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Week beginning the 11th September, by Miss Reynolds

Date: 12th Sep 2017 @ 1:18pm

Hello everybody! Sorry this is a bit late - I've just managed to navigate myself around the website!

This week will look like this:

English: Work around Beowulf and Grendel - focus on Thesaurus skills and semi-colons.

Maths: Place value, counting in steps of powers of 10 and Rounding

Geography: Rivers of the UK

History: Anglo-Saxons - Who were they?

PSHE: Jigsaw - 

RE: Buddhism

French: Greetings

PE: Gymanstics and Quick Cricket

If you have any artefacts/special skills/holiday pics etc. that would help us with our learning - please feel free to volunteer them! We would love to have some visitors to our class this year and learning always works best when it is contextualised!

Week Beginning Monday 11th September 2017, by Miss Adamson

Date: 11th Sep 2017 @ 8:39pm

Hello all :) 

I hope that you have had a lovely weekend. This is what we are doing this week:

I look forward to seeing you at Meet the Teacher tomorrow night. If you are unable to attend, I will send home your handouts with your child on Wednesday. I am more than happy to meet with anyone who cannot attend at another time - please let me know if you would like to..

Warm regards,

Miss Adamson

Number word bingo , by Miss Adamson

Date: 11th Sep 2017 @ 5:58pm

We played bingo to practise reading our number words to ten and twenty. We also watched the number word rap to help us to spell number words to ten!

Watch it here.

Superworm, by Miss Adamson

Date: 11th Sep 2017 @ 5:54pm

We read the story of Superworm and then hunted for some worms. We had to say our sentences into the magic microphone before we wrote them!

Welcome back , by Miss Leigh

Date: 11th Sep 2017 @ 5:14pm

Welcome Back Bears, 

We've made an excellent start to the new school year.  The tribe is really working hard to step up to those year 6 expectations and it's been a pleasure to see the children challenging themselves. 

This week we will be learning about: 

MATHS: Long Multiplicaiton and Long Division

ENGLISH: Class novel is Swiss Family Robinson.  We will be learning about the setting, characters and using correctly punctuated dialogue for some extended writing at the end of the week.  

Science:  Exploring Adaptation of birds

Art: Texture

Jigsaw (PHSE):  What is the difference between what we want and what we need? 

RE:  How is life like a journey? 

PE:  Beyond sport will be in on Tuesday morning.  

Looks like we are going to have a great week.  I hope to see as many parents as possible on Tuesday after school for our meet the teacher event.  

See you there!!

The week ahead, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 11th Sep 2017 @ 4:34pm

English - starting our unit on Folk Takes.  Reading a variety of stories and looking for similar patterns.

Spelling - revising suffixes

Grammar - speech marks

Maths - place value, what is the value of the digit? Which digit will change if I add 1, 10, 100?

Science - What is light? Skills in drawing a data table and writing a conclusion. 

P.E. - we will have our first swimming lesson!

Jigsaw - understanding why rules are needed and linking this to rights and responsibilities.

Computing - word processing skills 

R.E. - what / who is a leader?

Art - creating our Cauliflower Christmas cards.

Autumn walk and more, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 11th Sep 2017 @ 4:33pm

We walked around the fields to collect leaves. We made black and white elephants, we had a go at ordering numbers ourselves - we have worked really hard.

Monday 11th September-week ahead, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 11th Sep 2017 @ 4:32pm

This half term is all about Colour.

This week we will focus on the colours black and white. Our stimulus is a story called Elmer and Wilbur. Elmer is a colourful patchwork elephant and Wilbur is black and white. 

The black and white theme willrun through the week, we will look at patterns and make black and white patterned elephants in the maths area. Also we will continue to count to 10 and beyond and we have already learnt our first learnit 1 + 1 =2 and so this week will learn 2 + 2 =.....

We will go on an autumn leaf walk and collect lots of autumn coloured leaves to make a class patchwork Elmer!

We continue with base lining the children to find out what they already know.

Its a fun filled week so watch out for any photos.

Exciting Electric , by Mr Pearson

Date: 11th Sep 2017 @ 3:14pm

Today we have started our topic about electricity and Mr Pearson took us outside to look at lightening conductors on the school chimney and the Church.

we have also studied similes in English, in maths we have studied decimal points to two places. 

In GPS we have started to investigate frontal adverbials.

A very productive day.

Week beginning 11th September, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 11th Sep 2017 @ 12:33pm

Hope all the Penguins had a great weekend!

This Week we will be:

English- work based around Katie Morag delivers the mail

Maths - place value, tens and ones, ordering and comparing 

Geography - where do I go to have fun?

Jigsaw - discussing rewards and consequences 

RE- How do we show people they are special?

Computing- writing instructions in order, Algorithms 

PE - gymnastics - jumping and landing

    Throwing and catching 

Art - sketching/ preparing Cauliflower cards

A busy busy week! Don't forget meet the teacher tomorrow.

A Fantastic first week, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 8th Sep 2017 @ 5:06pm

The Penguins enjoyed a jujitsu taster, please return reply slips if you want your child to join.

They had fun creating Jolly Postman maps this afternoon and well  done to our first certificate winners👍

The Penguins have been amazing this week , well done , have a well deserved rest and a fantastic weekend🙂

We made it to Friday!, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 8th Sep 2017 @ 4:57pm

Well we made and we are still smiling. Everyone has had an amazing first week and I hope that the full time start has been OK for everyone.

Next week we are looking at the colours black and white and the story of Elmer the elephant. On Tuesday at 3.30 it is meet the teacher a chance to come in for a short chat and just a little more info about your child's time in Reception.

Our first week with Mr Pearson, by Mr Pearson

Date: 8th Sep 2017 @ 12:59pm

This week we learnt about rounding numbers up to 10,100 and 1000 in maths.

Also we had to find the difference of the two numbers and to half that number then add it on.

We really enjoy maths even if it's year  2 work and we've done it before.

We love writing it is the one thing that lets us write stories off the top off our head.

we do different morning tasks every day.

Thursday Activities, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 7th Sep 2017 @ 9:31pm

Take a little look at what we got up to today. Pictures of us all having snack, counting, painting portraits and much more.

Homework, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 7th Sep 2017 @ 9:24pm

The children have bought home their first English homework task today, apologies but the photocopier is out of action so we were unable to provide a printed explanation, hence the Blog  should your child have forgotten!! Following our work on The Jolly Postman, the children should choose a character from a book ( or film ) and create an appropriate birthday card for them, signed from themselves. This should be bought in to school on Tuesday.

Please can we also ask you to take time over the weekend to clear out book bags/ homework bags of any Year 1 information/ homework. Unfortunately In Year 2 we do not have a lot of room for storing book bags so would be grateful if you could limit what is in them ( we have separate storage for homework bags ) The key rings the children have are great for identifying their book bags but again could we ask that the number of key rings is limited, lovely though they are! 

We hope you can make the meet the teacher on Tuesday where we will provide you with all the information you need. If you can't make the meeting, please don't worry, we will send the  information home and it will also be put on the class page.

Mrs Pratten and Mrs Regan

Our first week back, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 7th Sep 2017 @ 7:47pm

The first week is nearly over and what an amazing week it has been.  The Bongos have settled into year 3 fantastically.  They have been well mannered, showed a really good work ethic and I'm super proud of all of them.  Their hard work and concentration hasn't gone unnoticed, as both Mrs Brown and Mrs Woolley have given them a class compliment. 

This week we have being thinking about our classroom expectations, how to set out work out in our books and generally getting to know each other better.

The children have had an exciting day today. We took part in a British Values Workshop with our visitor Mr Beresford and we had a taster of Jujitsu this afternoon as well.

Tonight the children gave brought home their red homework folders. There is a large collection of paper for you to read through inside. 

This weeks Homework tasks.  English - write a short paragraph reflecting on your first week in year 3.  Maths - write out your 2x, 5x and 10x tables.   Homework is to returned in the red bags by Tuesday please.

I look forward to meeting you all at the 'Meet the Teacher' meeting next Tuesday. 

Here are a few photos from this weeks fun. 

Ju Jitsu Taster Session, by Miss Adamson

Date: 7th Sep 2017 @ 5:22pm

The Meerkats did themselves proud in their Ju Jitsu taster session today. I was wonderful to see everyone enjoying trying something new!

Meeting Jigsaw Jo, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 6th Sep 2017 @ 3:44pm

The penguins enjoyed their first PSHE lesson with Jigsaw Jo, we played a game of finding people in their group but one catch , no talking! The Penguins were amazing🙂

We also had our first PE lesson In Year 2 practising our throwing and catching skills, the Penguins are settling in really well , learning new routines and being superstars👍Well done!

Another fabulous day, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 6th Sep 2017 @ 2:38pm

We have learnt a new story, drawn portraits, had fun outside and much more....

Welcome to Year 1, by Miss Adamson

Date: 5th Sep 2017 @ 6:49pm

Welcome back 

I hope that you have all had a wonderful break! It has been lovely to get to know the Meerkats a little better and learn about our new classroom. We wrote a postcard to baby Oleg (of compare the meerkat fame) and did a classroom resources hunt. 

I look forward to seeing you all again tomorrow.

Please come and chat if there's anything that I could help with!

First day at Longton., by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 5th Sep 2017 @ 6:23pm

What an amazing start to the elephant tribes time at school. All the children came into class with smiles on their faces regardless of the weather. We have all had a lovely day and settled in really quickly. Take a little look x x

Welcome to Year 3, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 4th Sep 2017 @ 10:13pm

BONGOS, welcome to year 3

I hope you have all had a wonderful summer holidays and are refreshed and ready to be in KS 2.

I am looking forward to hearing all about your holiday adventures.

This week we are going to be getting used to our new routines and learning about the expectations of being in year 3.

We have a special assembly on Thursday with a visitor coming in to tell us all about British Values.

Mrs Catterall 

Thankyou, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 26th Jul 2017 @ 7:43pm

To parents and children of the Giraffe Tribe

I am overwhelmed, thank you all very much for the amazing gifts, it was extremely generous and thoughtful.  As a said to a few people this morning, it has been my pleasure to teach your children this year and gifts aren't necessary, but with the theme of the year, they are appreciated and will certainly be enjoyed. The children have written some touching messages,thank you.  I have thoroughly enjoyed my first year at Longton, thank you to all for your support and for your amazing children. 

Giraffes you are all superstars and I am very proud of each one of you.  Have a well deserved holiday. 

I look forward to you hearing all about your adventures in September, you will only be next door. 

Many Thanks again

Mrs Catterall 

Many thanks, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 26th Jul 2017 @ 3:39pm

A big thank you from myself and Mrs Regan (who is still unfortunately poorly but I will pass on presents and cards) for all th cards and gifts, not expected but appreciated. We have both really enoyed teaching the Tigers again they are a fab tribe with a lot of personality!🙃

We hope you all have a lovely summer😎☀️🍦⚽️🏏🚴‍♀️🤾🏼‍♀️✈️🛳🚉🏖

See you in September😀

The Final Day Of Year 4. (James And Violet Blog No.36), by Mrs Pratten

Date: 26th Jul 2017 @ 3:00pm

As this  is the final day of year 4 this is the final Blog of Year 4. We have spent the last 3 days making and playing our own games. We planned the games on Monday, made the games on Tuesday and we played them together today (Wednesday). We bought some games in on Monday and that's how we got inspiration for our games. It's time to go into the summer holidays so enjoy the hot weather and sun so HAVE FUN!😎😄☀️😀.