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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. ❤️
4At 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.
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. ❤️
4A 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.
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. ☺️😊
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!
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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We had a great morning for our sports day! Thank you to all of our families who came to watch!
6It 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. ❤️
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.
8Happy Eid to all our families celebrating! We had a lovely day and week celebrating with all our children and adults.
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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.
13We 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…
13A fantastic community picnic. The sun shone.
An amazing community food table with so many lovely dishes to share.
29Year 3 and 4 girls had a super experience with an introduction into rugby. They had a chance of practising kicking, tackling and their footwork.
7What 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.
10How great was our rugby taster session yesterday at Calderstones !!!!!
9We 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!
23What 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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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.
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 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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We have started to learn sign language each week and are doing so well at learning greetings, colours and animals thanks to Hands.
14Year 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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We made chairs as part of our DT topic on stable structures.
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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.
84We took a trip to the Family and Civil Court to take part in a mock trial and meet some real life judges!
24Since 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!
22Thank 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.
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.
29We LOVED our dragon dancing today celebrating Chinese New Year.
23To 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.
47We thought some of our ticket designs were just far too lovely not to share!
22A 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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Congratulations to our parents who have completed the 12 week Stepping Stones ESOL class. We celebrated with certificates and food.
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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5NA went to a solar system workshop at UCLAN. We did lots of investigations all about the solar system!
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!
43Reception 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.
2GH made some beautiful poppies to help us remember today.
140Thankyou to School Council for delivering a fabulous assembly on kindness and respect.
140Why not sign up for free online family learning? Friday 10th November 9.30am to 12pm.
1404LA exploring conductors & insulators @SmithdownPrimY4 #smithdownsci
40Wonderful first session facilitating @InspireTSHubNW @CEL_IOE Cohort 3 ECT’s this afternoon. Great dialogue around supporting disadvantage pupils & inclusivity ?? Well done all!
294KM had a great PE lesson with @EITC improving their teamwork and game skills!! #smithdownextra
29Our PE lesson today was all about teamwork and how different strategies can help a team win ⭐️ @EITC #smithdownextra
34Well done to our amazing stars of the week⭐️ keep up the hard work girls!! #smithdownextra
36Another amazing PE lesson from @EITC all about teamwork!! The children played different games to help with their teamwork skills⭐️ #smithdownextra
364KM had a great time developing their ball skills and teamwork skills during our PE lesson with @EITC ⚽️?? #smithdownextra
33Having fun in Spanish this morning! #smithdownextra #smithdownyr3 #smithdownspanish
36#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!
32Lovely 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
34In 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
36Great 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
36What 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
41We loved voting for our new School Councillor today #smithdownextra @IrelandIreland1 @SmithdownPr
41These superstars enjoyed donating food to the Harvest food bank #smithdownextra
38Thank you for our harvest collection. We were overwhelmed at your generosity. Thanks to for supporting our community. #smithdownextra
28Our new Reception classes are having a lovely time exploring our outdoor area in the sunshine ☀️ @SmithdownPrimR #smithdowneyfs
31Lovely to share lunch time with our new Reception families #smithdownextra #smithdowneyfs