Longridge Primary School – Page 2

Bonfire Night Drama and Play

P2/1 have been exploring another seasonal event this week. In the gym hall children worked collaboratively to create firework dances – there was lots of spinning, sparkling, energy and dramatic flair!

Back in the classroom fireworks inspired our literacy with a themed word hunt around the classroom and a listening lotto challenge. We enjoyed our first collaboration session with our nursery friends, which offered the chance to create some beautiful art, make our own sparklers and role play using them safely, and share our knowledge about staying safe at bonfire celebrations in the floorbook.

Curriculum Cafe

Thank you to the parents and carers who attended our first Curriculum Cafe of the year, it was lovely to share our improvement priorities with you as well as the work the children have been doing outdoors. We look forward to seeing you at our next cafe where we will share our journey developing our approach to Building Thinking Classrooms.

Happy Halloween

We’ve had a lovely morning celebrating Halloween and the children have had a great time at their party with dancing, party games and a Halloween parade!

Primary 7 were all good sports and took part in a P7 challenge, being served some ‘delicious’ donuts. Unfortunately some of the donuts had been tampered with by an evil witch and had some very usual fillings!

Finally, there were 101 reasons for the staff to enjoy Halloween! Happy Halloween everyone!

Music in P4

Primary 4 had their first music lesson this week with NYCOS, they are going to be coming into our classroom for a block of music lessons. This week, we practised clapping along to the beat of a song through different games, we practised singing along to the beat and hour music hand signals. We used our communication and collaboration skills when working as a group and in pairs and we used our creativity by making music.

P3/2

P3/2 have had a busy first week back after October break. We have had a fun Halloween focused week! We started off the week with practicing our spelling words by writing them onto pumpkins and on spooky pictures.

In the afternoon we got creative out doors and collected leaves to create hedgehog leaf collage pictures.

We then investigated the cause of reactions by experimenting with different liquids. We made predictions what would happen when we combined water, soap, baking powder and vinegar together and then carried out the experiment. We then wrote up our observations.