Longford Park Primary School

CRICKET

Year 5 have been loving their cricket lessons! Our new playground zones have come in really handy for helping with bowling and batting practice so we don’t lose too many balls!

YEAR 4

Year 4 have been very busy using their DT skills and History knowledge in their Forest School sessions.

They made Egyptian flatbread, cooked it on the fire (after building it using fire lays they learnt in Year 3) and then of course eating it by candlelight.

They even got some writing into their learning! What a busy afternoon!

YEAR 4 evening at school

As part of our offer to get children ready for a residential in Year 6, our Year 4 class spent the evening in school. They played games, completed team building activities, made dinner, had a dance and enjoyed hot chocolate around the fire.

NURSERY

Our youngest children have been using their teamwork skills to build a little assault course to climb. Their gross motor skills are coming along beautifully! Well done!

Year 6 visited Coventry Cathedral last week to learn about the impact of the Coventry blitz. Their knowledge of WWII was absolutely brilliant and they were impeccably behaved Council for Learning Outside the Classroom

Well done to our fabulous choir for their beautiful performance at UHCW University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire bringing joy and cheer to staff, patients and visitors.
Thank you Vicky Clayton and Coventry Music for supporting our choir and our school with our music curriculum. The Christmas songs are sounding absolutely incredible during rehearsals too!

Longford Park School Choir with Mrs Clayton from Coventry Music entertaining patients, staff and visitors at UHCW this evening. Some beautiful Christmas songs ringing out through the hospital foyer - we hope you're beginning to get into the festive spirit.

We are so proud to share this news with you all. The staff team have worked incredibly hard to achieve this mark.

Well done Longford Park Primary School who have been awarded the Gold LOtC Mark for demonstrating their commitment to offering students regular high-quality LOtC experiences that are embedded into the school’s curriculum & ethos. 🤩

Find out more about the LOtC Mark. https://ow.ly/JJIF50UbHel

AIR AMBULANCE SERVICE

This year, our school council have chosen for our charity to be the Air Ambulance Service.

We had a special assembly with Vicky from The Air Ambulance Service and we have hosted our first fundraiser where we all wore yellow for the day and bought in a donation.

OUTDOOR CLASSROOM DAY

At Longford, we value the importance of learning beyond the classroom and the impact this has on both the physical and mental well-being of our children (and staff)

Whilst learning away from the classroom is built into our curriculum daily, we went even further on Outdoor Classroom Day on 7th November to extend learning away from the classroom walls.

From Maths retrieval activities to phonics, virtual ballet lessons to cricket, reading for pleasure sessions in the library to a park visit, there was a really lovely buzz around school and the children thoroughly enjoyed their day 😊 Council for Learning Outside the Classroom

In collaboration with Royal Ballet And Opera key stage two pupils took part in an online opera lesson. The professional singers were amazing! We learnt about the conventions of opera and had a go at warming up our voices just like opera singers before singing a song.

Our Key Stage 1 pupils took part in an online ballet lesson hosted by Royal Ballet And Opera

Children were shown props and backstage areas as well as how lighting transforms a performance.

They were then shown some very famous ballet performances before being invited to join in with learning some of the moves.

We were all very impressed- well done KS1! Council for Learning Outside the Classroom

November has been a very busy month at Longford Park!

Keep your eyes peeled over the next few days for a round up of what we’ve all been up to 👀👀

Let’s start with our amazing community bonfire night organised by our fabulous PTA and raised just over an incredible £1000 for our school 💰💰

Thank you so much to our PTA for organising, our staff for helping out, our pupils and families as well as our wider community for attending.

We appreciate your support so much. These funds are vital to improving our school resources and providing events and activities for our children.