups we wrote about the preparations for the race, how it felt to be stood at the top waiting to take part as well as, once the race was over, waiting for the results.
