Deep in conversation about animal offspring in matching mothers to young

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

We investigated the question are the oldest children the tallest today

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

SEND Processes for Parents

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Parent and Toddler

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

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

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

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

Year 2 have made remembrance poppies today

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

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

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

Diwali candles in 2GH

We have enjoyed creating our own Diwali candles today

5EHD PE

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!

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.

Speke Hall trip

Celebrating Diwali

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. ?

Starting our new RE topic

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.

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. ??

What was operation Pied Piper?

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!

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

RLMc Speke Hall

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

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

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

Young Scientist Centre

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

Where did Ibn Battuta travel?

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

Wellbeing Champions!

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

ESOL class awards

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

Stars of the Week in 4LA

Silver Dojo Award – 200 dojos to these SUPERSTARS in 4LA

Repeated Addition in 2GH

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

We enjoyed making puppets with our families yesterday!

We have made dancing Chinese dragons for Chinese New Year.

Painting – Impasto!

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.

Expressive Collages! Titanic Art

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

Should Jack go up the beanstalk?

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.

The Smithdown Romans!

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.

Building our prototypes!

Taking the Role of a Reporter

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. 🙂  

Exploring Light

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.

2GH – ?Continents???

We have been busy learning the continents song today!

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.

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

Wow what a performance in our Y1 music assembly!

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

Camp Fire

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

Teddy’s Bears Picnic

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!

Listening to the harp in music today.

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

Year 1 have been on a nature hunt

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

Three Billy Goats Bridge

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.

Investigating money

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

RLMc Farm Trip

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.

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

5EHD Martin Mere trip

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

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.

Check out our sketches ✍️

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

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

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

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

University Trip

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!

Forest School

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

4KM created some amazing posters for refugee week!!

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

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Fantastic Family Picnic

A fantastic community picnic. The sun shone.

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

Trip to the beach!

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!!!!

ISing has started and we are so excited!

We are loving iSing so far

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?

Eid Mubarak!

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

ISing 2024

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

Eid Mubarak!

We loved celebrating Eid last week.

2GH on the way into ISing 24

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

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

1MS had the best time at the farm!

Map Making and Directions

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

Pic Collage – Kenyan Village

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,

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.)

Happy Spanish day🇪🇸!!!

Year 1 loved Spanish day!

The Big Teddy Bear Sleepover

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.

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

To the beach, let’s go… 🐚🏖

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

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.

Year 2 Maths – making groups of ten

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

Great teamwork Year 2

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

Historical Enquiry – The Romans 🏺🏛️

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

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).

Photography Fun

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.

The United Kingdom

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

We became ARCHAEOLOGISTS

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 🤩

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

Arts and Craft Club

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

How to develop accuracy?

Marvellous Mathematicians 🌟

How did Rome begin?

Our Homes

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!

Phonics Meeting

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

Making sandwiches for Anna and Crocodile

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!

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

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.

What would a nightmare school look like?

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. 😊

How to truly be a mischievous child 🤭🤫

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!

Year 3 Hands

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

Year 5’s football skills in PE

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

Year 2 Dodgeball

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

Teamwork makes the dream work 💫

What happens in chapter 5 with Mr Gum?

I made my work soooo much better 🌟 ✍️

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

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

Year 5 Art Adventure: Exploring Perspectives! 🎨✨

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!

Applying Painting with Scissors

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.

Learning “Three little birds” in our music lesson

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”.

Placing numbers on a number line

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

Instructions for our independent write!

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

Art and Nature!

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

‘Good Guy Code For Living’

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.

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.

Sponsored event with Danny Butler

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!

Danny Butler Event

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

Danny Butler!

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

Observational Drawing

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

Lifesavers Bank

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.

Amazing Writing

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

Danny Butler Visit

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.

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 🦍

Lots of exercise today!

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.

Thank You Danny Butler

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

We are city finalists!

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!

Spanish 🇪🇸 Descriptions

What is a colour wheel? 🎨

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

PSHE… our learning charters

An author has come to Smithdown!

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.  

Hinduism … What is Moksha?

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.

Setting Descriptions 🌟

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

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

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

Year 4 Temple trip

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

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

Rounding to the nearest 10,100 and 1000.

Estimating on a number line to 10,000

Oil pastel artists!

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.

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

In PE, we practiced jumping using the ladders!

A great trip to the museum!

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. 😊

What could our new book be about?

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! 📜📚🌍

Using Scratch

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

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.

3TS trip for Ancient Egypt

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!

Diwali Celebrations

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.

Deva Roman Experience

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.

A day in the life of a Roman soldier 🛡️

Diwali 🌟

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

Diwali lanterns

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

Diwali Workshop

Diwali workshop!

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

Fact Families in Maths

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.

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

Football matches.

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!

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

In PE, we practiced skipping and jumping!

To celebrate Diwali, we made some Rangoli patterns!

Some superb still life drawings 🎨👩‍🎨👨🏻‍🎨

P.E. in the sunshine

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.

What a mess!

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!!

Gymnastics Fun in Year 2

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

Design and broadcasting messages Scratch

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.

Year 2 Artists

Come and look at our incredible leaves!

Painting with scissors

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.

Amazing homework!

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

Remembrance Day 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.

Basketball and netball

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.

Year 5 Campfire

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

Beginning of gymnastics

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!

Sorting and Classifying

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’

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.

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. 💡⚡️

NRGenius’s

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!!!⚡️💡🔦

NRG workshop

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

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.