Our blogs
Remembrance Day, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 11th Nov 2016 @ 1:32pm
The day started learning about the history of Remembrance Day. The children then made some amazing posters using Remembrance themed vocabulary to show their understanding of the day . After play we went into the hall where Mr Turner from the Royal British Legion spoke to the school about life as a young boy in Bamber Bridge during the Second World War. He also spoke about the history of the poppy.
back in class the children used their senses to describe peace. This afternoon they are busy designing medals and choosing who and why to give them to.
Birthday boy!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 9th Nov 2016 @ 4:09pm
Happy Birthday Mason, a big thank you for the cup cakes ,they were fantastic!
Magical spelling, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 8th Nov 2016 @ 11:15pm
We have spent a lot of time looking at spellings and listening to sounds so today we decided to feel spellings.This probably sounds very strange but we really did feel words today.
We did this by imagining that we were Harry Potter or Hermione Granger and that our rulers were magic wands that could write words in the air in beautiful joined up cursive writing. Great fun was had by all writing words from our spelling lists in the air.
Birthday girl, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 8th Nov 2016 @ 2:28pm
Happy Birthday Laila! Thank You For The Cupcakes They Are Realy Yummy And Are Scumshous!
By James (The Developor)
Signs of Autumn, by Miss Adamson
Date: 5th Nov 2016 @ 5:30pm
I hope that you are enjoying the holiday! Here are some pictures of when we went on a hunt for signs of autumn.
Cookie Monster pumpkin, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 28th Oct 2016 @ 4:27pm
Wow we made it to the end of a busy but fantastic week we have read stories, made maths magic spells, tasted soup, painted pictures, had a disco and made a Cookie Monster pumpkin. We are all tired out but looking forward to a wonderful week off.
Luke S and Daniel's blog, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 28th Oct 2016 @ 2:36pm
We used our knowledge on electricity to create an amazing Halloween decoration to go up on the apparatus. We did them over five days. We used our gymnastic skills to balance and travel over or under the equipment.It has been a fun week!
Have a fantastic half term break🙂
Year 6 Class Assembly, by Mr Coxhead
Date: 28th Oct 2016 @ 10:02am
Year 6 finished the first half-term on a high this morning with a fantastic class assembly performance! They feel extremely proud of themselves after the performance and so they should!
A few snapshots can be seen below.
We've also added the video clip from the opening segment of the assembly. The curtains opened to reveal an empty stage with a live broadcast projected on to the screen from our pretend class 'CCTV cameras' - see video. When the class arrived on the stage, they realised they had forgotten the script. Connor volunteered to go back and collect it (which is why he appears again at the end of the video clip).
We wish everyone a happy and safe half-term! See you all in early November to continue the great start to our year.
Bongos Homework, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 27th Oct 2016 @ 5:11pm
The Bongos wil be bringing their red holiday passports home tomorrow (Friday) to be added to over the break. Five children didn't return their passports at the end of the summer holidays so please can they remember to hand them in when we come back in November.
Also projects are due in on Monday 14th November. Details are on the bottom of page 2 of the curriculum outline which was sent home in September and which can be found on our blog.
Rota Kids , by Miss Leigh
Date: 27th Oct 2016 @ 4:32pm
A few weeks ago we had a visit from Tom to talk to us about Rota Kids and the charitable work which we can undertake. As a class we decided to become part of Rota Kids and today we held our elections. Many of the class put themselves forwards for election, making a short presentation about the qualities they could bring to the position. After listening carefully to the campaigns we held our very own election will ballot papers. It was a very close race!
The Results
President: Nathan
Secretary: Molly
Finance Officer: Nicholas
Congratulations to the successful candidates. We will update you on what we decide to do for our first charitable event.
Pumpkin soup, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 27th Oct 2016 @ 12:13pm
This morning after thinking about this weeks story,Pumpkin Soup, we made and tasted pumpkin soup. Some of us thought it was delicious and some of us were not too sure.
Biographies, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 26th Oct 2016 @ 11:49pm
For the last 2 weeks we have been focusing on Biographies in our English lessons. I have been impressed by the children's dedication to researching facts about the author 'Dick King Smith'. They have worked together in pairs cooperatively and have organised their facts under subheadings. This week we have been focusing on writing in paragraphs. I can't wait to read their finished biographies which they are going to publish using the computer skills we have been learning this half term.
Walk in the autumn sunshine, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 25th Oct 2016 @ 6:04pm
This morning we walked down to the park on School Lane. We were looking for signs of Autumn. Here are some of our photos....
Persuasive letter writing - Wind Farm, by Miss Leigh
Date: 25th Oct 2016 @ 11:57am
Year 5 have blown me away with some amazing writing over the past week.
We have been learning about persuasive writing for the past 3 weeks. Our writing was based on a purely fictitious letter we received about a plan to build 2 wind farms next to school. The child were determined this would NOT go ahead. We have research the positive and negative environmental factors of wind farms and discussed the impact of this kind of development on our community. Finally, we have been writing letters to the council protesting and putting together everything we have learnt.
I have been impressed with their use of persuasive features, use of emotive language and modal verbs. It has been fantastic to see such passion and enthusiasm for writing. The quality of the work they have produced has been tremendous. I think you will agree that the children have really risen to the challenge of a "real life" learning opportunity, although I hope we didn't panic you with the news of the wind farm.
Well Done Bears. You've ended this unit of work amazingly.
Shadows, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 24th Oct 2016 @ 7:53pm
The sun was shining this afternoon and we took the opportunity to look at our shadows and compare them to the predictions we made on Friday last week. The children discovered the position of their afternoon shadow was correct, however soon realised their shadow was an outline and didn't have hair, eyes and socks like their predicted shadows did! With the knowledge of how to make shadows larger and smaller using puppets on Friday they have shown a good understanding of shadows and had fun outdoors researching it. Let's hope we have some sun in the morning to test out our am shadow position predictions.
Pumpkin week, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 24th Oct 2016 @ 2:56pm
Take a look at what we have been doing today....
Meditation , by Miss Leigh
Date: 23rd Oct 2016 @ 1:27pm
This week tried out meditation as part of our RE work on Buddhism and the theme of PEACE. Mrs Thomson kindly showed us what to do. Afterwards we felt relaxed and chilled out. We certainly found it an enjoyable experience and many of us would like to do it again.
Max's calf, by Miss Adamson
Date: 22nd Oct 2016 @ 4:24pm
Max's dad kindly brought a calf to meet our class. She was very cute! We are going to name the calf so let us know if you have any ideas!
Saturday gardening day, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 22nd Oct 2016 @ 3:15pm
Thank you to all parents, children and staff who came along today, it was very much appreciated.We have cleared leaves, stained sheds and benches, cleared brambles, made a mud kitchen, filled two trailers with rubbish and generally had a really fun time. I think!
Take a look at what we have achieved when we all worked together.
Lost and found, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 21st Oct 2016 @ 2:31pm
After listening to the story of the lost sheep last week, we found a story called list and found. It was all about a little penguin who turned up at a little boys house....he thought the penguin was lost. We thought about if we had ever been lost and how it might feel.
As our Friday minion treat we watched the small film about lost and found and we all had iced lollies.
James And Thomas Blog No.3, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 21st Oct 2016 @ 1:27pm
This Week In Year 4 We Did Our Awsome Assembly. It Was Really Fun Learning The German Songs And Words. In Maths We Learnt About and the different names of triangles and Angles. In Reading And English We Have Been Doing Stuff On Playscripts. We Read The Princess And The Pea And The Pea And The Princess.
Sheldon the Snail, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 20th Oct 2016 @ 11:07pm
This week we have been looking after Sheldon the snail. On Wednesday the children had the chance to hold Sheldon as we cleaned out his home and gave him some fresh food. Although it took him a while to wake up, the children enjoyed holding him.
Brilliant Bongos, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 20th Oct 2016 @ 5:48pm
We would just like to share with you how brilliant the Bongos are being. They are truly shining at the moment showing fantastic attitudes towards their learning, taking on challenges and really displaying growth mindsets.
They have been receiving compliments for their behaviour for learning from other members of staff who have been visiting our classroom.
Well done everyone, we are very proud of you.
Thank you to the parents and grandparents who joined us yesterday for our GPS session. I hope you enjoyed it, especially the Kung Fu punctuation!
Have a great weekend everybody and don't forget the meetings next week about the SATs.
GPS Afternoon with Parents!, by Mr Coxhead
Date: 19th Oct 2016 @ 11:25pm
Our children thoroughly enjoyed welcoming parents to class to work on some grammar, punctuation and spelling (GPS) activities.
The afternoon began with a talk in the hall about why GPS is so important and how we're striving for excellence in GPS at Longton.
