Our blogs
Arts Week Day 3, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 24th May 2017 @ 6:11pm
Today has been change over day. The children in Year1, 2 and 3 mixed together in 3 groups and have taken part in 3 different French themed activities. In the year 2 classroom the children had fun learning about France. They also learnt some classroom instructions, how to say hello, goodbye and my name is. In addition the children learnt to count forwards and backwards to 10, colours and to sing the rainbow song in French.
Art week....Wednesday, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 24th May 2017 @ 5:24pm
Well you must have got the gist....everyday this week is art day and we are having soo much fun. Today Mrs Little from Penwortham Girls High came to teach us songs in French. We were tres bien! We have been finishing our Monet boat pictures and helping with the large display in the corridor.
We still had time to do BIG MATHS🤔
James And Oliver B Blog No.24, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 24th May 2017 @ 3:13pm
On the 3rd Day of arts week, we have made The Eiffel Tower out of (Here comes the boring bit) Newspaper and Tinfoil without celatape or glue! The person who made the tallest tower got a surprise! It was a challenge to put it together because if it was too tall it would topple over! The winners got a chocolate bar to take home (They seceretly ate it at lunch break(Thomas told me!)).
By James And Oliver B (Both Writers) 🐯😀
Art week Tuesday, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 24th May 2017 @ 7:53am
Today we have continued to look at the work of Monet. We read two stories about his work. We started the amazing Ks1 murial in the corridor and made water lilies to add. We used our sketch books outside.
Arts Week, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 23rd May 2017 @ 9:51pm
The children have had a great start to the week. Over the last 2 days they have been learning about the work if the French artist, Seurat. Mrs Ainsworth showed the children the technique of pointillism, they created some lovely paintings of butterflies and dragonflies. Today the children developed these skills to create their own paintings.
With such lovely weather this afternoon the children went outside to use their sketchbooks and appreciate the nature around our school.
Tomorrow the children will be working in groups with year 1 and 2 children on a variety of activities.
Here are a few photos, lots more to follow tomorrow.
Snakes and water lilies! , by Miss Adamson
Date: 23rd May 2017 @ 9:30pm
We have had another fun day working on a couple of projects. Local artist, Jac Balmer visited to teach us a little about Rousseau and helped us to make colourful snakes to go in his jungle. It was very messy but we enjoyed ourselves! Later on we worked on our close up picture of Monet's pond using oil pastels.
ARTS WEEK!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 23rd May 2017 @ 3:11pm
Today we started the morning with our new dance from the heart routine. It was a dance about going to the movies 🎥. Then after that we went back to class to discover a school visitor called Jac.She did paint 🎨 scrapings with us.We then did some pointillism painting.Fact:Georges Seurat invented the pointillism painting technique. We did famous buildings and the Mona Lisa . In the afternoon we did collages about the sea side using ideas from Matisse.
Tuesday , by Miss Leigh
Date: 23rd May 2017 @ 1:59pm
We worked together as a tribe to create our very own rainforest. Hope you love it as much as we do. Well done Bears.
Arts Week Update #2, by Mr Coxhead
Date: 23rd May 2017 @ 11:54am
Y6 are recreating famous Bankys art featuring themselves! They're also doing a DT workshop with Mr Dunlop and his DT team from Hutton Grammar.
Arts Week Day 2, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 23rd May 2017 @ 10:02am
Today started with learning our new Dance For The Heart routine. We returned to class to write our own poems in the style of Ash Dickinson .
The Bongos worked with Jac Balmore this morning . They learnt more about the French artist Henri Rousseau. They then used sponging to create paint effects on paper plates. The plates have now become amazing Rousseau themed animal heads .
The day finished with an assembly about the Tour de France by Year 6 .
It has been another amazing day of art at Longton Primary School.
Arts Week Day 1, by Mr Coxhead
Date: 23rd May 2017 @ 8:01am
We had a wonderful start to Arts Week.
Year 1 enjoyed a visit from poet Ash Dickinson in the morning. We also made our own sketchbooks to use outside during the week!
In the afternoon, we enjoyed a dance workshop with Amanda Rogers and visited the outdoor art area!
There will be blog posts throughout the week so you can see what has been happening. There will also be more regular updates during Arts Week on the school twitter page:
Arts Week Update #1, by Mr Coxhead
Date: 23rd May 2017 @ 8:00am
Year 6 have had a brilliant starts to Arts Week. They created their own sketchbooks and are recreating a famous piece of work by Banksy.
Follow arts week with regualr updates on twitter:
https://twitter.com/longtonprimary
Arts Week Day 1, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 22nd May 2017 @ 8:21pm
Arts Week started with an assembly where Ash Dickinson a poet shared some of his very funny poems. Next we made and decorated our sketch books. After play Ash came into our class and we did some actions as he recited some of his poetry. Then we worked as a class to write a poem called My Pet Monster. Our final poetry challenge was to write a four line poem that rhymed.
Just before lunch we learnt about the French artist Claude Monet. After lunch we used card and silk clay to create lilies which will be part of the big art project in the corridor.
The day finished with a dance workshop run by Miss Rogers from Hutton with former pupil Beckie Fish helping her. The class learnt a French themed dance that children in French schools may dance every morning.
The Bongos have had a great day.
Art week launch, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 22nd May 2017 @ 5:33pm
Art week is a fantastic experience for all. Today we have participated in two workshops, a poetry workshop and a dance workshop. We have also looked at the artist Monet from France and started Monet pictures. Alongside this we have made art folders to put some of our art work in. Take a look at how busy we have been on Monday.
James And William B Blog No.23, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 22nd May 2017 @ 3:08pm
This Week it's ARTS WEEK! We have made lots of stuff and our topic is FRANCE! We have had a famous poet in and have looked at George Seurat. His style of paintings were little dots and we had a go and had lots of fun! We also made and designed our scetch books and sketched in them.
By James and William B 🐯😀
Arts Week, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 21st May 2017 @ 5:47pm
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Monday |
The day will begin with an assembly by Ash Dickinson. We will be doing a poetry workshop with Ash between 10.30 and 11.00 We will be making our sketch books- please remeber your cardboard and any bits and pieces you would like to use to decorate the cover. We will begin work on our Monet Project which will reult in a display in the corridor The day will end with a dance worshop with Amanda Rogers from Hutton Grammar Scool |
| Tuesday |
We will be working with an artist called Jac Balmer who will be helpig us to create Rousseau animal masks We will complete our Monet project. |
| Wednesday |
This is changeover day. We will be in a mixed class of Year Ones, Twos and Threes. We will do French based arts activities with Mrs Catterall, Mrs Fletcher and Miss Adamson. |
| Thursday |
We are learning about the British artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh . We will be looking at some of his work in particular his drawings of churches. We will be using our sketch books to sketch St Andrew's church from the field and from within the church yard. We will be visited by two French teachers for a special assembly about French language and culture. |
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Friday |
We will be completing our Charles Rennie Mackintosh work using pens and inks to do detailed drawings of St Andrews church. In the afternoon we will We will work with Mrs Bradley- she will be teaching us how to do artwork with glass. We will be using the sticks and twigs that we have brought into school to make some fairy houses. |
It is going to be a fun week.
See you all tomorrow
Sports Day 2017, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 21st May 2017 @ 11:46am
Sports Day was a great success. The children had lots of fun and displayed amazing teamwork and behaviour throughout every activity.
Thank you to everyone who came along to support the afternoon.
The Week Ahead - Arts Week!, by Miss Adamson
Date: 20th May 2017 @ 4:31pm
This week is our whole school Arts Week. Our usual timetable is suspended while we have one whole week of art! This is what we will be doing:
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Monday |
We have a visit from Ash Dickinson (poet) for an assembly then workshop. We are making our sketchbooks. We have a dance session with Amanda Rogers. We are beginning work on our Monet project. |
| Tuesday |
We have a visit from Jac Balmer (artist) who will be teaching us about Rousseau and help us create a piece of work based on his artwork. We will complete our Monet project. |
| Wednesday |
This is our changeover day. We will be in a mixed class of Year Ones, Twos and Threes. We will do French based arts activities with Mrs Catterall, Mrs Fletcher and Miss Adamson. |
| Thursday |
We are learning about Charles Rennie Mackintosh and beginning our Mackintosh project. We will be visited by two French teachers for a special assembly about French language and culture. |
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Friday |
We will complete our Mackintosh project. We will have a visit from Mrs Bradley to do some artwork with glass. We will make some fairy houses. |
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Dance from the Heart |
We will begin practising for Dance from the Heart after the holidays. |
I hope that you will have great fun this week!
Thank you for helping me with the twigs. Remember your cardboard pieces on Monday morning. A4 size is ideal but a little bigger or smaller won't hurt!
Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Miss Adamson
ICT with Year Six, by Miss Adamson
Date: 20th May 2017 @ 1:40pm
Year 6 planned ICT lessons for our class. We learned about algorithms!
James and Thomas Blog No.22, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 19th May 2017 @ 11:43am
This Week In Year 4, we can't wait for Sports Day! It is coming up later today and we have sorted out our own teams. In D&T, we have started sewing and we have had lots of fun doing it. Yesterday, we practiced our violin and learnt how to use the bow very faintly but we stil learned a lot. We also had a recap on the strings of the violin and learnt that they are GDAE. We have also learnt lots about kenning poems and how they are written. We are also learning about Haiku poems and how they are written (It goes like this 5-7-5 syllables). In Science, we are learning about precipitation (Rain) and clouds. We did an experiment with water shaving foam and food colouring and something exiting happened!
By James Platt (Writer) And Thomas Ballar (Writer,Idea Genarator)
Y6 teach Computing to Y1, by Mr Coxhead
Date: 18th May 2017 @ 1:38pm
Navigation walk to Litte Hoole, by Mr Coxhead
Date: 18th May 2017 @ 12:33pm
We're back from a brilliant countryside walk to Walmer Bridge park. The challenge was successfully completed - we didn't walk along any roads.
Idyllic weather!
James And Jack J Blog No.21, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 17th May 2017 @ 3:06pm
This Week In Year 4, we have had Test Week! We are also having a new whiteboard fitted. It is exiting and we can't wait for it to be fully fitted! In English, we have been learning Haiku poems and their styles (3 lines and 5-7-5 syllables in them). We have made our own Haiku poems and also made one as a group they are Awesome! We have also been learning the chunking method and the bustop method it was really Challenging and Hard but we got it in the end and all had fun. In Test Week we had some really tricky questions but solved them quite easily. In the Math we encountered some crazy and challenging questions but once we got the hang of it, we wized through the questions and we had a great time! We can't wait for the rest of the week and we bet it will be fun! Some people have learnt their tables! Well done on getting your silver stars!
By James (Writer) And Jack J (Writer,Idea Generator) P.S Sorry We Have No Pictures. We have been to busy but we guarantee that we will have pictures on Friday! 😀🐯
Taxes!, by Mr Coxhead
Date: 16th May 2017 @ 8:19pm
This morning, Year 6 enjoyed a visit from Mr Bates (father of Matthew in Y2) who delivered a session all about taxes! It was an excellent session. Year 6 explored different forms of taxation in the UK and learnt about how the government uses taxes to fund the provision of public services.
The video below was watched by Year 6 as part of the presentation - well worth a look!
