Year 7: The Penguins: Blog items
Science investigators , by Mr Pearson
Date: 22nd Sep 2016 @ 2:03pm
Today we have been investigating different materials around school and what we use them for.
Week 2 for Year 2, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 16th Sep 2016 @ 4:47pm
This week has really flown by. It has been busy as usual and the children have all worked exceptionally hard. We have been doing a few check ups in reading, writing, maths and grammar, punctuation and spelling so that we can make our start of year assessments.
Next wek will be a normal week and we will continue to have fun, learn and be fantastic.
Have a great weekend and I look forward to seeing you at meet the teacher on Thursday. Please don't worry if you cant' make it to the meeting I will make sure you get the information pack in your child's book bag.
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.
Welcome Back, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 8th Sep 2016 @ 10:43am
Welcome back to school and to Year 2. It is great to be back in school and get to know the children , they have all settled into the routines of the class really quickly. It has been a busy start to the new year and the children have all worked hard throughout the week.
As the meet the teacher meeting isn"t until September 22nd here is some info to get you going:
Mr Pearson will be teaching the class on Thursdays
Reading books will be changed on Tuesdays- please hear your child read at least 4 times during the week and make comments in their blue reading record.
PE is on Wednesday afternoon with myself and on Thursday afternoon with Mr Pearson.
As I am not in class on Thursdays I will be sending homework home on Wednesday to be returned by the following Tuesday or sooner if it is completed. Homework will be sent next week along with an overview of the curriculum for this term.
The Wonderful Giraffes, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 27th Jul 2016 @ 9:40pm
Well that's it! The year has come to an end. It really has flown by.
This has been an amazing year in the life of the Giraffe tribe. Every child has grown in confidence, worked hard and by believing that they can ,can ,can has shone brightly. I am proud of each and every one of them, they have truly made it very easy to get up and come into school every day.
Thank you to all of the parents and grand parents for your support throughout the year. We have made a great team !
Finally I would just like to wish you all a wonderful summer and to say thank you very much for all of your kind words and the very generous gifts . A fantastic end to a fantastic year with fantastic children.
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.
Talent Show, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 24th Jul 2016 @ 1:03pm
We all enjoyed watching the talent show on Friday afternoon. The girls did an amazing job with their singing, dancing and gymnastics and Bronwen read her Michael Rosen poem brilliantly. Bronwen was voted second by the who,e school. Well done Bronwen.
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
Takeover Day, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 18th Jul 2016 @ 9:40am
Today is the annual Takeover Day at Longton Primary School.
This morning the Giraffes have 5 new teachers from Year 6 Mr Green, Mr Lok, Miss John, Miss Coulthard and Miss Jusypiw. The first lesson was maths where the children used their knowledge of symmetry to create beautiful symmetrical pictures. Just before playtime the class did their mile run.
After play it was time for writing. The children were set the challenge of using adverbs to describe settings and characters. Next followed spelling where great fun was had trying to solve a very tricky word search containing le and el words.
Fllowing dinner time came art where the task was to design your own holiday home.
Thank you for a great day 😀
Eco Team at the Brickcroft, by Mr Monckton
Date: 9th Jul 2016 @ 10:30am
The Eco team have had a lovely afternoon pond dipping at the Brickcroft. We found lots of interesting water animals from tadpoles to water snails. The children really enjoyed themselves and really helped Longton shine this afternoon. We must thank Sue from the Brickcroft and Gill Garside our Eco governor for their support.
Well done Giraffes, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 8th Jul 2016 @ 3:59pm
Well done to all of the children for becoming Tribe of The Year, a fitting reward for all of your hard work, determination and excellent behaviour throughout the year. Mrs Woolley and I are very proud of you all.
The mile run has been going extremely well this week and we have some outstanding distance runners amongst the boys.
Today the class have enjoyed learning about light and shadows and they had great fun this afternoon making shadow puppets. Next week they will work in groups to write plays for their puppets and have the opportunity to perform them to each other.
It has been another FANTASTIC WEEK 😀
Scratch Jnr, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 4th Jul 2016 @ 8:07pm
This afternoon the Giraffes worked with the Year 5 children to develop their Scratch Jnr skills. Scratch Jnr is a programming app on the iPads which the children learnt to use last year. The Year 5 children did a fantastic job teaching the class how to make their characters speak, add more characters and to make characters disappear.
Next week the Year 5 children are going to set the class some challenges to complete.
Scratch Jnr is free to download on iPads from the App Store .
Oh I Do like to be beside the seaside, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 1st Jul 2016 @ 11:36am
Today the Giraffes have spent the day at the virtual seaside. The day started learning about seaside holidays in the past they were very interested to learn about bathing machines and the fact that you were charged a penny to sit on a bench on the beach. The next challenge was to design an amazing sandcastle. Later on the children will be writing sea side themed poems and learning a seaside song in music.
Scientists in the Year 3000, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 24th Jun 2016 @ 1:59pm
In our science lessons this week the children have been showing off their scientific knowledge.
We moved forward in time to the Year 3000 and become scientists with the skills and knowledge to create new species of animals. A team of scientists had already created brand new planets for the animals to live on so the hardest part of the task was making sure that our new animals had the correct body features to survive. The results were great, brand new animals with brilliant mixes of body parts. A real showcase of our scientific knowledge !
LEP Education Award 2016, by Mr Pearson
Date: 24th Jun 2016 @ 11:19am
Yesterday, staff and pupils of Longton Primary attend the LEP Education Awards for Lancashire at the Charter Theatre, we are extremely pleased to announce that Longton Primary won the Health and Welling Award for recognition of our work on emotional health and mindset within school.
Our excellent Head Teacher Mrs Brown was highly recommend in the Head Teacher award category up against a strong field of both Primary and Secondary Heads.
Finally, the school was highly recommended in the Primary School of the Year category for the amazing experiences, high standards and dedicated staff.
From the extremely proud team at Longton.
Subject showcase, by Mr Pearson
Date: 20th Jun 2016 @ 9:09pm
A range of photographs from the schools fabulous subject showcase held last week that was opened by the school choir.
Giraffes at the zoo, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 20th Jun 2016 @ 8:25pm
On arrival at Chester Zoo it was raining quite heavily but it didn't dampen the excitement. Our first stop was the elephant enclosure where we enjoyed looking at the animals, especially the 10 month old baby. Whilst looking at the animals we listened to the keeper who told us that elephants have 40000 muscles in their trunks!
We also enjoyed seeing our namesakes the beautifully graceful giraffes. Our journey around the zoo let us see many wonderful animals. It really has been a great day out 😀
Brilliant dance from the heart roadshow, by Mrs Moxham
Date: 15th Jun 2016 @ 2:53pm
The whole school joined the sports development team today for a dance for Rio 2016.
What fun.
We had a visit from some extreme sportsmen on stunt and box bikes. They were awesome.
What a wonderful week, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 27th May 2016 @ 4:00pm
The Giraffes have had a wonderful week. Every child has enjoyed the activities they have been doing and they have all used their growth mindset to be the best that they can be.
I hope you all have a fantastic holiday. You have all been superstars!
See you all in two weeks time.
Arts Week update, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 26th May 2016 @ 6:40pm
Thursday started with a visit from Sam Art. The children created sports people using card and wool.After play when MrsAinsworth took over they had a visit from Dominic, a story teller. This afternoon they learnt about basic first aid. I am looking forward to hearing about the story teller and the first aid when I am back in class tomorrow.
Mid week update, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 25th May 2016 @ 7:41pm
Today has flown by. Our first activity was an assembly where we went through the dance we will be doing after half term with the rest of the school. Back in class we learnt lots of facts about Brazil. We found it very interesting that the country was named after the brazilwood tree and that half of Brazil is actually a jungle!
Our main activity today was to work in the style of the Brazillian artist Romero Britto . His work is pop art and is very bright and bold. We experimented in our art books and then created our designs in paper. Now we are using collage to recreate the bright colours. Mrs Parker came and helped us start our collage work, it was great to have her in class.
This afternoon we worked with Sandye and made wonderful wool people and went into reception to see some ducklings and pheasant chicks, they were very cute.
Sports For Schools Event , by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 24th May 2016 @ 2:17pm
This morning we welcomed Tony our sportivator and GB diver James Denny into school. The first part of the morning was spent with each class completing their circuit challenge. It was an amazing sight seeing every child exercising with a huge smile. The atmosphere in the hall was electric! Our fantastic sports leaders helped to run the event and they did an amazing job.
Once all of the circuits were complete we had an assembly. James spoke about his journey to becoming a Team GB diver. He talked about effort and positive thinking. He also told the children lots of interesting facts about his sport. It was great to get the chance to see the silver medal he won at the 2014 Commonwealth competing with Tom Daly in the 10m synchronised event. James also demonstrated how to do a back somersault and a handstand on the edge of the stage.
It was a FANTASTIC morning at Longton Primary
Team GB Diver, by Mr Pearson
Date: 24th May 2016 @ 11:46am
Clay, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 23rd May 2016 @ 2:11pm
Today 45 children chose to work with clay. Instead of using traditional clay they had the opportunity to work with silk clay which is very soft and comes in lovely colours . They were set the task of creating three dimensional samba dancers using the clay, jewels and feathers . Everyone worked hard and produced amazing models.
Digital Art , by Mr Coxhead
Date: 23rd May 2016 @ 12:19pm
Pupils from Y1 to Y6 have produced some fantastic digital art today!
If they'd like to continue digital pixel art at home, we would recommend using:
Alternatively, you can use a free iPad app. Today, the children used Dottable.
For photo editing, we would recommend a fantastic free app called Snapseed.
