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Effectus Theatre Company presents 'Ugly' at Longmoor Primary School
Tue 24 Nov 2015An exciting way to explore cyber bullying at Longmoor.
Following on from ‘Make a Noise about Bullying’ last week, the children were lucky enough to experience live theatre in school on Tuesday November 24th.
Actors from Effectus Theatre Company performed ‘Ugly’. It included advice on cyber bullying, physical and verbal bullying, all told through drama. The performance helped children to think about the effects of bullying and how to deal with all bullying situations. The children responded really well to the shows messages, it was another great way to get this important message across.
Here at Longmoor bullying will not be tolerated.
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Children in Need.
Fri 13 Nov 2015Children in Need.
Our School Council organised a great dressing up day and we raised over £275, amazing!
The children came dressed as super heroes, in pjs and also as their own heroes.
James Bond, an RNLI, footballers and even Usain Bolt put in an appearance.
Thank you to all staff, children and parents for supporting this event.
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Futsal Competition.
Fri 13 Nov 2015Futsal Competition.
Mr Bunhejee and Mrs Menzies took seven eager year 5 and 6 children to Long Eaton School on Thursday 12th November for a 5 aside Futsal competition.
It was extremely competitive with 6 teams turning up for the tournament. Louis from year 5 and Ja’vaie, Abigail, Judah, Ben, Max and Harry in year 6 all represented the school with pride and passion.
In the end the team finished 6th but enjoyed their first experience of Futsal.
A big thank you to all the parents and relatives, who came to support the team.
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Derby University Day of Sporting Science.
Thu 12 Nov 2015University of Derby Sporting Science.
On Monday 9th of November, Mr Roper took four of us to a Year 6 gifted and talented event at the University of Derby. We took part in different activities such as test your reactions, sports psychology and sprinting.
Firstly, we did test your reactions, there was a specialist machine set up, someone was at either end, one person turned the light on, and then the other one turned it off as quickly as possible. On the other side of the room was machines called a Batak, where you had to press the buttons when they glowed, this was difficult because they were high or low with just 30 seconds to reach them.
We also found out about sports psychology. We drew a picture of our favourite athlete, we chose Mo Farah and we had to describe what makes him an elite athlete. Then we practised our hand/eye co-ordination . There was a star and a mirror and you had to go around the star without making a beep, looking at the mirror only and every time it beeped it recorded a score.
Finally, we took part in sprinting. We set up some cameras every five metres down the track and recorded our time. Then, the Derbyshire University lecturers improved our starting positions from the video footage. We set up a camera and recorded ourselves in slow motion and played it back and looked at what we were doing wrong, then discussed changes we could make.
We had a great day and enjoyed representing our school.
By Lauren, James, Abi and Max.
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Remembrance Day Celebrations at Longmoor Nursery.
Mon 09 Nov 2015Learning about the Importance of Remembrance Day.
The children have been finding out all about Remembrance Day. They looked at pictures of The Tower of London, when Paul Cummings' poppies were displayed last year, they found out about the Queen' Guards and why poppies are important.
The children dressed as soldiers to see what it felt like and improved their cutting skills when making their own poppies.
The displays in the nursery are fantastic, please see the pictures below.
Learning about important British events starts at the age of 3 here at Longmoor.
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Year 4 Futsal Competition.
Mon 09 Nov 2015Year 4 Futsal Competition.
On Wednesday the 4th of November, Mr Roper took a six Year 4 children to a 5 a-side Futsal Competition against 4 other teams, Sawley, Ockbrook, Cloudside and Chaucer, at Long Eaton School.
We had a great start to the competition and won the first game against Ockbrook 3 – 0. Kenyian scored 2 and Kairell got the third.
Our second game was a close 2-2 draw against Chaucer, with goals coming from Kairell and a Daniel.
Unfortunately, we lost our third game against Sawley 2-1, after going a goal ahead, scored by Daniel. The team faced a hard challenge in the last and extremely close game against Cloudside. The team pulled through by winning 1-0, the goal scored by Kairell.
Longmoor finished with the same number of points as Sawley, however, goal difference pushed us up into second place!
A big well done to Kenyian, Lawrence, Ruben, Ashton, Kairell, Daniel!
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Year 3 and 4 Football Tournament.
Mon 09 Nov 2015Year 3 and 4 Football Tournament.
On the afternoon of Thursday 22nd of October, Mr Roper took a team of Year 3 and Year 4 children to participate in a football tournament held at Wilsthorpe School. The children competed against 3 other teams: Grange, English Martyrs, and Harrington. Each game lasted ten minutes. Unfortunately, the team lost the first game 4-0 but the score line was not a true reflection of the effort the players put in. The children put their first game nerves behind them for the next two games and dominated both. The team was unlucky not to score and drew both games 0-0. Well done to Lawrence, Ruben, Ashton, Kairell, Daniel, Kenyian, Gabrielle and Paige from Year 4 and Logan, Archie and Dylan from Year 3 who played extremely well and did a brilliant job of representing the school. Thank you to Mrs. Tuck, Mr. Taylor, Mr. Booth and Mr. Wenham for their help and support walking children to and from the event, without which the children would not have been able to attend.
Thank you!
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Gold Mathletics Awards at Longmoor.
Mon 09 Nov 2015Gold Mathletics Awards at Longmoor.
Harriet and Alyssa in Year 4 are the first children to receive a ‘GOLD’ Mathletics award at Longmoor.
They have each completed 134 activities on line. Alyssa has scored 18,800 activity points and been online for over 14 hours, while Harriet has scored 12,710 points and done over 7.5 hours online.
The junior children have completed over 310 hours on line, scoring 267,320 activity points with a total of 1,041 sign ins during the last 4 months. This is a fantastic effort by all the children.
Keep up the hard work practising those maths questions.
Who will be the third child to achieve the GOLD standard!!??
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Ladies'Night
Mon 09 Nov 2015Ladies'Night at Longmoor.
On Friday 6th November our latest Ladies' Night was held at Longmoor School. There were 25 stalls ranging from books to jewellery. All of our guests enjoyed the evening, pampering themselves by having nails painted and eyebrows shaped.
There was a bar, so that everyone could stay and be sociable. The raffle was drawn and thank you to all of the stall holders for donating a prize.
In total the PTFA raised an amazing £650.
Thank you to all parents and staff that supported the event and of course a huge thank you goes to all members of the PTFA for their hard work and organisation of the event.
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Cross Country Competition.
Tue 03 Nov 2015Erewash Cross Country at Wilsthorpe 22.10.15
On Thursday 22nd October Mr Bunhejee was lucky enough to be able to take 8 children to the Erewash School Sports Partnership Cross Country at Wilsthorpe Secondary School. Children raced in distances from a ¼ of a mile up to ¾ of a mile. First to race were the Y5/6’s. The race was extremely competitive as over 40 children raced. In the end Judah (Y6) finished 11th and Abigail (Y6) finished 19th while Holly (Y5) came in 26th. Next up were the Y3/4’s. This was just as competitive with over 30 children racing. Megan (Y4) came a magnificent 8th, Harley (Y3) came in 21st with Ryan (Y4) in 22<font size="2">nd.</font> Finally it was time for the Y1/2 race. Finishing with a sprint to the line was Christian (Y2) who came 6th and Theia (Y1) who was 9th.
We all had a wonderful afternoon and the children can be proud of themselves. Well done.
Thank you to Mrs Tuck, Mr Taylor, Mr Booth and Mr Wenham for their help and support walking children to and from the event.
