We loved making models of our homes!

We loved making models of our homes! #smithdowneyfs #smithdowndt

A happy Diwali from 3TS! We made beautiful lanterns to represent the festival of light.

Tesco trip

To continue learning about chefs, we’re going to become chefs and make our own soup! To prepare for this, we went to Tesco to buy the ingredients we need.

Great afternoon with our LJMU students and our sustainability project.

We enjoyed making puppets with our families yesterday!

We explored how nets can be used to transform into 3D shapes. We practised cutting, folding and gluing tabs to be able to make shell structures.

We rounded off our ‘My Bnk’ sessions with talking about money habits and the importance of saving! We even made our very own money bank.

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.

We had an amazing day on world book day! We focused on #Goldilocks and created our own poems and naughty hashtags.

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!

Building our prototypes!

Teamwork – we started to build our chairs

We worked so well in teams to start to build our chairs in DT

Check out our finished chairs!

We made chairs as part of our DT topic on stable structures.

5EHD DT

We have been working hard on our rail engineering project. Over the past couple of weeks, we have created our own locomotives, complete with a frame, wheels, axels and an electrical circuit.

Today we have baked cakes to help celebrate Maisie’s Birthday ?

Maisie Mouse in our story is having a birthday! ? ? ?

Great morning with our Everton project! We made our dough from scratch, cut up our own toppings and created wonderful pizzas!

DT – Making our chairs

We had lots of fun using different joining techniques to build our own chairs. Take a look at some of our fantastic structures

We loved making smoothies in Year 1! We had so much fun!

Bell Beaker Pottery

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

Buzz Wire Games

Primal Painting

Year 3 used the pigment from different foods and natural resources to paint and mark make.

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.

Year 4 enjoyed test testing ingredients for our Ramen recipe.

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!

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.

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!

Painting with scissors

We used Henri Matisse as our inspiration for our art topic. We used his method of painting with scissors to make our collages.

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.

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.

5 currant buns in the bakers shop.

Mechanisms!!

We created moving mechanisms using pivots and levers in our DT lesson with different types of cards, we created holes to bring the mechanism together with a spilt pin and made it move.

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.

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.