Longton Primary School: : Blog items

Dolly wash and exploring shapes!, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 20th Sep 2017 @ 6:13pm

Projects!, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 20th Sep 2017 @ 3:54pm

Projects for this half term can be anything that we are leaning about, Katie Morag, places we play or you can tell us about something you do out of school e.g. Rainbows, swimming, football , gymnastics etc. it doesn't have to be a major project, small and simple is fine!

So far this week....., by Mrs Pratten

Date: 20th Sep 2017 @ 3:49pm

The Penguins have had fun taking part in a taster session for street dancing, using the iPads to programme Sratch, and finding out about Hindus. Today we took our learning to the park and practised our sketching skills, we are going to think about how we can improve the park later this week. We took our fruit and of course had to have a little play, enjoying the lovely sunshine☀️🙂

Homework, by Miss Reynolds

Date: 20th Sep 2017 @ 8:17am

Apparently I have been giving homework out a day early! So I won't be giving out a paper copy of the homework until tomorrow... But worry not my keen little tigers! If you feel like today is the day that you carpe diem and want to tackle that homework, feel free to download it from the links at the bottom!

Also, if you are thinking about what to do for your project homework, our topic is A Kingdom United - we are covering: everything about the Anglo-Saxons; British legends and folklore; British geography, including counties, climate, river and mountains. Make anything around one of these topics! Some ideas we have had in class have been: designing, creating and presenting Anglo-Saxon shields; a research powerpoint to present to the class on a river, mountain or any area of the UK - perhaps with some holiday pics if you've been there before; and a homemade comic of a British legend of folklore tale. Be as creative as you like!

English Maths

Jigsaw, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 19th Sep 2017 @ 9:51pm

Today we played some games as part of our jigsaw work. We discussed and explored how our actions impact on others. What rules were needed for the games to be played successfully and the consequences of these. We have begun to think about the rewards and consequences in school linked to this idea.

Streetdance, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 19th Sep 2017 @ 9:31pm

On Monday we had a go at learning some streetdance moves. Not many photos as I was trying to learn the moves myself. Letters have gone home about the Monday night club.

Science, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 19th Sep 2017 @ 9:27pm

On Monday we explored a variety of resources to discover how we see. We learnt that in order to see we need a light source. That light travels in straight lines and is reflected off surfaces into our eyes. We turned the lights on and off and watched the size of our pupils change, they got bigger in the dark and smaller in the light. We investigated light using different equipment.

The Week ahead, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 19th Sep 2017 @ 9:19pm

Spelling- contractions, words with the prefixes un- and dis-

Grammar - using speech marks.

English - writing a conversation using direct speech.

Maths - addition and subtraction of 2 and 3 digit numbers

Science - light - how do we see? Reflection.

Jigsaw - farmyard acting game and treasure keeper. Discussion regarding rules and consequences.

P.E. - swimming and cricket.

R.E. - qualities of a leader.

Jigsaw - feeling proud, by Miss Adamson

Date: 19th Sep 2017 @ 6:30pm

We learned about feeling proud on Monday. Here we are speaking to our partners.

Street dance taster, by Miss Adamson

Date: 19th Sep 2017 @ 6:28pm

Adele kindly gave us a taster of street dance after school club!

Senses Hunt, by Miss Adamson

Date: 19th Sep 2017 @ 6:26pm

We used our senses to go for a hunt.

Random dice 🎲 website, by Mr Pearson

Date: 19th Sep 2017 @ 4:54pm

To play our favourite maths game at home you can use this website

https://www.random.org/dice/?num=3

to provide you with random dice throws

Terrific Tuesday , by Mr Pearson

Date: 19th Sep 2017 @ 4:52pm

This week in Science we have been learning about electricity. We had a go at writing a script for a presenter of a TV show to explain how it is generated. We have also looked at the dangers of electricity at home.

In maths we have been doing standard written method of addition. Today we have done letters that stood for numbers and then we added the numbers and tried to get the biggest number possible.

Also we did a mathematical bingo game we picked six numbers between 20 -40 then rolled three dice and we did lots of different methods to work out the answers in our books the person who crossed all there numbers of first is the winner.

In English Have been writing descriptions of characters from James and the Giant Peach using adjectives.

wopps in the morning, learning how to play the flute.

Beyond sport: boxing week 1 , by Miss Leigh

Date: 19th Sep 2017 @ 10:05am

Have a look at our morning!

Dance taster, by Mr Pearson

Date: 18th Sep 2017 @ 8:37pm

The giraffes had fun this morning during a dancing taster.

The week ahead, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 18th Sep 2017 @ 7:03pm

This week we are looking at the colour red. We will be reading the story of little red riding hood, thinking about the characters and setting of the story.

We are starting phonics and will learn a new sound each day the sounds this week are s, a, t, p. We should then be able to make simple words for eg. Sat, tap, pat. Yeah the start of reading.

We will be sending home the phonics packs so please encourage your child to tell you what each sound/phoneme is and then have a go at writing that letter.

In maths we are counting to 20, adding granny's cakes and having a little look at shapes.

We will be baking in Friday just like the cakes that red riding hood took to granny.

Fun, fun and more fun!

The week ahead, by Miss Leigh

Date: 18th Sep 2017 @ 6:54pm

Hope you've all had a relaxing weekend and the Arithmetic homework wasn't too bad. Don't worry if you struggled. There are questions on there that we've not covered yet, but you might have had a go at them or you might want to see if you can have a go at them on next weeks homework.

English: We will be looking at instructions as we work though the next 4 chapters of Swiss Family Robinson.

GPS- ible/able/ibly/ably words, rules for short vowel sounds, and there, they're and their

Maths - Rounding Millions and Decimals in context, Long division reasoning.

PE: Streetdance and Beyond sport

Science: Adaption of specific types of animals

Art: Cauliflower cards

Geography: Continents, countries and cities with a focus on America

Trip letters for Robin Wood will go out later this week (wednesday) acompanied by a parent mail.

Fronted adverbial , by Mr Pearson

Date: 18th Sep 2017 @ 10:00am

In GPS this morning we have been looking at fronted adverbials.

Week Beginning Monday 18th September 2017, by Miss Adamson

Date: 17th Sep 2017 @ 5:43pm

Hello all :)

I hope that you have had a lovely weekend. This is what we are doing this week:

English	We are reading the story of Supertato. In our writing I would like us to really focus on always beginning sentences with capital letters.
Maths	We are learning about place value and counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. We will begin to understand tens and ones for numbers beyond ten and twenty. We will work on counting in 5s and counting in 10s and 2s from any given number.
Phonics	We are working in two groups this week (Mrs Thomson or Miss Adamson). We are reviewing a few sounds from last year and applying them to our reading and writing.
Jigsaw	We are learning about what it means to be proud.
Art	We are learning about Andy Warhol and creating our own superhero popart.
PE	We are working on running and underarm throws.

I look forward to seeing you all in the morning!

Miss Adamson

Week beginning 18th September, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 17th Sep 2017 @ 3:01pm

This week the Penguins will be busy finding out about:

English - Katie Morag and the two Grandmothers, nouns, conjunctions

Learning an Autumn poem and handwiting practise

Spelling - homophones, ew, ue, ow, ou, air, ear,are

Maths - place value - sequences - counting in 2's, 3's, 5's and 10's, partitioning numbers, rounding numbers, finding 1and 10 more or less

Geography - looking at where we play, visit the park, how can we improve it? Introduce terms Physical and Human explain and relate to places where they play. Look at Google maps and find local faetures, use an OS map to find Longon and other relevant places

Art - sketching skills, practise sketching with different media, vsit park to sketch the play equipment

PSHE - jigsaw - looking at consequences for making wrong choices

RE - what is Hinduism?

Computers - using Scratch to programme "speedy"

PE - games - throwing and catching games, gymnastics - travelling and balancing

Dont forget to check out the blog on Wednesday and Friday, the Penguin library opened on Friday come along again on Friday to choose another book or to choose your first book!

Week beginning the 18th September, by Miss Reynolds

Date: 16th Sep 2017 @ 5:56pm

This week will look like this:

English: Work around Beowulf and Grendel - focus on adverbs for intensity and cohesion.

Maths: Number and Place value - including: recognising, ordering and counting in steps of decimals up to thousandths; solving problems involving number upto 3 decimal places; and finding powers of 10 more or less than a given number.

Geography: UK Weather - Where does it come from?

History: Anglo-Saxons - Where did they go? Where did they settle?

PSHE: Jigsaw -

RE: Buddhism

French: Greetings

PE: Gymanstics and Quick Cricket

If you have any artefacts/special skills/holiday pics etc. that would help us with our learning - please feel free to volunteer them! We would love to have some visitors to our class this year and learning always works best when it is contextualised!

Friday treat, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 15th Sep 2017 @ 4:13pm

Everyone in the elephant class got their minion up to gold so they all had a little treat on Friday afternoon. Mini ice lollies were enjoyed by all 👍