Year 3: The Zebras: Blog items

Fire service visit, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 8th Nov 2022 @ 7:25am

We had a great afternoon with the fire fighters. We learnt all about how we can safely leave our house in the event of the fire alarm going off and how we can reduce the risk of a fire by turning off sockets, keeping their room tidy and making sure doors are closed.  

We learnt STOP DROP and ROLL if our clothes caught fire.

The children have been set the challenge of designing a fire plan at home of how they would  get out of their house in the event of a fire as well as learning their address in case they ever had to ring the fire brigade. 

Because we answered all the questions correctly, we got to dress up and act out escaping our house (Mrs Catterall’s cupboard) the fire fighters putting the fire out and then rescuing the dog (played by our class zebra). 

Yogi Day, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 8th Nov 2022 @ 7:16am

Phonics games, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 29th Oct 2022 @ 4:15pm

Science, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 29th Oct 2022 @ 4:13pm

Which team can make the longest curly whirly?

This week we focused on how materials can bend, stretch, rip, squash etc.

 

Science ambassadors, by Mr Pearson

Date: 21st Oct 2022 @ 9:51am

Longton's Science ambassadors led a whole assembly conducting two amazing investigations. Well done 

Enjoying our classroom, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 17th Oct 2022 @ 9:15pm

Science Materials, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 17th Oct 2022 @ 9:05pm

This half term our science explorations have been about materials.

What words can we use to describe the properties of materials?

Which material would the best to use for the three little pigs house?

What type of material would keep Humpty Dumpty safe when he falls off the wall?

There was lots of exploring, secret planning, testing and making decisions to answer the questions. 

Maths, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 17th Oct 2022 @ 8:54pm

This half term our Maths work has been focused around the understanding of 2 digit numbers. 

We have read numbers in digits and words.  We have used base 10 to make 2 digit numbers and then practised drawing them.  The Zebras have been putting them in order, comparing the sizes of them and placing them on number lines. 

 

Remembering Queen Elizabeth II, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 17th Oct 2022 @ 8:46pm

As a mark of respect we made flowers and placed them in our memorial area. 

Harvest 2022, by Mr Pearson

Date: 7th Oct 2022 @ 10:42am

A lovely Harvest festival took place In St Andrew's Church on Thursday 29th September.
The Heads Team led for the first time and the Church was full of parents.
Each Tribe performed part of the presentation, through song, poetry and presentations.  

Y6 Last Day, by Mr Pearson

Date: 22nd Jul 2022 @ 2:59pm

The tradional Longton send off for the Penguins.

 

Last week fun!, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 22nd Jul 2022 @ 2:53pm

This week were have been busy with our last DT project, making a moving vehicle. We investigated moving parts, labelled and then designed. The tricky part was making them but we did well. 

 

Thank you so much for all our lovely cards and gifts, as always not expected but much appreciated. Have a lovely summer break, keep safe and see you all in September,please keep saying hello, I will miss my fantastic Zebras , ??

Brilliant Brickcroft, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 14th Jul 2022 @ 3:43pm

We had a fab time at the Brickcroft this morning. We were perfect pondippers, marvellous minibeast hunters and careful colourers! Top activity  was definitely pond dipping and we caoght loads and could name most of them , with some help from Sue. 

Thank you to Harry’s mum and Yahia’s sister for helping.??

School minibeast hunt, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 8th Jul 2022 @ 3:00pm

We had a great time this morning on a hunt for minibeasts around school.We looked in lots of different places and found lots! Mainly, woodlice, baby caterpillars, ladybirds and baby ladybirds,Although spiders, ants and worms were also spotted.

Dont forget our minibeast hunt/pond dipping walk to the Brickcroft next Thursday, have a lovely weekend.

Zebras at the zoo!, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 6th Jul 2022 @ 3:29pm

A great day at the zoo, we met the zebras,elephants,giraffes and loads more.Watched the sea lion show had an ice cream, a super day!!

Sports Day, by Mr Pearson

Date: 28th Jun 2022 @ 4:40pm

Another successful sports day was held this week. Fantastic to have parents, grandparents to share the excitement of the events. 

Longton Rainbow Day flag, by Mr Pearson

Date: 28th Jun 2022 @ 11:15am

A human rainbow made up of Longton pupils celebrating that we are all unique.  

Busy,busy!!, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 23rd Jun 2022 @ 4:42pm

A fun week this week, learning more about mini beasts, building a Sukkah, as part of our  RE work finding about the Jewish faith.A sukkah is shelter which is built during Sukkot, a week long Jewish festival. We worked well together adding branches and leaves. We had our fruit in it, Jewish people play, eat and rest in theirs. Tomorrow is our enterprise and we really, really enjoyed making our sweetie kebabs!!!

Welcome back!, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 17th Jun 2022 @ 4:56pm

Welcome back, hope you all had a great break and have managed to get back into the swing of school again!

This week we have started our investigating living things science topic by looking at mini beasts, drawing and labelling them. In Geography we have been finding out about the countries that make up the UK and starting to learn the capitals.

We have been enjoying The Queens hat story in English and had fun watching windy weather clips, The tornado from the Wizard of Oz and The fantastic flying books of Mr Morris Lessmoore.

Have a great weekend ?

Last day of a fun week!, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 27th May 2022 @ 4:48pm

Today we enjoyed making “crown cakes” by adding on jewels, the best bit was eating them on the field! We also put our own slant on the Union Jack by changing the colours. 

Hope you all have a fab holiday, remember to tell me all about it in your holiday passports, keep up with reading, mathletics, reading eggs. See you soon ??

Arts week day 4, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 26th May 2022 @ 7:19pm

Today we have been learning about the Crown Jewels.How they are kept in the Tower of London and guarded as they have lots of valuable diamonds and gems. We had fun making our own crowns and decorating them with gems...but not ones worth millions!!! 

Very proud of the Zebras as they confidently spoke at the Jubilee afternoon tea, explaining what we have been busy creating this week. A great team as they recited our acrostic poem, see if they can remember it!

Jubilee Celebrations, by Mr Pearson

Date: 26th May 2022 @ 12:10pm

As part of Longton Primary Schools Platinum Jubilee Celebrations the children in Y2 - Y6 have been joined together in the afternoons to focus on our performance for local dignities and special guests. The children have performed a drama about the Queen, the school choir has sung a number of songs including the National Anthem, a group of children performed a dance including a dance from each decade of the Queen's reign, poetry has been written and performed, decorations have been made for the VIP's tables and finally a good of children have baked and created sandwiches for an afternoon tea. Reception performed a song and dance and Year 1 showed how creative they have been through arts. 

Arts week 3, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 25th May 2022 @ 7:25pm

Today we added sparkle to our Queen portraits , they look great. We also designed pictures  for our coasters and chose our favourite to use. 

This afternoon we painted our coil pots in red, silver and blue and finished off our acrostic QUEEN poems.

More fun tomorrow !

Arts week day 2, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 24th May 2022 @ 7:36pm

Today we drew our portraits of the queen and of course they were so much better than Mrs Pratten’s!

We painted them by mixing different colours. Tomorrow we are going to add more detail and texture to them. 

This afternoon we made  puppets  of the queen, making a pattern first to make sure her hat/ crown fitted. We joined it together with staples or pins and then had fun decorating them. They look fantastic!  We did a great job and are very proud of them.

Arts week day 1, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 24th May 2022 @ 7:27pm

Yesterday we started off our week by getting messy with clay! We had to make a base by squashing the clay flat and then make “wriggly worms” to build up the sides with coils. Tricky but we kept going and they look great. They are drying out to paint later.

We also started our acrostic poems spelling QUEEN. Quite tricky thinking of q and u words to start our sentences but we did well.

We also practised sketching features of the face ready to draw our own portraits of the queen. Hopefully they will be better than Mrs Pratten’s, it bore a striking resemblance to Shrek with a hat! (Apologies to the queen!!)

Contact the School

Longton Primary School

School Ln
Longton
Lancashire
PR4 5YA

Main Contact: Linda Masterson

Tel: 01772 612 495
Bursar@longton.lancs.sch.uk

SEN Contact: Rebecca Catterall and Di Regan

SEN Email: Senco@longton.lancs.sch.uk