Remembrance Day

We have created some beautiful poems after reading Flanders Fields and used watercolours/charcoal/pencils to create some poppy artwork to mark Remembrance Day.

Remembrance Day – ‘We will remember them’

Happy Diwali

We have been busy learning about Diwali the festival of light. We have moulded dough into Diya lamps. Made marks to create Rangoli patterns and wrote our names in our cards we have decorated.

Bulb Planting in Crown Street Park!

Year 1 had a visit from zoolab

Year 1 were very excited to have a visit from lots of animals today!

year 1 Zoolab visit

Year 1 had a visit form lots of animals today to celebrate our learning in science.

WWII Liverpool Skyline ‘The Blitz’ Scenes

We created our own versions of the Liverpool skyline one night during The Blitz in World War Two.

Mosques Around The World

As part of our RE unit, we are finding out about mosques around the world and presenting our findings in Google Slides.

RLMc Tesco Trip

This week we have been learning all about chefs. We took a trip to Tesco to get ingredients to create vegetable soup.

Great afternoon with our LJMU students and our sustainability project.

We had a great morning preparing for Chinese New Year!

Chinese New Year celebrations

To celebrate the new lunar year, we have been getting crafty in class making representations of dragons using a variety of resources. Look at our fabulous dragons! We also made our own lanterns after learning about the significance of the colour red.

Supertato’s House

This afternoon we created Supertato’s house using icing sugar and gingerbread. We mixed the icing sugar and water to use as glue to stick the house together.

Buzz Buzz

We’ve had a great afternoon making circuits with a light and a buzzer to help us when making our buzz wire game. We also got to have a go at a buzz wire game!

The History of Telling The Time for Science Week

We combined science with history with our TIME topic and looked at how tools to tell the time have changed over the years. We created a timeline of discoveries and measured out our own sundials with our protractors.

Bell Beaker Pottery

Super work creating our Bronze Age Bell Beaker pots. We created a similar shape and added patterns to them.

Liverpool Skyline

Here is a FABULOUS finished skyline picture to accompany our Geography work on our ‘Walking Tours Around Liverpool.’ Amazing work from this young artist.

Modifying Text and Images

We created posters on Word.

We shared our favourite animals, changed the font, colour, size and style and even added images too,

Amazing work Year 2

Finding out about the PEGI age rating system

What are age ratings? How do they apply to us? What do they mean? Where are they used?

Volcanoes!

We have created our volcanoes and painted them. They look amazing! We are going to erupt them this week and see what happens when an active volcano blows. Watch this space…

Spaghetti Bolognese time!

Our first group created their very own authentic traditional bolognese sauce! We have linked our DT unit with our Geography topic of Italy. Super behaviour and sensible cooks.

Eid Mubarak!

Happy Eid to all our families celebrating! We had a lovely day and week celebrating with all our children and adults.

Volcanoes Eruptions!

We had an amazing afternoon erupting our volcanoes! We even had a very dangerous and violent composite volcano with thick magma which increased the pressure when erupting.

Year 3 Volcano eruptions!

5EHD Geography statistics work

This week year 5 have compared Liverpool to the city of Manaus in Brazil and plotted data and different style graphs.

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1CP had the best time at the farm on Thursday!

1MS had the best time at the farm!

Cooking time again!

We had our second group to make our traditional Italian bolognese. They had a great time preparing the ingredient and seasoning it to perfection! Thanks to our amazing head chef once again – Monica.

Blooket fun in Year 2

In Year 2 we have discovered Blooket and we can’t get enough! We’ve used it to test our times table knowledge this week (as well as lots more too.)

Spanish Day!

What a great Spanish day! Red and yellow everywhere 🇪🇸. Can’t wait for food and dancing later.

Spanish day! 🇪🇸

Amazing dancing from Year 3, everyone really got into it.

Greek Pottery

We are starting to learn about all the different styles, colours, shapes and uses of Ancient Greek pottery here in Y6.

To the beach, let’s go… 🐚🏖

Year 5 Primary Engineer Award

Earlier in the year, year 5 took part in a project with Primary Engineer and built moving locomotives with an electrical circuit. Today we celebrated each child taking part, awarded awards for best group work and also two boys took home the ‘Best communicator’ award. Well done, year 5!

Black History Month ‘24

Some AMAZING entries for the Merseyside Police competition! Children have worked hard creating lovely pieces of work with great messages as well. Well done to everyone who has submitted already. Last day tomorrow (Friday 13th September).

Year 3 Hands

Year 3 had another great ‘Hands’ practice. We are really enjoying learning new sign language.

Using a combination of skills today…

In Year 6 today, we combined our learning from Geography and English by using our computer skills to present the information we have discovered into Google Sites to create our own web pages.

Palm Oil – Positives and Negatives

We simply had to share a few more pieces of work as we think they are truly fantastic! Detailed information which is extremely well presented. Great work Year 6!

Amazing Work on Renewable Energy Sources

In Geography, we have been finding out about renewable energy sources: why they are needed alongwith the advantages and disadvantages of each.

Incredible writing from Year 6

We are simply blown away by the writing we have recently produced. Our Year 6 classes are so invested in world issues – saving habitats and animals in particular. Have a read of some of the letters we wrote to the Rwandan Government, asking them to help protect the magnificent mountain gorillas 🦍

In Maths,we reinforced our counting skills through finger painting!

Diwali lanterns

Today we are designing our Diwali lanterns for next week. We have learnt the story of Rama and Sita and thought about why Diwali is celebrated in Hindu religion. We are trying to focus on using Rangoli patterns.

Diwali lanterns

We are having so much fun making our Diwali lanterns with rangoli patterns.

Diwali Workshop

Diwali Celebrations

Year 4 had such a great morning at our Diwali workshop. We wore some traditional Hindu clothing, learned some traditional dance, and even got to paint and create our own diya lanterns. 

Charles Darwin

In Science, Year 6 have been learning about Charles Darwin as part of their ‘Evolution and Inheritance’ unit. Look at this incredible writing they have produced!

To celebrate Diwali, we made some Rangoli patterns!

Remembrance Day Poppy Art

After learning about Remembrance Day and importance of the symbol of the poppy, we had time to sketch our own poppies using pencil and oil crayons.

Amazing homework!

Superstar 🌟sisters! Both have done work at home based on their current topics 👏. Well done guys.

Remembrance Day 2024

11:00 11.11.2024

Huge respect in our class to recognise the soldiers that have fallen in the past. We did a minute silence in the morning and then created amazing poppy art work based on our art topic ‘painting with scissors’ in the afternoon.

Some completed pencil poppy sketches

Some of this work is stunning!

Remembrance Day

PSHE: Anti-Bullying Week Activities with Everton in the Community

We took part in a workshop this morning discussing values which are important in life such as respect, patience, tolerance and understanding.

RE: The importance of the mosque in Islam.

We’re now in the Islam section of our RE unit and we are learning all about the sense of community and how the mosque plays an important part in bringing the community together. We took the opportunity to utilise our artistic skills too.

Our wonderful campfire 🪵

Today we have loved our class campfire. We enjoyed toasting the marshmallows, creating a s’more and having some hot chocolate. We even had a blast from the past with some children’s songs and rhymes.

We learnt all about Remembrance Day and made some poppies to help us remember❤️

Children in Need 2024

NRGenius’s

Year 3 had a great workshop this afternoon on how to save energy and how to be NRGenius’s. They had to create a powerful image representing why we use fossil fuels. We learnt all about renewable energy and how these are better for our environment. We ended the session by making a pledge to try our best to save energy. 💡⚡️

International Slavery Museum trip

Yesterday we had a great time at the International Slavery Museum. We had a workshop in the ‘legacies of the transatlantic slave trade’ and then had time to explore the museum with our task sheets. 

Extra work at home!

Some incredible examples of extra work done at home. I have loved seeing how passionate we are about negative numbers, Olaudah Equiano and Roman numeral – keep it up, we love proudly displaying your work!

NRG! Our power pledges.

Last week we had a visit from NRG to tell us all about our use of electricity and what we can do to help. We have signed a pledge to use less electricity and water to help with waste of non-renewable energy.

A visit from B-Tales!

B-tales shared the story of Jonah and the Christmas twist.

A great way to start our Monday with a B -Tales Production. 🎄

Sequencing

This week in Mathematics, the children in class RJP have been focusing on sequencing. We explored the vocabulary, how ‘sequencing’ means to repeat a pattern. The children used paint to create an ‘ABBA’ pattern firstly, following the pattern, ‘red, green, red, green’. We then had lots of fun demonstrating the ‘ababab’ pattern using Christmas pictures, and designing a colourful paper-chain. To extend the learning, we explored different patterns, expanding on the number of picture cards, colours, and using shapes which have been learned previously. This helps the children problem solve sequencing in a fun way.
Why not keep up this learning at home, by asking the children to make repeated patterns using different objects.

Celebrating differences 🌎

For our PSHE lesson we are celebrating differences. In previous weeks we have spoken about racism, bullying and rumours and now we are researching a range of countries and what their culture looks like.

Premier league workshop

This morning we had a Premier League workshop to tell us all about the different jobs and skills we could get that are part of football. We learnt about football journalists, authors, medics, stewards, mascots, players and coaches. We then acted out being an interviewer, interviewee and clarifier.

Pattern seeking – science

In science today we put our ideas to the test. we either chose to either investigate if children with the longest femur could jump the highest or if the tallest children could jump the highest. We completed the post it challenge and made sure our investigation was fair. 

Calligraphy with the Arabic alphabet

Today in our art lesson we looked at different examples of Arabic calligraphy and have had a go at our own.

Parent assembly and activities Year 3

We had a lovely morning with our Hands assembly and our DT craft activities. Thank you to all our adults who turned up to support us.

Does our arm span increase as we grow older?

We took measurements of children from reception all the way to our eldest staff member! We then created a scatter graph of our results.

Christmas arts and crafts workshop

What a lovely afternoon! Thanks to all the parents that came and helped out with the winter crafts. They all looked amazing.

Year 2 Nativity

Our Nativity Slideshow.

Thank you all for coming to watch. We loved performing for you.

Parent & carers craft afternoon

A wonderful afternoon with our fabulous parents and carers.

Sawing Skills!

Year 2 have been busy sawing their doweling to make their wheels and axles for a new moon buggy!

Making our Moon Buggies

We have loved making our Moon Buggies this moring.

Our Finished Moon Buggies

We have loved making our moon buggies today. Do you like them?

How our solar system moves!

Today we tried to recreate the direction and movement of our solar system. We discussed how this is not to scale but wanted to show what we had learnt about ‘Earth and Space’ so far. Please ask us questions about the solar system!

Blue Planet! The BEST day!

We absolutely loved Blue Planet!

150 Years of Smithdown

We created some designs that we may use for our 150 year bunting. We will practise stitching so that we can attached our designs.

Imagining we are cave people!

Today, year 3 mixed their history knowledge on the Palaeolithic cave people with their art skills by recreating cave art with charcoal. The children worked like our artist Laura McKendry  and completed a group activity on the floor. This allowed them to work on a bigger scale and move around their work.

Earth and space

This week in science we have been looking at night and day. We have been learning about the rotation of Earth and how this creates daylight and nighttime.

Art – mosaics

Year 4 designed their Roman inspired mosaics using technology before creating their own paper version.

We’re very excited to create our mosaics next week using tiles.

Running stitch

We all practised our binca running stitch so that we are ready to create our 150 year celebratory bunting.

Making snakes for Chinese New Year

Some of these snakes just keep growing and growing ….

5JH Lion dance to celebrate the Lunar new year! 🐲

We had an amazing afternoon in our lion dancing workshop. Happy Lunar New Year!

2GH Lion Workshop

Fair Trade Debate

Today we learnt about the global supply chain and the different stages our products take to get to us (the customer). We debated which part of the supply chain was the most important and how fair the pay was. Our class debate was very passionate!

Sunflowers

We were very lucky last week to have some visitors in our class talking to us about keeping our environment healthy and how to look after plants. We all planted our very own sunflower seeds to take home. 🌻

Archaeologist Visit

We had an amazing visit from a local archaeologist, Dr Hill, who brought with him so many artefacts from the Stone Age and Bronze Age. We had time to look at stone axes, arrow heads, tools and weapons made from bone and so much more!

Palaeolithic Stone Age

We made art that we would find in Palaeolithic caves. We worked together and made our caves walls as realistic as we could.

Biography writing in Year 6

We have been intrigued learning about Miep Gies and the role she played in helping to hide eight Jewish people in an annexe in Amsterdam during World War II but perhaps more importantly, how she was the one who found and kept safe Anne Frank’s diary.

Amazing Roman inspired mosaics by Year 4

Parent Governor Election

Thank you to our two school councilors who helped with the vote counting today. A great way to learn about democracy.

Goodnight Mr Tom- our new English book

Yesterday we looked at clues for our new book ’Goodnight Mr Tom’. We wrote predictions and today we discussed evacuations from cities to the countryside and arguments for and against. We invited in Mrs Ridley to walk down our ‘conscience alley’ to hear our reasons.  

Our designs for our 150 Year bunting are really coming along. We are going to stitch “TOGETHER WE GROW” along with some pictures that remind us of school.

Superstars in Year 3 🌟

We love children doing work at home!

International Mother Language Day

On February 21st, it was International Mother Language Day. To celebrate, we have been learning words and phrases in different languages. The children have been fantastic teachers.

Year 4 Early Civilisations Workshop

We had the best morning using drama to learn about early civilisations, with a focus on Baghdad (Early Islamic Civilisations).

Visit from an artist

Year 3 had a great afternoon making their own recycled paper and adding their own designs to this.

International Mother Language Day

Year 3 celebrated International Mother Language Day. We wrote some phrases, in our home languages, and taught these to our friends. In our class, we speak in 12 different languages.

Prime Minster Chamberlain’s announcement – WW2

Today we used freeze frames to think about how people might have felt during the announcement of WW2. We looked at the different reactions in our book ‘Goodnight Mr Tom’ and compared different emotions.

International Mother Language day

We loved sharing our languages last week and teaching children different words. Some children even wanted to record these so that we could share our language with others. We have some excellent little teachers in class!

Happy World Book Day

The Dalmatians are safe once again!

Today we had a visit from Cruella De Vil who wanted to steal all of the Dalmatian puppies, luckily the classes were able to find all 101 of them and saved the school! What an amazing World Book Day 2025.

Year 1 loved celebrating World Book day!

Y3 Sustainability Project with Metal

Y3 have been busy upcycling their fashion items ready for their fashion show for parents. We have learned all about recycling and sustainability over the last few weeks which has inspired us to carry on out of school. Thank you metal!

Y3 Sustainability Game

This morning we have been supporting Laura from Metal  with a new card game all about sustainability. We were lucky enough to be the first school to trial the game and learned a lot about symbols and ways to upcylce and compost. Thank you Laura!

A new scientist to learn about for Y6

As part of our Science Week work, Year 6 learnt about Ibn Al-Haytham, the man credited with inventing the pinhole camera. As our Lowry portraits were so good, we couldn’t resist applying our artistic skills to this wonderful scientist too.

Art in English? So much fun!

In English this week, we were inspired by the character Willaim Beech’s love of art and painted some of the setting descriptions from Little Weirwold. some example examples to create imagery from our book Goodnight Mr Tom. 

Creating craters

We have planned out our experiments in order to see how we can measure craters and what affects the result. We had a create time changing variables and recording our average in order to make it a fair test.

Science Week: Biscuit Investigation

Year 6 investigated how long it took a range of biscuits to dissolve in warm liquid and presented findings using graph software.

Science week

Last week we had a wonderful time with our biscuit investigation. Our question to investigate ‘Does the thickness of a biscuit affect it’s breaking dunk time?’

Ruth Wakefield – science week

For science week, we researched Ruth Wakefield. We learnt all about the temperatures needed and the variables that she changed. We then had a lesson in cookie making with our wonderful cook Monica and decorated the cookies with her face.

Lowry Digital Art

We are creating Lowry street scenes using digital imagery.

Gymnastics British Championship and Newsround!

Yesterday, we had an amazing trip to watch these athletes. The work they put into practising and training really inspired some students. Also, some children met the presenter of Newsround and even got a picture!

Year 5 trip to the British Gymnastics competition at the M&S Arena, see if you can spot us on BBC newsround!

Everton mathematics day!

Some children were invited to take part in some maths activities at Goodison Park stadium. They completed challenges and got to see the stadium. What a fun day! 🧮

2GH Martin Mere

We have had a lovely day at Martin Mere today.
we helped Ava find out which way she had to migrate, went on a treasure hunt, explored the wetlands and enjoyed the play area too!

Eid Celebrations

Lovely to see all our children dressed up for Eid. Lots of families have been fasting through Ramadan and have had a lovely few days celebrating Eid.

Eid celebrations!

Today we learnt about Eid and took part in some 3D pop ups.

Eid leaflets to celebrate the festival

We made our own information leaflets to explain all about the festival / celebration of Eid.

WW2 Workshop

Today we had a visitor in to teach us about WW2. We trained to become special volunteer police officers and followed commands given in the war. We looked at Erie facts and even had time to role play.

Superstar in Year 5! 🌟

This amazing piece of work was all done at home about WW2! I was so impressed with the amount of knowledge there was about so many different aspects of the war. SUPER WORK!

Everton activities

Starting off the day with a very interesting and exciting game of dodgeball!

We have had lots of fun this morning making rice crispy cakes. We hope you have a lovely break!

Everton in the Community

The children had a fantastic day celebrating differences with Everton in the Community. A massive thank you for the wonderful workshops.

World Earth Day 🌍

Today we learnt about renewable resources and what we’re hoping for, for the future. We made websites to promote our ideas especially since it’s our future!

Earth Day – Recycled Kites

Today we celebrated Earth Day and we made kites today from recycled materials. We loved flying them outside.

Natural Materials

We have loved starting our new art topic. We looked at Frances Hatch who gets the pigment out of things like grass, rocks and poo! We used soil to help us write about Frances and the work she does.

X2 multiplication practice

We have had boys and girls finding multiples of 2 out on our yard. They grouped objects into 2s and then found the total. They explored so many different ways to show their 2 times tables. Super work!

Synonyms

This morning we focused on synonyms for the 6 words we have been looking at in Jemmy Button – voyage, magnificent, civilised, year, gazed and savages. We then recorded the best alternative words to use in our future work.

Chester Zoo Workshop

We had a very exciting start to our week with our first Chester Zoo Workshop on UK Wildlife. We used the iPads to find some species in our playground. The workshop got us excited for our upcoming trip to the zoo on Thursday. 🐒🐼🐯🦁🦋🐍

Martin Mere Viking day!

We absolutely loved going to Martin Mere for our immersive Viking experience. We took part in weaving, foraging, thatching and defending the village.

Chester zoo workshop

Today we had a visit from Chester Zoo. We looked at animals and plants in our school grounds.

Chester Zoo visitor day 2

Another fantastic Chester Zoo Workshop this morning!

Chester Zoo

We had a fantastic day exploring Chester Zoo. The children loved looking at the variety of animals. We saw chimpanzees getting fed, lions having a nap, penguins splashing water and even explored the bat cave. The children had smiles on their faces all day! 🦁🐒🐧🦇

Chester Zoo

We had so much fun today at the zoo and saw so many different animals.

Our amazing Chester Zoo trip!

We absolutely loved going to Chester Zoo to learn about the animals and the trees. All of the children behaved exceptionally and loved the trip.

Chester Zoo

Our Chester Zoo trip was fantastic! We saw lots of interesting animals in the lovely sunshine. We also had a great session with Chester Zoo staff about our UK native species.

Circus

We were very lucky today to have a visitor from the circus 🎪 We learnt some awesome tricks and used a range of props. Smiles all round!

Year 4

We designed  plant pots ready for flowers to be handmade and planted.

Circus Skills

Year 3 and 4 had a great time learning a variety of circus skills linked to our class text.

Jigsaw Time

These children worked so well together to complete this 500 piece jigsaw. They’re ready for a 1000 piece one now!

Cyanotype

Year 3 have been exploring artists who use natural materials. Anna Atkins created one of the first books with photographs in it without using a camera! We practised the same technique she did nearly 180 years ago. We used light sensitive paper and natural things we found to create our cyanotype photos.

150 years!

Our school is now over 150 years old! To celebrate, we are dedicating some work this week to look at our school through time and what events have happened during its time. We started off our week by looking at photos of “Chatsworth Street School” and the area around our school. Everyone was so excited and had lots of questions about our school.

Smithdown Archives

We went to our “Smithdown Archive” today to look at the log books from Chatsworth Street School. Some of the books are nearly as old as our school so we took extra care looking at them.

Liverpool: A Walking Tour

We have just started working on our Geography project, planning a route around Liverpool to take in all the famous tourist sites. We also used Google Maps to help plan our routes, directions and visualise the landmarks.

Timeline of events

We have worked super hard to create a scaled timeline of events in Liverpool and our school from 1874 to 2025. We added in things like when our school was created, the blitz in Liverpool, boys and girls merged in school and when our local mosque was built.

Famous people around our school!

As part of our 150th anniversary, Year 2 have been researching famous people from our local area. We combined this work with our computing topic! We’ve made posters about Natasha Jonas (who went to our school), Tony Bellew, Gerry Marsden, Ali Al-Hamadi, Ringo Starr and Cliff Marshall

Charcoal Chatsworth

Amazing skills practised by Year 3 today! Continuing with our 150 year celebration, we used charcoal to create an image of our school from the 1960s.

Celebrating Eid Al- Ahad

Thank you to our parent volunteers, hennaliverpool.com and Hennabyinaaya for helping us to celebrate Eid Al-Ahad.

Smithdown Drama

We had AS Creative deliver a super session to link with our 150 years celebrations. Year 3 we’re looking at events through our school’s life, so in our session we focused on WWII. We did freeze frames to represent evacuation, rationing and the blitz. It was a great way to think about the children who would have experienced this event in our school in 1939-1945.

Eid Al-Adha

Yesterday we celebrated Eid. They produced beautiful posters related to how Eid has changed over the last 150 years (linked to our 150th school celebration).

Chatsworth v Smithdown

Year 3 recreated two very old pictures today. Another interesting look at the past of our school.

Smithdown Archive

Another group had the chance to look at our amazing artefacts!

Smithdown Treasure Hunt

We had a great walk around our school finding new and old parts of the buildings.

150 year celebration – art!

Just a snippet of our fantastic artwork from Chatsworth Street School in the past and what it looks like now.

150 Year Celebration

What a lovely picnic this afternoon! A big, huge thank you to all children, parents and staff for all the work and effort everyone has put in for our 150 year celebration. Thank you everyone for coming to celebrate this afternoon.

150 years of Smithdown

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