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Christmas fun, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 20th Dec 2017 @ 6:40pm

Take a look at what we have been up to this week x

More festive fun!, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 20th Dec 2017 @ 3:33pm

We enjoyed another breakfast with Santa this morning and had fun decorating our mini Christmas cakes, hope they taste good!

Nativity songs, by Miss Adamson

Date: 20th Dec 2017 @ 12:43pm

Thank you for supporting our nativity songs. The children and Mrs Bolton worked really hard to learn all those words and tunes!

Christmas Party, by Miss Adamson

Date: 20th Dec 2017 @ 12:40pm

A wonderful time was had at the Reception and KS1 Christmas party. There was brilliant dancing and lots of fun games. We met Father Christmas, again!

Breakfast with Santa, by Miss Adamson

Date: 20th Dec 2017 @ 12:37pm

Many of the meerkats met Father Christmas for breakfast on Tuesday and Wednesday. Here are some pictures.

Feeling Christmassy, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 19th Dec 2017 @ 3:43pm

The Penguins ๐Ÿง enjoyed making their Christmas cakes and are looking forward to decorating them tomorrow. Breakfast with Santa was fun and our party was fabulous! Thank you Thomas and Sam you did a great job as DJ's๐Ÿ™‚๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ˜Ž

Week Beginning Monday 18th December 2017, by Miss Adamson

Date: 16th Dec 2017 @ 11:24am

Hello :) 

I hope that you are enjoying this weekend. As that last week before Christmas can be a little different to our usual routine, I have presented what we are doing by days, as opposed to subject:

Monday

  1. Addition and subtraciton
  2. Christmas writing
  3. Phonics review
  4. Making Christmas cards
Tuesday
  1. Addition and subtraction
  2. Phonics review
  3. Christmas writing
  4. Christmas party (children can bring party clothes in a bag to change into after lunch)

Wednesday

  1. Christmas songs with parents
  2. Change reading books
  3. Music
  4. Bee Musical practice

Thursday

  1. Whole school fun sing
  2. Phonics review
  3. Bee Musical practice
  4. Christmas carols in church

Friday

Christmas Craft Day:

  1. Christmas angels
  2. Phonics review
  3. Christmas Snowmen
  4. Christmas Candles
  5. Christmas stars

I look forward to seeing you all on Monday,

Miss Adamson

Christmas Dinner Day, by Miss Adamson

Date: 16th Dec 2017 @ 10:23am

On Thursday, Silvana prepared a wonderful Christmas dinner. Here are some pictures.

Starry Night Continued, by Miss Adamson

Date: 16th Dec 2017 @ 10:18am

On Friday afternoon we finished our Starry Night pictures. Here are some of the finished pieces.

Last week reminders, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 15th Dec 2017 @ 5:15pm

Just a few reminders for next week.

Christmas party ๐ŸŽ‰Tuesday afternoon.The children should come to school in their uniform as usual and bring their party things to change into.

Breakfast with Santa ๐ŸŽ… is on Tuesday and Wednesday morning.

Christmas carol service is Thursday afternoon, please note school closes on Friday.

A big thank you to those parents/ grandparents who have volunteered to help on Monday and Wednesday morning. We are making mini Christmas cakes, baking them on Monday and decorating them on Wednesday, we really do appreciate your support and help.

Hope you all have a fab weekend ๐Ÿ™‚

James And Luke S Blog No.6, by Miss Reynolds

Date: 15th Dec 2017 @ 3:28pm

This week in Year 5 , we have skyped Silla (Miss Reynolds' Icelandic friend) and asked her some questions. Here are some examples:how do you say hello in Icelandic? ANSWER:hallo (it sounds German), Do you find it hot or cold in Iceland? ANSWER: Mostly cold, it was -8°C at 11:50am (when we skyped Silla). In Maths, we did some Christmas Questions like: Kerry Buys ten boxes of sixor 89p each,four boxes of six luxury mince pies for £2 eac and four boxes of free from mince pies for £1.75 each, what is the average cost of each mince pie to the nearest penny? We worked out the total cost of the mince pies and then we worked out how much mince pies Kerry has.

James And Luke S Blog No.6, by Miss Reynolds

Date: 15th Dec 2017 @ 3:28pm

This week in Year 5 , we have skyped Silla (Miss Reynolds' Icelandic friend) and asked her some questions. Here are some examples:how do you say hello in Icelandic? ANSWER:hallo (it sounds German), Do you find it hot or cold in Iceland? ANSWER: Mostly cold, it was -8°C at 11:50am (when we skyped Silla). In Maths, we did some Christmas Questions like: Kerry Buys ten boxes of sixor 89p each,four boxes of six luxury mince pies for £2 eac and four boxes of free from mince pies for £1.75 each, what is the average cost of each mince pie to the nearest penny? We worked out the total cost of the mince pies and then we worked out how much mince pies Kerry has.

Christmas dinner fun, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 14th Dec 2017 @ 8:11pm

We all enjoyed our Christmas lunch today, thank you Sylvana and the team๐Ÿ‘

Starry Night, by Miss Adamson

Date: 13th Dec 2017 @ 5:29pm

We began painting Starry Night in the style of Van Gogh.

Wedding Day, by Miss Adamson

Date: 13th Dec 2017 @ 5:27pm

Here are a dew pictures from class on the big day!

Week beginning 11th December , by Mrs Pratten

Date: 11th Dec 2017 @ 8:29am

This week we are :

Maths - using a number line to help us add up coins and work out change

English - some imaginative writing based around Christmas adverts, Mogs calamighty Christmas, The greatest gift

Science - finishing off our topic by looking at keeping clean and safety around medicine

Jigsaw - continuing work on  bullying and looking at being a good friend

Christmas crafts 

...and of course we have our pantomime trip tomorrow and Christmas lunch and jumper day on Thursday.

The week ahead , by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 10th Dec 2017 @ 6:14pm

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas x trees and decorations are beginning to appear in lots of houses around Longton and school is looking very Christmassy! The week ahead is very exciting. We are visiting the panto of Aladdin on Tuesday and on Thursday it is Christmas lunch day.

Throughout the week we will continue with some structure and read the story of Aladdin, phonics will continue with all the children learning new phase 3 sounds. In maths we will count in 1's, 2's and 5's  and make snowmen with 2d shapes and add buttons.

We have started to make Christmas cards and calendars and children will be painting a very special person who visits on Christmas Eve. 

Fun, fun, fun!

Week Beginning Monday 11th December 2017, by Miss Adamson

Date: 9th Dec 2017 @ 4:26pm

Hello all :) 

I hope that you are having a lovely weekend.

Apologies for the lack of pictures from last week - my iPad is at school and I am not! I'll upload them when we are reunited.

This is what we are doing this week:

English

We are learning about the Aladdin story and writing our wishes, favourite parts of the story and discussing the beginning, middle and end.

Maths

We are practising number bonds to 20 and related subtraction facts.

Phonics

Mrs Thomson's group are reviewing split diagraphs and practising multi-syllabic words. Miss Adamson's group are learning ew, aw and wh.

Art

We are learning about Starry Night by Van Gogh. 

Jigsaw

This week our lesson is called 'Celebrating Difference, Celebrating Me'

Pantomime

On Tuesday we are going to see Aladdin.

I look forward to seeing you on Monday.

Take care,

Miss Adamson

Luke S blog no.1 wedding day, by Miss Reynolds

Date: 8th Dec 2017 @ 3:03pm

This Thursday we have had a wedding day. We learned about lots of different types of marriges. Love comes in all sorts of different shapes and sizes. Love doesn't alwvays mean marrige and marrige doesn't always mean love. You don't always have to marry someone because you love them.You can get an arranged marrige. In some religions a man can have as much wives as he wants. Some people commit suicide because people make fun of them being gay or lesbian. You can have platonic love to someone which means you  like a friend.

Wedding day fun., by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 7th Dec 2017 @ 9:52pm

We have had a lively day designing wedding dresses, decorating wedding cakes and making a card with all our friends on.

Wedding day fun, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 7th Dec 2017 @ 5:42pm

Thank you for helping the Penguins look super smart for the wedding day, they all looked ๐Ÿ˜‰

First we looked at how Christians traditionally plan and celebrate marriage.We then looked at how Hindus celebrate marriage,we found out the bride wears a purple and white dress,the groom,white. They move round a flame 4 times, the bride receives a necklace to show she is married and they give garlands to show the joining of the 2 families.We had a go at making our own paper garlands, we had to use a growth mindset because it was tricky! By the end we were experts and they looked great.

 

Lights,Camels,Action!, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 7th Dec 2017 @ 7:56am

A big well done to the Penguins for their fantastic production, you were fabulous darlings, definitely a 10 from me!

Lights, Camel, Action!, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 6th Dec 2017 @ 10:20pm

I am so proud of all the Bongos and Penguins, they have all been Superstars this week for their Christmas Play.  Fantastic singers, dancers and actors, we truly have some very talented children.  Well done everyone x 

Mrs Catterall 

English, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 6th Dec 2017 @ 10:12pm

This  week we have been reading a story all about crayons! The children have worked together in teams to create posters for each of the different crayons, exploring their feelings and thoughts and personalities in the story.  

DT - Baking and cooking., by Mrs Catterall

Date: 6th Dec 2017 @ 10:11pm

Our first group of chefs took to the kitchen on Friday afternoon with Mrs Neilson to make soup, bread and they even had a go at making their own butter.  The other children will be having their turn over the next 2 weeks.   Hopefully someone might save me some to try!