Longridge Primary School – Page 16

Guardians of the Wild Unicorns

P6/5 have had a great first week back! We started our book study on ‘Guardians of the Wild Unicorns’ by Scottish author Lindsay Littleson. In the story Lewis and his best friend Rhona are on a P7 residential trip in the North of Scotland. Lewis gets lost in the moorlands after an argument with Rhona and he believes he spots a unicorn but he is too afraid to tell Rhona incase she thinks he has gone mad!

We had some hot seating where the children pretended to be the main character Lewis and others asked questions about Lewis’ character and some of the questionable decisions he has made throughout the first few chapters.

We also used technology to create images using AI, powerpoints and coding on the mciro:bits to predict what we thought would happen in the next chapter.

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.

Our School Choir

It was a pleasure to take our school choir to Answer House to spread some festive cheer to the elderly people there. Their beautiful singing was appreciated and they were even asked for an encore!