All of our school blogs
Netball week 1, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 1st May 2019 @ 7:14pm
Well done to the netball team who had a great start to their inter school competition. They played really well as a team , with some games being very competitive - top effort🙂
Football fun, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 25th Apr 2019 @ 5:50pm
Well done to you 5 who had a great time this afternoon at the inter school football tournament , all were brilliant .A big thank you to all who transported and stayed to support 😊
Easter , by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 4th Apr 2019 @ 2:44pm
Thank you to everyone that took part in our egg and bonnet decorating competitions. They are all amazing and show how imaginative and creative Longton children are.
Gymnastic and dance fun - Year 2, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 13th Feb 2019 @ 12:43pm
Year 2 enjoyed a morning at Priory yesterday, taking part in a gymnastic and dance festival along with lots of other schools. They thoroughly enjoyed it and received a special certificate -The spirit of the games - very well done!
A big thank you to Mrs Taylor for helping with the event.
Fantastic football news!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 25th Jan 2019 @ 7:18pm
This afternoon the girls football team took part in the Lancashire girls football tournament.They all worked really well as a team and battled hard. We got though to the semi finals , 20 schools took part so this was a tremendous result.
Very proud of you all!, you are in the top 8 girls school football teams for the whole of Lancashire which is amazing🙃!
A big thank you to parents who transported especially our top coach Ian🙂
Have a well earned rest, see you on Monday superstars!!!
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😊
The choir and musicians have entertained the whole school, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 20th Dec 2018 @ 10:57am
Celebration Assembly, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 1st Dec 2018 @ 8:27am
On Thursday afternoon we all went along to St Andrews Church for our celebration assembly. Well done to all the children who got a certificate.
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 🤪
Morning run re, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 5th Nov 2018 @ 6:45pm
Well done to Jacob and some elephants who enjoyed running round the track this morning.
Dont forget every morning this week you are invited to run round and try to challenge yourself to do more laps, all welcome!
Hope we see more people tomorrow it’s a great way to get your body and brain working- happy running 🏃♂️
Look out for next weekss challenge too.
Football news, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 19th Oct 2018 @ 3:28pm
The past 3 weeks we have been attending school football matches representing our schools A team . There are two teams A@B so far we have played 6 games won 3 and lost 3 😞 . We will also be playing after February for another 3 weeks because we will have our winter break .
The B team have been working hard and the team has been rotating every week. We have all enjoyed the games and kept going.
by Mason and Oliver B 🙃
Harvest 2018, by Mrs Brown
Date: 14th Oct 2018 @ 11:56am
Thank you to everybody who joined us for the Harvest Service and also for the generous donations. All the food items have now been shared out between local residents, resdidential homes and the food bank.
Morris Dancing for Mrs Coxhead, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 17th Jul 2018 @ 3:55pm
16 members of Year 4 have been learning a Morris Dance called Longton Dance with Mr Nelson our former Deputy Head and Mrs Bolton
This afternoon the children danced for Mrs Coxhead
Peace Garden, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 9th Jul 2018 @ 4:51pm
This afternoon we all went out to the front is school to celebrate our wonderful Peace Garden. Our friend Mr Turner from the Royal British Legion dedicated the garden to the fallen servicemen who sacrificed their lives for us in World War 1.
Cross country, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 27th Jun 2018 @ 8:16pm
A massive well done to our cross country team who competed really well in the cross country tournament.It was hot, hot , hot but all tried their best and ran well,I think we agreed it was further than we thought!. A special mention to Nicholas who finished 6th overall out of 78 runners,well done to Sara too who was our highest placed girl finishing in the top 30, again out of 78. Top effort!
Athletic superstars, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 19th Jun 2018 @ 3:18pm
A big well done to some children in Y4 who took part in an athletics tournament this afternoon.They finished third which was a fantastic team effort, there were some strong individual performances too.They were so supportive to each other which was lovely to see so well done,
Dance From The Heart Video Link, by Miss Leigh
Date: 5th Jun 2018 @ 10:59am
https://vimeo.com/259562475
Here is the link to this years Dance From The Heart if you would like to rehearese at home.
School Games sports day, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 24th May 2018 @ 12:32pm
What a fabulous afternoon we had for our School Games sports day yesterday. The children all had a great afternoon taking part in the activity stations and then competing in the races. A big thank you to all the children ,spectators and staff for all helping to make it such an enjoyable afternoon. Well done to red team 2 for gaining the most individual team points and a big congratulatio
Sports Update, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 20th Apr 2018 @ 2:52pm
This week we participated in a football tournament in the finals at priory. Although we came second, we did really well and are very proud of our achievement. In other news, the Y5 rugby team did brilliantly and won the rugby tournament at Tarleton rugby club. Our school is really proud of what we did. A big well done to all!
Anyone for tennis?, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 12th Apr 2018 @ 9:53pm
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Well done to the Year 3 and 4 tennis teams who took part on Wednesday in a tennis tournament at Sourh Ribble tennis centre. We had a mixed bag of results with some wins, draw and losses. They all said they had really enjoyed it and they showed a good competeitive streak and excellent team spirit. Well done again👍🙂
Football , by Mrs Pratten
Date: 23rd Mar 2018 @ 12:45pm
Yesterday the A team played in an inter school tournament, we won 2 and drew 1,there was a great team spirit. We have one more round after Easter we will keep you updated.Nicholas an the team
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
Sharing a book - World Book Day 2018, by Mrs Brown
Date: 2nd Mar 2018 @ 6:26pm
Today we have all had a fab time with the winter olympic theme for world book day.
Thank you for joining in and making the day very special. Thank you also for the amazing costumes the chidlren came in today.
Fair trade Assembly, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 21st Jan 2018 @ 9:25pm
Thank you to Mrs Greenlees who came into school last week to deliver an assembly all about Fairtrade. It was very informative. She talked about all the different foods that can be bought which are Fairtrade meaning that farmers are given a fair price for their products. Have a look in the shops for these products, they carry the logos that can be seen in the photos.
