: Blog items
World book day, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 8th Mar 2019 @ 12:32pm
The Elephants all looked amazing today and have enjoyed world book day so far, thank you for all your efforts! So far we have had a story session at the library with Tom,he read us some funny stories, we have had our photo taken and written about our character and have had a story quiz.This afternoon we are looking forward to the book swap, making a book mark and reading more stories! A lovely day!
World Book Day 2019, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 8th Mar 2019 @ 10:35am
The Bongos all look amazing in their costumes. This morning they have shared the opening pages of Alice Dent and The Incredible Germs by Gwen Lowe. They have looked at cartoon illustrations of germs and learnt how to draw cartoons in the style of the author/illustrator Calvin Innes and are now creating their own germ cartoon characters.
We have been to the library for a story session with Tom. The first story was called Morris the mankiest monster and when the children heard something disgusting they had to shout urrgh . There were lots of things in this book that were truly disgusting however we all enjoyed hearing the story.
I Say Ooh You Say Aah was the next story which we had to listen to carefully as it was full of instructions to follow. The children got to shout aah, shout underpants and pat their heads. It really was great fun.
Next we played a story telling game. Everyone had to stand up in a circle. , Tom started the game with a word and we all had to say a word. It was more great fun .
This afternoon the children have been busy creating bookmarks to use when they are reading for pleasure .
Library visit, by Mrs McLennan
Date: 8th Mar 2019 @ 10:14am
A visit to see Tom at the library to celebrate the wonder of story. We listened to three stories and had the chance to make lots of sound effects...happy reading!
Seed observation , by Mrs McLennan
Date: 8th Mar 2019 @ 8:09am
We spent the afternoon observing a range of seeds. We used hand lenses to observe the detail more closely, drew pictures and measured carefully.
This weeks activities, by Ms McDowell
Date: 7th Mar 2019 @ 5:10pm
Some of the activities we have done this week including making football tables, rainbow painting. Which we all saw a rainbow outside !
Well done Bongos, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 7th Mar 2019 @ 8:12am
Congratulations to the Bongos for being awarded tribe of the term a thoroughly deserved accolade.
Miss Connell will be giving out the homework tasks this week on my behalf.
Music fun, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 6th Mar 2019 @ 7:18pm
Well done to Elizabeth and Thomas who took part in a swimming gala and won lots of medals, we are very proud of you and enjoyed hearing your exciting news!
Today the Elephants enjoyed their regular music lesson with Mrs Bolton, they had a funky warm up and then played the glocks , it sounded very good 🎵🎵
Yesterday the children bought home their treasure boxes that they made in Jigsaw lessons, they completed lots of different challenges and made a reward for themselves out of clay, well d9ne Elephants for being up for the challenge!
Pancake Day, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 5th Mar 2019 @ 1:19pm
Today we made pancakes, we thought about what we might give up for Lent. Then we tasted the pancakes, yum!
The little red hen, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 4th Mar 2019 @ 5:56pm
The story this week is the little red hen. We have been writing lots of superb sentences all about the hen. Longton Reception Class vets has opened this week and has had patients already. Also we are finding out about Noah and his ark.
Pebbles, by Mrs McLennan
Date: 4th Mar 2019 @ 4:27pm
Today we have been using conjunctions in our writing to extend our ideas. We were writing sentences with happy and sad endings.
I wonder if your costume is sorted for World Book day yet...could you bring in your favourite book to share and a pebble too. The pebble needs to be a similar size to last time: not too big, not too small, just right!
Maths, by Mrs McLennan
Date: 1st Mar 2019 @ 5:27pm
Continuing with the theme of Jim and the beanstalk, today we used our maths skills to make a giant footprint. Firstly we drew round our foot then measured the length and width. We doubled these numbers using our addition skills to make a footprint twice as big as our own. We couldn’t believe how much bigger it looked. For some of us we doubled this again so that our new footprint really was gigantic in size.
It’s been busy!, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 1st Mar 2019 @ 2:21pm
It has been an incredibly busy first week back. The Bongos have got straight back into the swing of school life and have been working incredibly hard. They have produced some wonderful English work on our new merpeople theme. It has been a Science week learning about teeth and setting up a tooth decay investigation which we will start on Monday .
Maths and Art, by Miss Leigh
Date: 1st Mar 2019 @ 11:56am
Today, we’ve done a bit of maths and Art at the same time! We made are own pie charts on either Harry Potter, traveling or footballers’ goals. We had to find the degrees by dividing your number by the total then times it by 360 to get your answer
Garden has begun , by Ms McDowell
Date: 1st Mar 2019 @ 9:11am
The children this morning have started to plant some flowers.
They have recycled plastic milk bottles to make plant pots.
With the help and guidance from Sandye they have hung them in our garden to attract wildlife.
Homework, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 28th Feb 2019 @ 5:50pm
Over the next few weeks homework will be to learn their lines for the play. This is a big step up from previous years, when they have had a supporting role. I know they will all be amazing, your support in helping them learn the lines without a sheet is much appreciated. Further details of tickets etc will be sent out next week.
Any additional time can be spent on spelling the year 3/4 statutory words and practising times tables. All children checked their username and password worked for Times Table Rockstars today, please keep using this. If you have lost your login information please come and see me.
First week back, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 28th Feb 2019 @ 5:44pm
It has been a busy first week back. The Penguins have started to think about their play - further info to follow.
In Maths we have been working on multiplication and using the grid method to solve calculations like 35 x 8, 126 x 4, and 34 x 52.
We have been developing our understanding of conjunctions this week, thinking about the differences between co-ordinating and subordinating conjunctions and which to use in a sentence. Ask them what FANBOYS stand for?
In English we have read the story the 'Escape from Pompeii' and written descriptive paragraphs of the city before the eruption. Tomorrow we are going to focus the the eruption itself.
We watched a video of someone drawing a mountain scene at the start of the week and then tried to create our own using pencil crayons to develop our shading skills.
Art, by Mrs McLennan
Date: 28th Feb 2019 @ 4:04pm
Our theme for the term is Diggin’ it and so we have started by reading the story Jim and the beanstalk written by Raymond Briggs. Following on from this we have improved our observational skills in drawing leaves and have pressed leaves on to clay to see the imprint and detail.
Fabulous February Fun , by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 27th Feb 2019 @ 9:28pm
We have thoroughly enjoyed and made the most of the sun this week. We have played together and learnt lots in the great outdoors.
Learning about plants, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 26th Feb 2019 @ 2:57pm
This afternoon we have started to enjoy our science learning, finding out all about plants. We discussed what a plant was and then explored the school grounds choosing 4 plants to draw. We had a sheet to help us find out what the names of some of them were.
This morning in Maths we had fun doubling, some of us played a rocket doubling game with a friend.
The gritter came to school, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 25th Feb 2019 @ 9:38pm
Welcome back after a beautiful February half term. We had a fab suprise today as Holly Chilloboughy the new Lancashire County Council gritter came to school.
A gritter visit!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 25th Feb 2019 @ 3:46pm
Today we had an exciting visit from a gritter truck. All classes went to see it and we learnt some very interesting facts, ask me what I can remember! It was huge, we were able to walk around it and look carefully at all the different parts to it. The one that came to school was called Holly Chilloughby , we have been asked to think of funny names for the others.Get your thinking caps on and let us know ,we will enter your ideas into the competition.
First day back , by Miss Reynolds
Date: 25th Feb 2019 @ 3:23pm
Today was our first day of school and in the morning a gritter came in to the car park, we need 5 names for the new gritters. We stood and learned about gritters and that there are 52 of them in Lancashire which is equivalent to 4000 miles of road to cover. We are doing a new topic about inventors and inventions, like how Alexander Bell invented the telephone. We read a book about Professor Branestawm , we only read chapter 1 in which he built a time machine.
Jigsaw - Dreams and Goals, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 22nd Feb 2019 @ 2:59pm
We enjoyed working in teams to design and create some little garden ornaments for our Garden of Dreams.
Musical mayhem, by Mrs McLennan
Date: 15th Feb 2019 @ 3:33pm
What a week! We have made our instruments and are really pleased with them. We thought about what materials we would use, how we would join each part and how we would decorate it so it didn’t look like a cardboard box! I wonder if this has made us want to be a designer or a musician.
Brilliant Bongos, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 15th Feb 2019 @ 1:25pm
The Bongos have had a truly wonderful half term. They have all shown themselves to have outstanding attitudes to learning and have been having lots of fun as well as working hard.
This afternoon they are enjoying a movie to celebrate gaining their 20th class compliment. In fact since the middle of November they have gained 25 , an achievement they are very proud of.
I hope you all have a great half term. Remember to pop something in your passport, enjoy a book and have a go on Times Table Rockstars.
