Year 7: The Penguins: Blog items
Parents Safer Internet, by Mr Pearson
Date: 24th Jan 2017 @ 8:52pm
Click here for the PowerPoint for the Parents Safer Intenet
Well done Bongos, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 22nd Jan 2017 @ 12:41pm
The Bongos have had an amazing week, excellent behaviour, super work and lots of fun.
Happy New Year, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 15th Jan 2017 @ 3:23pm
Happy New Year. I hope you all had a lovely family time over the Christmas break. Thank you very much for all of the lovely cards and presents.
The first week back has been very busy and the children have all worked fantastically hard. The highlight of the week was achieving the last two class compliments. This meant that we spent a lovely afternoon on Friday watching the Lego Movie in onesies.
Party Time, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 21st Dec 2016 @ 1:45pm
The Bongos had an amazing time at their Christmas party.
They enjoyed the visit from Santa who has brought them some lovely snuggle cushions and blankets to use for our in class relax times.
Christmas Dinner, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 13th Dec 2016 @ 8:06pm
The Bongos enjoyed a very tasty Christmas dinner today.
Brilliant Bongos, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 8th Dec 2016 @ 7:57pm
Well done Bongos, you have been amazing this week. You have put on a brilliant Christmas show with the Giraffes. You had so many songs to learn and you've done it without moaning . The performances this week have been FANTASTIC !
Well done, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 8th Dec 2016 @ 7:55pm
Wow what a show!
Giraffes and Bongos I am so proud of you all. You have worked hard and put on a truly amazing Christmas show.
Have a good sleep and we will see you all in the morning
Christmas Play, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 7th Dec 2016 @ 8:24pm
WOW. I am so proud of all the giraffes and bongos tonight, what a brilliant performance you all gave. Great singing and fantastic acting. If you came tonight I hope you enjoyed it, if you are coming tomorrow you are in for a great night.
Mrs Catterall
It's nearly showtime!, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 4th Dec 2016 @ 5:28pm
The Bongos have been working incredibly hard this week to polish their singing for the shows next week. It is the final rehearsal on Monday and the dress rehearsal is on Tuesday afternoon.
We had a visitor this week from Brtherton C of E school who was very impressed with the attitude and behaviour of the class. Well done everyone.
Christmas Songs, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 20th Nov 2016 @ 6:58pm
Music to sing a long to.
Have a go at learning our Christmas show songs at home
The Bongos Busy week, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 20th Nov 2016 @ 6:49pm
The Bongos have had a very busy week.
They have done some amazing work in maths learning how to use arrays to do multiplication calculations. They have created some wonderful city scales where the buildings have arrays for windows.
In writing this week the class have written fantastic traditional stories building on the work we have done on Hansel and Gretel and Baba Yaga.
Thank you to everyone for coming to parents evening it was great to share with you how well your little Bongos are doing.
Remembrance Day, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 11th Nov 2016 @ 1:32pm
The day started learning about the history of Remembrance Day. The children then made some amazing posters using Remembrance themed vocabulary to show their understanding of the day . After play we went into the hall where Mr Turner from the Royal British Legion spoke to the school about life as a young boy in Bamber Bridge during the Second World War. He also spoke about the history of the poppy.
back in class the children used their senses to describe peace. This afternoon they are busy designing medals and choosing who and why to give them to.
Magical spelling, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 8th Nov 2016 @ 11:15pm
We have spent a lot of time looking at spellings and listening to sounds so today we decided to feel spellings.This probably sounds very strange but we really did feel words today.
We did this by imagining that we were Harry Potter or Hermione Granger and that our rulers were magic wands that could write words in the air in beautiful joined up cursive writing. Great fun was had by all writing words from our spelling lists in the air.
Bongos Homework, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 27th Oct 2016 @ 5:11pm
The Bongos wil be bringing their red holiday passports home tomorrow (Friday) to be added to over the break. Five children didn't return their passports at the end of the summer holidays so please can they remember to hand them in when we come back in November.
Also projects are due in on Monday 14th November. Details are on the bottom of page 2 of the curriculum outline which was sent home in September and which can be found on our blog.
Saturday gardening day, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 22nd Oct 2016 @ 3:15pm
Thank you to all parents, children and staff who came along today, it was very much appreciated.We have cleared leaves, stained sheds and benches, cleared brambles, made a mud kitchen, filled two trailers with rubbish and generally had a really fun time. I think!
Take a look at what we have achieved when we all worked together.
Brilliant Bongos, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 20th Oct 2016 @ 5:48pm
We would just like to share with you how brilliant the Bongos are being. They are truly shining at the moment showing fantastic attitudes towards their learning, taking on challenges and really displaying growth mindsets.
They have been receiving compliments for their behaviour for learning from other members of staff who have been visiting our classroom.
Well done everyone, we are very proud of you.
Thank you to the parents and grandparents who joined us yesterday for our GPS session. I hope you enjoyed it, especially the Kung Fu punctuation!
Have a great weekend everybody and don't forget the meetings next week about the SATs.
GPS Afternoon with Parents!, by Mr Coxhead
Date: 19th Oct 2016 @ 11:25pm
Our children thoroughly enjoyed welcoming parents to class to work on some grammar, punctuation and spelling (GPS) activities.
The afternoon began with a talk in the hall about why GPS is so important and how we're striving for excellence in GPS at Longton.
Sheldon The Snail, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 14th Oct 2016 @ 1:39pm
This week we have been looking after Sheldon the school snail. Sheldon is a Giant African Land Snail.
We have found out they this type of snail originated in East Africa, they can grow to 20cm in length they eat over 500 types of plants in the wild and in lots of countries they are considered to be pests.
In Britain they are pets. Sheldon lives in a tank with a heater and a lamp. He has special soil and he loves to eat cucumber.
Earlier in the week some of the class held Sheldon and they have enjoyed looking to see where he is every morning. We have found him buried in his soil and in various places at the top of the tank.
Today we have had snail day. We have turned Sheldon into a super snail with super powers and written some amazing stories.
This afternoon we have been using our measuring skills to make lots of snails of different sizes. Our last challenge will be to make a tangram Sheldon.
We will miss Sheldon next week when he moves to Year 3.
Orienteering, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 6th Oct 2016 @ 9:34am
I have been very lucky seeing the Bongos in action today doing their orienteering.They have impressed me with their teamwork and map reading skills
Bongos Library, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 28th Sep 2016 @ 7:41pm
The Bongos Library will be open after school on Friday.
Tremendous Tuesday, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 27th Sep 2016 @ 1:55pm
Tuesday has been tremendous !
The Bongos had a great guided reading session this morning where they all worked hard learning how to answer comprehension questions. Spelling was great fun as the class worked with their spelling partners to write lists of homophones.
Maths was a very busy lesson with a number bonds to 20 challenge as the warm up. There were then lots of different activities going on in the room. some children did number bonds to 20 on building blocks, some worked with a partner to make a beanstalk with leaves added in pairs to make 50 and some were set the challenge of finding tricky pairs such as 65+35 to make 100. This group then worked with me to do partitioning leading on to partitioning to add 2 digit numbers.
This afternoon we have had another look at the landscapes of Jean Metzinger and created our own mosaic landscapes. Using squares was much easier then the hexagons we tried last week.
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.
Writing Fun, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 23rd Sep 2016 @ 4:02pm
This week we have been having great fun learning the first part of the story A Lion in the Meadow off by heart. We have used talk for writing to help us. There have bneen pictures and actions which have made it all very funny. Today the children have been having a go at using their story voices to write their very own animal stories. We have had all sorts of great ideas such as A Cow int the Bath, An Elephant in The Fridge and A Snake in the Cupboard.
There was lots of enthusiasm in the room for the writing task today.
Well done everybody .
As I said on yesterdays blog the handout from last nights meet the teacher session has been put in the book bags for those of you unable to attend. It is also attched to yesterday blog along with some of the slides that were shown.
Have a great week end. See you all on Monday .
Meet The Teacher, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 22nd Sep 2016 @ 7:55pm
Thank you for coming to the meeting tonight it was good to meet you all properly. For those of you unable to attend I will put the handout in book bags tomorrow as well as on our class page. I will also attach the powerpoint.