Our Gallery
Date: 8th Mar 2022 @ 10:08am
We looke d at work by Kathe Kollwitz. She produced portraits to show a range of emotions and feelings of everyday people. We were inspired to create our own.
Date: 8th Mar 2022 @ 10:03am
The children enjoyed World Book Day in Y6. They invented some fantastic superheroes and villians. Well done to Cara on winning the spoon competition.
Date: 8th Mar 2022 @ 9:59am
Kathryn from St Helens Chamber delivered a session to the children to make them more aware of issue they will when are are adults. The children were astonished with the amount of money that came out of their monthly budgets to just pay the bills.
Date: 8th Mar 2022 @ 9:48am
The children enjoyed a workshop delivered by Irene from the St Helens Chamber. Irene's workshop was all about careers in STEM.
Date: 7th Mar 2022 @ 3:33pm
Last month our Student Council decided that they would like to raise money to buy some new equipment for playtimes to improve the activities they are taking part in. On Friday 11th February -to mark Children's Mental Health Week- we held an 'Own Clothes Day' -and raised £170. The student councillors spent some time looking online for resources that they thought they and their classmates would like. Mrs Lammond will organise a rota to make sure that the resources are used properly and fairly.
Date: 4th Mar 2022 @ 5:06pm
Year 1 have had a fabulous fun-filled day - for Word Book Day we all dressed as a Super Hero or a Super Villian.
In class, we wrote sentences about the Super Hero in our story 'Super Daisy'.
We also completed 'Super Hero Maths', made our own Super Hero Cities, made masks, designed capes for Super Heroes.
Some of us used contstruction toys to create Super Hero Cities or Super Hero Vehicles.
We shared story books with each other and the Reading Ambassadors from Y3 visited our class too.
We finsihed the day by singing some of the songs from 'A Pocketful of Songs' by Julia Donaldson.
Date: 4th Mar 2022 @ 1:45pm
Today our amazing reading ambassadors supported reading events across the school. Our Year 1 and 2 children visited foundation stage to join in story and library time.
Our Y3, 4 and 5 children supported events in Key Stage 1 and lower key stage 2.
Our Y6 children helped to set up the story spoon competition and delivered the certificates and prizes to the classes.
Date: 4th Mar 2022 @ 1:34pm
For World Book Day we read the story 'Supertato' by Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet. The children were then able to play with the evil peas, rescue the evil pea from the jelly, play with mashed up Supertato, count the different characters and write and draw about their favourite part of the story.
Date: 4th Mar 2022 @ 1:30pm
Wow! What an amazing response we had to our story spoon competition. Here are some photos of the fabulous entries. Thank you to everyone who took part. The children enjoyed looking at all of the wonderful creations and talking about the stories that the characters were from.
The names of the winners will be on our newsletter.
Well done everyone!
Date: 4th Mar 2022 @ 1:22pm
Everyone had such a good time on our trip to 'Imagine That'. The children participated in a range of science and art based activities. The best part was making their on slime.
Lyme Country Park - Science Learning Walk
Date: 2nd Mar 2022 @ 12:41pm
This morning, Year 1 have been on a Science Learning Walk - even though it was slightly wet and very muddy in places a great time was had by everyone.
We learnt some of the names of the plants in the country park - such as:-
* Scots Pine
* Hawthorne
* Gorse
* Pussy Willow
We also talked about some of the signs of 'Spring' - like the plants turning from brown and orange colours to light green. Also, when the natural water and puddles start to reduce this is also a sign that Spring is coming.
We listened to some of the birds tweeting and singing to each other - we even saw a robin.
Before we returned to school, we stopped by one of water features in the park and saw a cormorant - it feeds on fish and frogs.
It was a very long walk (just over 2 miles) and we climbed some big hills - including Skylark Hill (although Scott The Ranger told us he calls it Scott's Hill). We could see a long way from the top of the hill - we saw parts of Haydock and Earlestown Town Hall.
It was great fun!
Date: 28th Feb 2022 @ 12:57pm
As this week is World Book Day ... Year 1 participated in an online learning session with Julia Donaldson.
Julia told Y1 all about her new book 'A Pocketful of Songs'. They also joined in with some singing - The Highway Rat and Superworm were some of their favourites.
It was a fun activity.
Date: 25th Feb 2022 @ 3:49pm
Lesson 1: I can investigate foods and say whether it is a fruit or a vegetable.
This week we looked at different foods and sorted them into groups: fruit and vegetable. We found out that it is a fruit if it has seeds and that we can eat some seeds (like on strawberries) but not others (like in mangoes).
Finally, we did a taste test – using adjectives to describe the taste and textures.
Children's Mental Health Week in FS
Date: 11th Feb 2022 @ 3:38pm
As part of Children's Mental Health week the children have taken part in various activities to do with how they feel. We also read the story 'Kind' and talk about ways we could be kind to ourselves and others. We finished off the week with a Spa day.
Date: 11th Feb 2022 @ 2:01pm
This week has been Children's Mental Health Week. We took part in a virtual assembly PLace2Be virtual assembly and thought about who in our lives are in our support bubble - we drew them in balloons.
Today has been Own Clothes Day - the money raising will go to buying new playground equipment. This was an idea from the Student Council who think this will support children's mental health.
Date: 11th Feb 2022 @ 1:48pm
As part of their Geography learning, Year 4 will be visited The Museum of Liverpool and The Maritime Museum this week. They took part in a workshop, ‘Gateway to the World’ at The Museum of Liverpool and then did a self-led tour at The Maritime Museum: looking at local history and the Titanic exhibitions. Each workshop support the children’s learning about: Physical Geography - the River Mersey; Human Geography -types of settlements along a river and economic activity including trade links; Locational Geography such as the location of famous rivers, seas and oceans. They also saw the River Mersey first-hand and looked at the locks at the Albert Dock as they walked between museums.
Date: 11th Feb 2022 @ 1:39pm
In art this half term, Y1 have been learning about formal elements such as line, tone and texture. They have enjoyed experimenting with different media and using a variety of artists as a stimuls for their own pieces. This week the children used their new learning of primary and secondary colours to recreate their own version of 'Numbers in Colour' by Jasper Johns.
Date: 11th Feb 2022 @ 1:20pm
Y1 have been thinking about how to stay safe online this week. From our Purple Mash computing learning we already know how important it is to not share our passwords with anyone apart from a trusted adult. In our lesson on Safer Internet Day we thought about what else is safe to share online and what should stay private and be kept offline. Then we thought about different scenarios and talked about how we would feel and what we would do in these situations. To finish off, we used all our knolwedge to create a list of ingredients to help Digiduck from our assembly to make 'A Kinder Internet' spell.
Date: 11th Feb 2022 @ 1:08pm
This Tuesday, the 8th of February, was Safer Internet Day. Our Y5 Rights-Respecting Schools and Online Safety Ambassadors delivered two assemblies- one to KS1 and one to KS2.
KS1 listened to a story all about Digiduck who needed advice on how to stay safe online. The children gave him advice:
- We should NEVER share passwords with anyone (unless they are a trusted adult).
- We should talk to a trusted adult before we click on things online - Digiduck had to pay for lots of things that he thought we free.
- We should ALWAYS be kind online.
- We should ALWAYS tell a trusted adult if something makes us feel uncomfortable.
KS2 talked about the devices they use and the kinds of games and apps they play on. The main theme of their assembly was being respecful online.
We agreed that we should treat people online the same as we are expected to treat them offline - with respect. We should not feel pressured into doing things that we know are not right or that make us feel uncomfortable and if we are unsure we should ALWAYS talk to a trusted adult.
Date: 11th Feb 2022 @ 12:08pm
As part of our PSHRE topic this half term Year 2 have been learning about spending and saving money.
As part of our topic we had to raise money for a charity and held a class ballot to decide how we would do this. Oxfam was the chosen charity that received the most votes and the children decided that they would like a hold a cake sale.
A MASSIVE THANK YOU to all of the Year 2 parents who donated cakes for this good cause and to all of the classes for buying cakes and helping Year 2 to raise funds.
The children counted the money and they raised an AMAZING £81.55! Thank you so much!
Date: 9th Feb 2022 @ 5:09pm
Year 5 Football Tournament
Today, year 5 and two pupils from year 4 participated in a football tournament. The children were respectful, showed good sportsmanship, manners and displayed plenty of footballing talent. After only losing one match in the group stages, we progressed to the semi-finals. We won the semi-final match after a fantastic goal from Nathan. Unfortunately, the final didn't go the same way and the children finished in second place! However, the children should be so proud of themselves after a fantastic effort all afternoon.
Coming second out of sixteen other schools is something to be extremely proud of!
Date: 9th Feb 2022 @ 4:56pm
Date: 7th Feb 2022 @ 3:53pm
As part of our DT lessons, year 3 had to design and make a castle. The children brought in some packaging which they recycled and used for the features of their castle. They also made nets to create cylinders and different types of pyramids. We had some very talented children and some amazing castles. Their castles included draw bridges and turrets in their design.
Date: 7th Feb 2022 @ 3:50pm
Nick from Stem came to visit our Year 5 children this afternoon to provide some exciting and interactive experiences around robotics. The children were able to create a moveable model of their own design and programme it by designing their own algorithms. They included pictures, messages, lights and sound in addition to their movements. They then had to follow a set of instructions to create a drumming monkey. Once they had followed the instructions for the basic model, the children added their own unique 'stamp' to their design. They showed fanatstic perseverance, coding skills and creativity throughout the session as well as having a lot of fun. Well done Year 5!!
Date: 7th Feb 2022 @ 11:42am
LEGO ROBOTICS
Today, we had a visit from Nick who works for Lego STEM Robotics. The children began by using an app to write diiferent algorithms and create a fun ride for their lego characters to go on. After they had spent a bit of time exploring the technology and practicing how to use it, the children were set a number of challenges to complete. These consisted of making the ride go faster/slower, adding sound effects, changing the colour of the lights on the ride etc.
After that, Nick gave the children a set of instructions to follow. These instructions enabled the children to create a robot lion that could stand on its front paws! The children loved creating their robots and programming them to do all kinds of different things!
We've had a roar-some time this morning!
