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Deep in conversation about animal offspring in matching mothers to young

19-10-2023

Deep in conversation about animal offspring in matching mothers to young #smithdownsci @baronbedford @Edu_Meadows

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We investigated the question are the oldest children the tallest today

19-10-2023

We investigated the question are the oldest children the tallest today in @SmithdownPrimY2 #smithdownsci

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SEND Processes for Parents

07-11-2023

Why not sign up for free online family learning? Friday 10th November 9.30am to 12pm.

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Parent and Toddler

08-11-2023

Thankyou to School Council for delivering a fabulous assembly on kindness and respect.

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What a day! Year 4 really enjoyed learning about the Hindu culture.

10-11-2023

 

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Remembrance Day

10-11-2023

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

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Remembrance Day

10-11-2023

For Remembrance Day, we read the poem ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ and after discussing the content, we embellished the poem with images of poppies.

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Year 2 have made remembrance poppies today

10-11-2023

2GH made some beautiful poppies to help us remember today.

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Year 4 celebrations for Diwali. We love our Diwali lanterns!

13-11-2023

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

13-11-2023

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Diwali candles in 2GH

13-11-2023

We have enjoyed creating our own Diwali candles today

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5EHD PE

14-11-2023

Congratulations to this boy in 5EHD who was chosen by our Everton coach, Connor, to receive this signed picture of Jordan Pickford for outstanding efforts in PE today!

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Thank you to all our parents who joined us today to help us celebrate World Nursery Rhyme week. We had lots of fun sharing our rhymes and activities with you all.

14-11-2023

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Speke Hall trip

14-11-2023

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Celebrating Diwali

15-11-2023

We have been learning all about the festival of Diwali this week. We made Diwa decorations and cards for Diwali. We also found how Diwali is celebrated and how Diwali means Festival of Light. ?

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Starting our new RE topic

15-11-2023

We started our new Christianity topic by looking at Christian symbols and artefacts. Christians believe God has many titles so we thought about the different labels we have.

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Thank you to all our families for joining us for our stay and learn to celebrate World Nursery Rhyme Week. It was lovely to share the morning with you all. ??

16-11-2023

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What was operation Pied Piper?

17-11-2023

We have been looking at evacuation and it’s impact on children during the war – we examined some sources and discussed what they were and their intentions!

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Year 4 have had an amazing children in need?!!

17-11-2023

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RLMc Speke Hall

19-11-2023

Parents and families just a reminder that Miss McFarlane’s class will be visiting Speke Hall tomorrow 20.11.23. The children can bring in wellington boots for the trip.
Many Thanks

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Year 4 had an amazing geography lesson creating their own structures of the earth’s layers, and how they link to earthquakes!?

20-11-2023

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We had lots of Pudsey fun on Friday whilst raising money for charity.

20-11-2023

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Young Scientist Centre

23-11-2023

5NA went to a solar system workshop at UCLAN. We did lots of investigations all about the solar system!

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Where did Ibn Battuta travel?

23-11-2023

We have been investigating our first explorer Ibn Battuta in Year 2. We researched the countries he visited and how he travelled today.

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Wellbeing Champions!

30-11-2023

Our Wellbeing Champions have been working hard to learn strategies to support other children in class and on the playground. They’re doing a fabulous job

 

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ESOL class awards

09-01-2024

Congratulations to our parents who have completed the 12 week Stepping Stones ESOL class. We celebrated with certificates and food.

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Stars of the Week in 4LA

12-01-2024
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Silver Dojo Award – 200 dojos to these SUPERSTARS in 4LA

12-01-2024
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Repeated Addition in 2GH

07-02-2024

We have started our multiplication journey. We have been busy learning about repeated addition this week.

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We enjoyed making puppets with our families yesterday!

07-02-2024

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We have made dancing Chinese dragons for Chinese New Year.

07-02-2024

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Painting – Impasto!

09-02-2024

2GH have been painting using primary colours. We made sure that the paint was thick so that we could move it around the page and created our own ‘impasto’ techniques.

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Expressive Collages! Titanic Art

19-02-2024

We worked hard in art today to make expressive collages of the Titanic.

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Should Jack go up the beanstalk?

17-03-2024

Should Jack climb the beanstalk? We tried to persuade him and we took sides in class. We came up with some great reasons for and against the idea.

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The Smithdown Romans!

25-03-2024

What a great day we had in Chester at the Deva Experience! We marched the streets of Chester and learned lots of interesting facts about the Roman Empire.

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Building our prototypes!

18-04-2024

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Taking the Role of a Reporter

18-04-2024

3KM had an amazing time being reporters today. They asked our ‘witness’ questions about a strange sighting he had. They then worked in groups and took turns asking and answering questions. This will help us when we come to write our own newspaper reports. 🙂  

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Exploring Light

18-04-2024

3KM have been working scientifically by exploring the question ‘do we need light to see things?’

The children had 5 boxes with a different item in each. They had to peer through the hole in the box and make a predication on what the object could be. When more light was added to the box, some objects could be seen a lot easier than others.

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2GH – ?Continents???

22-04-2024

We have been busy learning the continents song today!

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5EHD DT

23-04-2024

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.

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

24-04-2024

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Wow what a performance in our Y1 music assembly!

24-04-2024

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4KM had a great PHSE lesson coming up with different ways to cope with various scenarios.

25-04-2024

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Camp Fire

29-04-2024

This Friday (3rd May)  there will be a camp fire for year 2 children and their grown ups. Look forward to seeing you there.

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Teddy’s Bears Picnic

29-04-2024

To celebrate the end of learning of Goldilocks and The Three Bears we hosted our own Teddy Bears Picnic. We had party food and danced with our teddies. We had a wonderful afternoon!

         

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Listening to the harp in music today.

01-05-2024

Reception have been listening to Mrs Naylor play the harp in our music lesson today!

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Year 1 have been on a nature hunt

02-05-2024

For our first lesson about plants we have been on the playground to look for plants, seeds and animal evidence.

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Three Billy Goats Bridge

09-05-2024

This week we have been looking at the story ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’. Outside we built a bridge to cross to the green grass. We made signs for the goats from the troll showing they can’t cross the bridge.

 

 

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Investigating money

10-05-2024

2GH have been busy using coins to make different amounts today.

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RLMc Farm Trip

14-05-2024

RLMc had a great trip to Croxteth farm today. We saw lots of animals including goats from the Three Billy Goats story. We loved brushing the horse and holding the rabbit and Guinea pig. We had a great day outdoors.

 


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It has been a busy after at stay and learn. Thank you for everyone who joined us. ☺️

14-05-2024

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5EHD Martin Mere trip

15-05-2024

Year 5 had a fantastic time learning about Anglo Saxon and Viking daily life in Martin Mere. We learned how to weave, fight in battle, make a thatched roof and forage for medicine and food in the woods

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Reception Parents and Children Visit to Calderstones Park

21-05-2024


We had lots of fun with our families at Calderstones Park. We played ring games, had a picnic, fed the ducks, rolled down a hill, explored the playground and looked at different plants and flowers in the sensory gardens. Huge thanks to all families for coming along.

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Check out our sketches ✍️

22-05-2024

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4KM had a great afternoon discussing what it means to be loved and creating their own collage about a person special to them❤️

23-05-2024

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Modifying Text and Images

24-05-2024

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

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4KM had a great afternoon exploring and creating sculptures using different media🎨

05-06-2024

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100 Star Jumps to complete our daily challenge for Alder Hey.

17-06-2024

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University Trip

18-06-2024

We had a fantastic day at the University of Liverpool on Friday. We took part in workshops related to Maths and Science…. including sitting in mini Planetarium!

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Forest School

19-06-2024

We had a great time creating dens at Forest School Club. Many thanks to all parents for coming along.

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4KM created some amazing posters for refugee week!!

21-06-2024

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Year 3 and 4 had great morning during their rugby skills training!

21-06-2024

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Fantastic Family Picnic

21-06-2024

A fantastic community picnic. The sun shone.

An amazing community food table with so many lovely dishes to share.

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Trip to the beach!

24-06-2024

Year 3 had a lovely day at New Brighton! We collected a range of natural materials from the woods and the beach, and used these to create a painting of the seaside. I think everyone’s favourite part was playing in the sand!!!!

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ISing has started and we are so excited!

24-06-2024

We are loving iSing so far

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Finding out about the PEGI age rating system

24-06-2024

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

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Eid Mubarak!

25-06-2024

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

 

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ISing 2024

25-06-2024

A few more pictures! More videos to come soon!  We are so proud of Year 2.

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Eid Mubarak!

25-06-2024

We loved celebrating Eid last week.

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2GH on the way into ISing 24

25-06-2024

Look at those smiles! Ready for a day of singing!

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

28-06-2024

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1MS had the best time at the farm!

28-06-2024

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Map Making and Directions

07-07-2024

We made our own maps of Lila’s village and used compass point directions to direct a friend around the map.

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Pic Collage – Kenyan Village

07-07-2024

As part of our Geography topic we are comparing Kenyan villages and cities with Liverpool. We are making pic collages in computing to depict life in each area. On Thursday we made our Village posters of Maasai. Keep your eyes peeled for more next week as begin to compare and contrast in more detail,

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Blooket fun in Year 2

07-07-2024

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.)

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Happy Spanish day🇪🇸!!!

08-07-2024

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Year 1 loved Spanish day!

10-07-2024

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The Big Teddy Bear Sleepover

11-07-2024

Wow we have had a great time for our Big Teddy Bear Sleepover! First we started with a super singing assembly with Mrs Naylor. It was fun singing and dancing with our teddies. Then we made our teddies a bed to sleep in. We could not believe what they got up too when we went home. This morning we woke our teddies up with a lovely breakfast.

 

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Well one to our stars of the week in year 3 and 4⭐️!!!

12-07-2024

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To the beach, let’s go… 🐚🏖

15-07-2024

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4KM had a great day at the beach looking at coastal processes and playing in the sand🏝⛱!!!

16-07-2024

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Year 5 Primary Engineer Award

17-07-2024

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!

 

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Painting with scissors

01-09-2024

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

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Year 2 Maths – making groups of ten

06-09-2024

What a great start to maths this week. We have made groups of ten and worked on our counting in tens.

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Great teamwork Year 2

06-09-2024

Today we discovered treasure chests full of jigsaws in our classroom. We made the picture and looked for clues for our new class story.

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Historical Enquiry – The Romans 🏺🏛️

09-09-2024

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Year 1 have been having fun labelling our body parts in science

10-09-2024

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Black History Month ‘24

12-09-2024

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).

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Photography Fun

12-09-2024

We have started our new topic in computing – photography! We decided which objects could take photographs before playing photography bingo. We took selfies, objects, close ups and action shots. We then reviewed our work and picked our favourite photographs.

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The United Kingdom

17-09-2024

We used an atlas today to label the countries of the UK and the Capital Cities too.

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We became ARCHAEOLOGISTS

19-09-2024

WOW what an exciting afternoon! In history, the children learnt about Howard Carter and how he excavated ancient remains. The children then put their excavation skills to the test and uncovered some artefacts. They had great fun 🤩

 

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Year 1 have been looking at our local area in Geography!

19-09-2024

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Arts and Craft Club

24-09-2024

Lots of fun creating autumn crafts in after school club this afternoon!

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How to develop accuracy?

25-09-2024

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Marvellous Mathematicians 🌟

25-09-2024

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How did Rome begin?

25-09-2024

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Our Homes

25-09-2024

Today we used Google Earth to locate our homes. We used our postcode and explored our local area. We also tested our UK knowledge on our new Velcro maps!

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Phonics Meeting

26-09-2024

Fabulous turn out at our phonics meeting. Keep an eye on the app for each weeks videos and activities.

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Making sandwiches for Anna and Crocodile

26-09-2024

Anna and Crocodile asked us for our help today. We thought about how to make a sandwich, created some plans, made some sandwiches and of course had to taste test them! Yum yum!

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Year 3 had a need for speed during P.E.

30-09-2024

In P.E. we learned about how we use speed in everyday life and played a variety of activities where we needed to use our speed and use the techniques discussed.

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What would a nightmare school look like?

30-09-2024

In PSHE, we talked about what makes our school a dream school. The children gave answers such as,

“Our school has adults that listen.”
“We learn in our school.”

From this, we discussed that a nightmare school wouldn’t have the lovely things that Smithdown has. We created posters for our nightmare school. Some amazing imagination was used. 😊

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How to truly be a mischievous child 🤭🤫

30-09-2024

Year 3 had a great start to their first shared write of the year. We have been learning about imperative verbs, rhetorical questions, adverbs and how instructions are laid out. We put all the new skills we have been learning to the test and used them to create a set of instructions about how to be a mischievous child, based on our reading book ‘Seen and Not Heard’

Parents watch out! Your children came up with some very interesting ideas!

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Year 3 Hands

01-10-2024

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

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Year 5’s football skills in PE

01-10-2024


We loved working with Everton in the community today when practising our football skills. We’ve been practising dribbling and kicking.

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Year 2 Dodgeball

02-10-2024

A group of children from Year 2 represented our school at a dodgeball festival today. Exceptional behaviour and lots of fun had by all!

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Teamwork makes the dream work 💫

03-10-2024

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What happens in chapter 5 with Mr Gum?

03-10-2024

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I made my work soooo much better 🌟 ✍️

04-10-2024

I used fronted adverbials, conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions and personification. ⭐️🥳

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Comparing Giorgio Morandi with modern day life artists 👨🏻‍🎨 🎨

04-10-2024

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Year 5 Art Adventure: Exploring Perspectives! 🎨✨

04-10-2024

Today in Year 5, our budding artists dived into the fascinating world of one-point perspective and atmospheric perspective! 🖌️🌌 They transformed ordinary views into extraordinary landscapes, learning how to create depth and dimension in their artwork.

With guidance our students experimented with lines and shading, making their drawings come alive. The focus on perspective not only enhances their artistic skills but also encourages critical thinking and creativity.

Join us in celebrating their hard work and skill!

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Applying Painting with Scissors

07-10-2024

Year 3 had a great afternoon applying their painting with scissors skills to some Ancient Egyptian paintings. We discussed the pictures and what we could see, using our art vocabulary. We then had the challenge of focusing on a small part of these images and then had to recreate this.

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Learning “Three little birds” in our music lesson

07-10-2024

Today we use glockenspiels and xylophones in our music lesson to play the C triad and the F triad. We played this to Bob Marley’s “Three little birds”.

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Placing numbers on a number line

08-10-2024

We worked hard to place numbers on a number line. Why don’t you have a go at home on this game too.

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/37/placing-numbers-on-a-number-line

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Instructions for our independent write!

09-10-2024

Year 3 have been working on writing instructions in their English lessons and are working really hard to do it independently!

 

 

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Art and Nature!

09-10-2024

Year 2 have made their own pictures out of natural materials that we have collected.

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‘Good Guy Code For Living’

10-10-2024

We have completed our ‘Good Guy Codes for Living / How to be a Good Guy’ in RE. We made suggestions on actions and behaviour we can display to make the world a better place.

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Amazing Work on Renewable Energy Sources

10-10-2024

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

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Sponsored event with Danny Butler

11-10-2024

We’ve had such an exciting day doing our sponsored exercises with Danny Butler. We Worked very hard and completed them all. We were mesmerised by his fantastic biking skills. I think we have some extreme cyclists in the making!

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Danny Butler Event

11-10-2024

We had the best day doing our sponsored event with Danny Butler. We couldn’t believe his bike skills! Wow!

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Danny Butler!

11-10-2024

Today we had a wonderful visit from Danny Butler. We joined in the activities and even got to see some of his amazing skills.

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Observational Drawing

11-10-2024

2GH have created some wonderful observational drawings of our leaves today! Check out the details in these images! Good job Year 2!

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Lifesavers Bank

11-10-2024

It is great to see so many children saving regularly on our lifesavers bank. Our bank tellers (helped by Miss Caraher and Miss Wilson) are doing a fabulous job.

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Amazing Writing

11-10-2024

Wow. Look at this writing from reception children. How amazing!

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Danny Butler Visit

11-10-2024

Thank you to Danny Butler, European champion and 5 times British champion for visiting today. A great workout and a reminder that success comes from hard work.

 

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Incredible writing from Year 6

11-10-2024

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 🦍

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Lots of exercise today!

11-10-2024

Year 6 had fun and fitness today as part of their fundraising activity with an ex member of Team GB, Danny Butler. Thank you to everyone for your very generous donations.

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Thank You Danny Butler

12-10-2024

Year 2 loved the visit from Danny Butler today. We enjoyed our workout with him too!

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We are city finalists!

12-10-2024

Year 1 we are so proud of you. The boys represented school for the first time and made it all the way to the city finals!

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Spanish 🇪🇸 Descriptions

14-10-2024

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What is a colour wheel? 🎨

14-10-2024


We had so much fun painting our colour wheels and understanding how different colours are made. We discussed primary and secondary colours.

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PSHE… our learning charters

14-10-2024

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An author has come to Smithdown!

14-10-2024

Author of ‘The late crew’ Rob Ferguson came to visit our school today. Some of us were so excited to even get our books signed by a real life author! We even designed our own alien that we could use in our stories.  

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Hinduism … What is Moksha?

14-10-2024

we learned about reincarniation and how Muslims believe if you have good Moksha you will be reborn, if you don’t you will come back as an animal.

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Setting Descriptions 🌟

14-10-2024

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In Year 1, we have been looking at computers and went around school to find different types of computers!

14-10-2024

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In 1CP, we got into role as Rapunzel and answered some questions!

14-10-2024

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In computing, we had a go at labelling different parts of a computer!

14-10-2024

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Year 4 Temple trip

15-10-2024

Year 4 had a very exciting morning visiting a local temple. We asked lots of questions related to our Hinduism unit.

 

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What a great first attempt at a twisted narrative! 👏✏️

15-10-2024

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Rounding to the nearest 10,100 and 1000.

15-10-2024

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Estimating on a number line to 10,000

15-10-2024

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Oil pastel artists!

16-10-2024

Today we having been using different oil pastel techniques (sgraffito, dry blending, cross-hatching and tinting) to figure out which ones we want to use for our landscapes.

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

18-10-2024

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In PE, we practiced jumping using the ladders!

18-10-2024

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A great trip to the museum!

18-10-2024

Year 3 had an amazing day at the Liverpool Museum. We gained so much knowledge about Ancient Egypt which will help as we continue to study this topic in our history lessons. Mohammed, Azad and Banu dressed up as embalmers and they mummified a fake Egyptian body. It was a great opportunity for the children to learn all about this and step back in time. 😊

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What could our new book be about?

18-10-2024

In English, we are starting a new book. Before the children heard the name or seen the front cover we looked at various clues and made predictions about what it could be about. The children came up with great ideas. Based on the clues, some children thought it was about an explorer who visits different parts of the world. Others thought it was about different habitats. The book will be revealed next lesson! 📜📚🌍

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Using Scratch

18-10-2024

Year 3 really enjoyed this weeks computing lesson. They all love using scratch to code and create their characters.

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Diwali lanterns

21-10-2024

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.

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3TS trip for Ancient Egypt

21-10-2024

Year 3 had a wonderful day exploring the museum and looking at the different artefacts from ancient Egyptian history. We walked the length of the River Nile and spoke about the process of mummification. We also watched some of our friends become Pharos!

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Diwali Celebrations

21-10-2024

Today,  year 3 had a workshop based around Diwali. The children enjoyed learning about this celebration. They learned how it called ‘the festival of lights’ and created their own pieces of art that candle lights are placed in. We got to dress up and took part in a traditional Diwali dance.

 

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Deva Roman Experience

21-10-2024

Year 4 had “the best day ever” in Chester. We experienced life as a Roman soldier and learnt more about the Roman invasion in Britannia.

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A day in the life of a Roman soldier 🛡️

21-10-2024

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Diwali 🌟

22-10-2024

We have really enjoyed learning about the celebration of Diwali this week. We are very excited to see our lanterns lit for our Diwali lunch tomorrow

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Diwali lanterns

22-10-2024


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

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Diwali Workshop

22-10-2024

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Diwali workshop!

22-10-2024

Thank you to our wonderful visitors for speaking to us about Diwali. We loved our workshop.

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Fact Families in Maths

23-10-2024

We have enjoyed working on fact families this week. We persevered and now we are doing so well. I am so proud of you all.

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In computing we loved using the laptops to explore and used our knowledge of computer terminology.

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Football matches.

24-10-2024

This week in PE we had a chance to use our skills when playing matches. We remembered to dribble, tackle and defend using skills we have learnt. Everyone made a fantastic effort!

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In Year 1 we loved having Ms Ronak give us a talk all about Diwali!

24-10-2024

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In PE, we practiced skipping and jumping!

24-10-2024

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To celebrate Diwali, we made some Rangoli patterns!

24-10-2024

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Some superb still life drawings 🎨👩‍🎨👨🏻‍🎨

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P.E. in the sunshine

25-10-2024

Year 3 had a great P.E. lesson outside. We are making the most of the sunshine whilst we have it. The children had to use their speed and agility in todays lesson and work in teams of 4 to collect the most high-fives. We also had a skipping competition to see who was a top skipper in our class.

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What a mess!

05-11-2024

We came back into our classroom and found that someone or something had been in there! We looked at the disaster that had been left behind and asked questions about what we thought had happened!

We found

– a globe

– a map

– broken biscuits

– teapot and cups

– footprints

 

and…. a lot of mess!!

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Gymnastics Fun in Year 2

05-11-2024

We started our new PE unit – gymnastics!
We worked had perfecting our balance and hold shapes.

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Design and broadcasting messages Scratch

07-11-2024

Year 6 have been starting a new project on Scratch. Children have begun to create their own space invaders game. Yesterday we focused on laying the ‘foundations’ ready to start coding during the next lesson, children designed a different series of backgrounds in order for a program to broadcast a message.

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Year 2 Artists

07-11-2024

Come and look at our incredible leaves!

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Painting with scissors

08-11-2024

We used our skills and techniques we have been practising by replicating how Henri Matisse created his art. We applied this method to our Ancient Egyptian topic in History.

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Amazing homework!

11-11-2024

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

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Remembrance Day 2024

11-11-2024

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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.

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Basketball and netball

12-11-2024

For this half term we are going to be learning about the skills needed for basketball and netball. Today we learnt overarm, underarm, chest pass and bounce pass.

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Year 5 Campfire

15-11-2024

What a fabulous way to begin Children in Need day – a Year 5 campfire with hot chocolate and smores : )

 

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Beginning of gymnastics

15-11-2024

This week, year 3 began their gymnastics topic. We discussed different ways to balance using small and big body parts and made these shapes. Overall, a great introduction to gymnastics!

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Sorting and Classifying

15-11-2024

This week, we worked scientifically by sorting and classifying different types of rocks. We explored the rocks and discussed their characteristics. The children came up with great words such as ‘rough’ ‘bumpy’ ‘smooth’ ‘sharp’

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Our wonderful campfire 🪵

15-11-2024

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.

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Children in Need 2024

15-11-2024

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NRGenius’s

19-11-2024

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. 💡⚡️

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NRGenius’s

20-11-2024

Year 3 had lots of fun learning about and talking through different ways we could save money by saving electricity. We learnt the benefits of turning off things we aren’t using and saving money by doing this. We had to create powerful images to show the importance of fossil fuels and why we need them. We then wrote our own pledge On how we will try to save money, well done Genius’s!!!⚡️💡🔦

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NRG workshop

20-11-2024

Year 4 learnt lots about saving energy and money. A massive thank you to Dr. Watts and Dr. Sparks.

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International Slavery Museum trip

21-11-2024

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. 

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Year 1 loved our camp fire today! Thank you to everyone who came along! A big thank you as well to Miss McFarlane!

22-11-2024

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22-11-2024

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Another great gymnastics lesson

22-11-2024

Year 3 had another great gymnastics lesson this week. They made shapes with their bodies using point and patch balances. Some children got very creative with their shapes. 🤸‍♀️🤸‍♂️👟

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We have some amazing children in year 3

22-11-2024

Here are some of the amazing things the year 3 children came up with when we were discussing how we can help people who are being bullied. Some of the answers were incredible. Everyone enjoyed drawing around their hands and colouring their work. 😊

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Mechanisms!!

26-11-2024

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.

 

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Extra work at home!

28-11-2024

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!

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NRG! Our power pledges.

28-11-2024

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.

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City Finalists

29-11-2024

Our Year 1 boys did us all so proud today. We finished fifth in the whole city! You are all superstars! Your played so well and your behaviour was exceptional! #teamsmithdown

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A visit from B-Tales!

02-12-2024

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

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Year 3 campfire

02-12-2024

What a lovely morning with parents we had! We all had a toasted marshmallow, cup of hot chocolate and sang some songs.

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Celebrating differences 🌎

03-12-2024

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.

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Premier league workshop

04-12-2024

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.

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Pattern seeking – science

04-12-2024

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. 

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Calligraphy with the Arabic alphabet

06-12-2024

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

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Christmas card inserts

10-12-2024

This week, the children have loved writing Christmas Card inserts to their families. They enjoyed practicing their early writing skills using the knowledge they have gained. This afternoon, they are excited to begin designing their cards…I am excited to see their creativity!

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Parent assembly and activities Year 3

10-12-2024

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.

 

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Retelling the story of The Polar Express

11-12-2024

The Reception children of RAG have enjoyed listening to the marvellous Christmas story, ‘The Polar Express’. They even managed to retell the story in sequence, from start to finish, using pictures. Well done!

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Superstars 🌟

13-12-2024

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We loved our Christmas Dinner on Wednesday!

13-12-2024

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Christmas arts and crafts workshop

16-12-2024


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

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We loved having the parents in last week for our Winter Craft morning! Thank you to everyone who came!

17-12-2024

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Year 2 Nativity

17-12-2024

Our Nativity Slideshow.

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

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A great end to this half term!

19-12-2024

An amazing Mario Kart tournament to celebrate the holidays!

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