
The children explored his life and paintings ?
4KM had a great afternoon completing their artist study about Paul Cezanne. The children explored his life and paintings ? #Smithdownart
674KM had a great afternoon completing their artist study about Paul Cezanne. The children explored his life and paintings ? #Smithdownart
674KM were using dienes and counters to work out many different ways in which hundreds can make 1000 #smithdownmaths ???
704KM had a great time developing their ball skills and teamwork skills during our PE lesson with @EITC ?? #smithdownextra
Year 4 had a wonderful morning! They were amazing learning their first note on their trumpets. #smithdownmusic
764KM had a great afternoon creating their own still life artwork!! The children used a lot of different techniques to create their artwork???? #smithdownart
65Another amazing PE lesson from @EITC all about teamwork!! The children played different games to help with their teamwork skills #smithdownextra
Well done to our amazing stars of the week keep up the hard work girls!! #smithdownextra
Our PE lesson today was all about teamwork and how different strategies can help a team win @EITC #smithdownextra
4KM celebrated attendance week by creating their own bar graphs using the attendance percentages of the week? #smithdownmath
654KM created their own posters and acrostic poems all about attendance week #smithdownenglish
4KM had a great morning editing their own transformation narratives in English? #smithdownenglish
574KM had a great music lesson playing their trumpets, the children were even able to learn a new note?? #smithdownmusic @ResonateHub
664KM had a great art lesson this afternoon? the children started off by exploring the texture of their shoes and then explored textures in still life art work? #smithdownart
534KM had a great history lesson this afternoon learning all about the Victorian classrooms and comparing them to modern day classrooms. The children finished off the lesson with some role play of learning in a Victorian classrooom!! #smithdownhist
664KM had a great PE lesson with @EITC improving their teamwork and game skills!! #smithdownextra
584KM had an amazing art lesson creating their own mood boards using different colours for positive and negative emotions. The children also discovered how they can portray a mood in still life drawings? #smithdownart
734KM had a great music lesson this morning? the children also learnt how to play a new note? @ResonateHub #smithdownmusic
75Kicking our electricity topic off in @SmithdownPrimY4 by thinking about what electrical appliances we have at home #smithdownsci
65Great afternoon with 4KM back to doing what we love the most – investigating!! This time, circuits. They took up the challenge of making the light bulb light ? #smithdownsci @SmithdownPrimY4
684LA ~ Sorting mains and battery powered appliances today, then working scientifically to test our predictions about positions of components in a circuit @SmithdownPrimY4 #smithdownsci
584KM testing predictions about complete and incomplete circuits #smithdownsci @SmithdownPrimY4
684LA hard at work exploring switches in circuits #smithdownsci
644KM exploring conductors & insulators this week @SmithdownPrimY4 #smithdownsci
694LA exploring conductors & insulators @SmithdownPrimY4 #smithdownsci
754KM had a great PE lesson with @EITC progressing their teamwork skills??? #smithdownextra
58This Friday, 8th December 2023, we will be having our very own Santa Dash! A chance to squeeze in an extra fitness session whilst having some festive fun ??????
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89This afternoon Year 4 have continued to build on their understand of how Pixels are used. Children used a website to recreate an image in pixel form. Children created it on paper first and then used excel to start to recreate their image.
44This afternoon Year 4 have been converting a mosaic into a pixel-style image. Children had to work out how they could convert the different sections into a 14 x 14 grid to ensure their design stayed symmetrical, children designed it onto a piece of paper ready to create a digital version next week.
44We have been working towards writing a Kenning Poem and today all of our hard work paid off.
36We’ve had a great afternoon making circuits with a light and a buzzer to help us when making our buzz wire game. We also got to have a go at a buzz wire game!
80What 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.
207Children have built on their knowledge of coding in Scratch. They have created a program today using repeat loops, controlling a character with a mouse as well as including a Score variable.
47Year 3 and 4 girls had a super experience with an introduction into rugby. They had a chance of practising kicking, tackling and their footwork.
45A fantastic community picnic. The sun shone.
An amazing community food table with so many lovely dishes to share.
170I love starting off our Wednesdays with our singing assembly. It puts a smile on all our faces and gets us ready for our work.
53Super 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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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.
Year 4 generated questions and predicted events around Roman artefacts.
30Some 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).
126Year 4 continued to look at how we can use repeat loops to benefit code. They focused on being able to use a repeat loops to get two separate characters to move in different ways, one moving when the mouse is moving and the other to move by itself and change direction when hitting a wall.
33On Thursday afternoon children continued to create programs using repeat loops. This program consisted of using repeat and forever loops to allow a pattern to be created using the pen tool on Scratch.
30A wonderful morning learning the ukulele. We even had some amazing solo performances!
Year 4 had a wonderful afternoon exploring traditional and contemporary still life artwork. They produced gestural drawings for a piece of artwork by Giorgi Morandi.
I used fronted adverbials, conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions and personification.
We had the best day doing our sponsored event with Danny Butler. We couldn’t believe his bike skills! Wow!
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We had so much fun painting our colour wheels and understanding how different colours are made. We discussed primary and secondary colours.
we learned about reincarniation and how Muslims believe if you have good Moksha you will be reborn, if you don’t you will come back as an animal.
91Year 4 had a very exciting morning visiting a local temple. We asked lots of questions related to our Hinduism unit.
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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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We found some items in our box to help us with predicting what our new class text is about.
31As part of their sound topic, Y4 have been investigating which mediums sound travels through. We did this by experimenting with string telephones. We had so much fun talking to our friends on our telephones but only some of them passed the message through!
28Year 4 had “the best day ever” in Chester. We experienced life as a Roman soldier and learnt more about the Roman invasion in Britannia.
We are having so much fun making our Diwali lanterns with rangoli patterns.
Year 4 had such a great morning at our Diwali workshop. We wore some traditional Hindu clothing, learned some traditional dance, and even got to paint and create our own diya lanterns.
32We did our one minute silence. After, we used our sketching skills to create some Remembrance Day artwork.
In RE we looked at the difference between a Christian’s daily timetable and our daily timetables. We discovered some similarities and some differences.
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In PSHE we discussed how we should not make assumptions about people by how they look. We must not be judgemental.
26Year 4 spent this morning exploring Children in Need themed problems and discussing possible answers.
Year 4 learnt lots about saving energy and money. A massive thank you to Dr. Watts and Dr. Sparks.
Year 4 had a fun morning creating speech and acting it out. We loved being the villainous witch and sweet, little Jub. We used macaroni to add inverted commas to our speech.
Year 4 have learnt lots today about saving energy and money with Dr Watts and Dr Sparks.
29Year 4 had a fun creative morning today. They loved playing the witch and Jub. We also used macaroni to add inverted commas into our speech that we had acted out.
This week we are writing our own twisted tale narrative. We spent this morning exploring what a good one looks like, locating features and writing our own alternative ending.
27Some amazing work of Mount Etna in Year 4 today. So many facts and wonderful diagrams – well done!
We’ve been working so hard this half term in music. The improvement in our playing is amazing!
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We love our PE lessons. Another great session with Everton in the Community.
A wonderful afternoon with our fabulous parents and carers.
We used role play to decide if the witch from our class text should give back the stolen happy endings. We thought of lots of reasons for and against.
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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Yesterday we created artwork using a colour wheel to discover complimentary colours. We then created mosaic patterns inspired by Gaudi’s Trencadis technique. The media we used was oil pastel.
Well done to our year 3 and year 4 children who received a star of the week certificate this week. Well done everyone and keep up the great work!
Yesterday we used pictorial artefacts to investigate a mystery person. We generated questions and then answered them using the internet. Finally some children were hot-seated in role.
Year 4 designed their Roman inspired mosaics using technology before creating their own paper version.
We’re very excited to create our mosaics next week using tiles.
12For Chinese New Year we have had a great time making snakes and performing a dragon dance!
Y4 have been busy learning all about human and animal teeth this half term. We decided to investigate the effect different drinks had on our teeth. We discovered some shocking conclusions!
Y3 & 4 were lucky enough to work with students from LJMU to learn about sustainability.. We made bracelets out of plastic bags.
Today Y4 explored the process of digestion by replicating their own model. It was a messy activity and we learned so much!
10We explored scamming, what is meant by the word phishing and identified how to spot phishing scams such as spelling mistakes, suspicious email addresses, and personal information requests.
7Today we learnt how to keep ourselves and others safe from scams. We learnt what phishing meant and how to look out for it!
This half term Year 4 have been focusing on what pixels are and pixel artwork in their computing lessons. Children looked at how the amount of pixels can impact the quality of images, how we can use binary code to create different pixel images, explored how to create pixel images and used their knowledge of excel to create a pixel based image of a mosaic that they created.
8A great morning exploring the relationship between multiples and three and multiples of six.
9We made a ceramic mosaic tile in groups using glass tesserae. Our designs are stunning!
We found patterns within each multiplication table and common multiples!
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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Y4 have been exploring food chains this afternoon to build on their knowledge of animals and living things.
We had the best morning using drama to learn about early civilisations, with a focus on Baghdad (Early Islamic Civilisations).
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.
52Thank you to AS Creatives for our workshop this afternoon focusing on Ancient Civilisations.
We worked hard to plan and write a non-chronological report. We worked in groups to write a specific paragraph.
In groups we investigated a mystery object. What was it? What was it used for? Who would have owned and used it?
We learnt about the mythical Kraken and wrote a section of a non- chronological report in groups.
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.
In groups we compared an artist’s depiction of an area in Britain in the 1830s to how it had changed by
the 1890s. We discovered the changes in landscape were due to the Industrial Revolution. We then learnt about 7 key changes and ordered them by importance using a diamond nine activity.
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Y4 have been busy exploring food chains in the environment. They have learned about the words consumer, producer and predator whilst recapping the process of photosynthesis.
This half term we are learning about the Victorians, but we don’t want to forget what we have learnt about our previous topic on the ancient civilisation of Baghdad. So, we played a game called Quiz, Quiz, Trade. This game involves asking questions to see how much we have remembered. We did really well!
28A very important and informative message from Network Rail this morning. We learnt about the dangers on railways and how to stay safe.
Today we watched a live assembly from Network Rail and learnt how to stay switched on and safe around trains and railways.
7We explored the 1851 census before exploring life for the poor in Victorian Liverpool.
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