Year 7: The Penguins: Blog items
Maths at home ideas, by Mr Pearson
Date: 5th May 2020 @ 1:25pm
Please find a list of fun maths activities to do at home.
Home Learning Update, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 1st May 2020 @ 1:27pm
Last week Home Learning plans were uploaded onto each class page under the heading Blog Items.
From Monday 4th May they will be upladed undere the heading New Items. This can be found directly above the blog section on each class page .
Fantastic Writing by Evie, by Mr Pearson
Date: 30th Apr 2020 @ 1:22pm
A fantastic piece of writing sent to me by Evie's Mum.
Don't forget to send me things that you have been doing to share with each other.
Take care Penguins.
Glossary for spelling , punctuation and grammar, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 30th Apr 2020 @ 12:36pm
You may find this glossary for spelling , punctuation and grammar useful during home learning.
How Preston fought back previous epidemics, by Mr Pearson
Date: 29th Apr 2020 @ 5:14pm
An interesting article in the LEP that Neil Scalan our Chair of Governors has passed across about how Preston has fought back against previous epidemics
Click here to read LEP
Penguins Boys /girls battle, by Mr Pearson
Date: 29th Apr 2020 @ 11:21am
I have set you a Battle Penguins on Times Table Rock stars.
It ends on Monday.
The girls have stormed into the lead, will they be crowned the best gender of our class?
Or will the boys take up the challenge.
I will post the results on Monday.
Mathletics back working again, by Mr Pearson
Date: 27th Apr 2020 @ 11:11am
Hello
Mathletics is back up and working.
Thanks Team at Longton
Penguins Home Learning W/B 27th April, by Mr Pearson
Date: 24th Apr 2020 @ 11:38am
Hello Penguins
Please find your recommended work for this week.
If you or your parents come across something that doesn't work please let me know.
If you don't understand anything just email penguins@longton.lancs.sch.uk
I'm in school all next week teaching the Key Workers children, however I'll keep checking.
Penguin families why not email me to tell me your news and what you are up to. Please remember I can only email to parents.
Keep safe
Mr Pearson
Eggspress, by Mr Pearson
Date: 21st Apr 2020 @ 10:56am
Hello Penguins
I have set you a comprehension activity on Eggspress for you to complete.
Log in and have a go.
Mr Pearson
Reading Eggspress, by Mr Pearson
Date: 20th Apr 2020 @ 11:52am
You will have received your Reading Eggspress password.
You need to login into Reading Eggspress not Reading eggs.
Reading Eggs is for Reception and KS1
Virtual Links, by Mr Pearson
Date: 20th Apr 2020 @ 11:22am
The virtual lessons link can be found here
Knowledge organisers Penguins, by Mr Pearson
Date: 19th Apr 2020 @ 2:27pm
Please find this terms knowledge organisers
Hello Penguins, by Mr Pearson
Date: 31st Mar 2020 @ 12:09pm
Hello all my Penguins. I hope you are keeping well during this difficult time. I am sorry I wasn't in the last two days before school closed, I was self-isolating as my wife had a high temperature. Good news is that we are all feeling better.
All the staff are working hard to make sure you have learning to complete at home and you have access to the best websites available. It isn’t the same as being in the classroom learning together, however it is extremely important that you keep learning at home as I don’t want you to forget all the fantastic things you have learnt.
Please make sure you are being on your best behaviour for your parents, I know this is all different for you at the moment: it's just the same for them. Remember learning isn’t just maths and English, be active (I’m doing Joe Wicks every morning with my daughter) be creative (I am teaching myself to draw) and most importantly be happy. This won’t be forever and I’m looking forward to seeing you all in the near future. Until then remember my advice and take care.
Home Learning updates, by Mr Pearson
Date: 31st Mar 2020 @ 11:46am
Lots of updated ideas and websites to aid home learning.
Now in a tiered sections
3. Worth trying but not essential
4. For your information - You might be interested.
Check them all at Home Learning
Daily maths lessons , by Mr Pearson
Date: 24th Mar 2020 @ 8:12am
Fantastic daily maths lesson including video, activity sheet and answers. Closely linked to what your child would have been learning in school.
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/
We as a school use White Rose maths as a scheme of learning in aiding our planning and supporting our teaching of maths.
Twinkl free password, by Mrs Brown
Date: 21st Mar 2020 @ 11:15am
Hello,
As the Coronavirus spreads, we’re aware that more schools are closing and pupils’ learning is being disrupted. Parents, carers and teachers are looking for ways to ensure the continuity of education during school closures so that no children miss out on valuable learning time.
To support you during this period, Twinkl is offering every teacher in England access to all Twinkl resources with a One Month Ultimate Membership, totally free of charge. We’re also extending this to every parent and carer in your school so your pupils can still have access to high-quality learning during any periods of disruption.
Setting this up is really easy to do - go to www.twinkl.co.uk/offer and enter the code UKTWINKLHELPS
We’d like your support to get this message out. Please let your wider school and leadership team know about this opportunity so that you can all share it with your school community.
Please also share this code with parents and share the link above on your website so parents know where to activate their code.
We’ve also put together some helpful guidance to outline a few ideas for how you can support parents and carers during school closures, ensure high quality learning continues and support teachers, parents and carers to make the most from this offer of help.
If you are an existing Twinkl subscriber on Core or Extra you will be able to use this code to upgrade your current membership using the same link as above.
It’s easy to arrange access yourself through our website. If you do have any questions please get in touch with our TwinklCares team. As we are supporting people globally please bear in mind that we are receiving a large number of enquiries so please only get in touch if your enquiry is of an urgent nature at twinklcares@twinkl.co.uk
You can also visit our website - www.twinkl.co.uk
Our thoughts are with everyone affected by the Coronavirus outbreak and we hope that this will go some way towards helping.
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.
Week ending 13 March, by Mr Pearson
Date: 13th Mar 2020 @ 1:15pm
In maths, we learnt what mixed fractions are e.g 2 ¾ and improper fractions like 9/7. We had questions like 2/3=? /6 and on Friday we had questions that had adds in them like 5/7 + 6/8 = 82/56.
In English, we wrote a bit more on our focus story The Lost Thing we wrote a bit that we could just copy for the ending. On Friday we wrote the story again however in our own words.
In French, we had a quiz on different animal games on a game called kazoot.
In music, we played a game where you say `I went to the market and I bought` and we composed our own song.
In art, marked other peoples work from last week and finished off our mosaic paintings.
We had an amazing trip to Chester on Tuesday, thank you to Mr Walker and Mr Dunbar who came with us on our trip.
Fantastic weather today for another excellent game of cricket. The Green and Yellow team won.
By Oliver and Luice 😊😊
Chester, by Mr Pearson
Date: 10th Mar 2020 @ 4:31pm
We went to the Grovensor museum in Chester today to bring to life our knowledge and understanding of Romans. We all had a fabulous day and experience. Check out the photos and videos at
http://www.longton.lancs.sch.uk/work/penguins-trip-to-chester/56494
Penguin blog March is here, by Mr Pearson
Date: 6th Mar 2020 @ 1:24pm
This week in maths, we learnt how to make fractions and did some fraction problem solving on a sheet. We also did some fraction number line problems.
In English, we did some more writing on The lost thing and worked on some similes and on Friday we did a whole school write about a scientist each class from Year 6 to Reception.
In French, we learnt how to say animal name in French.
In art, we painted our mosaic picture and learnt not to give up if your picture isn’t going as well as you would like it.
In music, we learnt lots of songs and how to play Mama Mia as one of them. The two people of this week for the badge was Martha and the case to Oliver.
In drama we finished off writing our scripts from last week and also we acted them out with our partner.
We are looking forward to out trip to Chester on Monday.
By Oliver and Lucie
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
Meeting famous author Liz Kessler, by Mr Pearson
Date: 3rd Mar 2020 @ 7:46pm
Today we had the priviliage of million copy author Liz Kessler come to school to speak to us about how she plans and writes her books. We were all given inspiration for our own writing and learnt how Liz gets her ideas for her stories, although going to Bermuda to research a book like she did, might be costly!!
She then answered a range of interesting questions from the children and went on to personally sign copies of her Emily Windsnap series of books.
Another fantastic opportunity for our fabulous children at Longton Primary.
Penguins first week back, by Mr Pearson
Date: 28th Feb 2020 @ 1:06pm
In this weeks English we watched a video of a story called the Lost Thing by Shaun Tan and wrote a build-up and on Thursday we wrote some description about the “lost thing”.
In maths, we learnt about area and a bit of perimeter And also, Mrs Thomson told us if we get stuck, we can remember perimeter peat.
In French we learnt the names of different animals like cats and dogs and rats.
In I.T we had a new teacher and we had to write a PowerPoint with a partner all about the environment and we get to finish it off next week.
In Art, we drew a picture with different size 3D cubes and in the end, we finished off finishing our paint sheet where we had a colour and black of white.
In music this week, we learnt how to play and sing mama Mia with our recorders and this week’s people are with the recorder case was Theo and Eva with the music badge for brilliant singing
By Oliver and Lucie 😊😊
Musical Penguins, by Mr Pearson
Date: 10th Feb 2020 @ 1:14pm
We have a talented group of musicians in the Penguin tribe.
Enjoy the photos.
Penguin fun, by Mr Pearson
Date: 10th Feb 2020 @ 1:09pm
In this week’s English lessons again we carried on with our Aladdin story, writing a description of the cave and the characters.
This week’s weekly spellings this week are ‘early, Earth, eight, enough, exercise, experience, experiment, extreme’
In our grammar we did things that were linked to our English like onomatopoeia, similes and fronted adverbials.
In our maths lessons this week we played a game of battle ships which linked in with our maths topic of co-ordinates. Remember to keep learning your times tables.
In this week’s topic lesson, we got to design our own Roman bath house. If you wanted to you could put a statue of you wanted to.
In French, we learnt about hobbies that we would do every day.
In music we had a show off week were people could bring in an instrument or sing a solo or a duet.
By Oliver and Abigail 😉😉