: Blog items
Dance workshop, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 1st Jul 2025 @ 8:07am
Exploring Microhabitats, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 1st Jul 2025 @ 8:04am
Football Superstars, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 1st Jul 2025 @ 8:02am
Tennis coach, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 1st Jul 2025 @ 7:59am
Trip to the library, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 1st Jul 2025 @ 7:58am
Trip to Hickorys, by Mr Pearson
Date: 1st Jul 2025 @ 7:56am
Year Six walked down to Hickory's in Hutton for a well desrved pankecake and milkshake to celebrate their time at Longton Primary.
A time in the cinema com[pleted the day.
Ronald McDonald charity day, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 1st Jul 2025 @ 7:55am
First Aid, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 1st Jul 2025 @ 7:51am
Sustainability day - Eco team, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 26th Jun 2025 @ 6:51pm
Some members of the Eco team enjoyed a day at Ewood Park learning how to help with climate change and be more environmentaly friendly. They explored different stalls and activities in the market place, had to have a zero waste lunch, created posters and even made a recycled outfit for a 'trashion' show. The children really enjoyed the day and Izzy and Esther were amazing models on the catwalk - well done Eco team.
Show and Tell, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 13th Jun 2025 @ 11:22am
Next week our show and tell will take place on Tuesday and Thursday afternoon. The children can bring in a small item or picture to share that we will look after. Please do not send anything valuable into school thank you.
Happy Holidays!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 29th May 2025 @ 10:37am
Happy Homework -
Please continue reading daily - the kangaroos are very proud of their Summer Challenge reading. We are hoping that we can celebrate that many of the children have read each day.
The 'All about me' books have been sent home for their final update. The children decided in class that they will writie their own diary entry as their last update. Please encourage independent writing / encourage the children to listen to the sounds they want to write and also refer back to the handwriting sheet for correct letter formation. They can add pictures / photographs / tickets.
Mrs. Morrison and I look forward to reading this exciting diary entry.
Year 4 Times Table Check, by Mrs Grogan
Date: 13th May 2025 @ 9:08pm
The times table check is only round the corner now and will be done in school on the week commencing 9th June (first week back after May half term). Please encourage your children to practice their times tables at home. This can be done in many ways including online using their TTRockstars log ins. Here is also a useful link for them to use to practice. Multiplication Tables Check - 2025 - Timestables.co.uk
No need for wellies at Bring Yer Wellies!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 11th May 2025 @ 8:37pm
The sun was shining brightly and so were our fabulous and curious kangaroos on their adventure day at Bring Yer Wellies!
We started with a sandcastle making competition followed by a talk about looking after plants and trees. The children all planted a chive plant and were told how to look after it. We need to leave the plants on the kitchen window sill until our very cold nights pass, just enough watering - not too much!
We had a picnic outside after we had looked at the wormery. The children found the wormery and compost boxes fascinating!
We then went for a walk down a hill to play some relay games. Finally we walked up the hill for a den building session in the woods. A perfect afternoon! Fun, teamwork and fresh air!
- Homework - this week homework will be the same as last week please.
Daily reading - to help the children with their summer reading challenge. - See the information stuck in the reading record book - we have highlighted which letters your child finds tricky to form. Please use the large letter formation card that was sent home to help your child practice the letters from the correct starting point. Correcting these letters will help with your child's writing journey in year one.
Highlights of our half term!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 4th Apr 2025 @ 11:51am
How quickly has this half term flown by?
The kangaroos have worked so hard and have had so much fun along the way!
A huge thank you for your support with reading and homework.
Reading books have been sent home for the holiday along with the 'All about me' books for a little update. We have been encouraging the children to write in their books - simple sentences (I went to the park, I made a den) and add a picture that they have drawn.
The kangaroos have been writing numerals this week and we made little booklets which have also been sent home.
Have a lovely break.
Cuerden Valley 2025, by Mr Kennedy
Date: 4th Apr 2025 @ 11:41am
Had a fabulous time in the spring term going to Cuerden Valley to do our river studies!
DT Champions, by Mr Kennedy
Date: 4th Apr 2025 @ 11:37am
A proud tribe! They have worked so hard to complete their DT projects through learning the skill of a blanket stitch! Check out some examples below.
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 :)
Reading., by Mrs Thomson
Date: 20th Mar 2025 @ 5:43pm
This week we have noticed that the children are struggling to read daily. Instead of sending homework today we would like you to concentrate on reading the school story books at home and revisiting the sounds in the plastic wallet.
We would like the children to keep revisiting their 'tricky rainbow words' and reading each day. Very shortly we will move on to learning new sounds daily again so it will help the children if they feel confident and secure in their current books.
We are currently working on our Gardening LPS+ badge. The children are doing lots of the work in school but there are two tasks for them to complete at home to achieve this badge before we finish for the summer holidays -
- Visit a garden centre and take photographs of your favourite flowers. Write the names of the flowers down to show Mrs. Thomson.
- Help in your home garden. Please take a picture to bring into school showing what you do to help.
Thank you for your help and support,
Mrs. Thomson
Super Scientists!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 14th Mar 2025 @ 1:16pm
This week the Kangaroos have been Scientists! They have been identifying and labelling the different parts of a plant. We have started to grow beans, poppies and cornflowers. Next week we will be growing cress and looking at herbs.
We kept our science hats on for our special visitor on Wednesday. It was an amazing workshop about minibeasts, habitats, herbivores, omnivores and carnivores. I hope you enjoy the pictures.
Happy homework - please read every day and revisit the sounds in the wallet.
The week of days!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 7th Mar 2025 @ 12:01pm
What a wonderful week!
Pancake day, world book day and baby lambs coming to visit us day!
Monday - The kangaroos started their week with a show and tell session. We are encouraging the children to ask one another questions to find out more information. This is the day children can bring a picture, ticket or something that they would like to share with their friends (nothing valuable or breakable please)
Pancake day was fun. The children followed the method to make the pancakes, had a try at flipping them and then ate the pancakes after they had chosen their toppings. Following this, the kangaroos then wrote out the method for our class recipe book. Super writing kangaroos!
Our afternoon with the baby lambs was a treat! We found out a lot of information about lambs, feeding and the busy life of a farmer. Eleven children have decided that they would like to become a farmer!
World book day was a special day. We contributed to our school story about flying frogs! We had special stories to share with our year five buddies and we also went on a mini beast hunt.
NSPCC Pantosaurus - we had a circle time for this session. We talked about looking after our bodies, saying No and which adults we can always talk to. The kangaroos enjoyed the song and next week they will be creating a pair of pants for our NSPCC washing line. We will revisit our learning from the first session also.
Thank you for your support with daily reading.
Happy Homework!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 5th Mar 2025 @ 2:43pm
This week our homework is to look at the number 8. How many ways can you find to make 8? Can you use raisins / buttons to show this?
If you have any dominoes at home please try and find the dominoes that add up to 8.
Please continue to work hard with reading. Our new consanant clusters this week have been 'thr' and 'fl'. Can you find any of these words in your school or home reading books?
For the next seven days we will be collecting clear plastic yogurt pots - please send any in that you have.
Thank you
Mrs. Thomson
Welcome back!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 23rd Feb 2025 @ 3:46pm
I hope everyone has had a lovely break!
We are looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow. We have a half term ahead with lots of fun, learning and kangaroo adventures to enjoy!
Some highlights of our last half term for you to enjoy.
Wonderful Wednesday!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 22nd Jan 2025 @ 4:45pm
Today was a busy day full of learning inside and out. Den building, outdoor maths fun, junk modelling owls and several operations performed in our vets surgery!
This morning we had a wonderful time learning about the important role of the police. The kangaroos had prepared lots of questions for Sergeant Jo and PC Kev. The kangaroos were fascinated by their kit and enjoyed exploring the van.
Happy homework - Reading books will be changed in the morning and you will find new 'Rainbow tricky' words in your record book. We would appreciate your help with these words as well as revisiting the first set of 'Rainbow' words - my, me, I, of, is, the,was and to. (You can find these stuck in your reading record book earlier in the school year). Please continue to revisit the sounds from the sheet we sent home previously. New homework will be sent our next week which links to our maths number work.
Thank you
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😊
Lots of busy kangaroos!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 17th Jan 2025 @ 3:22pm
After a busy week the kangaroos enjoyed making their friend a hot chocolate today. In our PSHE / SCARF work we are doing lots of talking and activities about keeping safe and being a good friend. We are revisiting sharing, kindness, turn taking and using kind words.
In maths this week we have been looking at one more. Please have a go - perhaps hold up three fingers and ask what would one more be. We have been doing this up to 10.
Homework - Reading books and revisiting our sounds in our phonics wallet or phonics sheet.
Next week, as part of our keeping safe topic in PSHE we are having a visit from the police. We are very excited! Next week we are going to think of some questions that we would like to ask them. If you think of any questions whilst chatting to your child please feel free to send them in the bookbag.
Congratulations to our handwriting hero!! (Please see the pictures) This superhero cape and mask is presented each Monday in assembly. The children can wear their special cape all week to celebrate. This special reward has been introduced in each class.
