Longton Primary School: Our blogs

Multiplication 2x 5x 10x, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 1st Nov 2020 @ 7:20pm

We worked out the missing numbers from the calculations, we practiced using a top marks game and played multiplication board games.

London Landmark research, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 1st Nov 2020 @ 7:01pm

As part of our non-fiction writing we took Paddington to different London landmarks. We researched them by creating a quiz, swapping them with our friends and then trying to find the answers.

Stone Age drawing, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 1st Nov 2020 @ 6:59pm

Here are a few pictures of us creating our Stone Age cave pictures.

Last day PE fun!, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 23rd Oct 2020 @ 6:40pm

A great last day morning for the Pandas, using their gymnastic skills on the apparatus. Lots of terrific travelling, amazing rolling and super jumping - well done Pandas.

Have a lovely break , keep safe - see you all soon🌟😆

Making Castles, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 23rd Oct 2020 @ 2:06pm

There is great excitement amongst the Koals this afternoon as they make their castles. Boxes have been covered and are now being transformed into stunning castles. Once decorated the children will be using straw, string and scissors to create a working drawbridge.

Fancy Dress part 2, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 22nd Oct 2020 @ 7:07pm

Fancy Dress and Disco time, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 22nd Oct 2020 @ 6:55pm

Today we have had a fun day coming to school in fancy dress. We had a fashion parade and walked down the catwalk, swirling and twirling to show all of our friends our amazing outfits. In the afternoon we went in small groups into the hall to dance and play games, we all bought some little goodies at the Halloween Shop.

Holiday Passports, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 21st Oct 2020 @ 8:58pm

In Year 1 your child was given a Holiday Passport to complete during school holidays. I have 13 of them in school and will be sending them home tomorrow for the children to use over half term. If your child has their passport at home please can you return them to school during the week beginning Monday 9th November. If you have misplaced your passport please can you let me know so I can issue a new one.

Over the holiday please can the children read as often as possible and use fast phonics on Reading Eggs.

PE kits will be comimg home on Thursday and on Friday pencil cases will be coming home. Some of them may need restocked during the holidays. The children only need pencils, pencil crayons, a rubber and a pencil sharpener. If they have felt pens in their pencil cases they can continue to bring them .

Mrs Fletcher

Pumpkin Soup, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 21st Oct 2020 @ 6:28pm

One of our stories this week was pumpkin soup. We decided to make some and have fun with pumpkins.

Happy Halloween!, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 21st Oct 2020 @ 4:46pm

The children had a great time at the disco this afternoon. A big thank you to Kelly and the Y6 DJs.

The children all looked amazing, so thank you to you all for making the effort.👍🌟🙂🙃

Halloween disco, by Mrs Doherty

Date: 21st Oct 2020 @ 9:16am

We had fun at our Halloween Disco on Monday.

Halloween Fun, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 20th Oct 2020 @ 2:53pm

The Koalas all looked fantastic today in their Halloween costumes.

Lovely homework ideas, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 20th Oct 2020 @ 8:40am

Take a look at some of the homework our children have been doing. Well done everyone x x x

Autumn Colours week, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 19th Oct 2020 @ 9:08pm

Can you believe the zebras have just completed their first half term at school. It’s been different but great and all the children have made new friends and settled well. Take a look at pumpkin 🎃 madness to start our week.

Restart the Heart, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 18th Oct 2020 @ 3:18pm

On Friday afternnon we joined a Zoom event with around 170 other classes. It was all about calling 999 for an ambulance and we were taught by a parmedic. We learnt loads and got all of the quiz questons correct/

Silver Star Super Stars, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 16th Oct 2020 @ 8:59pm

Look at our super stars. All of these children gained a silver star from Mrs Brown which they get to keep for a whole week. They have been sharing amazing work that they have been doing at home. Well done, and keep it up.

Meerkats 16/10/20, by Mr Pearson

Date: 16th Oct 2020 @ 4:43pm

English

In English, this week we have continue writing our Aladdin story, we looked at an educational film about Tornadoes and used it as inspiration for our descriptive writing then the Genie comes out of the lamp. We had to write our own short story of finding a magical lamp on the way home from school and chose our own 3 wishes.

Maths

We have been investigating negative numbers this week

History

We have learnt about crime and punishment in two different time eras. Firstly we looked at crime in the Georgian times and focused on Dick Turpin the infamous Highway Man. Secondly, we have studied different types of terrifying Tudor punishments which were quite scary.

Drama

We have been acting out Winne the pooh.

PE

We have been developing our football skills with the internationally renowned coach ‘Señor Pearson’

More senses work, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 16th Oct 2020 @ 4:32pm

We have loved finding out about and using our senses this week. We played a smelly game , guess the smell, chopped and peeled vegetables to make a curry ...which tasted lovely! We also had to guess the flavour crisp and choose our favourite.Pandas favourite was prawn cocktail. Today we put blind folds on to feel what it would be like for those people who can’t see as well us. We realised you have to talk to to your partner to help them and not go to fast!!!!

Have a lovely weekend 👍🌟🙂

Homework, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 15th Oct 2020 @ 8:10pm

This week you will find the homework on Google Classroom. There are guides on the class page on how to access it and how to upload it.

I have also set activities on Reading Eggs and Mathletics if anybody wants to do some extra work.

literacy type activities, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 14th Oct 2020 @ 10:41am

Here are a few pictures of how we learn to write and read in recpetion. You can see we have lots of fun!

Writing phonemes in monster gloop, finding phonemes on pebbles in the water, cutting zig zag lines, using talking tins to help us remember the phonemes and then write them down. Take a look.

Outside Learning, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 14th Oct 2020 @ 9:43am

This term we have spent time outside learning about continenets in geography and doing a place value scavenger hunt in maths .

Using symbols, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 13th Oct 2020 @ 4:03pm

In maths we have been learning to use the symbol < > to compare numbers and use maths vocabulary eg greater the, less than and equal to. We played fun gales to help us using crocodiles!

Amazing senses, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 13th Oct 2020 @ 3:58pm

This week we are learning all about our different senses.So far we have played a guess the sound listening game and learnt a little sign language to I can sing a rainbow.

This afternoon was fun we used our hands to touch different objects and describe them . Then we got to put our hands in shaving foam, gloop ( cornflour and water paste) and last of all jelly - awesome!!!