Longton Primary School: : Blog items

Enjoying reception class, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 13th Sep 2017 @ 5:51pm

Today we have been enjoying the autumn sunshine, making cauliflower cards using the interactive whiteboard and loads more x we even went into singing assembly to learn the harvest songs.

Penguin fun!, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 13th Sep 2017 @ 3:34pm

Penguins have had fun so far this week, doing gymnastics, chips and peas (otherwise known as tens and ones) and footprints for our Christmas cards (cauliflower cards)

Meet the teacher and other information can be downloaded and read from our tribes webpage., by Mr Pearson

Date: 13th Sep 2017 @ 1:55pm

Christmas cards in September!!!, by Mr Pearson

Date: 13th Sep 2017 @ 1:51pm

The giraffes have today been completing their Christmas cards, ready to send to the printers for time for Christmas.

An enjoyable afternoon, I hope lists for presents are not appearing too soon. 😀

Happy birthday to Baliee

Extra information, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 12th Sep 2017 @ 5:04pm

Thank you to those parents who were able to make meet the teacher, the information is now on the class page for yo to read at your leaisure!

After a discussion with parents at the metting we are going to start a "Penguin Library" on a Friday afternoon after school. Your children will be able to borrow books to read and share at home and return them the following week.

It will start this week

Meet the Teacher, by Miss Adamson

Date: 12th Sep 2017 @ 4:29pm

Thank you ever so much for coming to Meet the Teacher! If you couldn't come but would still like to chat, please drop in! On the class page I have added the paperwork from the session.

Many thanks,

Miss Adamson

Tuesday 12th September, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 12th Sep 2017 @ 4:14pm

Meet the teacher, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 12th Sep 2017 @ 4:11pm

Thank you to everyone who made it to meet the teacher. We talked about general routines, if you can start to leave your child at the door that would be great. The children have settled into school really well and this would be the next big progression.

I sent home WOW cards and class lists, we will put them in your bags if you did not attend. However there are WOW cards on the blog now for your to download.

Phonics wil start next week and we will send home phonics packs and reading books. Please try to encourage your child to read little and often, every day.

Please come along and ask if you are unsure of anything. Mrs Hothersall.

Meet the teacher , by Miss Leigh

Date: 12th Sep 2017 @ 3:39pm

Hello and Welcome back!

As we start the new school year it is always best to make sure that you know what is expected of your child. Now that they are in year 6, things might have become a little scary. Hopefully, this information will set out a few of the things which may be causing anxiety and help you to navigate the year ahead.

Curriculum: The programme of study for year 6 can be found online. See the useful links section on the class page. I have put the links on the blog for you if you’d like to look at them. We will be following these on our run up to SATS and afterwards to ensure that we are ready for High School.

Our Day: Mornings are spent learning English, Maths, GPS and Guided Reading. Mrs. Fletcher works with targeted small groups in the mornings. These groups are not fixed and will change. Afternoons are when we will look at History, Geography, ART, DT, Science, PE, RE, PHSE. Jigsaw is our fantastic new PHSE approach. Mrs Atkinson will take children out for interventions in the afternoon.

Expectations: Children are expected to challenge themselves with their learning. Lessons start promptly and teaching pace is fast. Children need to be prepared for their day with the equipment they need.

Homework: Given out on Thursday, returned by Tuesday. Late homework will be monitored as homework feeds directly into learning this year. Extra copies of homework are available in the stripy box. The quality of homework should be the same or better than their school work. Help is available on Fridays and Mondays. READING- still essential! Please try and discuss your child’s reading book with them each week. Make sure it is a challenging book.

Phones: Turned off and kept in the office during the day.

Bikes/Scooters: Can be stored in the Bike shed, children do not need to arrive earlier at school to use this facility.

Bookbags: No rucksacks please.

Residential: Robin Wood. 21-23^rd February. More information to follow next week. Cost is £199 per child.

SATS: Week of 14^th May in the mornings. Parents’ information session in the Spring term.

If, as we go through the year, you have any questions, please feel free to contact the office or speak to me on the playground.

Kind Regards,

Miss Leigh

Homework, by Miss Reynolds

Date: 12th Sep 2017 @ 2:28pm

Wednesday 13th Sept to be handed in Tuesday 19th Sept:

English Maths - including spicy challenge

Autumn 1 - Curriculum Overview, by Miss Reynolds

Date: 12th Sep 2017 @ 1:28pm

Download the file below for an overview of our curriculum for this half term.

Autumn 1 - Curriculum Overview

Introduction to year 5, by Miss Reynolds

Date: 12th Sep 2017 @ 1:25pm

Download the file below for a full overview of everything you need to know about Year 5.

Introduction to year 5

Week beginning the 11th September, by Miss Reynolds

Date: 12th Sep 2017 @ 1:18pm

Hello everybody! Sorry this is a bit late - I've just managed to navigate myself around the website!

This week will look like this:

English: Work around Beowulf and Grendel - focus on Thesaurus skills and semi-colons.

Maths: Place value, counting in steps of powers of 10 and Rounding

Geography: Rivers of the UK

History: Anglo-Saxons - Who were they?

PSHE: Jigsaw -

RE: Buddhism

French: Greetings

PE: Gymanstics and Quick 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!

Week Beginning Monday 11th September 2017, by Miss Adamson

Date: 11th Sep 2017 @ 8:39pm

Hello all :)

I hope that you have had a lovely weekend. This is what we are doing this week:

English	We are practising saying sentences before we read them and re-reading our sentences to check that they make sense. We are reading Superworm by Julia Donaldson.
Maths	We are learning to read number words from zero to twenty.
Science	We are designing our own superhero and labelling the parts of the human body. We are learning about the five senses and choosing which super sense we'd like our superheroes to have.
Jigsaw	We are learning about how to make our class a safe place for everyone to learn.
Cauliflour Cards	Believe it or not, we are preparing our Cauliflour Christmas cards to send home at the end of the week!
Relax Kids	We are focussing on the story of Superworm.
P.E.	We are working on running, hopping and rolling a ball.

I look forward to seeing you at Meet the Teacher tomorrow night. If you are unable to attend, I will send home your handouts with your child on Wednesday. I am more than happy to meet with anyone who cannot attend at another time - please let me know if you would like to..

Warm regards,

Miss Adamson

Number word bingo , by Miss Adamson

Date: 11th Sep 2017 @ 5:58pm

We played bingo to practise reading our number words to ten and twenty. We also watched the number word rap to help us to spell number words to ten!

Watch it here.

Superworm, by Miss Adamson

Date: 11th Sep 2017 @ 5:54pm

We read the story of Superworm and then hunted for some worms. We had to say our sentences into the magic microphone before we wrote them!

Welcome back , by Miss Leigh

Date: 11th Sep 2017 @ 5:14pm

Welcome Back Bears,

We've made an excellent start to the new school year. The tribe is really working hard to step up to those year 6 expectations and it's been a pleasure to see the children challenging themselves.

This week we will be learning about:

MATHS: Long Multiplicaiton and Long Division

ENGLISH: Class novel is Swiss Family Robinson. We will be learning about the setting, characters and using correctly punctuated dialogue for some extended writing at the end of the week.

Science: Exploring Adaptation of birds

Art: Texture

Jigsaw (PHSE): What is the difference between what we want and what we need?

RE: How is life like a journey?

PE: Beyond sport will be in on Tuesday morning.

Looks like we are going to have a great week. I hope to see as many parents as possible on Tuesday after school for our meet the teacher event.

See you there!!

The week ahead, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 11th Sep 2017 @ 4:34pm

English - starting our unit on Folk Takes. Reading a variety of stories and looking for similar patterns.

Spelling - revising suffixes

Grammar - speech marks

Maths - place value, what is the value of the digit? Which digit will change if I add 1, 10, 100?

Science - What is light? Skills in drawing a data table and writing a conclusion.

P.E. - we will have our first swimming lesson!

Jigsaw - understanding why rules are needed and linking this to rights and responsibilities.

Computing - word processing skills

R.E. - what / who is a leader?

Art - creating our Cauliflower Christmas cards.

Autumn walk and more, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 11th Sep 2017 @ 4:33pm

We walked around the fields to collect leaves. We made black and white elephants, we had a go at ordering numbers ourselves - we have worked really hard.

Monday 11th September-week ahead, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 11th Sep 2017 @ 4:32pm

This half term is all about Colour.

This week we will focus on the colours black and white. Our stimulus is a story called Elmer and Wilbur. Elmer is a colourful patchwork elephant and Wilbur is black and white.

The black and white theme willrun through the week, we will look at patterns and make black and white patterned elephants in the maths area. Also we will continue to count to 10 and beyond and we have already learnt our first learnit 1 + 1 =2 and so this week will learn 2 + 2 =.....

We will go on an autumn leaf walk and collect lots of autumn coloured leaves to make a class patchwork Elmer!

We continue with base lining the children to find out what they already know.

Its a fun filled week so watch out for any photos.

Exciting Electric , by Mr Pearson

Date: 11th Sep 2017 @ 3:14pm

Today we have started our topic about electricity and Mr Pearson took us outside to look at lightening conductors on the school chimney and the Church.

we have also studied similes in English, in maths we have studied decimal points to two places.

In GPS we have started to investigate frontal adverbials.

A very productive day.

Week beginning 11th September, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 11th Sep 2017 @ 12:33pm

Hope all the Penguins had a great weekend!

This Week we will be:

English- work based around Katie Morag delivers the mail

Maths - place value, tens and ones, ordering and comparing

Geography - where do I go to have fun?

Jigsaw - discussing rewards and consequences

RE- How do we show people they are special?

Computing- writing instructions in order, Algorithms

PE - gymnastics - jumping and landing

Throwing and catching

Art - sketching/ preparing Cauliflower cards

A busy busy week! Don't forget meet the teacher tomorrow.

A Fantastic first week, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 8th Sep 2017 @ 5:06pm

The Penguins enjoyed a jujitsu taster, please return reply slips if you want your child to join.

They had fun creating Jolly Postman maps this afternoon and well done to our first certificate winners👍

The Penguins have been amazing this week , well done , have a well deserved rest and a fantastic weekend🙂

We made it to Friday!, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 8th Sep 2017 @ 4:57pm

Well we made and we are still smiling. Everyone has had an amazing first week and I hope that the full time start has been OK for everyone.

Next week we are looking at the colours black and white and the story of Elmer the elephant. On Tuesday at 3.30 it is meet the teacher a chance to come in for a short chat and just a little more info about your child's time in Reception.