Sharing Our Learning
P3/2 and P2/1 have been building upon their collaborating skills during our Levenseat gardening project. We have been busy planting, digging, creating story spoons and stones to create a calm, relaxing garden area where all children in our school can go to read their favourite books. A huge thank you to our grown-ups that came to help us plant and dig – our garden is starting to look good! Miss Smith and Miss Topping read ‘Superworm’ to us using the story stones we created.
This week P6/5 have been looking into Evacuation during World War 2. After writing evacuation letters we used tea staining to make them look like they were written in 1940.
We used our Longridge toolkit creative skills to try different techniques such as dipping, dabbing and dripping, and different resources such as cotton pads, the tea bags and sponges to create different textures and appearance.
The pupils had a great time showing off their artistic skills and have all produced brilliant artwork.
P7/6 were working on the wellbeing indicator ‘Achieving’ this week. We had a really interesting discussion together about our thoughts on Growth Mindset and how it links to our opinions about our achievements. We learned about the power of ‘yet’ and the difference having a Growth Mindset can make to our learning. We also set ourselves some targets which having a Growth Mindset will help us achieve. We may not be experts ‘yet’, but we are certainly working on it!
It has been a pleasure to have our first Celebration Assembly of the school year and what a talent bunch of learners we have here at Longridge Primary.
First up were our very special Head Teacher Awards, these children were nominated by their class teachers to receive awards and were invited enjoy a hot chocolate with Mr McNaughton & Mrs Murray.
Next we had our wider achievement awards. Thank you to the parents and carers who completed the form to let us know about these wonderful achievements, we had awards for effort and achievement in horse riding, dancing, swimming and football as well as talents in music amongst other amazing achievements!
Next our golden coins were awarded to two learners. Our P6 learner was awarded this for promoting a love for reading and our P2 learner was awarded this for progress in writing! They enjoyed spending their golden on a book of their choice at our vending machine.
Finally our monthly Languagenut Champions were awarded their certificates.
Congratulations to all of our learners on another wonderful week at Longridge Primary and an extra special well done to our award winners!
P2/1 are learning how to estimate and measure length this week. We’ve been measuring all sorts of things, including superhero footprints, classroom furniture, each other, and even Mrs Carty! P1s showed some brilliant counting skills as they used paper clips, pencils, cubes and their own feet to measure length. P2s learned about metres and centimetres, and searched the classroom for things that are bigger or smaller than a metre. The children showed great collaboration as they helped each other measure their items accurately from end to end, and used “White Hat Thinking” to check that their team-mates had their facts right!
P2/1 enjoy using books and stories to develop their mathematical understanding, sometimes they give us great ideas for new measuring missions!
