Smithdown Extra

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!

Pottery making

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.

SNOW!

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

Sign Language sessions

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

A great end to this half term!

An amazing Mario Kart tournament to celebrate the holidays!

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.

We loved our Christmas Dinner on Wednesday!

Superstars 🌟

Christmas

Lovely visit from Father Christmas this week.

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

Superstars 🌟🌟🌟

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.

Rocks!

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.

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.

Year 3 campfire

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

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.

City Finalists

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

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!

Thank you to everyone that joined us this afternoon.

Year 1 loved our camp fire today! Thank you to everyone who came along! A big thank you as well to Miss McFarlane!

NRG Workshop

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.

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. 

NRG workshop

Year 4 have learnt lots today about saving energy and money with Dr Watts and Dr Sparks.

NRG workshop

Year 4 learnt lots about saving energy and money. A massive thank you to Dr. Watts and Dr. Sparks.

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

Children in Need 2024

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.

Children in Need – maths

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

Year 5 Campfire

What a fabulous way to begin Children in Need day – a Year 5 campfire with hot chocolate and smores : )

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.

Basketball and netball

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.

Starting our Children in Need campaign in Nursery. 🐻

Remembrance Day

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

Remembrance Day 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.

Amazing homework!

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

Painting with scissors

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.

Girls Football Tournament

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 !!!!!!

To celebrate Diwali, we made some Rangoli patterns!

In Year 1 we loved having Ms Ronak give us a talk all about Diwali!

Football matches.

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!

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.

Diwali Celebrations

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!

Oil pastel artists!

Today we having been using different oil pastel techniques (sgraffito, dry blending, cross-hatching and tinting) to figure out which ones we want to use for our landscapes.

Year 4 Everton in the Community

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

Year 4 Temple trip

Year 4 had a very exciting morning visiting a local temple. We asked lots of questions related to our Hinduism unit.

An author has come to Smithdown!

Author of ‘The late crew’ Rob Ferguson came to visit our school today. Some of us were so excited to even get our books signed by a real life author! We even designed our own alien that we could use in our stories.  

We are city finalists!

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!

Thank You Danny Butler

Year 2 loved the visit from Danny Butler today. We enjoyed our workout with him too!

Lots of exercise today!

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.

Danny Butler Visit

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.

Lifesavers Bank

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.

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

Danny Butler!

Today we had a wonderful visit from Danny Butler. We joined in the activities and even got to see some of his amazing skills.

Danny Butler Event

We had the best day doing our sponsored event with Danny Butler. We couldn’t believe his bike skills! Wow!

Ukulele

We loved our morning learning the C and F chord.

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

An afternoon of ‘Quidditch’

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 !!!!

Year 3 Hands

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

Being an archaeologist!

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

Competition Time! Y5/6 Dodgeball

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

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).

Painting with scissors

We used Henri Matisse as our inspiration for our art topic. We used his method of painting with scissors to make our collages.

So very grateful!

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. ❤️

Cheque Presentation

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.

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

Time to say goodbye 👋

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. ☺️😊

Well done to our stars of the week!!!

Water transportation!

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!

Sports day!

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

A great morning for sports day!

Sports Day!

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

Picnic Time 🧺

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. ❤️

Singing Assembly!

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.

1MS had the best time at the farm!

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

Y6 Residential …. We’re Off!

On our way to Condover Hall …… 🚌

2GH on the way into ISing 24

Look at those smiles! Ready for a day of singing!

Eid Mubarak!

We loved celebrating Eid last week.

ISing 2024

A few more pictures! More videos to come soon!  We are so proud of Year 2.

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…

Some more pictures from the picnic!

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

ISing has started and we are so excited!

We are loving iSing so far

Fantastic Family Picnic

A fantastic community picnic. The sun shone.

An amazing community food table with so many lovely dishes to share.

4KM created some amazing posters for refugee week!!

Girls’ rugby

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.

Year 3 natural resources!

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.

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

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

Banana Boat song.

Y5&6 Girls Rugby

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

University Trip

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!

100 Star Jumps to complete our daily challenge for Alder Hey.

4KM had a great afternoon discussing what it means to be loved and creating their own collage about a person special to them❤️

Cricket in the Sun

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.

Reception Parents and Children Visit to Calderstones Park

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.

Trip to Goodison!

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.

RLMc Farm Trip

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.

Great morning with our Everton project! We made our dough from scratch, cut up our own toppings and created wonderful pizzas!

Hands Sign Language in Reception

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

Pizza Time!!!

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. ?‍???‍?

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

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

Check out our finished chairs!

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

Year 2 Outdoor Club

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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.

The Smithdown Romans!

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.

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

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

World book day 2024???!!!

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

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World Book Day 2024

What an amazing day in 4LA.

Year 1 loved celebrating World Book Day!

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

Happy world book day 2024???!!!

Court Visit

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

Y6 Lowry Museum Trip

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!

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.

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

Maths parental workshop

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.

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.

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

1MS loved learning a Chinese dragon dance last week!

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

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

We had a great morning preparing for Chinese New Year!

The Year of the Dragon

We LOVED our dragon dancing today celebrating Chinese New Year.

5EHD begin their Chinese New Year Celebrations

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

Tesco trip

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.

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

The Wizard of Oz – our ticket designs.

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

The Wizard of Oz ? Christmas Performance 2023

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!?

Silver Dojo Award – 200 dojos to these SUPERSTARS in 4LA

Stars of the Week in 4LA

ESOL class awards

Congratulations to our parents who have completed the 12 week Stepping Stones ESOL class. We celebrated with certificates and food.

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

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

Wellbeing Champions!

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

Young Scientist Centre

5NA went to a solar system workshop at UCLAN. We did lots of investigations all about the solar system!

RLMc visit Speke Hall

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!

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

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

RAG trip to Speke Hall

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.

Speke Hall trip

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.

A happy Diwali from 3TS! We made beautiful lanterns to represent the festival of light.

Happy Diwali

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

Remembrance Day 2023

Year 2 have made remembrance poppies today

2GH made some beautiful poppies to help us remember today.

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.

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

Year 3 loved exploring Hinduism and the different elements in the religion.

Parent and Toddler

Thankyou to School Council for delivering a fabulous assembly on kindness and respect.

SEND Processes for Parents

Why not sign up for free online family learning? Friday 10th November 9.30am to 12pm.

4LA exploring conductors & insulators

4LA exploring conductors & insulators @SmithdownPrimY4 #smithdownsci

Wonderful first session facilitating Cohort 3 ECT’s this afternoon

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

4KM had a great PE lesson…

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

Our PE lesson today was all about teamwork…

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

Well done to our amazing stars of the week⭐️

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

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

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

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

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

Having fun in Spanish this morning!

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

Discussing different ways how we can be kind to others

#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!

Lovely singing voices this morning!

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

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

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

Focusing on the importance of attendance…

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

What an experience…

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

Voting for our new School Councillor today

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

Donating food to the Harvest food bank

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

Thank you for our harvest collection

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

Reception exploring our outdoor area in the sunshine ☀️

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

New reception families

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