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Wellbeing Chatter

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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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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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Challenge time

24-06-2024

We set the children a range of challenges to see if the children could  complete the challenge before the timer ends.

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Taking care of our well-being

24-06-2024

In year 3, we have been ensuring we are taking care of our own well-being and have been doing 100 of a various of movements. We all enjoyed doing 100 starjumps and jogging on the spot for 100 seconds. We recognise the positive impact movement and exercise has on our mental well-being! 😊🏃‍♀️👟⏳

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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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Learning “Three little birds” in our music lesson

07-10-2024

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

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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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We have made our own jars to help us stay calm.

11-10-2024
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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! 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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A visit from B-Tales!

02-12-2024

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

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Year 3 campfire

02-12-2024

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

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Celebrating differences 🌎

03-12-2024

For our PSHE lesson we are celebrating differences. In previous weeks we have spoken about racism, bullying and rumours and now we are researching a range of countries and what their culture looks like.

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Premier league workshop

04-12-2024

This morning we had a Premier League workshop to tell us all about the different jobs and skills we could get that are part of football. We learnt about football journalists, authors, medics, stewards, mascots, players and coaches. We then acted out being an interviewer, interviewee and clarifier.

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Pattern seeking – science

04-12-2024

In science today we put our ideas to the test. we either chose to either investigate if children with the longest femur could jump the highest or if the tallest children could jump the highest. We completed the post it challenge and made sure our investigation was fair. 

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Christmas party and pantomime

11-12-2024

We have had the best day today…

First, the children were visited by Santa 🎅🏽 who told the class how good they had all been. We were then all treated to the most tasty Christmas dinner. We then went back to class to enjoy yet another favourite treat of ice-cream whilst watching the ‘Beauty and Beast’ panto. What a great 🎉 party day!

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Our Christmas dinner!

13-12-2024

We had a lovely Christmas dinner on Wednesday!

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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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A great end to this half term!

19-12-2024

An amazing Mario Kart tournament to celebrate the holidays!

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Year 1/2 had lots of fun in the snow this morning!

07-01-2025

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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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An assembly of celebrations

17-01-2025


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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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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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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Reading – Ms Siddiqui

12-02-2025

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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International Mother Language Day

27-02-2025

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.

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International Mother Language day

05-03-2025

We loved sharing our languages last week and teaching children different words. Some children even wanted to record these so that we could share our language with others. We have some excellent little teachers in class!

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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

Today, we enjoyed listening to stories and reading some too.

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Art in English? So much fun!

12-03-2025

In English this week, we were inspired by the character Willaim Beech’s love of art and painted some of the setting descriptions from Little Weirwold. some example examples to create imagery from our book Goodnight Mr Tom. 

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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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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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Eid celebrations!

01-04-2025

Today we learnt about Eid and took part in some 3D pop ups.

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