Whole School – Page 8 – Longridge Primary School

Technology

This week P3/2 developed their use of ICT with the help of 4 amazing P6/5 helpers. As a class we logged into our own laptops and learned how to research information. We then created our own fact files on Robert Burns.

Music

P3/2 explored a range of different musical instruments. We used the instruments to go along with the chant from Superworm. Superworm is super long. Superworm is super strong. Watch him wiggle, see him squirm. HIP HIP HOORAY FOR SUPERWORM. Great work P3/2!

The Wilderness War

P5/4 have had a great first week back at school. We have begun our book study on ‘The Wilderness War’ by Julia Green, where Noah and his friends try to save ‘the wilderness’ from being used as land for housebuilding. So far we have learned about native trees, risk assessment, used our reciprocal reading strategies to help us answer questions on the book and held a debate. The motion for our debate involved housebuilding on our own ‘wilderness’ in Easter Longridge Wood. There was some great skills on show and some compelling arguments from both sides ending with a vote.

Numeracy

This week in numeracy, P7 moved onto division. We used active learning to practise our previous knowledge of division; making arrays, chunking method and short division. We practised our multiplication facts to help us understand the inverse operation. We have been using our communication and collaboration skills to play games to practise our division strategies.

Superworm

We have had a great start to Term 3! In class we have been taking part in a book study. We chose ‘Superworm’ by Julia Donaldson. During literacy we have made predictions, created questions for the author, clarified words we were unsure of and summarised the most important parts. We then created character profiles and wrote our own animal poems. Yesterday in Science we took part in a science experiment called ‘Dancing Worms’. We made predictions about which liquid would make the worms dance and then worked collaboratively to carry out the experiment and write up a report.