Longton Primary School: Our blogs

Week beginning the 25th September, by Miss Reynolds

Date: 24th Sep 2017 @ 5:06pm

This week will look like this:

English: Work around Beowulf and Grendel - building up to writing our own legend.

Maths: Addition and subtraction of 4 digit numbers and numbers that include two decimal places.

Geography: UK Settlements - difference between urban, suburban and rural living.

History: Anglo-Saxons - What did village life look like?

Art: Using watercolours to paint a scene from anglo-saxon village life

PSHE: Jigsaw -

RE: Buddhism

French: Introductions

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!

Yellow week, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 24th Sep 2017 @ 2:53pm

This week we will be looking at the colour yellow. We will focus our literacy on a story by Shirley Hughes called Alfie's feet. We will continue to count and add in maths and also look at measure. We are really working hard with our learn its and we are already up to 4+4=....

In phonics we are learning I,n,m,d phonemes and the simple words in and at. Please support you child at home looking at numbers, phonemes and this week reading books will be coming home.

PE - we are going to have a go at PE this week, fu, fun, fun!

So another busy and fun filled week, all the children are settling in really well and we are learning new skills every week.

Week Beginning Monday 25th September 2017, by Miss Adamson

Date: 24th Sep 2017 @ 11:58am

Hello all :)

I hope that you are enjoying your weekends! This is the plan for the week ahead:

English	We are reading Eliot Midnight Superhero and discussing the main character and main events. We will also write our own superhero stories.
Maths	We are learning about number bonds and related subtraction facts.
Jigsaw	We are learning discussing consequences.
PE	We are focussing on running and changing direction.
Seasonal Changes	We are learning about the four seasons, specifically signs of autumnn, including weather.
Phonics	We are continuing to review sounds in our phonics groups and apply to our reading and writing.

I look forward to seeing you all in the morning!

Take care,

Miss Adamson

Friday maths, by Miss Reynolds

Date: 23rd Sep 2017 @ 11:39pm

On Friday, we did some hands-on decimal work. First of all, we found out how tall Roald Dahl was (as it was recently Roald Dahl day) and laid out some rulers to see how big 6 foot 6 is. Then we compared our own heights to Roald Dahls and realised just how big he was! Then we looked up how big the BFG was supposed to be - 24 foot! We worked out the difference between Roald Dahl and the BFG in feet and inches, then converted that to centimetres and finally, converted that into metres.... we found it really tricky!

Then, to give us a brain break, we played a decimal number bond to 1 game and Jack J set a high score for us to try and beat next week! In the afternoon, we measured how far we could jump in centimetres and then converted it to metres.... none of us came close to Mike Powell's record of 8.95m, but Luke W jumped the farthest in our class-competition with an impressive double-footed leap of 2.19m! 😊

News reports - part 3, by Miss Reynolds

Date: 23rd Sep 2017 @ 11:12pm

News reports - part 2, by Miss Reynolds

Date: 23rd Sep 2017 @ 10:55pm

News reports - The attack on Heorot, by Miss Reynolds

Date: 23rd Sep 2017 @ 10:46pm

We have been practising our ability to retell a story by making our own news reports. The children worked independently to come up with their own script. They also made decisions around characterisation and wardrobe choices, and they even edited their own videos completely independently using iMovie. We hope you enjoy them as much as we have enjoyed making them!

(Sorry for having them in separate uploads... I can't quite figure out how to get them all on one device! Haha!)

*Prank Phone Calls*, by Miss Leigh

Date: 22nd Sep 2017 @ 4:27pm

As the Bears become more independent it is highly possible they now have a phone. They will slowly begin to immerse themselves in the world of text messages, apps and social media. Today, there was some discussion around making prank phone calls and face timing unknown people between pupils. We have taken this opportunity to discuss the impact of prank phone calls, both on the recipient of the phone call and on those making the calls. We have talked about why we need to keep ourselves safe and how making prank phone calls can actually makes us more vulnerable.

You might want to take this opportunity to check in with your child about phone, internet and personal safety.

Well done to....., by Mrs Pratten

Date: 22nd Sep 2017 @ 4:10pm

Well done to our certificate winners those week😀👍

Hope you all received your Christmas cards to order, I don't think the pictures came through of us making them, so I will try again! Don't forget to order on line!

Friday fun...., by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 22nd Sep 2017 @ 3:52pm

We've had a fun filled Friday. Fun with jigsaw Jenner our PSHE lesson, phonics re-cap of our phonemes s, a, t,p and fantastic maths.

Beans, beans, tall as the eye can see!, by Miss Reynolds

Date: 21st Sep 2017 @ 8:35pm

We have been preparing for harvest festival today... thought you might like a sneak preview of our beautiful singing!

Projects, by Mr Pearson

Date: 21st Sep 2017 @ 3:41pm

Projects

Project theme for this term can be on anthing the children have an interest in, however our main focus within the class is electricity and James and the Giant Peach at the moment.

Any questions please let me know.

James and Joe Blog No.1, by Miss Reynolds

Date: 21st Sep 2017 @ 3:15pm

In our first few weeks, we have coverd a lot of stuff such as The Anglo-Saxons in History/Topic. In English we have been learning about ;;;SEMI COLONS;;; Miss Reynolds told us that not many people know how to use them (Example I would like: some juicy,lovely apples; some yellow,spiky pinapples;and some soft,small nectarines.) In Maths we are learning about decimals and rounding up and down. Yesterdays LO: was LO:To solve problems including 3 decimal places (Date Wednesday 21 September 2017.)

Thank You For Reading This Blog

By James (Writer/Idea Generator) And Joe (Co-Writer)

Baking cakes just like granny and red riding hood, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 21st Sep 2017 @ 2:31pm

Maths eating at Mr Pearson’s restaurant , by Mr Pearson

Date: 21st Sep 2017 @ 11:57am

Today we visited Mr Pearson’s restaurant. We added up prices of the food then bought the food, to do this we used a formal method. At the end we added up the prices for the week we had spent, it was fun.

Pop Art, by Miss Adamson

Date: 20th Sep 2017 @ 7:45pm

We made pop art portraits using oil pastels and thick black outlines.

Dolly wash and exploring shapes!, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 20th Sep 2017 @ 6:13pm

Projects!, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 20th Sep 2017 @ 3:54pm

Projects for this half term can be anything that we are leaning about, Katie Morag, places we play or you can tell us about something you do out of school e.g. Rainbows, swimming, football , gymnastics etc. it doesn't have to be a major project, small and simple is fine!

So far this week....., by Mrs Pratten

Date: 20th Sep 2017 @ 3:49pm

The Penguins have had fun taking part in a taster session for street dancing, using the iPads to programme Sratch, and finding out about Hindus. Today we took our learning to the park and practised our sketching skills, we are going to think about how we can improve the park later this week. We took our fruit and of course had to have a little play, enjoying the lovely sunshine☀️🙂

Homework, by Miss Reynolds

Date: 20th Sep 2017 @ 8:17am

Apparently I have been giving homework out a day early! So I won't be giving out a paper copy of the homework until tomorrow... But worry not my keen little tigers! If you feel like today is the day that you carpe diem and want to tackle that homework, feel free to download it from the links at the bottom!

Also, if you are thinking about what to do for your project homework, our topic is A Kingdom United - we are covering: everything about the Anglo-Saxons; British legends and folklore; British geography, including counties, climate, river and mountains. Make anything around one of these topics! Some ideas we have had in class have been: designing, creating and presenting Anglo-Saxon shields; a research powerpoint to present to the class on a river, mountain or any area of the UK - perhaps with some holiday pics if you've been there before; and a homemade comic of a British legend of folklore tale. Be as creative as you like!

English Maths

Jigsaw, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 19th Sep 2017 @ 9:51pm

Today we played some games as part of our jigsaw work. We discussed and explored how our actions impact on others. What rules were needed for the games to be played successfully and the consequences of these. We have begun to think about the rewards and consequences in school linked to this idea.

Streetdance, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 19th Sep 2017 @ 9:31pm

On Monday we had a go at learning some streetdance moves. Not many photos as I was trying to learn the moves myself. Letters have gone home about the Monday night club.

Science, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 19th Sep 2017 @ 9:27pm

On Monday we explored a variety of resources to discover how we see. We learnt that in order to see we need a light source. That light travels in straight lines and is reflected off surfaces into our eyes. We turned the lights on and off and watched the size of our pupils change, they got bigger in the dark and smaller in the light. We investigated light using different equipment.