Longton Primary School: : Blog items

Day 2, by Miss Reynolds

Date: 15th Mar 2018 @ 11:33am

We're currently on beacon fell... it is a bit drizzly but we are still buzzing to be splashing around in the mud whilst orienteering. Turns out Laila is quite the map reader and Eryn falls down the hill with the most style. I've tried to upload pictures again but it's not having it... there are some fantastic ones though!

Miss R

Day 1 - Hothersall , by Miss Reynolds

Date: 14th Mar 2018 @ 5:04pm

I've tried roughly 20 times to update the blog... come on try number 21! We had a really excellent first day with survival skills, orienteering and zip wiring! Our first night went (surprisingly) smoothly - everyone was tucked up getting to sleep by 10 and people are just getting up now. We're going to play some early morning footy!

Hopefully update you again soon with some pictures!

Miss R

Hothersall Tomorrow!, by Miss Reynolds

Date: 13th Mar 2018 @ 4:19pm

Tomorrow is finally the day!

Please check the kit list to make sure that you have everything that you might need and can I remind children to come in activity gear tomorrow at normal school time. The buses aren't likely to be here until 9.50ish, so if you could just drop off your children with their bags in the hall and we will sort it out when the buses arrive.

Please can I also remind you to bring: a) a packed lunch for tomorrow and b) any medication/inhalers/calpol etc in a bag with your child's name and instructions for use. If your child has migraines/headaches/general aches & pains that you would usually just administer Calpol for, please send this with your child too so we can give it if needed.

I think that is everything! The children know their activity groups and have been asked to pair themselves up for sleeping arrangements - this may change if there are too many issues, but it seemed that most parents/children had a clear idea of who would work best for them, as I know staying away from home for 2 nights is going to be a challenge for some in itself.

I will try to update the blog with photos of the days as we go on, but can't promise anything as wifi apparently is notoriously patchy - if not, all photos will be up on the blog when we get back.

Hope you're all as excited as me!

Se you tomorrow!

Miss R.

This week...., by Mrs Pratten

Date: 12th Mar 2018 @ 9:32pm

Hope you all had a great weekend and that mums were suitabley spoiled yesterday🙂

This week the Penguins 🐧 will be in...

English - planning and writing their own magic beanstalk story, persuading people to visit a farm.

Maths - finding fractions of amounts, position and direction

Science - monitoring our seeds growing , looking at how the cress in different places has grown

Jigsaw - the importance of relaxing, growth mindset work

PE - gymnastics

Another busy week🙃

We are sad to say that the cress with no water has died, which is what we predicated, we are still keeping an eye on the cress with water in different places,watch this space!

Anderton Centre - Trip, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 12th Mar 2018 @ 7:17pm

We have had an amazing day today. The children have been a credit to themselves, well-behaved, asked great questions and had lots of fun despite the wet start to the day.

Thank you to Mr Scanlan, Mrs Bradley, Mr Kennedy, Miss Gardner and Mrs Gray for all their help today.

Here are just a few of the many photos.

The Giraffes Week Ahead, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 11th Mar 2018 @ 10:21pm

English - this week we will be completing our work around potions, using fronted adverbials, looking at the prefixies anti and inter

Maths - Shape and position

Music - Preparation for our Music concert on Wednesday 21st March 9am.

P.E. - orienteering

PSHE/Jigsaw - Healthy me - focus on drugs. What are they? Do they all look the same? How can we stay safe around them?

R,E.- We will be practising for our Easter Service and thinking about sacrifice

Computing- we will be learning the difference between the internet and the world wide web

Topic- complete fact sheets about the Eiffel tower

French- we will continue to learn the French vocabulary for popular playground games

ART/DT- the children will design a passport cover/ticket holder

The Week Ahead - 12th March, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 11th Mar 2018 @ 8:00pm

We have an exciting week ahead as always.

On Monday we will be going to the Anderton centre for a Stone Age experience day.

English - this week we will be building upon our trip experiences to write instructions for how to build a fire and a shelter and write a survival guide to the Stone Aage,

Maths - Shape

Music - Preparation for our Music concert on Wednesday 21st March 9am.

P.E. - Swimming

PSHE/Jigsaw - Healthy me - focus on drugs. What are they? Do they all look the same? How can we stay safe around them?

R,E.- We will be practising for our Easter Service.

Last weeks photos, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 11th Mar 2018 @ 7:44pm

Last Week's photos will be appearing soon.

I left my ipad at school! Mrs Catterall

Here we are - Mother's Day Lunch and English posters on hunting and farming in the Stone Age

Week Beginning Monday 12th March 2018, by Mrs Coxhead

Date: 10th Mar 2018 @ 1:34pm

Hello :)

I hope that you are all well.

Here is what we are doing this week:

English	We are reading and writing about the Gingerbread Man.Sorry, it is a change from the curriculum overview but a great story!
Maths	We are learning about multiplication and division. We are using our knowledge of counting in 2s, 5s and 10s to help us.
Phonics	Mrs Coxhead's group are reviewing consonant clusters and words with endings. Mrs Thomson's group are reading and writing different pronounciations of 'y'.
Jigsaw	We are learning about household objects that are safe and unsafe.
RE	We are learning about Easter and the theme of forgiveness.
PE	We are continuing our dance unit.
Reading	We are still doing our daily reading. The children are coping really well with our new timetable and we hope it will help them grow into even more confident readers!

I look forward to seeing you on Monday!

Mrs Coxhead

Growing success!, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 9th Mar 2018 @ 4:53pm

We were very excited today to discover that our seeds have started to germinate and grow roots. 😊

We have also set up an experiment to find out about what will happen to a plant if it doesn't have water, light or warmth.

We have put cress in different places around the classroom and outside. One has been well watered and one not, we have made predictions about what we think will happen.

Finley put his in the light in the classroom, Victoria put hers in the dark cupboard. Next Riley put his in the quad area by Year 1 outside and Poppy placed hers on the heater. We can' wait to see and find out what happen!

Happy Mothers Day, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 7th Mar 2018 @ 6:31pm

Happy Mothers Day to all the lovely ladies of Longton.

year 5 blog by Lennon and Max!, by Miss Reynolds

Date: 7th Mar 2018 @ 3:08pm

Today,we had a fun packed action day because we made arts and crafts also we made foam paper aeroplanes and we even finished are Eddie the eagle cards from World book day.In the afternoon we decorated our foam planes,however not all of them went to plan because some of them were too light and others were too heavy.So then Miss Reynolds told us that we could have a go at flying them for the first time(in the ball-cage). Then we went back into class and Miss Reynolds gave us each a maltesers to help with our planes,and what do you know it helped alot of us in class because it balanced the weight of the planes and also people on there first go got -4 and then got 8 and a half meters so it helped them alot.So what will happen next with the foam paper aeroplanes...

Creating planes! , by Miss Reynolds

Date: 7th Mar 2018 @ 2:54pm

Today we have been making our own planes... we've had a few cut fingers and had to tweak our designs, but finally got them flying in the end!

Back to normal, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 6th Mar 2018 @ 8:28pm

I had a lovely welcome back from the Penguins and it's good to be back and feeling a lot better.

Today we started to think about the setting and characters for our farm stories, tomorrow we will be talking about possible problems that might happen and they could be solved. Then on to planning and writing what I know will be some super stories.

In Maths we will be continuing with division and sharing.

In science today we talked about how plants grow and where the seeds might come from. We started to make some grass heads and plant some beans, peas and sunflowers. We need to make sure we look after them and are looking forward to seeing what will happen as they grow.

We also looked at some seeds in fruits and vegetables and discussed where the seeds can be found, then drew some excellent pictures by looking really carefully.

Jigsaw work this week is about being motivated and also how important it is to relax.

Hope all the visitors to school today enjoyed being " ladies who lunch" , the children were certainly very excited 😊More tomorrow!

Curriculum Overview Spring 2, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 4th Mar 2018 @ 12:45pm

The curriculum overviews for this half term are in the Files to Download section of our class page.

World Book Day - winter Olympic themed, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 3rd Mar 2018 @ 4:32pm

We had some great costumes in the Bongo tribe. Well done everyone. During the day we shared books with each other and members of our families. We read the story of Snowman Paul and the Winter Olympics. We developed our co-ordinate understanding through creation of figures in Winter Olympic sporting poses.

In the afternoon we had to imagine Longton Primary School were taking part in the Bobsleigh event. We designed a Longton Primary School Bobsleigh as well as the outfit the competeters would wear. In groups we wrote about the preparations for the race, how it felt to be stood at the top waiting to take part as well as, once the race was over, waiting for the results.

Fun in the Snow, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 3rd Mar 2018 @ 4:24pm

Stone Age Painting, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 3rd Mar 2018 @ 4:22pm

It was very windy and very cold, here are some more photos of our cave paintings.

World Book Day, by Mrs Coxhead

Date: 3rd Mar 2018 @ 12:32pm

Here are some pictures of us reading in class.

Daffodils, by Mrs Coxhead

Date: 3rd Mar 2018 @ 12:19pm

We looked closely at daffodils and drew what we could see. Next, we painted them!

Week Beginning Monday 5th March 2018, by Mrs Coxhead

Date: 3rd Mar 2018 @ 12:17pm

Hello :)

I hope that you are enjoying your weekend! Here is what we are doing this week:

Maths	We are learnin about fractions. Specifically, we are finding halves and quarters of shapes and amounts.
English	We are completing our Little Red Riding Hood writing. We are describing a setting and then planning and writing our own innovated stories.
Reading	We will continue to follow our new Guided Reading timetable. That means that children will read for twenty minutes per day. Books will be changed again on Friday.
Phonics	Mrs Thomson's group are learning more alternative pronounciations for the same grapheme. Mrs Coxhead's group are using the graphemes they know to help them to read words containing 'ing' and 'ed' suffixes.
Art	We are drawing and painting portraits in the style of Modigliani.
Jigsaw	We are learning to importance of keeping ourselves clean.
PE	We are continuing our Three Little Pigs dance unit.
Celebration Assembly	On Monday, we are walking to church for our termly celebration assembly.