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Science week - day 1, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 20th Mar 2018 @ 11:20am

WOW- Mrs Catterall showed us all some really amazing science activities in assembly. Then we went back to class and found out what was in our big box. We found chicks, caterpillars, ducklings, lambs, calves......baby animals. We are going to find out about life cycles and new life.

Science week Day 2, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 20th Mar 2018 @ 9:49am

The Giraffes started the day with a what if question to think about . The question was What if there were no clocks ? They came up with some great ideas .

Next the children discussed in pairs what food chains are, revising work from last term. Following a quiz , using scientific vocabulary: producer, consumer, prey and predator the class have been set the task of creating paper chain food chains. 

Science week, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 19th Mar 2018 @ 6:55pm

We launched our Science week with an exciting assembly delivered by Mrs Catterall, lots of things to make us think. We took one of the challenges back to the classroom ,which was to see how long we could stretch the putty before it snapped. I think we need to practise more tomorrow! 

A big thank you to the helpers who came in today to help with our enterprise, the pizzas are looking yummy and the smell was delicious too, I'm sure we will be well supported tomorrow after school.

Don't forget we are potting up our seeds on Wednesday , the children will need to bring a small container to take them home, along with the grass heads.Some have started to sprout grass in some random places!!! Please keep them growing over the holidays I would  love to see some funky hairstyles!

More Science, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 19th Mar 2018 @ 2:15pm

This afternoon the Giraffes have investigated black holes using balloons, tin foil, their hands and a drawing pin.

They have also learnt that the famous artist Leonardo davVInci was an inventor as well as an artist. He did many technical  drawings of things such as tanks, helicopters, calculators and contact lenses to name a few . 

Giraffes do Science, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 19th Mar 2018 @ 12:03pm

Science week started with a super assembly where Mrs Catterall gave us  lots of interesting things to think about and see.

Back in class we predicted what might happen to some black seed like things Mrs Catterall had given us in a pot of water.

Next we worked in threes to think about famous scientists we know, scientific inventions and scientific facts.

After play we learnt about the life of Professor Stephen Hawking, a person we believe is a true inspiration.

One of Professor Hawking's main areas of study was Black Holes. As individuals we thought about what we think of when we hear those words, what they look like, how we know about them and how sat here in our classroom we could investigate black holes. 

A great mornings work 

Week Beginning Monday 19th March 2018, by Mrs Coxhead

Date: 17th Mar 2018 @ 11:24am

Hello :)

I hope that you are enjoying your weekend. 

This week we are celebrating British Science Week. There are lots of exciting things happening in school. Our timetable will be a little different than usual so I have split it up according to each day's main events as opposed to subjects. Guided reading and phonics will happen everyday as usual so I have not added them to the timetable.

Reading books - we will not have all our reading teachers in on Thursday and Friday so books will be changed on Wednesday this week. Children will received four books for the holidays. Apologies for this change - things will be back to normal after the Easter break.

I look forward to seeing you all next week!

Many thanks,

Mrs Coxhead

Divison, by Mrs Coxhead

Date: 17th Mar 2018 @ 11:13am

We practised divison as sharing on Wednesday. We used counters and whiteboards to help us. It looks like we are really concentrating!

Storyville Story Writing, by Mrs Coxhead

Date: 17th Mar 2018 @ 11:12am

We chose a setting and characters that took our fancy to write our own story about.

Hothersall Pictures, by Miss Reynolds

Date: 16th Mar 2018 @ 7:56pm

Ok, I don't know why getting photos up is such a battle! So I've set up a Dropbox account and we're going to upload pictures to there on Monday. I've uploaded the photos from my group, but there are plenty more to come from the other groups and whole group activity. At least it'll give you an idea of what we've been up to this weekend. 😊

Click here for access to the Dropbox file. 

Miss R

Handas Suprise, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 16th Mar 2018 @ 4:58pm

We have been learning about Handas suprise. We tasted different fruit from different countries in the world. We have done lots of fun activities and we have an igloo and snowballs in our class. We have also thought about animals from the Arctic.

Hothersall fun!, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 16th Mar 2018 @ 4:55pm

We have all had a fab time at Hothersall,  the Tigers have been brilliant. Some photos to give you a little taste of what we have been up to, more to follow. Enjoy some family time this weekend, see you all on Monday, Mrs Pratten

Day 2, by Miss Reynolds

Date: 15th Mar 2018 @ 11:33am

We're currently on beacon fell... it is a bit drizzly but we are still buzzing to be splashing around in the mud whilst orienteering. Turns out Laila is quite the map reader and Eryn falls down the hill with the most style. I've tried to upload pictures again but it's not having it... there are some fantastic ones though! 

Miss R

Day 1 - Hothersall , by Miss Reynolds

Date: 14th Mar 2018 @ 5:04pm

I've tried roughly 20 times to update the blog... come on try number 21! We had a really excellent first day with survival skills, orienteering and zip wiring! Our first night went (surprisingly) smoothly - everyone was tucked up getting to sleep by 10 and people are just getting up now. We're going to play some early morning footy!

Hopefully update you again soon with some pictures! 

Miss R

Hothersall Tomorrow!, by Miss Reynolds

Date: 13th Mar 2018 @ 4:19pm

Tomorrow is finally the day!

Please check the kit list to make sure that you have everything that you might need and can I remind children to come in activity gear tomorrow at normal school time. The buses aren't likely to be here until 9.50ish, so if you could just drop off your children with their bags in the hall and we will sort it out when the buses arrive.

Please can I also remind you to bring: a) a packed lunch for tomorrow and b) any medication/inhalers/calpol etc in a bag with your child's name and instructions for use. If your child has migraines/headaches/general aches & pains that you would usually just administer Calpol for, please send this with your child too so we can give it if needed.

I think that is everything! The children know their activity groups and have been asked to pair themselves up for sleeping arrangements - this may change if there are too many issues, but it seemed that most parents/children had a clear idea of who would work best for them, as I know staying away from home for 2 nights is going to be a challenge for some in itself.

I will try to update the blog with photos of the days as we go on, but can't promise anything as wifi apparently is notoriously patchy - if not, all photos will be up on the blog when we get back.

Hope you're all as excited as me!

Se you tomorrow!

Miss R.

This week...., by Mrs Pratten

Date: 12th Mar 2018 @ 9:32pm

Hope you all had a great weekend and that mums were suitabley spoiled yesterday🙂

This week the Penguins 🐧 will be in...

English - planning and writing their own magic beanstalk story, persuading people to visit a farm.

Maths - finding fractions of amounts, position and direction

Science - monitoring our seeds growing , looking at how the cress in different places has grown

Jigsaw - the importance of relaxing, growth mindset work

PE - gymnastics

Another busy week🙃

We are sad to say that the cress with no water has died, which is what we predicated, we are still keeping an eye on the cress with water in different places,watch this space!

Anderton Centre - Trip, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 12th Mar 2018 @ 7:17pm

We have had an amazing day today.  The children have been a credit to themselves, well-behaved, asked great questions and had lots of fun despite the wet start to the day.

Thank you to Mr Scanlan, Mrs Bradley, Mr Kennedy, Miss Gardner and Mrs Gray for all their help today. 

Here are just a few of the many photos.

The Giraffes Week Ahead, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 11th Mar 2018 @ 10:21pm

  English - this week we will be completing our work around potions, using fronted adverbials, looking at the prefixies anti and inter

Maths - Shape and position

Music - Preparation for our Music concert on Wednesday 21st March 9am. 

P.E. - orienteering

PSHE/Jigsaw - Healthy me - focus on drugs.  What are they? Do they all look the same?  How can we stay safe around them?  

R,E.- We will be practising for our Easter Service and thinking about sacrifice

Computing- we will be learning the difference between the internet and the world wide web

Topic- complete fact sheets about the Eiffel tower

French- we will continue to learn the French vocabulary for popular playground games

ART/DT- the children will design a passport cover/ticket holder

The Week Ahead - 12th March, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 11th Mar 2018 @ 8:00pm

We have an exciting week ahead as always.

On Monday we will be going to the Anderton centre for a Stone Age experience day.  

English - this week we will be building upon our trip experiences to write instructions for how to build a fire and a shelter and write a survival guide to the Stone Aage,

Maths - Shape

Music - Preparation for our Music concert on Wednesday 21st March 9am. 

P.E. - Swimming 

PSHE/Jigsaw - Healthy me - focus on drugs.  What are they? Do they all look the same?  How can we stay safe around them?  

R,E.- We will be practising for our Easter Service. 

Last weeks photos, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 11th Mar 2018 @ 7:44pm

Last Week's photos will be appearing soon.

I left my ipad at school!  Mrs Catterall 

Here we are -  Mother's Day Lunch and English posters on hunting and farming in the Stone Age

Week Beginning Monday 12th March 2018, by Mrs Coxhead

Date: 10th Mar 2018 @ 1:34pm

Hello :)

I hope that you are all well.

Here is what we are doing this week:

I look forward to seeing you on Monday!

Mrs Coxhead

Growing success!, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 9th Mar 2018 @ 4:53pm

We were very excited today to discover that our seeds have started to germinate and grow roots. 😊

We have also set up an experiment to find out about what will happen to a plant if it doesn't have water, light or warmth.

We have put cress in different places around the classroom and outside. One has been well watered and one not, we have made predictions about what we think will happen.  

Finley put his in the light in the classroom, Victoria put hers in the dark cupboard. Next Riley put his in the quad area by Year 1 outside and Poppy placed hers on the heater. We can' wait to see and find out what happen!

Happy Mothers Day, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 7th Mar 2018 @ 6:31pm

Happy Mothers Day to all the lovely ladies of Longton.

year 5 blog by Lennon and Max!, by Miss Reynolds

Date: 7th Mar 2018 @ 3:08pm

Today,we had a fun packed action day because we made arts and crafts also we made foam paper aeroplanes and we even finished are Eddie the eagle cards from World book day.In the afternoon we decorated our  foam planes,however not all of them went to plan because some of them were too light and others were too heavy.So then Miss Reynolds told us that we could have a go at flying them for the first time(in the ball-cage). Then we went back into class and Miss Reynolds  gave us each a maltesers to help with our planes,and what do you know it helped alot of us in class because it balanced the weight of the planes and also people on there first go  got -4 and then got 8 and a half  meters so it helped them alot.So what will happen next with the foam paper aeroplanes...

Creating planes! , by Miss Reynolds

Date: 7th Mar 2018 @ 2:54pm

Today we have been making our own planes... we've had a few cut fingers and had to tweak our designs, but finally got them flying in the end! 

Back to normal, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 6th Mar 2018 @ 8:28pm

I had a lovely welcome back from the Penguins and it's good to be back and feeling a lot better.

Today we started to think about the setting and characters for our farm stories, tomorrow we will be talking about possible problems that might happen and they could be solved. Then on to planning and writing what I know will be some super stories.

In Maths we will be continuing with division and sharing.

In science today we talked about how plants grow and where the seeds might come from.  We started to make some grass heads and plant some beans, peas and sunflowers. We need to make sure we look after them and are looking forward to seeing what will happen as they grow.

We also looked at some seeds in fruits and vegetables  and discussed where the seeds can be found, then drew some excellent pictures by looking really carefully.

Jigsaw work this week is about being motivated and also how important it is to relax.

Hope all the visitors to school today enjoyed  being " ladies who lunch" , the children were certainly very excited 😊More tomorrow!