Year 2 - The Penguins: Blog items
Day 99 Morris Dancers, by Mr Pearson
Date: 7th Oct 2025 @ 8:45pm
Today a number of Morrison dancers descended on Longton Primary School to take part in the kickstart of the 100 day countdown to celebrate the 100th year of our amazing school. Three different morris dancing teams came together to demonstrate their skills. Some children will be having the opportunity to learn how to dance over the next few months.
100 days and counting, by Mr Pearson
Date: 7th Oct 2025 @ 8:30am
Monday 6th October is the day the 100 day countdown to the Longton Primary School centenary celebrations on the 16th January 2026.
We were joined in school today by the Deputy Lieutenant of Lancashire Mr Michael Conlon and his wife.
A special visitor, centenarian and ex teacher at Longton Primary Mrs Stewart and her daughter. Mrs Stewart entertained us with stories about her time as a teacher at Longton even teaching our very own Mrs Jackson.
Chair of Governors Jon Bates along with Mrs Brown, introduced the activities taking place over the coming weeks.
Researching in English, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 6th Oct 2025 @ 6:17pm
This week we have been learning about animals that live in the African savannah. We read a text and made a poster of the key facts we learnt.
Library visit, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 6th Oct 2025 @ 6:13pm
We love going to the library. Helen reads us 3 stories and we vote for the best. We do a craft activity and then we get to look at and read some of the amazing books in the library.
Magnificent Maths, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 11th Sep 2025 @ 9:41pm
The penguins love maths. We have been developing our knowledge of 2 digit numbers.
Tennis skills, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 11th Sep 2025 @ 9:38pm
This half term the penguins are enjoying having lessons from a tennis coach.
Year 1 dancers, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 1st Jul 2025 @ 4:17pm
Year 1 have been enjoying their dancing sessions travelling around the world.So far they have been to India, Africa and this week New Zealand learning the Haka.
They have really impressed the dance teacher with their moves!,
Library visit, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 1st Jul 2025 @ 4:09pm
The Penguins enjoyed their summer trip to the library.We had some stories about looking after the environment and how slugs can be helpful.We made a flower out of recycled magazines.
Fantastic learning, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 4th Apr 2025 @ 8:24am
The Penguins have had a fun half term with lots of fantastic learning. They loved dressing up for world book day and an Easter themed visit to the library. We had an amazing science workshop where we explored minibeasts. In our science lessons we planted sun flowers and observed them grow each week. The highlight was definitely making smoothies in DT!
Have a lovely Easter break, keep safe and see you all soon,
Mrs Pratten :)
Busy Penguins, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 17th Jan 2025 @ 4:25pm
This week the children have carried on learning about place value in maths, how many ones and how many tens in teen numbers.
In science we started learning about how animals can be grouped, we learnt all about mammals.
As geographers we found about where hot and cold countries are in relation to the equator.
Today in our scarf lesson we discussed our feelings in different situations, we worked in a small group to draw how it feels and how our body changes when we are unsure or feel unsafe.
Well done Harry our first super hero handwriter, who will it be next week?,
More learning next week, don't forget projects!
Have a lovely weekend😊
Happy New Year!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 10th Jan 2025 @ 3:41pm
Welcome back and a Happy New Year! Hope you all had a fun family time over the break and a big thank you from Mrs Regan and myself for our lovely gifts. Not expected at all but most appreciated.
The Penguins have settled well this week and have especially enjoyed the snowy weather.
We have also enjoyed our new story in English, Prince Cinders, we loved using adjectives to describe the characters and it was funny! In Maths we have been starting to explore numbers to twenty, thinking about how many tens and how many ones.
We loved being Geographers where we explored the globes and started to find out about the 7 continents. We even had a postcard from Asia!
Have a lovely weekend, Mrs P
A fun , busy week!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 13th Dec 2024 @ 3:04pm
A lovely week this week, the panto was fab on Monday, Christmas lunch delicious and breakfast with Santa amazing , all very festive!
We have also still enjoyed some normal learning, enjoying sketching features of Longton and sorting into human and physical features and trying to find them on a map. In maths learning all about 2D and 3D shapes and in English writing an information text all about Captain Scott who tried to be the first to reach the South Pole.
Next week we have a visit to the library on Tuesday morning for a Christmas story session and in the afternoon our party. On Thursday afternoon we will have our well earnt class compliment more details about this when the children have decided what they want!
Have a lovely weekend 🎄
Fabulous Penguins, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 29th Nov 2024 @ 2:25pm
A big well done from very proud teachers for an amazing nativity that has definitely got us all excited about Christmas !
The Penguins were so confident to speak, act and sing in front of everybody it was wonderful!
Learning fun, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 22nd Nov 2024 @ 2:32pm
We are busy rehearsing our Nativity Play, thank you for sending all the costumes in.
We are enjoying our new English story, the boy who sailed the world and learning about places in Geography, where we live.
In maths we have been adding, we enjoyed a chilly walk this morning collecting objects to add with and then making a number sentence with our friend . Eg I found 4 sticks , you have 3 leaves 4+3=7
Have a lovely weekend 😄
Great week in the Penguins, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 1st Nov 2024 @ 5:11pm
Lovely to see all the fabulous penguins back after half term, hope you all had a lovely break. Don't forget to tell me what you got up to in your holiday passports.
We have had an exciting week with a Halloween story session at the library, a Halloween disco and lots of fun learning!
We loved our new story, Not a stick, we used our imaginations to think how we could use different shaped sticks, like in the story.
In Maths we have been adding using the part whole model.
We loved our RE lesson where we were artists painting how we thought the world began, our last lesson on this unit. Some great ideas and lovely pictures.
Have a great weekend :)
Comparing toys, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 18th Oct 2024 @ 8:07am
Thank you so much for sending in the lovely toys for us to look at. It really did bring our learning alive as we were really able to compare old with new.
We loved using our last sense, the sense of touch, our skin, in our science lesson.
Thank you too for all the wonderful projects that came in, the children loved sharing them and we loved looking at them.
Have a fabulous break, enjoy time with your fabulous children,
Mrs Pratten and Mrs Regan
Fabulous learning, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 11th Oct 2024 @ 4:06pm
This week we have been comparing numbers using signs and language eg greater than, less than and equal to.
We have been doing lots of writing about our robots and in the style of Knuffle bunny.
In science we had fun on a listening walk and quiz.
We loved looking at Mrs Pratten's old toys and comparing old teddies with new ones in History.
Please bring in old toys on Thursday that you played with or grandparents. We would love to see them and we will be careful with them!
In RE we were thinking about the qualities needed to create the world, choosing the ones we thought best.
We are off to the Brickcroft on Tuesday looking for signs of Autumn, 🫰for good weather
Have a great weekend :)
Friday fun, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 4th Oct 2024 @ 4:41pm
Today we enjoyed using the chrome books in computing, we learnt how to log in by ourselves.
In music we used the glockenspiels trying to follow Mrs Darby's instructions, it was fun but noisy!
This afternoon we enjoyed learning about how some Hindus believe the world was created. We compared this to the creation story that some Cristians and Jewish people believe in. We liked the Hindu gods!
Have a lovely weekend, don't forget to get creative with projects! 😄
Friday fun, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 20th Sep 2024 @ 3:51pm
The Penguins are loving their computer lessons, developing their programming skills well.
In music they enjoyed using the instruments to join in with different songs.
Have a lovely weekend...and a rest🙃
See you Monday 👍😄
Fabulous Penguins, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 13th Sep 2024 @ 4:44pm
The Penguins have continued to be amazing as they settle into Year 1.
We had fun in science labelling a body (our friend) using sticky notes. Lots of giggles as we stuck the labels on heads, chins, feet !!!!
Today we enjoyed some maths in the sunshine. We collected stones and leaves and had to count how many altogether. If we changed them around ...did we still have the same amount?
Have a lovely weekend..hope the sun keeps shining 😎
Mrs Pratten😊
Perfect start for the Penguins, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 6th Sep 2024 @ 3:45pm
The lovely Penguins have settled in really well to Year 1 and have enjoyed being back together as a tribe, becoming familiar with routines and finding their way around the classroom.
This morning they enjoyed, computing - programming coding pets,music - finding the pulse and drama - fun games - all superstars!!
Hope you all have a lovely weekend and enjoy the sunshine😎
Y1 classroom, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 30th Aug 2024 @ 12:09pm
We are looking forward to welcoming you back on Monday
Last day enjoyment with our buddies, by Mr Pearson
Date: 22nd Jul 2024 @ 11:17am
First lesson t.oday the Penguin and Koala tribes came together for some challenges in the hall. Buddies had to build the highest towers, throw and catch different sized balls 20 times to each other. Next challenge was to design an imaginary animal.
Finally we had team challenge using the giant parachute.
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A fantastic day!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 17th Jul 2024 @ 10:16pm
Yesterday started in a perfect way! The children did a morning bog eyed jog around the school field. We ran, danced, sang and chatted all the way! We chatted so much that we had no idea how many laps we did! We then had breakfast outside with our school friends before setting off on a whole school walking bus around the village.
The penguins loved playing the 50 pence slide! Evie was in the lead before Hugo just beat her with his last slide! I think this game will be played a lot over the summer on your shiny floors.
We had a very special singing afternoon before Mrs.Wooley and Mrs.Fletcher were awarded their final school reports.
We are excited to go litter picking in Longton tomorrow and then we will be busy making our ice pops.
A message from Mrs.Regan, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 12th Jul 2024 @ 7:48am
Mrs.Regan is excited to see your sunflowers. Over the weekend please can you measure your sunflower and if possible send a picture of your penguin stood next to it. Mrs.Regan will announce the winner of the tallest sunflower towards the end of the week.
Thank you