Longton Primary School: : Blog items

Quantum Theatre - WW1 Your country needs you., by Mrs Catterall

Date: 25th Nov 2018 @ 12:02pm

Fun filled learning., by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 23rd Nov 2018 @ 1:44pm

It has been another amazing week in the Bongo classroom. We have been particularly creative on Thursday and Friday.

To consolidate our learning about perimeter and area we created paintings in the style of Piet Mondrian. The first task was to draw out our squares and rectangles and then calculate the perimeter and area. Next the paintings were created.

We have been focussing on instructions in English and using the idea of George's aftershave in our book Desireable the children created potions that would give them superpowers. Potions made, ingredient lists written a great job was done using imperative verbs and time conjunctions to write first class instructions. They will be on display soon in a class book.

Today has been group work Friday , the children have worked in groups of 3 to complete a problem solving task calculating the perimeter needed for enclosing a range of dinosaurs. There was great group work and super mathematical discussions.

The rest of the day has seen us swallowed up in enthusiasm for WRITING 😀. Yes it is official the Bongos love writing and have thrown themselves whole heartedly into creating a range of Foodimal characters to use in a story . They are busy creating settings now.

Thursday night torch night, by Miss McDowell

Date: 22nd Nov 2018 @ 5:45pm

Tonight the children had the opportunity to have fun in the dark with torches.

They had fun making funny faces and shadow puppets !!

Chocolate maths😁, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 22nd Nov 2018 @ 3:32pm

Today the elephants have been learning about halves and quarters using shapes and chocolate! We talked about halving and how it has to be 2 equal parts. We used Kitkats to show halves first and then quarters ( and yes we did eat them!)

It was lovely to then hear the children at lunchtime talking about half a sandwich, half a pizza and even discussing quarters.Elephants you really are fantastic!!

So far this week..., by Mrs McLennan

Date: 21st Nov 2018 @ 4:32pm

We have found out this week that most children in the school travel to school by car. We went in groups to each class to find out this information and recorded our findings in a table. We have also used our geography skills to pinpoint the capital cities of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland on to a map. In English, we are on to our second book by Hilary Robinson, ‘Peace Lily.’

Last week's fun ! , by Miss McDowell

Date: 19th Nov 2018 @ 5:05pm

Last week we saved a number of boxes for the children to be creative and use.

Finger painting fun!, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 19th Nov 2018 @ 3:34pm

The elephants have really been inspired by Van Gogh.They added to their sketch books on Friday and had a go today at painting the real thing! They were all very proud of their artwork and quite rightly so.

This morning we enjoyed being outside and role playing the story of the gingerbread man.We split into groups, decided who was who and then sequenced the events. We showed our stories to the other groups. We were all fantastic!

Thursday fun, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 16th Nov 2018 @ 9:15am

Class Compliment, by Mrs McLennan

Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 2:20pm

This afternoon we have enjoyed our well deserved class compliment. We have snuggled under blankets and watched a film. We had a choice of 4 films and voted in secret and posted our vote into the ballot box. We discussed the idea of democracy as it’s Parliament Week.

The Gruffalos Child, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 13th Nov 2018 @ 8:00pm

We are really enjoying this story. We are using a light panel to draw pictures and write words cursive style. We are playing in the Gruffalo woods on the tough tray and we love the Gruffalo Cafe - yummy roasted fix and scrambled snake.

Making repeating patterns, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 13th Nov 2018 @ 2:59pm

This week in Maths we are learning about repeating patterns.Today we had to make a pattern for our friend to copy and say what the rule was.We had fun!

As part of anti bullying week we talked about using kind words and wrote kind words about our friends. We put them in the kind jar and are reading a few everyday. Today Noah and Marley had kind words said about them.

We also had a vote as part of our parliament week learning , yesterday we learnt about the Houses of Parliament and an interesting fact about Big Ben. Ask your child if they can remember!

WW1gliders, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 10th Nov 2018 @ 11:12am

We made WW1 gliders then had a go at flying them.

Pebbles at the play park, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 10th Nov 2018 @ 11:10am

The Koalas walked to the play park to place their WW1 pebbles.

Remembrance week, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 9th Nov 2018 @ 3:44pm

The elephants have had a busy week of learning. Decorating pebbles and taking them to the church , which looked beautiful inside. Designing and making a glider. Well done to Sienna and Pippa who won the design competition and well done to Olive who flew hers the furthest in Year 1. We all added a handprint to make a beautiful poppy wreath.

Thank you for dresssing up and making your donations , you all looked fantastic😊

Remembrance, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 9th Nov 2018 @ 1:04pm

Remembrance Week, by Mrs McLennan

Date: 9th Nov 2018 @ 12:21pm

Poetry, gliding, poppies have been the central theme to our week of Remembrance.

Lest We Forget, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 8th Nov 2018 @ 4:41pm

Take a look at our whole class art work for WW1 remembrance week.

Morning club fun , by Miss McDowell

Date: 8th Nov 2018 @ 8:20am

The children have made their own classroom and are taking turns to be the teacher.

Also children talking about their books.

Bubble wrap popping fun , by Miss McDowell

Date: 8th Nov 2018 @ 8:12am

We found some bubble wrap and the children enjoyed popping them by jumping on them.

Wednesday fun in the ckub, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 7th Nov 2018 @ 4:57pm

The children were having so much fun tonight.

Year 2 sporty morning , by Mrs Pratten

Date: 6th Nov 2018 @ 8:34pm

Year 2 enjoyed a sporty morning at Leyland ,taking part in lots of different activities.They said it was “amazing” and “good fun”. Well done Year 2 🤪

Fun learning -Remembrance week, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 6th Nov 2018 @ 8:17pm

Today we designed and decorated our gliders, we are going to test fly them tomorrow, they look great. Some lovely ideas.

We have also started to make our pebbles ready to put in the village on Friday, the elephants keep on surprising me with their fabulous and thoughtful ideas. well done!

Where the poppies now grow., by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 6th Nov 2018 @ 12:06pm

We have started to think about WW1 and Remembrance Day. We are making a whole class canvas and using lots of skills, painting, sewing, sticking and cutting. It is nearly finished, take a look at what we have done so far.