Latest News from Long Row Primary School

• North America Miss Hollett's class

  Fri 04 Feb 2022 Miss Hollett

  This week we have been exploring North America! We have been learning about its physical and human features, the diverse climates and about the animals that live there.  

  We chose to represent our learning with a piece of art and using a range of materials, including: string, card, water colours, ink and pastels.   

  Take a look at the pictures attached and you will find our representation of the Toronto skyline, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, a Mexican Cactus, an Alaskan Totem Pole as well as pastel and water colours of the landscape and wildlife.  

  Rafi, ‘It was great fun making things.’ 

  Hunter, ‘It was amazing seeing how it all looked together.’ 

  Georgia, ‘It was fun and creative.’ 

  Charlie, ‘I liked it because we got to choose what materials we used.’ 

   

  Emily Hollett

  Year 5 Class Teacher

  

• North America Mrs North

  Wed 02 Feb 2022 Mrs North

  North America!

  Year 5/6 have been extremely creative in representing their research of the climate, weather, biomes, population and human and physical features of North America. Each group was given the task of finding out all the information they could and then representing what they had found out in any way they wanted.

  First, we moved all the tables and chairs to create space for North America in our classroom, then we had to outline the continent and borders with string, until finally, we were let loose to be creative! We have rivers made out of paper, mountains made of chairs and fabric, paintings, a Lego statue of Liberty, volcano pots, snow (lots of art straws used here!), the northern lights have been painted and a beautiful glittery fabric hung, the icy winds from the North and warm winds from the South have been strung up on clothes lines and formed a hurricane!

  We will be adding an animal zoo and joining an indigenous tribe (Wednesday) and then we will be presenting our ideas to the class. 😊

  

• Year 5 and 6

  Thu 20 Jan 2022 Mrs North

  A HUGE well done to all my class for a fantastic start to swimming lessons. The instructors were so impressed with your respect and excellent listening during the safety talks and you were all so supportive of each other. I am looking forward to getting stuck in to your water safety lessons next week.

   

  Year 6 also met a new teacher, Mr Dovey, who will be working closely with the year 6 children on their maths every Wednesday with me and had a superb extra long maths practice this afternoon learning some tricky maths. So proud of your hard work and commitment to your learning. Keep this up and we're winning! 😃

   

  Year 5 also had a great time in their last Forest school session, but ate all the marshmallows! Yum! 

   

  Thank you to the parents who have already raided their photo albums, artefacts and stories about North or South America. We will be focusing on these areas until Easter. Keep them coming in!

   

  Last big job of this week is to get our cohesive writing in our reports, so we can send them off to the WWF to see if they will publish some in their magazine. We will be looking at Japanese Renga poetry next week to send with them. Lots of syllable clapping and awesome vocabulary to be thought about.

   

  Keep up the excellent work everyone. 

  Mrs North, Mrs Varney and Mrs Carnelly.

   

   

  Saskia North

   

  Year 5/6 Teacher

   

• Year 5 and 6

  Mon 17 Jan 2022 Mrs North

  What a great start to the week with a wonderful walk in our local area. The children spotted human and physical features, different settlements and land uses and made sketches of the river. We had some lovely feedback on the children’s behaviour from the public – well done! Mr Jenkins class will go this week. We also had a go at orienteering around the school and working out geography vocabulary anagrams. Not forgetting making up dance moves to famous landmarks in North America in PE!  

  Our next stop in geography, is our main focus on America. We will be starting with North America for this half term before moving on to South America.  

  If anyone has any knowledge, artefacts, photographs or anything interesting to share, which will help the children understand migration, climate, landmarks, rivers, mountains in North or South America please send us an email! 

• Local walk

  Fri 14 Jan 2022

  This week our children in Perfect Penguins and Tremendous Turtles went for a local walk around the River Gardens to help them understand some new vocabulary in Geography. They were also looking for what human and physical features they could see and discussing them along the way. They finished their walk by sketching the river and enjoying some of the lovely winter sunshine! Fingers crossed for great weather next week for our Successful Seals!

  

• i-Vengers team

  Wed 22 Dec 2021

   

  Our school has a fabulous i-Vengers team, who are our digital leaders for Internet Safety. Please click the link and watch their 12 top tips on how to stay safe online. They have worked incredibly hard to produce this video and have also produced a fantastic poster for every class. Well done for all their hard work.

  https://www.longrow.derbyshire.sch.uk/online-safety/

  

• Successful Seals

  Mon 20 Dec 2021

  This term, we have been focusing on our key question ‘How has the past shaped our future?’. We have been thinking about how many different periods of history have changed our lives today. Throughout the term we have learnt about: The Bronze Age, Ancient Sumerians, Ancient Egyptians, Roman Britain, Ancient Greeks and The Industrial Revolution. The children have been amazed at how different life used to be, especially for children. Below are some photos of our trip to the mill, as well as some pictures of our work and the children’s own creations that they developed themselves. 

   

  

• Tremendous Turtles

  Mon 20 Dec 2021

  Year 5/6 have been incredibly busy since September learning all about different periods in history. We have studied the impact the Bronze Age, Ancient Egypt, the Romans, Ancient Greece and the Industrial Revolution had on our future. We have made Roman mosaic, had a go at writing our own language, had a few parliamentary Sparta versus Athens debates with a voted for speaker, been lucky enough to visit our local Belper Mill and more! The children have been creative and showcased their work this week in anyway they saw fit. 

   

  I will let the children’s work speak for itself - please see below examples of our work this term and check out the class page for photos from our trip to the mill. Excellent work everyone! 

  

• Perfect Penguins

  Mon 20 Dec 2021

  This term the Perfect Penguins class have been taking a journey back in time to lots of different periods of history. We have been eager to answer our key question, ‘how has the past shaped our future?’ 

   

  We started looking at the Bronze Age and the impact it has had on society today. We looked at a process called ‘smelting’ to create new tools and also studied the invention of the axe and wheel. After this, we explored the Romans and enjoyed working on drama performances to share our findings with each other. We talked a lot about how hygiene has developed and how the root of sanitation was the great engineering works of the Romans, with aqueducts bringing water in and drains to keep the streets and houses clean. Then we moved onto learning about the Ancient Egyptians and explored the invention of the calendar, bowling, toothpaste and water dams in response to the flooding of the River Nile. After this, we learnt about the Ancient Greeks and how we have them to thank for developing the Olympic games and introducing democracy. We talked a lot about how education has changed over time too! Finally, we learnt all about the Industrial Revolution and went on our trip to the North Mill. We had a wonderful day and discovered a lot about our local history and the life of the Mill workers. 

   

  In Science this half term, we have been learning about the circulatory system. We have been exploring how the blood travels around the body and what components make up our blood. Take a look at our pictures (resisting the temptation to eat the skittles and marshmallows was difficult). We also discussed how we can stay healthy, how exercise impacts the heart and how alcohol and drugs can impact health.  

   

  Finally, I wanted to share our stories from English this week with you too. They are based on The Snowman by Raymond Briggs and the children have done brilliantly! We hope to read some of these to a selection of reception children.  

   

  Excellent work Year 5! 

  

• Jolly Jellyfish - History Showcase Autumn Term 2021

  Tue 14 Dec 2021

  This term, the Jolly Jellyfish have learnt about three Historical events; The Great Fire of London, The Gunpowder Plot and The First Flight.

   

  The Great Fire of London 

   

  We explored when and where the fire started and the reasons why it spread so quickly. We used drama to explore how people tried to put the fire out (no fire engines in those days!) We also drew pictures and wrote about the fire, made our own pieces of art work and wrote a diary, inspired by Samuel Pepys.

   

  Here’s some of our amazing work!