Longton Primary School: : Blog items

Date: 21st Jan 2019 @ 3:30pm

Last week we did an experiment on cress to see who could grow the tallest cress. One team did torch light only, another team did sugar water and a team did salt water. Some of the other things the teams did was maximise and minimise the amount of water. The one with the torch light is growing the tallest since its trying to reach the sun light. The salt and sugar water one is not growing any cress, some others also didn't grow at all.

WOW, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 18th Jan 2019 @ 3:10pm

WOW -well done to all of the Koalas for getting their minions up to the top this week. Have a great weekend x x x

Brilliant Bongos, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 18th Jan 2019 @ 3:02pm

Thank you to everyone who came along to watch our assembly. We have had 2 class compliments for our performance. We are very proud of ourselves because we all spoke clearly and remembered our lines. We even impressed Mrs Fletcher and Mr Kennedy because we knew the Tyger poem by William Blake off by heart ! The theme of our assembly was awe and wonder, we think we were AWESOME .

Looking forward to next week we are all looking forward to going to Burnley Youth Theatre to meet our new friends from Barden Primary School .

This weeks activities, by Miss McDowell

Date: 18th Jan 2019 @ 2:42pm

Hi

we have settled well into club.

The children have taken part in lots of activities this week including, baking, stress ball making and some even do their homework!

Keep looking as as each week we will post more of the fun we have in the club.

Kelly, Emma and Sandye

Friday - campfire, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 18th Jan 2019 @ 12:08pm

We ended our Stone Age week with a campfire, hot chocolate and toasted marshmallows.

It certainly was cold today.

Science, by Mrs McLennan

Date: 17th Jan 2019 @ 4:14pm

As part of our topic ‘Design Away’ we started the afternoon listening to the story Rosie Revere, Engineer. She’s an inventor who makes gadgets from different materials. We then used our senses to try and guess objects that were hidden in a bag and then sort the objects into groups. Could the objects be squashed or not?

Swimming hat found, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 17th Jan 2019 @ 3:42pm

I have this swimming hat in case you discover you have not got yours.

Letters received , by Mrs McLennan

Date: 17th Jan 2019 @ 3:34pm

During our English lesson yesterday, we received a letter from Hilary Robinson. Not one letter but 31 personal responses to the letters the children wrote. How exciting!

Phonics in the sun, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 17th Jan 2019 @ 12:34pm

We had a great phonics session enjoying the sunshine.We had to look for pebbles which had sounds on and write a word with that sound. We were fantastic!

Trip to Burnley Youth Theatre, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 17th Jan 2019 @ 8:19am

Please send your permission slips back today or tomorrow for our exciting day of drama on Monday.

Class Assembly, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 17th Jan 2019 @ 8:18am

We look forward to seeing you at our class assembly tomorrow, Friday 18th January. We will be starting at around 9am.

Cave painting 2, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 16th Jan 2019 @ 2:38pm

Wednesday - Cave painting, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 16th Jan 2019 @ 10:47am

We are practising our drawing of animals and experimenting with using charcoal and chalks to make the desired effect. Look back later to see us painting in a cave (you have to use your imagination).

Tuesday - Hunting and Gathering, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 16th Jan 2019 @ 7:03am

We spent sometime outside searching the grounds for plants to eat. We had to be careful as some were poisonous. There were also some large animals about. We found some very large ones and practised our spear throwing.

Inside we became historians and scientists. How do we know what the Stone Age people ate? We could explore their poo! We put on plastic gloves and searched for evidence of what they might have eaten. We found remains of plant leaves, fish bones, seeds and berries. There were some great faces as they did this.

We carried on with trying to light a fire with flint and steel. It is very difficult.

In the afternoon we researched and started to make posters of the different prehistoric animals.

Measuring fun, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 15th Jan 2019 @ 3:21pm

We have been comparing the mass of objects in Maths.We had to find things heavier and lighter than a bag of sugar ,1kg, order some objects heavier to lightest using the balancing scales and then to find the smallest and tallest in our group but we were not allowed to go back to back or line up!

Year 3 and 4 athletics , by Mrs Pratten

Date: 15th Jan 2019 @ 3:18pm

Welll done to Year 3 and 4 who took part in the athletics today.They all tried hard and were a credit to school, thank you to all who helped😊

Correction , by Mrs McLennan

Date: 14th Jan 2019 @ 4:34pm

A correction to the date for the projects. They need to be in 28th January and not as stated in the letter that went home on Friday.

Letter writing, by Mrs McLennan

Date: 14th Jan 2019 @ 4:31pm

The letters to the author Hilary Robinson have been sent and received. What next I wonder..?

French with Madame Palm , by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 14th Jan 2019 @ 2:37pm

This afternoon we were lucky enough to have a French lesson with Madame Palk a French teacher from Hutton . We met Bob and told him our names. We went over our numbers with actions .

We then used actions to say our ages and then to extend our number knowledge. We played guess the number using plus haut -( higher )and plus bas - (lower ).

Next we learnt the days of the week and discussed grammatical differences .

we had a lot of fun

Monday - shelter building, axe and spear making., by Mrs Catterall

Date: 14th Jan 2019 @ 12:40pm