Cross Curricular

Science Week: Biscuit Investigation

Year 6 investigated how long it took a range of biscuits to dissolve in warm liquid and presented findings using graph software.

Creating craters

We have planned out our experiments in order to see how we can measure craters and what affects the result. We had a create time changing variables and recording our average in order to make it a fair test.

Art in English? So much fun!

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. 

A new scientist to learn about for Y6

As part of our Science Week work, Year 6 learnt about Ibn Al-Haytham, the man credited with inventing the pinhole camera. As our Lowry portraits were so good, we couldn’t resist applying our artistic skills to this wonderful scientist too.

Y3 Sustainability Game

This morning we have been supporting Laura from Metal  with a new card game all about sustainability. We were lucky enough to be the first school to trial the game and learned a lot about symbols and ways to upcylce and compost. Thank you Laura!

Y3 Sustainability Project with Metal

Y3 have been busy upcycling their fashion items ready for their fashion show for parents. We have learned all about recycling and sustainability over the last few weeks which has inspired us to carry on out of school. Thank you metal!

Year 1 loved celebrating World Book day!

The Dalmatians are safe once again!

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.

Happy World Book Day

International Mother Language day

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!

Prime Minster Chamberlain’s announcement – WW2

Today we used freeze frames to think about how people might have felt during the announcement of WW2. We looked at the different reactions in our book ‘Goodnight Mr Tom’ and compared different emotions.

International Mother Language Day

Year 3 celebrated International Mother Language Day. We wrote some phrases, in our home languages, and taught these to our friends. In our class, we speak in 12 different languages.

Visit from an artist

Year 3 had a great afternoon making their own recycled paper and adding their own designs to this.

Year 4 Early Civilisations Workshop

We had the best morning using drama to learn about early civilisations, with a focus on Baghdad (Early Islamic Civilisations).

International Mother Language Day

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.

Superstars in Year 3 🌟

We love children doing work at home!

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.

Goodnight Mr Tom- our new English book

Yesterday we looked at clues for our new book ’Goodnight Mr Tom’. We wrote predictions and today we discussed evacuations from cities to the countryside and arguments for and against. We invited in Mrs Ridley to walk down our ‘conscience alley’ to hear our reasons.  

Parent Governor Election

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

Amazing Roman inspired mosaics by Year 4

Biography writing in Year 6

We have been intrigued learning about Miep Gies and the role she played in helping to hide eight Jewish people in an annexe in Amsterdam during World War II but perhaps more importantly, how she was the one who found and kept safe Anne Frank’s diary.

Palaeolithic Stone Age

We made art that we would find in Palaeolithic caves. We worked together and made our caves walls as realistic as we could.

Archaeologist Visit

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!

Sunflowers

We were very lucky last week to have some visitors in our class talking to us about keeping our environment healthy and how to look after plants. We all planted our very own sunflower seeds to take home. 🌻

Fair Trade Debate

Today we learnt about the global supply chain and the different stages our products take to get to us (the customer). We debated which part of the supply chain was the most important and how fair the pay was. Our class debate was very passionate!

2GH Lion Workshop

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

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

Making snakes for Chinese New Year

Some of these snakes just keep growing and growing ….

Running stitch

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

Art – mosaics

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.

Earth and space

This week in science we have been looking at night and day. We have been learning about the rotation of Earth and how this creates daylight and nighttime.

Imagining we are cave people!

Today, year 3 mixed their history knowledge on the Palaeolithic cave people with their art skills by recreating cave art with charcoal. The children worked like our artist Laura McKendry  and completed a group activity on the floor. This allowed them to work on a bigger scale and move around their work.

150 Years of Smithdown

We created some designs that we may use for our 150 year bunting. We will practise stitching so that we can attached our designs.

Blue Planet! The BEST day!

We absolutely loved Blue Planet!

How our solar system moves!

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!

Our Finished Moon Buggies

We have loved making our moon buggies today. Do you like them?

Making our Moon Buggies

We have loved making our Moon Buggies this moring.

Sawing Skills!

Year 2 have been busy sawing their doweling to make their wheels and axles for a new moon buggy!

Parent & carers craft afternoon

A wonderful afternoon with our fabulous parents and carers.

Year 2 Nativity

Our Nativity Slideshow.

Thank you all for coming to watch. We loved performing for you.

Christmas arts and crafts workshop

What a lovely afternoon! Thanks to all the parents that came and helped out with the winter crafts. They all looked amazing.

Does our arm span increase as we grow older?

We took measurements of children from reception all the way to our eldest staff member! We then created a scatter graph of our results.

Parent assembly and activities Year 3

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.

Calligraphy with the Arabic alphabet

Today in our art lesson we looked at different examples of Arabic calligraphy and have had a go at our own.

Pattern seeking – science

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. 

Premier league workshop

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.

Celebrating differences 🌎

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.

Sequencing

This week in Mathematics, the children in class RJP have been focusing on sequencing. We explored the vocabulary, how ‘sequencing’ means to repeat a pattern. The children used paint to create an ‘ABBA’ pattern firstly, following the pattern, ‘red, green, red, green’. We then had lots of fun demonstrating the ‘ababab’ pattern using Christmas pictures, and designing a colourful paper-chain. To extend the learning, we explored different patterns, expanding on the number of picture cards, colours, and using shapes which have been learned previously. This helps the children problem solve sequencing in a fun way.
Why not keep up this learning at home, by asking the children to make repeated patterns using different objects.

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

A visit from B-Tales!

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

NRG! Our power pledges.

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.

Extra work at home!

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!

International Slavery Museum trip

Yesterday we had a great time at the International Slavery Museum. We had a workshop in the ‘legacies of the transatlantic slave trade’ and then had time to explore the museum with our task sheets. 

NRGenius’s

Year 3 had a great workshop this afternoon on how to save energy and how to be NRGenius’s. They had to create a powerful image representing why we use fossil fuels. We learnt all about renewable energy and how these are better for our environment. We ended the session by making a pledge to try our best to save energy. 💡⚡️

Children in Need 2024

We learnt all about Remembrance Day and made some poppies to help us remember❤️

Our wonderful campfire 🪵

Today we have loved our class campfire. We enjoyed toasting the marshmallows, creating a s’more and having some hot chocolate. We even had a blast from the past with some children’s songs and rhymes.

RE: The importance of the mosque in Islam.

We’re now in the Islam section of our RE unit and we are learning all about the sense of community and how the mosque plays an important part in bringing the community together. We took the opportunity to utilise our artistic skills too.

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

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

Remembrance Day

Some completed pencil poppy sketches

Some of this work is stunning!

Remembrance Day 2024

11:00 11.11.2024

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.

Amazing homework!

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

Remembrance Day Poppy Art

After learning about Remembrance Day and importance of the symbol of the poppy, we had time to sketch our own poppies using pencil and oil crayons.

To celebrate Diwali, we made some Rangoli patterns!

Charles Darwin

In Science, Year 6 have been learning about Charles Darwin as part of their ‘Evolution and Inheritance’ unit. Look at this incredible writing they have produced!

Diwali Celebrations

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. 

Diwali Workshop

Diwali lanterns

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

Diwali lanterns

Today we are designing our Diwali lanterns for next week. We have learnt the story of Rama and Sita and thought about why Diwali is celebrated in Hindu religion. We are trying to focus on using Rangoli patterns.

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

Incredible writing from Year 6

We are simply blown away by the writing we have recently produced. Our Year 6 classes are so invested in world issues – saving habitats and animals in particular. Have a read of some of the letters we wrote to the Rwandan Government, asking them to help protect the magnificent mountain gorillas 🦍

Amazing Work on Renewable Energy Sources

In Geography, we have been finding out about renewable energy sources: why they are needed alongwith the advantages and disadvantages of each.

Palm Oil – Positives and Negatives

We simply had to share a few more pieces of work as we think they are truly fantastic! Detailed information which is extremely well presented. Great work Year 6!

Using a combination of skills today…

In Year 6 today, we combined our learning from Geography and English by using our computer skills to present the information we have discovered into Google Sites to create our own web pages.

Year 3 Hands

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

Black History Month ‘24

Some AMAZING entries for the Merseyside Police competition! Children have worked hard creating lovely pieces of work with great messages as well. Well done to everyone who has submitted already. Last day tomorrow (Friday 13th September).

Year 5 Primary Engineer Award

Earlier in the year, year 5 took part in a project with Primary Engineer and built moving locomotives with an electrical circuit. Today we celebrated each child taking part, awarded awards for best group work and also two boys took home the ‘Best communicator’ award. Well done, year 5!

To the beach, let’s go… 🐚🏖

Greek Pottery

We are starting to learn about all the different styles, colours, shapes and uses of Ancient Greek pottery here in Y6.

Spanish day! 🇪🇸

Amazing dancing from Year 3, everyone really got into it.

Spanish Day!

What a great Spanish day! Red and yellow everywhere 🇪🇸. Can’t wait for food and dancing later.

Blooket fun in Year 2

In Year 2 we have discovered Blooket and we can’t get enough! We’ve used it to test our times table knowledge this week (as well as lots more too.)

Cooking time again!

We had our second group to make our traditional Italian bolognese. They had a great time preparing the ingredient and seasoning it to perfection! Thanks to our amazing head chef once again – Monica.

1MS had the best time at the farm!

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

5EHD Geography statistics work

This week year 5 have compared Liverpool to the city of Manaus in Brazil and plotted data and different style graphs.

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Year 3 Volcano eruptions!

Volcanoes Eruptions!

We had an amazing afternoon erupting our volcanoes! We even had a very dangerous and violent composite volcano with thick magma which increased the pressure when erupting.

Eid Mubarak!

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

Spaghetti Bolognese time!

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.

Volcanoes!

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…

Finding out about the PEGI age rating system

What are age ratings? How do they apply to us? What do they mean? Where are they used?

Modifying Text and Images

We created posters on Word.

We shared our favourite animals, changed the font, colour, size and style and even added images too,

Amazing work Year 2

Liverpool Skyline

Here is a FABULOUS finished skyline picture to accompany our Geography work on our ‘Walking Tours Around Liverpool.’ Amazing work from this young artist.

Bell Beaker Pottery

Super work creating our Bronze Age Bell Beaker pots. We created a similar shape and added patterns to them.

The History of Telling The Time for Science Week

We combined science with history with our TIME topic and looked at how tools to tell the time have changed over the years. We created a timeline of discoveries and measured out our own sundials with our protractors.

Buzz Buzz

We’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!

Supertato’s House

This afternoon we created Supertato’s house using icing sugar and gingerbread. We mixed the icing sugar and water to use as glue to stick the house together.

Chinese New Year celebrations

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.

We had a great morning preparing for Chinese New Year!

Great afternoon with our LJMU students and our sustainability project.

RLMc Tesco Trip

This week we have been learning all about chefs. We took a trip to Tesco to get ingredients to create vegetable soup.

Mosques Around The World

As part of our RE unit, we are finding out about mosques around the world and presenting our findings in Google Slides.

WWII Liverpool Skyline ‘The Blitz’ Scenes

We created our own versions of the Liverpool skyline one night during The Blitz in World War Two.

year 1 Zoolab visit

Year 1 had a visit form lots of animals today to celebrate our learning in science.

Year 1 had a visit from zoolab

Year 1 were very excited to have a visit from lots of animals today!

Bulb Planting in Crown Street Park!

We have been busy learning about Diwali the festival of light. We have moulded dough into Diya lamps. Made marks to create Rangoli patterns and wrote our names in our cards we have decorated.

Happy Diwali

Remembrance Day – ‘We will remember them’

Remembrance Day

We have created some beautiful poems after reading Flanders Fields and used watercolours/charcoal/pencils to create some poppy artwork to mark Remembrance Day.