
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
338Deep in conversation about animal offspring in matching mothers to young #smithdownsci @baronbedford @Edu_Meadows
338We investigated the question are the oldest children the tallest today in @SmithdownPrimY2 #smithdownsci
352Why not sign up for free online family learning? Friday 10th November 9.30am to 12pm.
332Thankyou to School Council for delivering a fabulous assembly on kindness and respect.
324We have created some beautiful poems after reading Flanders Fields and used watercolours/charcoal/pencils to create some poppy artwork to mark Remembrance Day.
357For Remembrance Day, we read the poem ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ and after discussing the content, we embellished the poem with images of poppies.
3732GH made some beautiful poppies to help us remember today.
350Congratulations 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!
324We 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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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.
316We 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!
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
5NA went to a solar system workshop at UCLAN. We did lots of investigations all about the solar system!
We have been investigating our first explorer Ibn Battuta in Year 2. We researched the countries he visited and how he travelled today.
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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Congratulations to our parents who have completed the 12 week Stepping Stones ESOL class. We celebrated with certificates and food.
We have started our multiplication journey. We have been busy learning about repeated addition this week.
2862GH 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.
283We worked hard in art today to make expressive collages of the Titanic.
281 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.
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.
2823KM 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. 🙂
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.
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.
284This Friday (3rd May) there will be a camp fire for year 2 children and their grown ups. Look forward to seeing you there.
250To 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!
250Reception have been listening to Mrs Naylor play the harp in our music lesson today!
271For our first lesson about plants we have been on the playground to look for plants, seeds and animal evidence.
242This 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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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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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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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.
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
274We 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!
248We had a great time creating dens at Forest School Club. Many thanks to all parents for coming along.
A fantastic community picnic. The sun shone.
An amazing community food table with so many lovely dishes to share.
254Year 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!!!!
What are age ratings? How do they apply to us? What do they mean? Where are they used?
230Happy Eid to all our families celebrating! We had a lovely day and week celebrating with all our children and adults.
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We made our own maps of Lila’s village and used compass point directions to direct a friend around the map.
219As 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,
240In 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.)
239Wow 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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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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We used Henri Matisse as our inspiration for our art topic. We used his method of painting with scissors to make our collages.
204What a great start to maths this week. We have made groups of ten and worked on our counting in tens.
206Today we discovered treasure chests full of jigsaws in our classroom. We made the picture and looked for clues for our new class story.
183Some 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).
216We 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.
184We used an atlas today to label the countries of the UK and the Capital Cities too.
178WOW 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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Lots of fun creating autumn crafts in after school club this afternoon!
179Today 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!
180Fabulous turn out at our phonics meeting. Keep an eye on the app for each weeks videos and activities.
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!
188In 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.
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. 😊
182Year 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!
173Year 3 had another great ‘Hands’ practice. We are really enjoying learning new sign language.
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We loved working with Everton in the community today when practising our football skills. We’ve been practising dribbling and kicking.
A group of children from Year 2 represented our school at a dodgeball festival today. Exceptional behaviour and lots of fun had by all!
201I used fronted adverbials, conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions and personification. ⭐️🥳
177Today 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!
165Year 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.
186Today 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”.
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
157Year 3 have been working on writing instructions in their English lessons and are working really hard to do it independently!
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Year 2 have made their own pictures out of natural materials that we have collected.
176We 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.
179In Geography, we have been finding out about renewable energy sources: why they are needed alongwith the advantages and disadvantages of each.
181We’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!
155We had the best day doing our sponsored event with Danny Butler. We couldn’t believe his bike skills! Wow!
170Today we had a wonderful visit from Danny Butler. We joined in the activities and even got to see some of his amazing skills.
2GH have created some wonderful observational drawings of our leaves today! Check out the details in these images! Good job Year 2!
168It 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.
167Thank 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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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 🦍
194Year 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.
187Year 2 loved the visit from Danny Butler today. We enjoyed our workout with him too!
170Year 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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We had so much fun painting our colour wheels and understanding how different colours are made. We discussed primary and secondary colours.
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.
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.
172Year 4 had a very exciting morning visiting a local temple. We asked lots of questions related to our Hinduism unit.
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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.
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. 😊
194In 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! 📜📚🌍
184Year 3 really enjoyed this weeks computing lesson. They all love using scratch to code and create their characters.
183Today 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.
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!
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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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.
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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We are having so much fun making our Diwali lanterns with rangoli patterns.
Thank you to our wonderful visitors for speaking to us about Diwali. We loved our workshop.
176We have enjoyed working on fact families this week. We persevered and now we are doing so well. I am so proud of you all.
175This 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!
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.
187We 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!!
183We started our new PE unit – gymnastics!
We worked had perfecting our balance and hold shapes.
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.
196We 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.
184Superstar 🌟sisters! Both have done work at home based on their current topics 👏. Well done guys.
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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.
221For 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.
What a fabulous way to begin Children in Need day – a Year 5 campfire with hot chocolate and smores : )
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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!
175This 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’
175Today 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.
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. 💡⚡️
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!!!⚡️💡🔦
188Year 4 learnt lots about saving energy and money. A massive thank you to Dr. Watts and Dr. Sparks.
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.
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. 🤸♀️🤸♂️👟
192Here 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. 😊
182We 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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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!
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.
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
197What 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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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.
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.
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.
Today in our art lesson we looked at different examples of Arabic calligraphy and have had a go at our own.
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!
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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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!
What a lovely afternoon! Thanks to all the parents that came and helped out with the winter crafts. They all looked amazing.
Our Nativity Slideshow.
Thank you all for coming to watch. We loved performing for you.
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An amazing Mario Kart tournament to celebrate the holidays!
In DT today we looked at a range of our own toys. We analysed how they moved and started to learn all about wheels and axles.
162We loved our first session with James from Everton in the Community. We showed him our ball skills and had a VERY competitive game of dodgeball too.
140Year 2 have been busy sawing their doweling to make their wheels and axles for a new moon buggy!
169We had a lovely afternoon starting our pottery. We followed our designs to make an object (bowl, vase, cup) and etched some designs in. We are looking forward to painting in the next couple of weeks.
Year 3 were so excited to resume their computing lessons. This term, the children will be leaning how to find, save and edit photos. The children enjoyed searching for photos of different animals and adding a filter to them 🐶🐱🐻🐰🐤
148We have loved making our moon buggies today. Do you like them?
170This week as part of our ‘People who help us’ topic, we are looking at Doctors and nurses and finding out the things they do to make us better.
167Today 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!
Year 3 had a practical maths lesson this week which involved them exploring and making 3D shapes. We discussed the properties of each shape and learned some new vocabulary such as, vertices, edges, curved surfaces and flat faces. The children spotted where these 3D shapes can be found in real life. A Pringles tin was a popular cylinder shape in our class 🤣
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A massive well done to all the children who received a star of the week certificate, a dojo badge or a TTRockstars medal for their efforts this week. What an amazing assembly! It was filled with happiness and rounds of applauses for our friends. 🥳
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Year 3 discussed their dreams and goals in our PHSE lesson this week. We talked about the importance of recognising the steps that are needed to achieve our goals. We recognised that no matter what dream we have, we need to work hard and overcome any challenge that pops up along the way. We linked our dreams to our school motto ‘together we grow’ and used a flower template to show how our dreams will grow. 🌸👩🏫👩⚕️🧑⚕️💃👨🎓👲
159We all collaborated to create cave art using charcoal. Combining art skills and history knowledge means amazing work!
146Today, 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.
Working together to adjust our calculations, when adding 3 digit numbers.
151Well done to our year 3 and year 4 children who received a star of the week certificate this week. Well done everyone and keep up the great work!
Working together to gather ideas before planning our own independent write, based on our novel Pea Boy. ✍️📖
133We all practised our binca running stitch so that we are ready to create our 150 year celebratory bunting.
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We were visited by some Chinese dragons. We had a great time!
155Reception learned about the Chinese Lunar New Year this week. We celebrated by doing some Dragon Dancing.
166We had an amazing afternoon in our lion dancing workshop. Happy Lunar New Year!
Year 3 had a great afternoon creating snakes, as part of our Chinese New Year celebrations.
148We 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. 🌻
153We had a very special visitor today. His name was Cosmo. We loved getting to know him.
142We 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!
139We are learning about our skeletons and muscles. They help to support and protect our bodies. They also help us to move.
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We had a wonderful afternoon showing (and eating) the different phases of the moon. First the children represented this with the ball (moon) and the torch (sun) to find the phases. Then we used biscuits to recreate this. Please ask us about the different phases, can you spot the moon at home?
This boy told me that he loved reading this book because the story reflected his own life experiences. Books that represent our communities matter so much.
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Thank you to our two school councilors who helped with the vote counting today. A great way to learn about democracy.
These children have worked so hard today on their independent writing. Well done!
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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.
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What an amazing start to our art project. The children created their very own paper and then decorated it. Next in our sustainability art project is to up cycle clothing. We can’t wait for the outcomes.
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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.
159We have been to the basement to find out what it feels like in the dark.
This is a clue to our new English book!
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Great work from Year 3 and Year 4 boys and girls! They all worked well as a team to play in a 5 a side football competition organised by Everton.
141Year 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.
138Today, year 3 were learnt that adding a group of letters to the beginning of a root word is called a prefix and a prefix changes the meaning of the word. We worked together to make these words,
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We have been working very hard learning our 4 times tables. We have learnt to separate our multiples of 4 into equal groups. We have even been practicing the bus stop method for dividing.
129Today the children have had lots of fun dressing up as their favourite characters. We enjoyed learning all about the 101 Dalmatians and trying to find them around our school. We had lots of fun designing and decorating our own Dalmatian dogs with paint and cups!
157Today 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 3 had a lovely day celebrating world book day. We read the story ‘101 Dalmatian’s’ and completed a book review on this. We also created our own dogs out of cups and black circles. In the afternoon, we learnt a new art skill in pointillism to paint our own Dalmatians.
All the costumes were amazing, thank you for yours efforts.
To begin our British Science Week activities, year 3 researched a new scientist. We discovered that Alexander Miles invented automatic elevator door in 1887. We completed a research activity on the IPads and created our own art piece of Alexander using art skills of continuing the picture and shading.
153To celebrate science week, reception read The Gingerbread Man and talked about what might happen if the gingerbread man fell into the water. We decided to see what would happen if we dunked biscuits into milk, oil and water.
145We had fun decorating sunflower biscuits this afternoon.
142Today, we investigated which objects were good reflectors of light and which objects weren’t good reflectors of light. We discovered that objects with shiny, smooth surfaces were better at reflecting light than objects with dull, rough surfaces.
This half term we are learning about the Victorians, but we don’t want to forget what we have learnt about our previous topic on the ancient civilisation of Baghdad. So, we played a game called Quiz, Quiz, Trade. This game involves asking questions to see how much we have remembered. We did really well!
141For 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.
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!
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! 🧮
We loved exploring our clues and objects that linked to our new English topic. We made great predictions about what the story will be about and shared them with each other.
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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!
Wishing you all a very happy Mother’s Day! A big thank you to everyone that attended our special Mother’s Day story time this morning. We hope you enjoyed it. 🌸 🌺 💗
168Lovely 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.
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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.
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!
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Today we celebrated Earth Day and we made kites today from recycled materials. We loved flying them outside.
109Year 3 have started a new book called Jemmy Button. We have been learning some new vocabulary from this book by acting out, drawing images and thinking of synonyms. 📚🍃🛶🎩
111We have been working very hard in year 3 on our new maths topic, fractions. We all enjoyed making a fractions wall and comparing the size of different fractions.
We started our new art topic today and researched a new artist, Frances Hatch. She creates her images using natural materials, such as soil. It’s safe to say everyone enjoyed using soil in their work today. 🎨
109We 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!
9882We have been reading the story of Rumpelstiltskin. It is an old German fairy tale that was written many years ago. These children have worked so hard with their writing. I have been very impressed.
In art today, we learned about Anna Atkins who was the first person to publish a book of photographic images using the process of cyanotype. We used water colours to recreate some of her art.
75This week year 3 are taking part in different zoo workshops ready for our trip on Thursday! Today we are learning all about animals and creatures that are Native and Non-native. We are testing ourselves on these words gaining lots of knowledge that we will use around the Zoo.
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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. 🐒🐼🐯🦁🦋🐍
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We absolutely loved going to Martin Mere for our immersive Viking experience. We took part in weaving, foraging, thatching and defending the village.
We have enjoyed making our balloon globes. We know the names of the continents and oceans.
64We have enjoyed learning the names and properties of 2D and 3D shapes. Today we thought of different ways to sort the shapes
60We 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! 🦁🐒🐧🦇
70We absolutely loved going to Chester Zoo to learn about the animals and the trees. All of the children behaved exceptionally and loved the trip.
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.
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Today in P.E., we developed our throwing and catching technique. We practised our chest pass by throwing a ball to each other. We even tried to pass it 20 times to our team without dropping it. ⚽️ 🫴
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This morning year 3 had lots of fun learning lots of different tricks that are performed in the circus. We worked hard on our concentration and focus to perform them and learn the tricks. We had so much fun watching and learning from each other!
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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!
11This boy created sentences about the story The Emperor’s New Clothes. A substitution table helped provide support to write different types of sentences. This story contains themes such as vanity and greed as well as humour. We’ve enjoyed reading it together.
16These children worked so well together to complete this 500 piece jigsaw. They’re ready for a 1000 piece one now!
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