Our blogs
Homework, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 18th Oct 2017 @ 5:33pm
Apparatus fun, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 18th Oct 2017 @ 4:05pm
The Penguins enjoyed using their gymnastic skills in the large apparatus today and were amazing, very creative and showed great skills🙂
They have also designed their tile all about Longton and some have started to print, they are looking good!
My reading are enjoying the reading corner and finding facts about dinosaurs
James And Joe Blog No.3, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 18th Oct 2017 @ 3:14pm
This Week In Year 5, we have been doing Science Experiments! We did an observation of different objects such as : iron blocks,raw wool ,cow skin and wire wool. We Went round the class and observed the various items on the tabels. We recorded the items that interested us and wrote: how they felt, how they look, how they smell and questions about the object that interested us. We Really enjoyed our afternoon and we hope that Miss Reynolds sets us another fun lesson like this! (Note, Miss Reynolds Always Does Fun Lessons And Your Child Is Getting Good Education) <--- The Irony of this sentence is not lost on Miss Reynolds 
By James Platt And Joe Fish.
The week, by Miss Leigh
Date: 18th Oct 2017 @ 10:45am
Our learning this week.
Spelling: prefix un and dis
English: writing descriptions using descriptive language with colons and semi colons.
Grammar: colons and semi colons
Maths: Roman numerals, arithmetic and long division.
Science and PE will be th Mrs fletcher this week.
The week ahead, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 15th Oct 2017 @ 10:20pm
Our lessons this week will focus on
Spelling - homophones
Grammar - understanding of vocabulary - noun, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, apostrophe, inverted commas, pronoun.
Reading - a variety of response activities to the Dick King Smith stories the children have been reading.
English - writing a story, back to the future themed.
Maths - mental and formal subtraction.
Topic - comparing maps of Preston Docks. Bob is coming into class to tell us some stories of the docks.
PSHE - story massage, British Value - Respect, discussions.
R.E. - Buddhism, the festival of Wesak.
P.E. - swimming Thursday, Cricket Friday.
Week beginning the 16th October, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 15th Oct 2017 @ 8:17pm
This week will look like this:
English: Finish writing our persuasive letters to Solar Tech and starting to look at persuasive filming.
GPS: Reviewing and revising basic word class
Maths: Addition and Subtraction (statistics with a focus on line graphs) - try this silly game to remind yourselves about data handling and the ways we can present statistics.
Science: Material properties
Computing: Research using search engines and considering relevance of websites & using excel to present data.
PSHE: Jigsaw - British Values
French: Introductions
PE: Gymnastics and Cricket.
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!
This Week In the Penguins......, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 15th Oct 2017 @ 7:35pm
In our learning this week we are in ......
Maths - adding and subtracting, using apparatus and drawing pictorially
English - non fiction work, finding out facts about looking after dogs and cats, how fiction is different to non fiction
Writing- if I went back in time what adventure would I have?
PE - gymnastics, using apparatus to continue our work (2 lessons this week!)
Music - learning about percussionist instruments
History- finding out about street names and thinking about questions to ask about old Longton, what school was like and who might have lived in their house.
Art- making a template out of a polystyrene tile, choosing their design
PSHE - feelings when we are being a good friend and when we fall out with our friends
Pics from last week, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 15th Oct 2017 @ 5:12pm
Rainbow fish, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 15th Oct 2017 @ 5:12pm
This week our main focus is the story rainbow fish. It will help us to think about sharing and friendships and so links nicely into all the PSHE jigsaw learning we have been doing.
We continue with our number learning, which has been a real success by all this half term. We continue to count to 20 forwards and back....look at learnits....add fish! And much more. In phonics we are learning the sounds h, b, f, ff and also learning the tricky words I, no, go, to into and the.
we will continue to learn songs, tap a beat and rhythm in music ready to share with you all the following week.
Week Beginning Monday 16th October 2017, by Miss Adamson
Date: 15th Oct 2017 @ 10:35am
Hello all :)
I hope that you are enjoying the weekend.
This is what we are doing this week:
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English |
We are writing instructions for how to make a superhero hand puppet (now that we are the experts!). We will also learn about plurals. |
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Maths |
We are using a number line to help us add and subtract. We will decide which is the most efficient way to add to numbers and what happens to the number line when we subtract. We will introduce the concept of diffference through 'how many more?' and 'how many less?'. |
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Phonics |
Mrs Thomson's group are working on: or (shut the door), ur (nurse with a purse), ow (brown cow). Miss Adamson's group are reviewing er (better letter) and learning ir (whirl and twirl) and wh as in what, where when etc and ph as in alphabet. |
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Handwriting |
I hope that we will finish our work on curly caterpillar letters this week (letters that begin with the magic c). |
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P.E. |
We are playing the Honey Pot game. We will use underarm throws and running skills for this game. |
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RE/Maths |
In the afternoons this week we are learning about Diwali because Hindus celebrate Diwali on Thursday 19th October 2017. We are going to see what 2D shapes we can identify in Rangoli patterns and design our own. We will also learn about Diwali gifts and 3D shapes. We'll guess what the gift could be depending on the 3D shape of the parcel! |
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Wednesday afternoon |
On Wednesday afternoon, Miss Adamson is at a meeting so Mrs Ainsworth will be teaching the Meerkats. |
I look forward to seeing you all next week,
Miss Adamson
Poetry, by Miss Adamson
Date: 14th Oct 2017 @ 12:58pm
This week the meerkats have written four poems each! They are inspired by Paul Cookson poems that Mrs Thomson and Miss Adamson learned about when we were out of class last Monday. The children wrote That's No Place to Put a Pet, two mini east poems and a riddle. The riddles have been entered into a young writers competition (see www.youngwriters.co.uk/competitions/little-riddlers). I am sure the judges will be astounded by all the children's wonderful writing.
Here re are some pictures of the children looking for inspiration for their mini east poem.
Jigsaw - helping others learn, by Miss Adamson
Date: 14th Oct 2017 @ 12:52pm
We made freeze frames to show how we could help others to learn. The rest of the class guessed what we were doing in the freeze frames.
Hand puppets, by Miss Adamson
Date: 14th Oct 2017 @ 12:47pm
This week we designed and made our super hero hand puppets. When we were finished we decided if we were pleased with what we had made and wrote a sentence to explain why.
Mindfulness , by Mr Pearson
Date: 13th Oct 2017 @ 11:33am
Today we completed an experiment, the children had a choice of a minstrel chocolate or a blueberry. Two of the minstrels were place in front of the children, the first minstrel the children just consumed straight away.
The second minstrel, the children had to look at it first, turn it over, then smell it, touch their lower lip with it, then place it on their tongue and roll it around their mouth, finally they had to bite it in half and slowly saviour the taste.
The children will be doing this with their food over the next and have encouraged to train their parents.
The hippocampus part of our brain were used to take in all of the senses of eating the minstrel.
The hippocampus was then explained to the children as it links our memories together, when we sleep our brain files them away. An amazing lesson from Tanya once again.
Yoga Friday , by Mr Pearson
Date: 13th Oct 2017 @ 11:15am
Today we have been studying how to work on our balance in yoga, warrior 3, flamingo.
Mr Pearson joined in, no photographic evidence exists though. 😀
Projects, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 12th Oct 2017 @ 9:39pm
Wow, what a creative bunch you are Bongos. We have had a whole variety of projects this week; times tables, shadow posters and investigations, biographies, map work, French vocabulary to name just a few.
Well done
Enterprise, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 12th Oct 2017 @ 8:59pm
Last Friday was a busy day. The Bongos spent the morning preparing for our enterprise event. Thank you to Mrs Gray and Sandye for supporting the children in the kitchen.
The marshmallows sold quickly with only a few left. The children were amazing and ran their stall with very little support.
We made £134.20 profit. This money goes directly to the class to spend on items to support their learning. We are hoping to use some of it as part of an exciting trip which I am arranging for later on in the school year. As a class we will discuss what else we would like to purchase.
Thank you to everyone who came and supported the event.
Longton Village, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 12th Oct 2017 @ 6:42pm
We walked in to Longton today and had a look at the shops and street furniture . We drew some great pictures and had lots of fun as people waved to us (a lot!) and trucks honked their horns, we loved it!!
Song for the class assembly, by Mr Pearson
Date: 12th Oct 2017 @ 9:56am
Please find below the song for our class assembly next Friday 20th October.
Verse 1
From many sources it’s brought to life,
The result electrifies!
Sent out through cables, to all our homes,
Bringing daily power suppli-i-ies.
Chorus It’s got the power, it’s got the strength.
It’s a current energy!
Let’s get connected, let’s get switched on
To e-lec-tric-i-ty-y-y!
Verse 2
It uses circuits, to make its rounds!
Flows through wires to plugs and more!
We find a socket and turn it on,
Powering gadgets we ad-o-o-ore!
Chorus It’s got the power……
Verse 3
Conductors like it, let it pass through.
Insulators like to block!
Electric power, treat it with care!
Or you’ll get a nasty sho-o-ock!
Chorus It’s got the power……
Repeat E-lec-tric-i-ty-y-y!’
E-lec-tric-i-ty-y-y!’
Homework, by Miss Reynolds
Date: 12th Oct 2017 @ 7:26am
Hello! Homework is going out today - Mrs Woolley has got it. 
Sorry I didn't get round to writing this last night because of parents evening!
The English homework is resisiting being uploaded I'm afraid - but it's just a sheet working on adverbs to recap what we've been doing in class.
Maths is working more on perimeter of rectilinear shapes and the spicy challenge is being given out with the normal homework this week (on the back). I'd really love it is everyone could have a go at some of it - even if it is just 1 question! We did the pentagon one in class, so you can just do that one if you like! Remember there are two rules for regular shapes - 1) All the sides are the same length and 2) All the angles are the same length. It's not regular if it doesn't follow BOTH rules!
Also, there will be a dojo point for everyone who gets their homework in before the weekend.
Leaflet research, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 11th Oct 2017 @ 8:41pm
The Penguins enjoyed finding out about leaflets this afternoon.They looked at them and then we discussed what we could see on them e.g. photos, maps, directions, writing. We wrote out a check list for when we are writing our own leaflets about Longton.
We are looking forward to finding out more about Longton tomorrow🙂
This Week In the Penguins, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 10th Oct 2017 @ 10:05pm
We are thinking about:
English- practising our cursive handwriting, non- fiction , looking at leaflets and making a leaflet about Longton.
Maths - number bonds to 20, adding 3 and 4 numbers together, problem solving- missing numbers
PSHE - what makes a good friend
Music - exploring instruments
PE - gymnastics - combining moves to make a sequence, throwing and catching games
Geography. - walk to Longton village, stand by St Andrews church and observe the shops and street furniture they can see ( Thursday morning)
Art- make sketches of different places in Longton , combine and choose an image that sums up Longton, start to create their printing tile
Thank you for your support with projects , the children have been very proud to show and share them and we have all enjoyed listening🙂
Dance with beyond sport , by Miss Leigh
Date: 10th Oct 2017 @ 9:26am
A little bit of dancing to start our day.
This week 9th October , by Miss Leigh
Date: 10th Oct 2017 @ 9:11am
This week we are completing some assessments. These will take up most of our mornings.
Afternoons we will be focusing on comprehension and spelling as well as getting ready for our assembly on Friday morning.
We hope to see you there.
Switches around school, by Mr Pearson
Date: 9th Oct 2017 @ 9:39pm
The Giraffes went on a mission to find different types of switches about school to help our understanding of electricity.
Do you recognise any?
