Longton Primary School: Our blogs

James and Nathaniel Blog No.18, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 3rd May 2017 @ 2:57pm

This going Week has been Amazing! In our math we made math dominos and we all had fun playing and making our dominoes! In D&T (Design and technology) we were looking at our own wallets and purses to design our own wallets or purses. In our geography, we have finished our colages of rivers which look AWSOME! (They were made out of paper). Today in our science lesson, we made some goop ! It was so weird and we will show you some pictures. We are learning about solids,liquids and gases and other particals. The middle of the the week has been great and we can't wait for the rest of the week! We have a trainee teacher in our class called Miss Preistly! (Just to let know she's learning from us!) (Edge Hill university)

By James (The Writer) and Assistant Nathaniel (Co. Writer) 🐯😀 P.S Thanks for everyone who came in we made £96.24p

Week beginning 2nd May, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 2nd May 2017 @ 5:42pm

Welcome back feels like we have all had a little holiday , hope you all enjoyed the bank holiday.

This Week our learning will be:

English - completeing our Mousehole Cat story and having a go at writing our version 🐱

Maths - decimals and fractions in the context of measures, converting between measures, problem solving, matching decimals to fractions

Science - introducing our topic ,solids liquids and gases

Music - violin lessons continue🎵🎶

PSHE - circle games

DT - designing our wallets

PE - working with coach Dillon

We are very pleased to welcome Miss Priestley to the Tigers , a trainee teacher working with us for the next 8 weeks.

The children should all have bought a letter home today about our trip to Cuerden Valley exploring rivers, any questions do not hesitate to ask,🚍

😄Mrs Pratten🐯

The Week Ahead - Tuesday 2nd May, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 1st May 2017 @ 9:28pm

I hope you have all had a fantastic Bank Holiday weekend.

We have a busy week in school, preparing for our assembly on Thursday morning. The children will be busy finishing off writing their own material to present and preparing some props. I'm sure you will be as proud of them as I am. They have been keen to go off and research their parts for the assembly and put together a passage to read or perform or to make a prop.

Our spelling activities this week will continue to focus on suffixes. Adding less / ness / ful / ed / in / es / s to root words. We will be continuing to practice words from the Year 3 and 4 statutory word list. Please practice these at home. Several children received their Golden Bike certificates in assembly on Friday. Well done. Don't forget to practice using Spellodrome.

English - To complete our unit on Play scripts we will be writing a play script to go with a silent film clip we have been watching called Dum Spiro. Starting with the dialogue and then adding in the stage directions before the children will have the opportunity to write their own mini play script - a story of their own, or a scene from a story they know well.

Maths - we will continue to develop our understanding of subtraction word problems and methods before moving on to multiplication and division word problems.

Art - we will begin to design our own mosaics and think about different methods we could use to create them.

R.E. - Sikhism. We will be learning about Guru Nanak.

Play scripts , by Mrs Catterall

Date: 1st May 2017 @ 9:10pm

We have been continuing to develop our characterisation through drama in preparation for our writing next week.

DEWA Roman Experience, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 1st May 2017 @ 9:05pm

We had a great day on Monday in Chester. The weather stayed fine for the afternoon as we walked to the Ampitheatre and tried out our battle techniques.

We learnt lots of facts about the Romans. We don't want to give too much away, you can find out all about it during our assembly.

Bongos- The week ahead, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 1st May 2017 @ 12:49pm

I hope all of the Bongos have had a fun Bank Holiday weekend.

This week in English the Bongos will be doing both fiction and non fiction comprehension activities. They will be taking part in grammar challenges and in writing will be writing instructions linked to the activities they have been doing with Mr Pearson on plants. Spelling this week will focus on words including al and all, ar after w and the suffixes ment and ness

Maths this week will be focussing on using inverse opertations to find missing numbers, multiplication, division and more reasoning activities.

In RE we will be continuing to learn about Sikh Gurdwara's.

Art- begin to create the backgrounds for our Henri Rousseau pictures

We will be moving a mile everyday too.

Please remember to bring your reading books to school tomorrow along with your completed homework.

Also remember to use Spellodrome- only a handful of Bongos have been using it and it really is a great way to improve spelling whilst having fun !

See you all tomorrow

The Week Ahead - Tuesday 2nd May 2017, by Miss Adamson

Date: 30th Apr 2017 @ 2:26pm

This week we are preparing for our class assembly on Friday 12th May!

English	We are learning about Barnaby Bear's travels and making our own information booklet about Longton for him.
Maths	We are learning about capacity and reading scales in litres and millilitres. We will also be practising addition and subtraction including missing number questions.
Phonics and GPS	Mrs Gray's group are reading and writing polysyllabic words. Miss Adamson's group are learning about homophones.
Handwriting	We are continuing to work our way through groups of letters.
Move a mile	We are continuing to practise our move a mile daily.
Class Assembly	We are using our time in the afternoons to prepare for our class assembly.

I hope that you enjoy the rest of the bank holiday weekend!

Look forward to seeing you on Tuesday,

Miss Adamson

James and Samuel Blog No.17 , by Mrs Pratten

Date: 28th Apr 2017 @ 3:06pm

This Week In Year 4,we have started to play the violin! Anyway, in Geography we have been studying rivers and looking at how they form. We had a demonstration on Wednesday and it was fun! We played a game about matching river defenations and the words together correctly. Today, we brung In wallets and purses to think about our designes for our own wallets and purses we are going to make in the future! We tried to finish our river collages (in Geography) that we started yesterday but we didn't get to finish them!

By James (The Writer) and Samuel (The Idea Giver)😀🐯

Friday fun!, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 28th Apr 2017 @ 2:52pm

We have had a great week thinking about the United Kingdom. We have visited England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Next week we hop across the sea by ferry to France and we may visit Spain on our travels.

Have a lovely bank holiday weekend and see you on Tuesday x

Bubbles, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 28th Apr 2017 @ 1:03pm

Today the title of our writing is Bubbles. To help fire up our ideas we watched a short cartoon about a boy who floated away in a bubble. We also went outside and blew some bubbles and as they floated away imagined what adventure's we would have if we could float away inside a big bubble.

Homework, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 27th Apr 2017 @ 9:15pm

Homework this week is to complete the grammar pack, read at least 4 times and use Spellodrome. I will be updating the word lists over the weekend.

James and Hannah Blog No.16, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 26th Apr 2017 @ 2:36pm

Year 4 have been working hard on trying to advertise our enterprise to the school! We have had lots of guests in to help us with our cooking! We baked pizza cookies,fruit kebabs,cheese and bacon rolls and wraps. (The selection of wraps are ham,chicken,cheese,cucumber peppers and spicy chicken) The fruit kebabs are rainbow coulerd a.k.a strawberry=red orange=orange pineapple=yellow etc. The pizza cookie cost 50p a slice. The cheese and bacon whirls are £1.00 each. The wraps are £1.00 each and the fruit kebabs cost 50p a stick

Hope You Enjoy! 😁 (Many thanks to the people who helped us bake!)

(the pizza cookies have lots of different sweets on them a.k.a jelly tots,jelly babies,jelly beans.)

Cake making for the step outside open day, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 25th Apr 2017 @ 6:45pm

Today we have been chefs making cakes and homemade lemonade for the open day tomorrow. We have worked really hard.

the underpants rule, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 24th Apr 2017 @ 8:07pm

We have a busy week ahead as we travel around the UK by train. Today we talked about the UK and we vivited London with Barnaby Bear. Throughout the week we will be stopping off at Scotland Ireland and Wales - we are true jetsetters! On Wednesday it is the Step Outside Open Day with lots of fun activities planned and a chance for you to come into school and join your child in the great outdoors.

As part of our PSHE we had a circle time today about the 'underpants rule'. It is all about keeping ourselves safe and being able to say no confidently.

We used the NSPCC resources which are very child friendly and tell children information in a fun but sensible manner. You can watch the short animation about pantosaurus online.

A fun week ahead, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 24th Apr 2017 @ 7:42pm

A busy week for the tiger tribe!

We are going to be organising our Enterprise, lots of cooking,mixing,chopping, rolling and of course selling!🍪🌮🥒🥕

English - we continue with our Mousehole Cat story, guided reading activities and spelling (adding 'sion' to words)Don't forget Spellodrome!

Maths - investigating number sequences,negative numbers and reading scales, weighing, capacity and temperature

Geography - observing how water flows down a slope through soil,making channels and carrying debris. Watching clips of how rivers are formed and learning new key river vocabulary

PSHE - looking at what makes a good friend,discrimination and responsibilities

Art and Design - looking at different wallets and purses and who they are designed for

PE - coaching with Dillon and gymnastics 🤸‍♂️

WOPPS- violin 🎵🎻

Last but not least our 15 minute keep moving time🏃🏃‍♀️

Our Learning 24th April , by Miss Leigh

Date: 24th Apr 2017 @ 5:58pm

Our learning this week:

Math : Fractions- addition and subtraction of unlike fractions, equivalent fractions and fractions on a number line.

English: Using commas to correctly punctuate subordinate clauses, ei and ie words, and descriptive writing. We will even be doing a little drama to consider the feelings and experineces of characters and will be having a go at using this to improve our writing. We will be editing and improving our work each day.

Science: Plant Life cycles

Art: Drawing large scale leaves, enlarging sketches

RE/PHSE: Judasim. The 10 commandments. What would life be like without rules?

PE: Skill development and gymastics (Monday and Tuesday)

Geography: Layers of the rainforest. Why do animals and plants live in particular layers?

Homework this week will be an extended writing piece. It will be due in on 3rd May. We will use this writing in our work on Thursday 4th May.

Poppy appeal award, by Miss Leigh

Date: 24th Apr 2017 @ 3:09pm

Mr Turner came into our assembly today to present a very special award to us. We raised the staggering amount of £669 for the Royal British Legion! Wow! He thanked us for our ongoing support and shared some of the fantastic ways in which the money will be used. Well done everyone!

Aiming high, by Mr Coxhead

Date: 23rd Apr 2017 @ 4:34pm

Year 6 are aiming high! They're putting in a lot of hard work as they approach the end of their primary school journey.

We have a jam-packed, exciting term ahead. Let's make it one to remember!

The Week Ahead - Monday 24th April 2017, by Miss Adamson

Date: 23rd Apr 2017 @ 4:07pm

I hope that you have settled into the school routine nicely! I really enjoyed reading your holiday passports and the writing that the children did about their holiday on Tuesday. All of the children had lots of exciting things to talk about!

Here's the plan for this week:

Maths	In maths we're practising addition and subtraction in the context of data analysis.We'll be reading block graphs, comparing numbers and calculating with the data.
English	In English we will be studying Percy the Park Keeper again. We'll focus on The Bumpy Ride, this week. At the end of the week we will write our own Percy the Park Keeper story.
Phonics	Mrs Gray's grouping are learning some alternative spellings for sounds we already know. Miss Adamson's group are using suffixes for spelling (where there is a change to the root word).
Handwriting	In handwriting we are continuing to work through the groups of letters that we began last week.
Science	In science we are identifying and classfying objects and materials.
PE	In PE we will review catching a ball and learn to bounce a ball.
Geography	We will make a map of our school.
Run	We will continue to do our daily 15 minute run which we began last Thursday.

I look forward to seeing you tomorrow,

Miss Adamson

Spellodrome, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 23rd Apr 2017 @ 3:08pm

Please remeber to use Spellodrome. Theer are not many Bongos using it at the moment.

I will leave the current lists on for a few days more so you can all have a go.

If you have lost your login details please ask for a new one.

The Bongos week ahead, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 23rd Apr 2017 @ 2:59pm

I hope everybody has enjoyed the sunshine this weekend and that those of you have been on St George's parade had fun.

Here is an outline of what the children will be getting up to with Mrs Fletcher this week.

Monday :

identifying verbs in sentences and then using verbs in sentences of their own.
adding two digit numbers
adding ing, ed, er and est to the end of words
learning about the countries that make up the United Kingdom.

Tuesday:

Comprehension activities in Guided reeading
continuing to add endings outlined previously
subtraction of 2 digit numbers
character studies of the main characters in The Wind in The Willows
learning about Sikh Gurdwara

Wednesday:

recognising singular and plurarls using s and es
using analogy to improve spelling
maths arithmetic- using addition and subtraction to find missing numbers
maths rerasoning- addition word problems
handwriting- clear joins, consistent size of letters

Friday:

Maths reasoning- subtraction word problems
look at a, au, aw and oor in spellings icluding l or ll
Fantasy story writing on the theme of Bubbles
Look at the work of the artist Henri Rousseau

IT'S GOING TO BE A BRILLIANT WEEK !

English - Play scripts., by Mrs Catterall

Date: 23rd Apr 2017 @ 2:15pm

This half term we are learning about Playscripts in English.

This week we have been annotating scripts to identify their features and also highlighting the script for our own part.

We have practised our lines and have explored a drama technique 'sculpt and the sculpted'. The group had to sculpt one of their actors into a position and give direction as to their facial expressions for one of the scenes in their play. They worked fantastically well in their teams. Here a few of the photos we captured. I'm sure they will make you smile?

Tomorrows Trip, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 23rd Apr 2017 @ 2:09pm

I hope you are all enjoying the sunny weather this weekend.

Just a few reminders for tomorrow.

Having looked at the weather forecast, it looks like the weather is going to turn and be quite cold and possibly windy.

As we will be spending the afternoon walking around Chester with our Legionary guide please ensure the children come to school wearing a warm coat. I have told the children that they may wear trainers if they want to as we will be walking around, however all other normal school uniform rules apply.

Lunches have been ordered from the kitchen for those who requested one. If you are bringing your own packed lunch please no fizzy drinks, chocolate or sweets.

The children may wish to bring an additional bottle of water if they are thirsty walking around in the afternoon. This can be put in their pocket or a small rucksack with their lunch. I can put some in my bag but I won't fit 30!

We will be leaving Chester at approximately 2:15 and aim to be back at school for 3:45.

I'm sure it will be a great day. We will tell you all about it in our forthcoming class assembly.

Mrs Catterall

Tens and ones, by Miss Adamson

Date: 21st Apr 2017 @ 5:11pm

We played exchange up to help us recognise tens and ones.