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Smithdown Extra
At Smithdown, we are proud of all we do beyond the National Curriculum.
As a school, we are passionate about working with families, supporting local and national charities, making links with other organisations and placing our school at the heart of the community.
Smithdown Extra Chatter
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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. ☺️😊
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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!
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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.
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Sports Day!
We had a great morning for our sports day! Thank you to all of our families who came to watch!
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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. ❤️
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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.
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Eid Mubarak!
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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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.
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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…
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Fantastic Family Picnic
A fantastic community picnic. The sun shone.
An amazing community food table with so many lovely dishes to share.
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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.
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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.
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Y5&6 Girls Rugby
How great was our rugby taster session yesterday at Calderstones !!!!!
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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!
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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❤️
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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4KM had a great morning working with the Hope university students learning about light and sound??!!
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Check out our finished chairs!
We made chairs as part of our DT topic on stable structures.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Year 4 had so much fun at their campfire toasting marshmallows and drinking hot chocolate??!!!
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The Year of the Dragon
We LOVED our dragon dancing today celebrating Chinese New Year.
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4KM had an amazing morning learning a Chinese dance and carrying the Chinese dragon???!!!
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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.
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The Wizard of Oz – our ticket designs.
We thought some of our ticket designs were just far too lovely not to share!
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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!?
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ESOL class awards
Congratulations to our parents who have completed the 12 week Stepping Stones ESOL class. We celebrated with certificates and food.
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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.
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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
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Young Scientist Centre
5NA went to a solar system workshop at UCLAN. We did lots of investigations all about the solar system!
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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!
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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.
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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.
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A happy Diwali from 3TS! We made beautiful lanterns to represent the festival of light.
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Year 2 have made remembrance poppies today
2GH made some beautiful poppies to help us remember today.
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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.
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Parent and Toddler
Thankyou to School Council for delivering a fabulous assembly on kindness and respect.
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SEND Processes for Parents
Why not sign up for free online family learning? Friday 10th November 9.30am to 12pm.
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4LA exploring conductors & insulators
4LA exploring conductors & insulators @SmithdownPrimY4 #smithdownsci
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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!
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4KM had a great PE lesson…
4KM had a great PE lesson with @EITC improving their teamwork and game skills!! #smithdownextra
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Having fun in Spanish this morning!
Having fun in Spanish this morning! #smithdownextra #smithdownyr3 #smithdownspanish
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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!
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Voting for our new School Councillor today
We loved voting for our new School Councillor today #smithdownextra @IrelandIreland1 @SmithdownPr
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Donating food to the Harvest food bank
These superstars enjoyed donating food to the Harvest food bank #smithdownextra
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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
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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
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New reception families
Lovely to share lunch time with our new Reception families #smithdownextra #smithdowneyfs