Our blogs
Bring Yer Wellies!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 24th Apr 2024 @ 2:46pm
What an amazing day the penguins had yesterday!
What do plants need to grow? Why is horse poo good for our grass? Why are worms important in our gardens? What is compost? How do we recycle? How can we work together to build a den? What makes great teamwork? What are herbs?
These are just a few of the questions that were asked yesterday. Nigel and Melissa were delighted that the children could listen so well and that they also had lots of their own questions to ask.
The penguins all planted their own lavender plant. They kept the soil fluffy and protected the roots. When they come to water the plant please remind them that plant needs just 'enough' water. Not too much and not too little.
I hope you enjoy sharing these pictures.
I have also included a picture from our RE session. We enjoyed a story called 'The Swirling Hijab'.
Cricket Crazy, by Mr Kennedy
Date: 24th Apr 2024 @ 1:55pm
Great start to the weeks for the Panda Tribe, they have gone cricket crazy! Developing their throwing and catching skills to support their bowling and they even had a visit from Coach Stuart from Lancashire Cricket to develop their skills further. Great work Panda tribe!
The tribe also went out onto the play ground to role play some scenes from Henry's Freedom Box, we used their role play to write direct speech and explored the position of reporting clauses in a sentence, ensuring their punctuation was perfect!
Busy Elephants, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 23rd Apr 2024 @ 8:48pm
It has been another busy day for Year 6. The day started with the morning task , a GPS quiz activity. Next was arithmetic, followed by maths where we consolidataed yesterday's learning about coordinates learning how to translate shapes. After play was reading response and spelling. The morning finished with revision of coordinating and subordinate conjunctions and noun phrases.
The afternoon was split into 2 sessions. The first session started with 3 maths reasoning questions followed by a lesson on reflections. At 2 o'clock the class ventured outside for a cricket lesson with Stuart a Lancashire coach.
outside maths, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 23rd Apr 2024 @ 4:26pm
Today the Giraffes enjoyed exploing volume and capacity outside in the sunshine!
They had to work in small groups to fill up cups so they were, full, nearly full or nearly empty. They took it in turns and had to use the right vocabulary to decribe thier cups.
They are starting to learn the difference betwen volume and capcity and had to work out how may cups would fill different sized containers. They then had to answer the question: Can different sized containers hae the same capacity?
They had a lovely afternoon with Mrs Jackson doing Relax Kids, building dens and mini bug hotels in the Forest school area.
LPS +, by Mr Pearson
Date: 23rd Apr 2024 @ 3:10pm
In LPS+ this week the children have been investigating board games and jigsaws to evaluate what makes a good game. IN the following weeks the children will be designing and making their own game.
Cricket with Lancashire County Coach, by Mr Pearson
Date: 23rd Apr 2024 @ 3:07pm
Today KS2 have had the pleasure of Stuart a coach from Lancashire County Coach into school to give us hints to improve the Koalas cricketing skills.
All the children enjoyed themselves.
Trip Information, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 22nd Apr 2024 @ 8:21pm
What to wear -
School polo shirt and school sweatshirt / cardigan
PE kit joggers / leggings
Wellies will be taken off the wellie wagon and your child will change into wellies as soon as they arrive in school
Coat
(Waterproof puddle suits will be provided by school if needed)
What to bring -
The children have all ordered sandwiches of their choice from the school kitchen. Packed lunches will be provided by school. Each packed lunch will contain a bottle of water, pudding and a piece of fruit. (Two children did say today that they were bringing in their own packed lunch. This is absolutely fine but please send it in a named plastic bag. Lunch bags and boxes cannot be taken)
Water will be offered throughout the day.
Book bags are not needed tomorrow.
The water bottles that are brought into school each day, can be brought into school tomorrow and the children can bring them on the trip or leave them at school for when they return.
It will be a fantastic day!
Thank you
Mrs. Thomson
Chewy and Mr.Waddles!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 22nd Apr 2024 @ 7:45pm
Today we had a lovely visit from Holly and her two lambs. One lamb was called Chewy and Holly asked for name suggestions for the second lamb. Mr. Waddles seemed to be the favourite which Jessica suggested.
The children had a feel of the wool and asked lots of questions to find out information about the lambs. Perhaps ask your penguin if they can remember what Holly told us about their oily wool. (Jumpers, carpets and soap!)
Tomorrow is our class trip. Packed lunches have been ordered. Please send your penguin into school in their polo shirt, jumper and PE kit joggers / leggings. They will all change into their wellies when they arrive at school. Please send a coat. No book bags are needed tomorrow.
Thank you
Brilliant Start to the Term, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 22nd Apr 2024 @ 2:42pm
Year 6 have made a briiliant start to the summer term. As SATS approach they are working hard to make sure their knowledge and skills in reading, GPS and maths are where they want them to be.
Throughout last week they showed huge amounts of grit and determination to work hard and use previous learning to aid their work.
On Friday GPS revision was done through a mystery solving game and maths through playing board games. Great fun was then had as the children planned and began to make their own games. When the games are finished the children will play each others creations.
Super Scientists!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 19th Apr 2024 @ 4:25pm
The penguins have been investigating the forces ‘pushes and pulls’ this week. As scientists we have discovered that we need to do lots and lots of testing. Therefore we spent the whole day testing everything that we used inside and out to see if it needed help to move and if it needed be pushed or pulled. We then made labels to show it had been tested.
We tested dominoes, bikes, prams, zips, doors, hair combs, Ker plunk, sweeping brushes, balls, bowling skittles and many more things.
Next week -
Monday - baby lambs visit to school.
Tuesay - Class Trip ( the children will change into their wellies once they come to school. If we do not have wellies in school for your child, please send them in on Monday so we have them ready for our trip the following day)
Please wear school polo shirt, school jumper and PE joggers for our trip as well as a coat.
Our theme of ‘Ticket to Ride’ started this week with a huge list of different vehicles and forms of transport. The penguins are creating a train in the construction shed and have completed some writing on ‘The naughty bus’. Next week we will be creating story maps for another story.
We now have new sounds starting in our phonics. Please, please continue to read each day so that the ‘old’ sounds and rainbow words are firmly embedded before the new ones are added. Books have been changed this week. If your child is on a new colour level please write a message in the record book to let us know how your child got on with this book over the weekend.
Thank you and happy weekend!
Fun at the park - compliment treat, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 19th Apr 2024 @ 4:11pm
We had a lovely time at the park ..despite dodging the showers!!
Have a lovely weekend. :)
Alice in Wonderland Production, by Mr Kennedy
Date: 19th Apr 2024 @ 2:49pm
What a show! Longton children had the pleasure of enjoying a fantastic production of Alice in Wonderland on Monday.
First week back for summer 1, by Mr Kennedy
Date: 19th Apr 2024 @ 2:42pm
What a fabulous start to our summer term, we have kick-started all of our new units for this half term! We started the week with a fantastic performance of Alice in Wonderland, we started cricket by developing our bowling, catching and accuracy. Science got us to gain an understanding of MRS GREN and we entered the Panda Court of Rule of Law which started our crime and punishment history unit.
Have a look at the photos below to see some of our learning in action.
Magnificent measuring, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 18th Apr 2024 @ 4:30pm
In maths this week we have been busy measuring. We used paper,clips, rubbers and cubes to measure objects and then learnt about centimetres, and why this is a more accurate way to measure.
We have loved exploring mass, finding out how heavy or light things are. We used cubes and measuring scales to measure the mass of different objects. We also explored heavy and light and realised that large objects can be light and small objects can be heavy.
Tomorrow we are looking forward to our class compliment treat, we voted time at the park and time on scooters and outside play back at school. Fingers crossed the sun shines!
Sorry not letting me post photos will try again tomorrow!
A great start to the week!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 16th Apr 2024 @ 9:59pm
The penguins like to be busy and we have had an amazing start to our new half term. A wonderful theatre production of Alice in Wonderland, new art work to try, 3D shapes to explore and a naughty bus!
We have revisited odd and even numbers also this week. If you have a basket of socks that need pairing please ask your penguin to see if the amount is odd or even. The children are enjoying creating odd Bob aliens and even Steven aliens.
Theatre Production, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 15th Apr 2024 @ 8:38pm
We have had a lovely first day back. To welcome in the Summer term we enjoyed watching a theatre production of Alice in Wonderland. It was fantastic and was a lovely start to week.
Welcome Back - Summer Term, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 15th Apr 2024 @ 1:05am
I hope you have all had a lovely Easter Break. Does anyone have any chocolate eggs left?
Lets keep our fingers crossed for some warmer weather this term.
Please find below and also on our main class page the subject organiser for this half term.
Any questions or queries please pop in and see us.
Easter Bonnets, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 15th Apr 2024 @ 1:00am
WOW Lions, I love your creativity. Thank you for making such amazing hats and sharing them with us. I hope you all enjoyed your Easter Eggs.
DT - Making Healthy Wraps, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 15th Apr 2024 @ 12:57am
We designed and made our own healthy wraps.
DT - Food Tasting, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 15th Apr 2024 @ 12:53am
We had plenty of keen volunteers for some food tasting.
Mini beast hotels!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 8th Apr 2024 @ 7:56pm
A few pictures to share from our amazing day spent creating mini beast hotels and also from the Easter bonnet parade.
After the holidays we will investigate our hotels to see if we have any mini beast visitors. We have our fingers crossed!
Easter Celebrations, by Mr Pearson
Date: 28th Mar 2024 @ 4:17pm
Today the Easter Bunny came to visit school, Easter bonnet parade and egg decoration competitions were the main events of the day. The Easter bonnet parade was first up and the competitors were most of KS1, the Judges were Y6 parliament and the sports leaders. The judge of the Easter egg decorating competition was Mrs Danson and for both competitions the Easter Bunny selected a few winners also. The Easter bunny handed out the chocolate eggs, although she would rather have eaten them!
