Our blogs

Tadpoles in reception., by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 18th Apr 2018 @ 5:31pm

We are finding out about Spring time and life cycles. This week we have got some frog spawn and tadpoles in class.

Picnic lunch in the sun x, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 18th Apr 2018 @ 11:58am

The sun is out and so are we! A picnic lunch in the sun.

Beatrix Potter - art, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 17th Apr 2018 @ 9:00pm

This week we have begun to explore creating a watercolour style paint and begun to develop skills in using different grades of pencils to develop our sketching and shading techniques.

Eve was our photographer today, well done 

Tuesday Assembly Blog, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 17th Apr 2018 @ 8:53pm

Written by our Year 6 PSHE leaders

Today in our jigsaw assembly we learnt about friendships and relationships. Our title in jigsaw this half term is about friendships. We were talking about how baking a chocolate cake is like making a new friend. We put in our suggestions about the ingredients of a friendship, we had: loyalty, kindness, fun, and a friend that is always our friend. We had some time to think about if we had been kind to our friends today. We always have to remember to listen to our friends, to share with our friends, be kind to our friends and of course have fun with our friends!

Monday Assembly Blog, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 17th Apr 2018 @ 8:50pm

Written by our year 6 PSHE leaders

Today's assembly was about, how much of our lives should we share with others? In the news this week it said about how lots of people's private information was leaked all over Facebook. We learnt about how things in the past have now changed, like how in the past we would go to the travel agents if we wanted to go on holiday, but now we can go onto the internet and book there instead. We have also been thinking about how you would act in different situations like how you would act when arguing with your brother or sister. Facebook is now thinking about a messenger app for kids, as lots of adults use it. Parents will be able to look at what their child has been doing on this app. It will allow children to communicate even if they do not have a phone number. Our reflection today was about the rules of law and we had a lot of questions.

This week so far...., by Mrs Pratten

Date: 17th Apr 2018 @ 4:43pm

This week we have enjoyed the story of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter, we designed a wanted poster and practised our 4 types of  sentences using the story.

In Maths we have been adding 2 digit numbers and today using only 3 numbers we have been making 4 different number sentences. Later on in the week we will be recapping 3D shapes.We enjoyed gymnastics yesterday putting together a sequence using a roll, travelling and a jump.

Busy, Busy!

A Day at the River , by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 16th Apr 2018 @ 8:08pm

Lots of learning and fun at Cuerden Valley Park today on our river study trip.

Throwing and catching in PE, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 16th Apr 2018 @ 10:55am

We have been having a go at throwing and catching with a partner. It's great fun working with a friend.

Picture News - British Values - w/c 16th April, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 16th Apr 2018 @ 8:05am

Please find attached a copy of the picture news resource we will be discussing in assembly this week.

Take some time to chat about it at home.

The Week Ahead - 16th April, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 16th Apr 2018 @ 8:03am

Good Morning.

The 2nd week back already, not looking too great outside this morning but apparently we are in for a heat wave later in the week - fingers crossed. 

This week we will be learning about - 

English - Playscripts, reading and performing them.

Maths - Each Monday we will be going over the 4 operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division)

Throughout the rest of the week we will be focusing on data in tables, graphs and pictograms.

P.E.  swimming has now finished.  Our PE lessons will be outside, so could happen on any day, we will go with the weather.  Please ensure your child has their kit in school every day. 

Jigsaw - Our new unit of work is all about Relationships

Our topic work.  This term it will take on a slightly different format, the children will have a series of tasks /projects to complete.  It will involve History (Romans), Geography (The Lake District), DT (designing and maing their own hydroplane) Art (drawing and watercolours - Beatrix Potter) and Science (plants).

All this and more can be found on the curriculum overviews on our main class page.

Welcome Back, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 15th Apr 2018 @ 3:42pm

The Giraffe's have had a very busy first week back. Rehearsas for our upcoming production are going really well. Homework this week is to be word perfect by Tuesday.

We have started our new topic on water, using secondary resources to find out about the features of rivers ready for our river study trip tomorrow, Monday.

It was great to welcome Mr Yates back this week, the children were thrilled to see him and many impressed him with their fantastic knowledge of their times tables.

Remeber to use Time tables Rock Stars to help you learn and practise your tables.

We have also welcomed a new Giraffe this week, Rebecca who we hope will be very happy here at Longton.

We have another busy week ahead of us. Our trip on Monday, rehearsdals, planning our enterprise to list but a few highlights of the week ahead.

I will be on a course on Friday so the children will Mrs Gray and  Mrs Thomson in the morning and then Mrs Atkinson and Mrs Woolley as usual in the aftrernoon.

Holiday passports , by Mrs Catterall

Date: 15th Apr 2018 @ 1:15pm

Thank you for all the holiday passports that have been returned so far.  I have really enjoyed reading all about your holiday adventures.  

Half term overview, by Miss Reynolds

Date: 15th Apr 2018 @ 12:28pm

Please find attached the overview for Summer 1.

Week beginning 16th April, by Miss Reynolds

Date: 15th Apr 2018 @ 12:22pm

Hello everybody! Hope you're all enjoying your weekend. This is what is coming up this week:

English: Writing a magazine article

GPS: Tenses (past progressive focus)

Maths: Fractions, decimals, percentages.

Science: Space - 

PSHE: Jigsaw 

R.E: Judaism

French: Body parts

Computing: Presenting data 

PE: Atheletics - (Note: this term we are having a double session of P.E on Tuesday afternoons rather than two separate P.E sessions)

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!

Mondays excerise challenges, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 14th Apr 2018 @ 5:01pm

Here are a few photos from our jigsaw work.  We had a go at several exercise challenges, timing how many we could do in 1 minute or how far we could jump etc.  We worked hard to practise and see if we could improve our scores. 

Week Beginning Monday 16th April 2018, by Mrs Coxhead

Date: 14th Apr 2018 @ 12:45pm

Hello all,

I hope that you are enjoying the sunshine this weekend.

Here is how the week ahead looks:

I look forward to seeing you all on Monday,

Mrs Coxhead

Families, by Mrs Coxhead

Date: 14th Apr 2018 @ 12:33pm

In our Jigsaw lesson, we were learning about what makes a family. We started by finding the rest of our animal family by only making animal noises (no words).

Castles Research, by Mrs Coxhead

Date: 14th Apr 2018 @ 12:25pm

We researched some information about castles. We looked at photos, illustrations and books.

Easter Bonnets, by Mrs Coxhead

Date: 14th Apr 2018 @ 12:11pm

Look at our wonderful bonnets. Apologies for the delay - it’s still seasonal though!

Picture News , by Mrs Catterall

Date: 13th Apr 2018 @ 11:07pm

Dear parents

Picture News is a resource we use in our assemblies to share and dicusss with the children.

This week our assembly was titled, 'Who does the World belong to?'  This also linked with our assembly about 'Earth Day'.

A Picture News - home resources is attached to this blog.  Please look out for a parent mail giving you more infomation and look back at the blog each week to find out more about the news topics we will be exploring in school. 

Mrs Catterall

The SUMMER term, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 13th Apr 2018 @ 10:57pm

Welcome back to our final term of Year 3.  I hope you all had a relaxing and enjoyable Easter holidays, I'm looking forward to reading all about them in your holiday apssports this weekend. 

We have had a lovely week back in class, writing  newspaper reports on Jack and the Beanstalk and a description of a robot, addition, subtraction multiplication and division in Maths, suffixes in spelling and reading an extract from Stig of the Dump and ordering biography information about its author Clive King.  In the afternoons we have been completing our Jigsaw unit on being healthy, lots of sports activities on Monday, discussions about medicines and smoking as well as keeping safe in our homes. 

I have uploaded our curriculum overview and Summer term letter to the main class page.  They can also be found on the parent notice board in the classroom window.  

Trip information was sent out via parent mail this week and letters were also put in homework bags.  

Mrs Catterall

Cloudy with a chance of meatballs, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 13th Apr 2018 @ 4:10pm

As part of our geography work we read the story Cloudy with a chance of meatballs. In the story the it rains orange juice,snows mashed potato and storms hamburgers! We discussed what this would feel like and thought ,sounds good but maybe not! Especially when it all goes wrong and the food becomes huge and stays the same. We designed our own Island of Stew and used a key to add things, we came up with some great ideas.

We also really enjoyed looking on Google Earth at Longton, we zoomed in on the school, the park and the Brickcroft as well as the village itself ,discussing what we could see. They were all super to keen to find their houses but obviously weall could not. Have a go at the weekend exploring Google Earth and see what you can find out about where you live.

Pe fun, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 12th Apr 2018 @ 9:59pm

The Penguins enjoyed an afternoon outside practising their catching and hand eye coordination skills. Some good skill and lots of enthusiasm!!

Anyone for tennis?, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 12th Apr 2018 @ 9:53pm

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Well done to the Year 3 and 4 tennis teams who took part on Wednesday in a tennis tournament at Sourh Ribble tennis centre. We had a mixed bag of results with some wins, draw and losses. They all said they had really enjoyed it and they showed a good competeitive streak and excellent team spirit. Well done again👍🙂

Buddy time, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 12th Apr 2018 @ 3:31pm

We had a buddy time this afternoon. We had free choice and then meditation.