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New reception families

19-10-2023

Lovely to share lunch time with our new Reception families #smithdownextra #smithdowneyfs

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Reception exploring our outdoor area in the sunshine ☀️

19-10-2023

Our new Reception classes are having a lovely time exploring our outdoor area in the sunshine ☀️ @SmithdownPrimR #smithdowneyfs

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Thank you for our harvest collection

19-10-2023

Thank you for our harvest collection. We were overwhelmed at your generosity. Thanks to for supporting our community. #smithdownextra

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Donating food to the Harvest food bank

19-10-2023

These superstars enjoyed donating food to the Harvest food bank #smithdownextra

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Voting for our new School Councillor today

19-10-2023

We loved voting for our new School Councillor today #smithdownextra @IrelandIreland1 @SmithdownPr

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What an experience…

19-10-2023

What an experience! Year 3 went to a stately home to feel what one looked like and felt like. Sudley house was perfect for helping us understand our new book – Seen and not Heard. #smithdownenglish #smithdownextra

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Focusing on the importance of attendance…

19-10-2023

Great start to the week focusing on the importance of attendance and why we need to be in school! Lots of different reasons that help us in different ways. #smithdownextra

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In year 3 today, we practised doing peer to peer massages on each other

19-10-2023

In year 3 today, we practised doing peer to peer massages on each other. They completed many different strokes and we all felt very relaxed. Thank you very much for this @MrsCarpenter30 #smithdownextra

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Lovely singing voices this morning!

19-10-2023

Lovely singing voices this morning! Year 3 have been learning all about our rights. We have discussed about having the right to learn and believe what you believe! #smithdownextra

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Discussing different ways how we can be kind to others

19-10-2023

#smithdownextra #smithdownY3. This morning 3KM have been discussing different ways how we can be kind to others no matter our differences, we had some lovely things to say!

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Having fun in Spanish this morning!

19-10-2023

Having fun in Spanish this morning! #smithdownextra #smithdownyr3 #smithdownspanish

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4KM had a great time developing their ball skills and teamwork skills…

19-10-2023

4KM had a great time developing their ball skills and teamwork skills during our PE lesson with @EITC ⚽️?? #smithdownextra

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Another amazing PE lesson from @EITC all about teamwork!!

19-10-2023

Another amazing PE lesson from @EITC all about teamwork!! The children played different games to help with their teamwork skills⭐️ #smithdownextra

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Well done to our amazing stars of the week⭐️

19-10-2023

Well done to our amazing stars of the week⭐️ keep up the hard work girls!! #smithdownextra

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Our PE lesson today was all about teamwork…

19-10-2023

Our PE lesson today was all about teamwork and how different strategies can help a team win ⭐️ @EITC #smithdownextra

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4KM had a great PE lesson…

19-10-2023

4KM had a great PE lesson with @EITC improving their teamwork and game skills!! #smithdownextra

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Wonderful first session facilitating Cohort 3 ECT’s this afternoon

19-10-2023

Wonderful first session facilitating @InspireTSHubNW @CEL_IOE Cohort 3 ECT’s this afternoon. Great dialogue around supporting disadvantage pupils & inclusivity ?? Well done all!

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4LA exploring conductors & insulators

19-10-2023

4LA exploring conductors & insulators @SmithdownPrimY4 #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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Year 3 loved exploring Hinduism and the different elements in the religion.

08-11-2023

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

10-11-2023

 

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Using Henri Matisse’s style, painting with scissors, Year 3 created poppies to show their respect for all the people who have lost their lives and our thoughts for their families.

10-11-2023

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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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Remembrance Day 2023

13-11-2023

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

13-11-2023

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Happy Diwali

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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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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RAG trip to Speke Hall

14-11-2023

Reception had a lovely afternoon visiting Speke Hall! We followed the Giant trail and spotted lots of the giant’s clothes high up in the trees! We tiptoed past the sleeping giant, making sure not to wake him! We then walked around the grounds, looking for signs of Autumn.

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

17-11-2023

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

20-11-2023

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RLMc visit Speke Hall

21-11-2023

Yesterday RLMc had lots of fun visiting Speke Hall. We looked at the changes for Autumn and we even saw a sleeping giant! We visited the giants house, kitchen, music room and even his playground. It was lots of fun!

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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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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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Year 4 had some much fun doing their Santa dash??

08-12-2023
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Year 3 and 4 had an amazing time watching a Christmas performance! We all had a good laugh and got involved.

11-12-2023

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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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The Wizard of Oz ? Christmas Performance 2023

18-01-2024

A selection of our FABULOUS actors who performed in our Christmas 2023 performance of The Wizard of Oz. We hope you loved watching as much as we loved performing for you all!?

 

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The Wizard of Oz – our ticket designs.

18-01-2024

We thought some of our ticket designs were just far too lovely not to share!

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Year 4KM’s amazing stars of the week??!!!

19-01-2024

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Tesco trip

24-01-2024

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

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4KM had an amazing morning learning a Chinese dance and carrying the Chinese dragon???!!!

30-01-2024

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5EHD begin their Chinese New Year Celebrations

30-01-2024

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The Year of the Dragon

31-01-2024

We LOVED our dragon dancing today celebrating Chinese New Year.

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We had a great morning preparing for Chinese New Year!

31-01-2024

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Year 4 had a great afternoon learning how to manage their money??

05-02-2024

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Where do we put our money? Peter from MyBnk came to tell us…

05-02-2024
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1MS loved learning a Chinese dragon dance last week!

07-02-2024

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Year 4 had so much fun at their campfire toasting marshmallows and drinking hot chocolate??!!!

09-02-2024

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Chinese New Year celebrations

21-02-2024

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

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Maths parental workshop

21-02-2024

Thank you to our parents who came to our Reception maths parental workshop this week! We look at how to support your children with their shape knowledge at home.

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Superstars in Year 3 and 4! Stars of the week for some amazing work and attitude.

23-02-2024

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

26-02-2024

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Y6 Lowry Museum Trip

04-03-2024

Since we have been studying L.S. Lowry, we took a trip to The Lowry Museum in Salford and took part in a portrait workshop after viewing some of Lowry’s famous paintings. We had such a fabulous day!

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Court Visit

06-03-2024

We took a trip to the Family and Civil Court to take part in a mock trial and meet some real life judges!

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Happy world book day 2024???!!!

07-03-2024

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Year 4 have been working hard as illustrators this world book day??!!!

07-03-2024

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Year 1 loved celebrating World Book Day!

08-03-2024

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World Book Day 2024

08-03-2024

What an amazing day in 4LA.

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Year 4 had so much fun during their circus skills morning??‍♀️?!!!

08-03-2024

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World book day 2024???!!!

08-03-2024

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More circus skills fun this afternoon??‍♀️?!!!

08-03-2024

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

13-03-2024

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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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Year 2 Outdoor Club

27-03-2024

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We’ve had a great time over the last few weeks in Outdoor Club! We’ve played games, created dens and ended with a campfire. Huge thanks to the children of Year 2 for coming along each Tuesday.

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Check out our finished chairs!

18-04-2024

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

 

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4KM had a great morning working with the Hope university students learning about light and sound??!!

19-04-2024

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Well done to our year 3 and 4 stars of the week⭐️

19-04-2024

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Pizza Time!!!

19-04-2024

Year 3 had a great morning making pizza! They mixed all the ingredients, kneaded the dough and added toppings all by themselves. All whilst looking the part in their chef hats and aprons! I think everyone would agree that the best part was being able to eat it. ?‍???‍?

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Hands Sign Language in Reception

24-04-2024

We have started to learn sign language each week and are doing so well at learning greetings, colours and animals thanks to Hands.

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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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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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Trip to Goodison!

20-05-2024

Year 3 had an amazing trip down at Goodison Park as part of our Everton In The Community project.  We took part in a cooking demonstration and enjoyed the yummy chicken paella we made.

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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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Cricket in the Sun

21-05-2024

What a lovely day some of our Year 6 children had today! A great day playing cricket at Sefton Cricket Club and the sun shone just for us.

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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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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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Y5&6 Girls Rugby

18-06-2024

How great was our rugby taster session yesterday at Calderstones !!!!!

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Supporting our metal health by doing something that is fun and makes us laugh.

18-06-2024

Banana Boat song.

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Thank you to Mrs Naylor for our wonderful Music Assembly today 🎶 🎤

19-06-2024

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Year 3 natural resources!

21-06-2024

What a week we have had! Year 3 had a lovely trip to New Brighton to find natural resources so that we could create landscapes in the theme of Frances Hatch. We glued on things we found and used water to extract the pigment out of them to colour paper.

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Girls’ rugby

21-06-2024

Year 3 and 4 girls had a super experience with an introduction into rugby. They had a chance of practising kicking, tackling and their footwork.

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4KM created some amazing posters for refugee week!!

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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ISing has started and we are so excited!

24-06-2024

We are loving iSing so far

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Year 1 had the best time at the picnic last week. We had lots of fun!

24-06-2024

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Some more pictures from the picnic!

24-06-2024

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Volcanoes!

25-06-2024

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

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Spaghetti Bolognese time!

25-06-2024

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

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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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Y6 Residential …. We’re Off!

26-06-2024

On our way to Condover Hall …… 🚌

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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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Singing Assembly!

03-07-2024

I love starting off our Wednesdays with our singing assembly. It puts a smile on all our faces and gets us ready for our work.

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Picnic Time 🧺

03-07-2024

It was so lovely to see you all at our picnic and thank you for all the delicious food. 😋

keep those hearts topped up with love and we hope they help you all as you move onto new classes in September. ❤️

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Sports Day!

04-07-2024

We had a great morning for our sports day! Thank you to all of our families who came to watch!

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A great morning for sports day!

04-07-2024

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Sports day!

04-07-2024

Super morning with our LKS2 sports day! We had a great day for it and we all tried our best with every activity.

 

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Water transportation!

04-07-2024

We used celery to investigate how xylems transport water and nutrients to the rest of the plant. Watch this space and see what we find out!

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Well done to our stars of the week!!!

05-07-2024

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Time to say goodbye 👋

09-07-2024

Thank you for joining us this morning for our celebrations 🎉

We are lucky to have been able to share this year with your children and hope you all come back to say hello.

We finished the day with a party lunch and party games this afternoon. ☺️😊

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

12-07-2024

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Cheque Presentation

17-07-2024

A massive thank you to all parents and children who donated money to Alder Hey. The children on the school council were very lucky to be invited down to Alder Hey for a cheque presentation.
The money raised is going to help brighten the lives of children and their families, all over the country, who require the help of Alder Hey.

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So very grateful!

18-07-2024

We all feel so very grateful and proud of the children we have helped grow this year! A big thank you to all our families. ❤️

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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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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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Competition Time! Y5/6 Dodgeball

19-09-2024

Some of our Y5/6 went out for a Dodgeball competition this week – we didn’t win but we enjoyed ourselves!

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Being an archaeologist!

19-09-2024

Year 3 all had a go at being an archaeologist and excavating some ancient Egyptian artefacts – just like Howard Carter!

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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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An afternoon of ‘Quidditch’

07-10-2024

Wow…. what a way to end the week !!! Some children in Years 5 & 6 got to try their hands at ‘Quidditch’ today and they absolutely loved it !!!!

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Thank you to everyone who joined us this afternoon in Nursery.

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Ukulele

09-10-2024

We loved our morning learning the C and F chord.

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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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Thank you to everyone that joined us this afternoon, it was lovely to see you all in Nursery playing and sharing the space together.

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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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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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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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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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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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Year 4 Everton in the Community

15-10-2024

A great PE session focused on our football skills. We love working with Everton in the Community to improve our skills, teamwork and resilience.

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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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Diwali Celebrations

21-10-2024

Year 6 had some special visitors today who helped us to learn about the Hindu festival of Diwali. We looked at traditional food, special dress and other forms of celebration which take place. Most of all, we loved the dressing up and the dancing!

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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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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!

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To celebrate Diwali, we made some Rangoli patterns!

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Girls Football Tournament

25-10-2024

Some of our Year 5 & 6 girls have been out to a ‘Girls Only’ football tournament today organised by Everton in the Community. Go girls !!!!!!

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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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Remembrance Day

11-11-2024

We did our one minute silence. After, we used our sketching skills to create some Remembrance Day artwork.

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Starting our Children in Need campaign in Nursery. 🐻

12-11-2024

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

14-11-2024

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

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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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Children in Need – maths

15-11-2024

Year 4 spent this morning exploring Children in Need themed problems and discussing possible answers.

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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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We have had so busy all day raising money for Children in Need.

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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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NRG workshop

20-11-2024

Year 4 have learnt lots today about saving energy and money with 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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NRG Workshop

22-11-2024

Today, we had a special assembly followed by a workshop on renewable energy sources. Year 6 knew lots of information about this as we have covered aspects within our Geography topic.

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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!

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Thank you to everyone that joined us this afternoon.

22-11-2024
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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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A great way to start our Monday with a B -Tales Production. 🎄

02-12-2024

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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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Rocks!

05-12-2024

We have been studying rocks and today we tested the how hard wearing sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous are, along with their permeability and how they react to acids.

 

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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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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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Superstars 🌟🌟🌟

10-12-2024

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It’s been a day a day full of fun and parties 🥳

11-12-2024
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Christmas

13-12-2024

Lovely visit from Father Christmas this week.

 

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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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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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Parent & carers craft afternoon

18-12-2024

A wonderful afternoon with our fabulous parents and carers.

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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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Sign Language sessions

07-01-2025

We loved our first Hands session today. We learned lots of colours in sign language.

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SNOW!

08-01-2025

The best start to our week. Yesterday we loved playing in the snow, having a snow ball fight and building snowmen. 

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Pottery making

13-01-2025

We 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.

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How our solar system moves!

17-01-2025

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

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Blue Planet! The BEST day!

19-01-2025

We absolutely loved Blue Planet!

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Palaeolithic Cave Art

22-01-2025

We all collaborated to create cave art using charcoal. Combining art skills and history knowledge means amazing work!

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Chinese New Year Workshop (Year 4)

28-01-2025

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Running stitch

28-01-2025

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

 

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Wow! How lucky are we to experience the Chinese Dragon workshop this afternoon. 🐉

28-01-2025
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Making snakes for Chinese New Year

29-01-2025

Some of these snakes just keep growing and growing ….

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Year 1 celebrated Chinese New Year

29-01-2025

We were visited by some Chinese dragons. We had a great time!

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Chinese Lion Dancing

29-01-2025

We got up close to a Chinese lion today as part of our Chinese New Year celebrations.

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

29-01-2025

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

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2GH Lion Workshop

30-01-2025
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Lunar New Year Dance

30-01-2025

The children enjoyed the dragon workshop today and had lots of fun doing a lion dance.

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Superstars

31-01-2025

Year 3 and 4 stars of the week!

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It’s been a busy week celebrating Lunar New Year. 🐉 🐍

31-01-2025
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Economic Education today with the help of Debt Aware

04-02-2025

We spent the morning learning about the world of work, environments and salaries.

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Chinese New Year celebrations

04-02-2025

We had lots of fun taking part in a Chines a New Year workshop. We also made some of our own snakes to celebrate the year of the snake.

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Cosmo the therapy dog

05-02-2025

We had a very special visitor today. His name was Cosmo. We loved getting to know him.

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Archaeologist Visit

06-02-2025

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

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Thank you so much for coming to play with us this afternoon and helping us understand the Zones of Regulation.

11-02-2025
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Phases of the moon

11-02-2025

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?

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Parent Governor Election

14-02-2025

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

 

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On Safer Internet Day, Year 1 made some online safety superheroes. We made some amazing characters and learnt a lot about keeping safe from scams.

14-02-2025

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26-02-2025

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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Superstars in Year 3 🌟

26-02-2025

We love children doing work at home!

 

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International Mother Language Day

26-02-2025

In Reception we have celebrated International Mother Language Day by counting in other languages and learning the names of our snacks in different languages.

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Art project

27-02-2025

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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Y3 Sustainability Project with Metal

27-02-2025

Y3 have been busy making their own paper out of pulp this morning with our visitors from Metal.

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Football Competition

28-02-2025

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.

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It’s been a busy day celebrating World Book Day in Nursery. 🐶 📖

04-03-2025
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World Book Day

06-03-2025

Year 6 have drawn their own versions of some books they have enjoyed reading for World Book Day.

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Happy World Book Day

06-03-2025

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The Dalmatians are safe once again!

06-03-2025

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

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World book day! 📕 📖

06-03-2025
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Crazy Hair Day in Y6

14-03-2025

Here are a few of our crazy hair people today – super styles indeed! Huge thanks for all the chocolate donations received today, be sure to buy your tickets for the bingo.

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Crazy Hair day! What wonderful creative hairstyles we have in Nursery. Thank you for the chocolate donations so far. We will be wearing home clothes next week and taking chocolate donations for our Bingo night.

14-03-2025
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Year 1 loved crazy hair day. Thank you everyone for the chocolate donations, they will be used for our easter bingo!We are also looking forward to comic relief next Friday!

14-03-2025

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Silly hair day

14-03-2025

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Silly Hair Day 2025

17-03-2025

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Railway Safety

19-03-2025

A very important and informative message from Network Rail this morning. We learnt about the dangers on railways and how to stay safe.

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Ruth Wakefield – science week

19-03-2025

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

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Switched On Rail Safety

19-03-2025

Today we watched a live assembly from Network Rail and learnt how to stay switched on and safe around trains and railways.

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Gymnastics British Championship and Newsround!

21-03-2025

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!

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Red Nose Day

21-03-2025
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Everton mathematics day!

24-03-2025

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! 🧮

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Predictions

27-03-2025

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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2GH Martin Mere

27-03-2025

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!

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Mother’s Day Story Time

31-03-2025

Thank you very much to all parents who cam along to our Mother’s Day story time on Friday.

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Year 1 have loved celebrating Eid today in school! We enjoyed our special school lunch!

01-04-2025

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Eid Celebrations

01-04-2025

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

 

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A wonderful day full of Eid celebrations!

01-04-2025

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WW2 Workshop

02-04-2025

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.

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Stars of the week

03-04-2025

Super hard work this week! Well done Year 3 and 4.

 

 

 

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It has been a busy day celebrating Eid 🥳 we have drawn henna hands, made party hats, played games and enjoyed dancing together.

03-04-2025
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Superstar in Year 5! 🌟

04-04-2025

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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Everton activities

04-04-2025

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

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Everton in the Community

04-04-2025

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

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Hands Signing

22-04-2025

We have started to learn sign language in Reception. Today we have been learning signs for colours.

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Earth Day – Recycled Kites

23-04-2025

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

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X2 multiplication practice

02-05-2025

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

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12-05-2025

This morning we enjoyed using the seek app to find the names of native creatures and plants in our playground. Thank you to Lucy from Chester Zoo – a great start to our workshops!

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Martin Mere Viking day!

12-05-2025

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

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Hand Signing

13-05-2025

We are practicing signs for food names this week in Reception during our Hands time.

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Chester Zoo visitor day 2

13-05-2025

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Another fantastic Chester Zoo Workshop this morning!

14-05-2025

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It was lovely to see so many of you in Nursery today sharing activities with your children. 😊

15-05-2025
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Chester Zoo

15-05-2025

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

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A beautiful sunny day of fun in the park for our Year 6 today!

16-05-2025

We well and truly enjoyed our day out today!

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We have been busy sticking our designs onto our bunting for our 150 year celebrations.

16-05-2025
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Our amazing Chester Zoo trip!

20-05-2025

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

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Chester Zoo

21-05-2025

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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Off we go! Crosby Hall Education Center here we come! !

21-05-2025

Year 6 are off on their annual residential … see you when we return on Friday! Keep your eyes peeled for updates of our activities 👀🧗‍♀️🏹🛶

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A few pictures of our walk through the woods

21-05-2025
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Archery for group 3

22-05-2025

Our first activity this morning is archery ….

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Climbing for group 2 this morning

22-05-2025
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Rafting for group 2

22-05-2025
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Group 1 Archery

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Rafting Group 3

22-05-2025
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Climbing Group 1

22-05-2025
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Circus Skills

22-05-2025

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

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Circus Skills

22-05-2025

We loved our Circus Skills Workshop today linked to our class text ‘Leon and the Place Between’.

 

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Mixed Groups: Adventure Course Set 1

22-05-2025
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Mixed Groups: Adventure Course Set 2

22-05-2025
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Mixed Groups: Curling

22-05-2025
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Mixed Groups: Jacob’s Ladder Climb

22-05-2025
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Group 3: After jumping in the lake !

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Rafting: Group 1

22-05-2025
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Group 1: Climbing and Archery

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Group 1: Climbing

22-05-2025
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Time Team : Digging for and FINDING buried treasure!

22-05-2025
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Snack time!

22-05-2025

We’ve made our beds, had a long walk through the woods, now we’re just going to have a FEW ( don’t worry, we are not going to eat everything tonight!)  snacks whilst watching some of the football match. Everyone is doing well.😃

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Whole group: Adventure playground in the forest, set 1

23-05-2025
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Whole group adventure forest, set 2

23-05-2025
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Cyanotype

03-06-2025

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

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150 years!

03-06-2025

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

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Smithdown Archives

03-06-2025

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

 

 

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To celebrate our school turning 150 years, we have been looking at toys and how they are different from 1874 to now.

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In Year 1, we have been comparing toys from 1874 to now and looking at how they are different.

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To celebrate 150 years of our school, Year 1 have made our school using Lego and blocks.

03-06-2025

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Timeline of events

04-06-2025

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

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Famous people around our school!

04-06-2025

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

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Charcoal Chatsworth

05-06-2025

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

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Smithdown’s 150 Years Celebration

10-06-2025

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Smithdown Drama

11-06-2025

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

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Reception @ The World Museum

12-06-2025

Reception had a fantastic day at the museum on Tuesday. We had a wonderful time seeing all of the amazing things – our favourite was the aquarium. The children even spotted Nemo and Dory!

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Smithdown P.S 150 Year Celebrations

12-06-2025

In Reception we have been learning all about our school and it’s 150th birthday 🥳

We looked at old pictures of the children from our school – they were all in black and white.

We made a picture of Smithdown P.S to celebrate and printed with sponges using the school colours 🎨

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Chatsworth v Smithdown

12-06-2025

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

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Chicago Bears (Thursday) Group 1

12-06-2025

Some action shots from today’s adventure, it was AMAZING !!!!!

We even had 2 children chosen as being extra special participants – for showing effort and supporting their team-mates, who both won a pair of gloves signed by one of the Chicago Bears players !!!!!

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Chicago Bears (Thursday) Group 2

12-06-2025

Some more action shots, great fun had by ALL!

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Smithdown Archive

12-06-2025

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

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Smithdown Treasure Hunt

12-06-2025

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

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150 Years!

12-06-2025

Year 5 loved their workshop for 150 years and learning about the history of our local area.

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150 year celebration – art!

12-06-2025

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

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Happy Father’s Day🌟

13-06-2025

Thank you all for coming to our Father’s / Special Person assembly 🌟 the children worked so hard practicing both songs and making their lovely art work. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!

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150 Year Celebration

13-06-2025

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

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Chicago Bears (Friday) Set 1

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Chicago Bears (Friday) Set 2

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Chicago Bears (Friday) Set 3

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Chicago Bears ( Friday) Set 4

13-06-2025

The great Charles ‘Peanut’ Tillman was playing ball with us today too!

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Our 150 years school celebration picnic

13-06-2025

This afternoon we had a fantastic time celebrating and eating delicious food with all of our families at school.

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150 years of Smithdown

13-06-2025

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Eid Mubarak

13-06-2025

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Ahoy!! 🏴‍☠️

17-06-2025

Reception have been super crafty over the last few weeks reading all about Pirates – they have been making paintings of pirate ships, telescopes, pirate flags and even treasure maps! 🏴‍☠️

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We have been looking at the text Only One You and sharing where we have come from and where we are now. We have made fish to represent the fish in the story.

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Refugee Week

20-06-2025

We read a book that helped us understand what refugees are and how they might feel and spoke about the possible reasons for why someone might need to become a refugee.

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Superstars 🌟

20-06-2025

Year 3 and 4 had a super week!

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150 year celebration picnic

20-06-2025

Thank you to everyone wo helped make our family picnic such a success, from the generous items on our community table to the fantastic Henna work in aid of Alder Hey hospital to the very generous sharing of food with staff, the day was fabulous.

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Celebration Picnic

20-06-2025

A few more picnic photos

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DT – engineer visit!

23-06-2025

We have loved making our trains last week in Year 5. We’ve built our chassis, adding electrics and tested our locomotives. We were even visited by a local engineer from Stadler Rail Company to help us with our electrics and testing.

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World Climates

23-06-2025

We looked at why our world has different climates and we also explored digimaps to find different temperatures across earth.

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Stepping in!

25-06-2025

We “stepped into” some pictures from our new book. We answered some questions, asked our own questions and made some predictions about our new book.

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Forest School

25-06-2025

We have had a lovely time in Forest School club with some of our Reception children and parents and families. We have used natural materials to make journey sticks, played listening games and created dens. Tomorrow-Thursday 26th June is our last session where we will be having a campfire. All welcome and hope to see lots of you tomorrow from 3.30-4pm. Many thanks.

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BeatleMania 🎶

25-06-2025

We loved taking part in BeatleMania today!

 

”We all lived in a yellow submarine!” 🎶

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Titanic home learning

26-06-2025

A big thank you to all our families that have helped create some art work based on the Titanic. We were blown away by all your efforts.

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Year 3 and 4 Superstars!

27-06-2025

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Pictogram fieldwork!

01-07-2025

This morning year 3 have been working hard to collect information for our topic on statistics in maths. We looked out of the windows onto our very busy community to see how many different coloured cars we could see. We then collected the data into a tally chart to turn into pictograms.

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Refugee week

02-07-2025

Last week we had a performance based on the experiences of refugees. It was brilliant performed and we even had a Q&A session at the end.

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Y6 Tower of London 1

02-07-2025
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Y6 Tower of London 2

02-07-2025
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Y6 Tower of London 3

02-07-2025
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Reception Sports Day 2025🏆🎖

04-07-2025

Thank you to all of the families who came out to cheer the children on – they had a blast! 🏆

 

The children worked so hard as part of a team to complete all of the races and we are so proud of all of them for showing great sportsmanship!

Well done to everyone 🌟

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Biomes

07-07-2025

In groups we created different biomes of our worlds. We thought about, climate zones, temperatures, vegetation and animals that would live in our different biomes.

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The big Teddy bear sleep over

09-07-2025

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Teddy Bear Sleepover 🐻 💤

09-07-2025

What a fantastic afternoon we have all had! We have set the teddy’s off to sleep with a lovely lullaby… let’s see what they get up to tomorrow! 🐻

Thank you to all of the families who attended & got creative with the children – I hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did.

Roll on the Teddy Bear Breakfast 🥞 🐻

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The Big Teddy Bear Breakfast 🐻🥞

10-07-2025

Oh the children could have never guessed what their Teddy’s got up to once the lights went out… what mischievous Teddy’s🐻

 

The children got to see the Teddy’s journey throughout our school & then enjoyed a lovely breakfast in the garden!

Lots of giggles and full bellies in Reception today! 🌟

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CO workshop

10-07-2025

We have had an assembly and a workshop this week to inform the children about CO (carbon monoxide), the dangers of it, how it is produced, how it can be detected and what the symptoms of CO poisoning are.

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Cooooooool down 🧊

11-07-2025

Reception enjoyed some freezing cold ice pops in the sun. What a perfect cool down on a Friday afternoon!! ☀️

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Year 1 gardening club had a great time visiting the garden centre!

14-07-2025

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar 🐛🍎🍐🧁🍭🌱

14-07-2025

Today we read “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” – the children worked together in pairs to recall what the caterpillar had eaten on each day of the week.

They also used some of the fruits that the very hungry caterpillar had eaten to make their very own fruit salad that they enjoyed during snack time. 🍎🍐🍊🍓🍉🫐

 

In the creative area the children were making their own very hungry caterpillars using green and red circles. They made these completely independently- how fantastic! 🐛

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Hands Assembly 🖐

15-07-2025

Thank you to all of the families who attended Receptions Hands assembly this afternoon. The children have been working so hard for the last 10 weeks and they were absolutely fantastic!

We are so proud of all the effort they have been putting into their signing, singing and dancing.

We hope you all enjoyed it!!

 

And a big well done to Deny from Miss McNally’s class who worked so hard throughout these sessions with her fantastic signing. She won a love hands jacket – how amazing!!

🙌 🙌

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150 Birthday Party ~ best day ever! 🌟

16-07-2025

What an absolutely fantastic celebration for our schools 150th birthday celebration! 🎊

 

The children enjoyed playing on the inflatables with their friends , they had a visit to the ice cream truck for some lovely I whipped ice cream and they also played party games with lots of prizes in their classes!

The children finished off the day with some birthday cake and sang happy birthday to Smithdown Primary School. What a lovely day from start to finish. 🎂

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Inflatable Fun at the school birthday party !

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Our 150 year party!

17-07-2025

We had so much fun today eating ice creams, on a bouncy castle, playing party games and having birthday cake! What an amazing day!

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Happy Birthday Smithdown!

17-07-2025

Year 2GH had the BEST day yesterday!

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Happy Birthday Smithdown!

17-07-2025

Year 3 & 4 had a wonderful morning celebrating our school’s birthday. We enjoyed some yummy ice cream together!

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Smithdown 150 year’s celebration

17-07-2025

We had so much fun taking part in our schools birthday celebrations. We had a visit from the ice cream van , played party games and enjoyed birthday cake.

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Year 1 loved celebrating Smithdown Primary Schools birthday! We enjoyed our cake and party games!

17-07-2025

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Smithdown 150 years celebrations

17-07-2025

We had so much fun celebrating our schools birthday celebrations. We had a visit from the ice cream van, played party games and enjoyed birthday cake.

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Year 1 had the best time time having ice-cream and going on the bouncy castle!

17-07-2025

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Happy birthday Smithdown!

17-07-2025

What a day! We had party games, cake and presents for our school turning 150 years old. Happy birthday Smithdown 🎂 🎁 🎈

 

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Thurstaston Beach

17-07-2025

We had a fabulous day at the beach! We loved exploring, playing, and learning together.

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Art project

04-09-2025

Year 3 had a lovely experience this morning designing cakes based on their local area. Lots of great ideas and presenting skills being used.

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World Boxing Championships

10-09-2025

WOW what a way to spend the afternoon! Watching the World Championship Boxing at the arena! 🥊 We even met the Mongolian boxing coach !

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Hands Sign Language

10-09-2025


How lucky are we in Y1 to be learning sign language with Hands. We have practiced some greetings this week.

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Marcy and her emotions

12-09-2025

We have been exploring our new character’s feelings and how they have changed through the book. Marcy started off excited for an adventure but quickly changed to fear and worry when it went dark and she reached the cave.

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My Nightmare School

12-09-2025

In PSHE we looked at what a nightmare school would look like. We are very lucky not to have a school like these and we have people around us to keep us safe, support us and help us grow.

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Catching and throwing

15-09-2025

Practising our catching and chest pass. We also practised our bounce and overhead passes before applying them in a game of bench ball.

 

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Nursery Rhymes

16-09-2025

This week we have learnt two new songs, I’m a little tea pot and tiny Tim. We have had fun exploring with the soap and water. We have also been making cups of tea using the tea bags.

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Prepositions

17-09-2025

We looked at prepositions today, focusing what we could change in our sentence accuracy. Some great examples!

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Matisse Art

17-09-2025

Great work from Year 3 today trying to recreate Henri Matisse’s work. We cut up pieces of paper to make collages.

 

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Nursery Rhymes

19-09-2025

Today we have learnt two new songs, Im a little tea pot and Tiny Tim. We have made spotty teapots this morning using the paint sticks and also explored making tea outside. This afternoon we have learnt Tiny Tim and had lots of fun exploring with the soap and flannels.

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Campfire for Y6 this morning

26-09-2025

What a fabulous way to start the day in Autumn sunshine! Thank you so much Miss McFarlane! 🔥

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Working within 20

26-09-2025

Some boys and girls have worked incredibly hard to be more secure with numbers up to 10 and then 20. Using practical resources they were able to create 10 in different ways.

 

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We had lots of fun at the cake sale.

26-09-2025

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Cake sale

26-09-2025

We ate our yummy cakes after the cake sale. 😋 🍰

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Cake Sale

26-09-2025

Thank you so much for all your donations towards MacMillan Cancer Support. Children had a lovely time – a lot of cake was enjoyed : )

 

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Museum Ancient Egypt

30-09-2025

What a super day out! We mummified a body, spoke about what the Ancient Egyptians would have done with dead bodies and went on a scavenger hunt to find information out about the Egyptians.

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We loved the open top bus!

02-10-2025

We loved the open top bus tour of Liverpool today as part of our Geography topic. We recognised lots of local landmarks and loved listening to our amazing tour guide too.

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Movement with scarves

06-10-2025

This afternoon we have enjoyed dancing to music using scarves , we have learnt various new moves and had lots of fun.

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Year 2 Dodgeball Stars

06-10-2025

Our first sporting event of the year was Dodgeball. This group of children represented our school like the superstars we knew they were and worked so hard to prefect some new dodgeball skills. We are very proud of you.

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Year 2 Football Stars

06-10-2025

We couldn’t be prouder of our Year 2 boys. They played some fantastic football today, winning every match on the way to the play off but unfortunatly losing 2-1 for a place in the city final. One of our superstars was even picked as player of the tournament. What a talented team you are.

 

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Roman Trip to Chester

07-10-2025

Year 4 had a wonderful day at the Deva Roman Experience in Chester. We collected our shields and weapons before stepping back in time to Roman Britain. We walked the streets of Chester and battled with our ‘enemies’ The children learned a lot of new facts about The Romans, including what they ate and how they went to the toilet. The children loved it!

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Anti-Racism workshop for Year 6 this morning

07-10-2025
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Anti-Racism Session

07-10-2025

We had a great session with Loti, talking about how we can be different but are still all humans. We spoke about accepting each other and living alongside one another, which can make us stronger.

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Sketching Ancient Egyptian Art

08-10-2025

We have looked at sketching parts of a chosen picture to focus in on different sections. We are getting ready for next week, when we’ll be recreating our chosen picture using the painting with scissors technique.

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Year 3 archaeologist!

09-10-2025

We all became archaeologists for the afternoon excavating and finding ancient Egyptian artefacts. We spoke about what we learn from the things that can be found, which are thousands of years old.

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Field work at Sefton Park

10-10-2025

Yesterday morning, we went for a story, map activity and craft activity at the Palm house. In the afternoon, we followed our map and and completed some fieldwork around Sefton Park. We spotted many human and physical features of the park and added how we felt in each place on our map.

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City Finalists!

10-10-2025

How proud are we of our Year 6 girls, they won 6 out of 7 matches and have secured their place in the City Final! Lionesses in the making!

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Diwali Celebration

15-10-2025

We had a wonderful workshop this morning to celebrate Diwali and reinforce the work we have already done in Hinduism. We listened to a story, danced and created lanterns.

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Diwali Workshop

15-10-2025

We loved our Diwali workshop today. Thank you to our special visitors.

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Celebrating Diwali – Festival of Light

16-10-2025

We really enjoyed our special workshop today learning all about the festival of Diwali. We listened to stories, made  patterns, dressed up and danced!

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Reception’s first campfire

16-10-2025

We had a fantastic time at our campfire. We toasted marshmallows, ate s’mores, sang songs and drank hot chocolate. A big thank you to all the parents and carers for attending.

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Planning time

17-10-2025

We are planning our instructions for how the Ancient Egyptians would have mummified a body to preserve it.

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Diwali Celebrations

17-10-2025

This week we have enjoyed celebrating Diwali by making our very own Diya lamps using salt dough.

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Diwali celebrations

17-10-2025

We made some special Diwali sweets, Diwali cards and shared some Diwali foods . Happy Diwali to everyone!

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Boys Football Competition

17-10-2025

Our Y6 boys did really well today, they were model sportsmen who were great ambassadors for our school AND they qualified for the quarter finals too! Great job boys  👏👏👏

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Art final piece

22-10-2025

Great effort on our final piece in art. Painting with scissors has been a great skill Year 3 have gained over the last term. No pencil markings, just free hand cutting. Everyone has become more confident with this technique and we have some amazing collages of some Ancient Egyptian art work.

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Golden ball

22-10-2025

To finish off this term, we played a game of golden ball. We continued with throwing, catching and how to move in team games.

 

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Teach Rex visit

22-10-2025

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Once upon a time…a dragon came to school! Teach Rex

22-10-2025

What a day! I don’t even know how to pick from all of the pictures we took. Videos coming soon! Thank you for the best possible day. We can’t wait to hear our podcast too.

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Year 6 became Mini Medics today!

23-10-2025

We had First Aid training and learnt about DR ABC, how to put someone in the recovery position, how to give CPR and we had fun with bandages!

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Years 5 and 6 Play Leaders

23-10-2025

After receiving coaching from Coach Craig from LSSP, some of our Year 5&6 children have qualified in PALS – Leading physical activities during break times. They really enjoyed the course and can’t wait to get started!

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Mini Medics!

23-10-2025

What an amazing session with mini medics. We learnt all about DR ABC and first aid. The children loved it.

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Our trip to Speke Hall

24-10-2025

We went on a trip to Speak Hall today and had the best day ever!  We went in search of a friendly Giant at the outdoor nature trail. We found lots of giant objects and musical instruments .

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Fireworks

03-11-2025

Today the children have enjoyed making fire work pictures using magic glue and glitter 😊

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Art and feelings

05-11-2025

Starting our new book, we met a character that loves the sun light stroking her skin as she dances. We used this image to create our own to show how the sun makes the girl feel.

 

 

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Our sun dance in English!

06-11-2025

Today we had lots of fun working in groups to create a dance and role play as our character dancing in the rays of sun from our new book in English.
We listened to music about the sun and got into character.

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We have started World Nursery Rhyme week by learning 2 little dickie birds and singing Humpty Dumpty.

10-11-2025
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Remembrance Day 11.11.2025

11-11-2025

Year 3 have started Remembrance Day by focusing on some art work that uses paint, fabric and stitching. When they are dry we’ll add some stitching on them to add colour and texture.

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Remembrance poetry

11-11-2025

To think about those who have lost their lives, we created some rhyming poetry. We based our poems on poppy fields, just like our art work.

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Remembrance Day

11-11-2025

We have remembered by making our own poppies

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Year 2 Poppy Art

13-11-2025

Year 2 worked so hard on their carbon printed poppy art for Remembrance Day

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Children in need 2025

14-11-2025

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Children In Need Day

14-11-2025

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Script writing and performing

14-11-2025

We have written scripts for two characters in our book. We have used our inference skills to create a conversation that might have happened between them. Then we had some children perform their scripts to the class.

 

 

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We have had lots of fun raising money for children in need. Lots of dancing with Pudsey and we made our own Pudsey hats.

14-11-2025
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Thank you to everyone who joined us for stay and learn this afternoon. We hope you enjoyed the session and I look forward to hearing about the books you are sharing.

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Mechanisms

20-11-2025

We finished off our second prototype today for our DT unit. We labelled our work with key vocabulary and then created some designs to stick onto our arms.

 

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Emotions

20-11-2025

We were learning all about our emotions today and looking at the different inside out characters to support our understanding.

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Year 4 Campfire

23-11-2025

Year 4 parents, carers and families, please join us this Friday 28th November from 9.10am-10am for a campfire with your children. Many thanks.

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Cinderella, you will go to the ball 💫

27-11-2025

Wow! What a performance! The children absolutely loved watching Cinderella ⭐️ 🎃 ✨

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Cinderella

27-11-2025

This morning, the children watched the wonderful pantomime ‘Cinderella’. We thoroughly enjoyed the performance and it made us laugh a lot!

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Planting

28-11-2025

This afternoon we have been planting some plants outside for winter.

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It’s Christmas !

01-12-2025

Today the children have enjoyed decorating the classroom and the Christmas tree 🌲

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