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Date: 2nd Jul 2024 @ 5:56pm
Wriggly nativity, wriggly nativity! Somehow you’ve just got to move: It’s a wriggly nativity.
Wow what an amazing performance by EYFS! The children all worked hard to learn their lines, songs and actions.
Our songs included:
- The Wriggly Nativity
- Donkey Plodding
- Knock On Another Door
- Rockabye Jesus
- Dancing About In the Straw
- Twinkling Stars
- Angels
- Bumping Up and Down On a Camel
"My favourite was Rockabye Jesus" - Matthew
"I loved dancing in the straw" - Tommy
"I was Mary" - Grace
Date: 2nd Jul 2024 @ 5:49pm
He has terrible tusks, and terrible claws, And terrible teeth in his terrible jaws... Who could it be? The Gruffalo!
We have loved our shared reading text, The Gruffalo. We have spent time learning the story and have even used drama to re create the scenes. We had a special delivery from the library service, The Gruffalo puppets! The children have loved using the puppets and can remember the story. The children have also learnt The Gruffalo song and performed it together.
"He has knobbly knees, and turned-out toes" - Meredith
"The mouse is the scariest creature in the wood" - Dexter
"The mouse likes Gruffalo crumble" - Kasper
Date: 2nd Jul 2024 @ 5:43pm
EYFS have been working hard on developing their fine motor skills. The children have been grasping, squashing, stretching, threading, poking and printing to strengthen their fine motor skills. They are doing this so that they can further develop their pencil control. The children have loved filling water, mark making in sand and glitter, threading and dot painting.
Date: 2nd Jul 2024 @ 4:13pm
Year 6 enjoyed their residential trip to Robinwood in Wrexham.
We took part in a range of activities including archery, zip wire, climbing, caving, high rope challenge course, giant swing and canoeing.
We had a fantastic three days and pushed ourselves to overcome our fears.
"Robinwood was great. We did so many fun things such as giant swing, challenge course, caving, zip line and way more. The food was great and they even gave us brownies and muffins!" Maria
"I enjoyed Robinwood because out team leader was amazing and I loved all of the activities especially the giant swing." Annabelle
"Robinwood was amazing not only because of the super activities but the staff were kind, energetic and fun. I had so much fun and I recommend that you go if you can." Noah
Date: 2nd Jul 2024 @ 1:49pm
Year 5 were lucky enough to serve the rest of the school a sample of some French cuisine today for our French Breakfast.
'I really enjoyed the brioche and dipped it in to my chocolate milkshake, it was delicious!' Holly
Y4 - Visit to the Walker Art Gallery and World Museum
Date: 2nd Jul 2024 @ 1:22pm
Year 4 had a wonderful opportunity to visit the Walker Art Gallery and World Museum. In the gallery the children observed various sculptures from different periods of time. During their time in the World Museum, they had the opportunity to look in the aquarium and the floor on Ancient Egypt.
Date: 2nd Jul 2024 @ 11:54am
Year 5 have been busy preparing for their end of year performance to showcase all the skills they have learnt this year in Music. Children have learnt to play either a brass or woodwind instrument and have worked hard to read and perform a range of songs in class together. Some children even have solo ensembles.
Well done Year 5!
'I like music because our school lessons have helped me to play and I also love 90s music now such as Oasis and The Stone Roses.' Thomas
'I have enjoyed playing brass this year and I liked how we all had the opportunity to choose an instrument to play. In our time in music we have been taught different songs and styles of music (R&B and Funk).' Olly
'I like music because ut lets you express your feelings and what you like.' Evie
Date: 1st Jul 2024 @ 5:07pm
After our visit to the Empire Theatre, we had the chance to visit the World Museum.
Here we were able to consolidate our learning about classification of animals from our Science unit. We could find examples of reptiles, amphibians, birds, mammals and invertebrates in the gallery.
We also managed to squeeze in a quick visit to the Space floor, where a research scientist was tracking the International Space Station and allowed us to watch and ask questions.
"The group of animals I found most of were the mammals, but there were nearly as many reptiles" - Abigail
"I asked the scientist how long it takes the space station to move around the Earth, he said it goes around every two hours!" - Joel
Y3 - Parent Collective Worship - Building Bridges
Date: 1st Jul 2024 @ 5:01pm
At the end of our current topic 'Building Bridges' we gathered our parents for a Collective Worship.
Our theme was all about reconciliation, with God, each other and ourselves.
We performed a dance to 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' and showed some of our art work that we had produced in lessons. This showed a friend that we were close to, and a way that we could make our friendship bridge stronger.
Environment Council - Wonky Garden Visit
Date: 1st Jul 2024 @ 4:56pm
The Environment Council took a visit to the Wonky Garden in Widnes.
This is a community garden who have transformed disused land into a space for all to enjoy nature.
We went along with Mrs Sheppard to gather some ideas for our own school grounds work.
We had the chance to harvest some potatoes, which we brought back and cooked with butter and herbs!
The volunteers also gave us some pumpkin plants to plant in our EYFS area. We will keep these nurtured ready for harvesting in Autumn.
Y3 & Y4 - Visit to Liverpool Empire Theatre: Awful Auntie
Date: 1st Jul 2024 @ 4:45pm
After reading Awful Auntie by David Walliams as our class novel, everyone in Year 3 and 4 took a trip to Liverpool Empire Theatre to see the production performed live!
We travelled on the train to Lime Street Station, then took our seats in the stalls ready for the show.
"Even though we knew what was going to happen, it was really exciting seeing the book come to life!" - Annie
"I've read the book twice, I was so excited to see the show and it did not disappoint" - Henry
"I've never been to the theatre before, it was an amazing building and I really want to go again now" - Jacob
Date: 1st Jul 2024 @ 4:40pm
We took our learning outside for our Maths lesson on a lovely sunny day.
We have been learning about minutes past and to on the analogue and digital clocks.
Spread around the race track, each pair drew a digital clock with a time of their choice.
We then moved counter-clockwise around the track, when we met a digital time, we needed to draw the time on an analogue clock.
"This helped me to convert digital to analogue. At first I wasn't sure but Henry (my partner) helped me to understand" - Louie
"I enjoyed learning outside, we could work together and use the chalk to do our workings" - Connie
Date: 1st Jul 2024 @ 11:11am
Year 5 children have been learning about conversions of different measure and how to convert units of length.
Children looked at metres, including millimetres and kilometres. They chose an item to measure in centimetres and then had to work out how many of their items would be needed to fit in a kilometre.
'I really enjoy active maths as it's fun and we get to work on an activity with our friends. It was really hard to convert our items from centimetres to kilometres as we measured the football net which was 5metres wide. So our group had to think carefully about what we were going to do. We couldn't just multiply our meaure by 1000 as this wouldn't have worked. What we did was work out how many football goals would fit in to 10 metres which was 2, then we used our knowledge on powers of 10 to multiply 10 by 100 which gets us the total distance of 1,000 Metres (1KM). We then had our answer of 200 football goals. 200 goals X 5 metres = 1,000metres.' Alex, Cody, Lukie & Olly
Date: 1st Jul 2024 @ 10:51am
The children are working hard in maths today. Year 2 are exploring a bar chart and EYFS are looking at ordering numbers.
Date: 27th Jun 2024 @ 9:44am
This week, Year 5 tye dyed an item of clothing each. We started by watching a video of how to create different patterns by tying our material with bands. The most popular design were bullseye and spiral.
I loved tye dying because it was fun to do and we got to choose our own colours and patterns- Hollie
I had never done tye dying before. I really enjoted it because it was something different - Lukie
I liked tye dying because I liked the fact I had a new tshirt at the end of the process- Cody
Y4 - Collective worship - Sacramental Celebration
Date: 26th Jun 2024 @ 11:45am
Year 4 delivered a wonderful collective worship for parents and carers. The focus was on the sacrament of reconciliation and for those who took part in their Holy Communion.
Date: 22nd Jun 2024 @ 10:38pm
Year 1 were absolutely fantastic practicing their sports day events in athletics. They competed in the javelin, assault course, bean bag toss, hurdles and balance ball.
Date: 22nd Jun 2024 @ 10:33pm
During athletics, year 2 practiced some sports day events. They worked hard on the javelin throw, bean bag toss, assault course, hurdles and balance ball.
Date: 22nd Jun 2024 @ 10:14pm
Year 3 and 4 have been learning how to improve their grip and ball control, as well as improving their forehand and backhand shots.
Y5- In Class Collective Worship
Date: 21st Jun 2024 @ 2:22pm
At the end of our Freedom and Responsibility topic we planned and delivered a class Collective Worship.
I liked the singing. We sang ' Go Out to all the World' by John Burland - Evie
We watched a great video about the ten commandments - Lukie
I liked that we were given time to refelct - Corey
Date: 21st Jun 2024 @ 2:11pm
Yeaer 5 conducted a science experiment to find out how me can separate different materials. We used paper clips, raisins, water, rice and flour. We used a magnet to find a paper clip in floor. We used a sieve to separate raisins and flour. We placed salt in water and left it in the sun to see if it will evaporate.
I liked conducting this experiment because we all got a turn of using a magnet - Toby
I liked how all children in our class took part - Isla
We are excited to see our results with the evaporation part of our experiment - Alex
Y5 - How To Look After Your Teeth Visit
Date: 21st Jun 2024 @ 1:59pm
Year 5 were lucky enough to learn all about how to look after our teeth thanks to Kerry and Sandra
I enjoyed the activity were we brushed the teeth - Alex
I learned that you shouldn't rinse after brushing because it takes away the floride that protects your teeth - Isla
I learned that you should only use a pea sized amount of toothpaste when you brush - Rosie
Date: 21st Jun 2024 @ 7:40am
Everyone in school took part in our annual Fun Run to raise contributions for PTA school projects.
Unfortunately due to the weather this year we could not take part all together on our field.
Instead each class took their turn to complete laps of our playground track in Fancy Dress.
We counted our laps in 10 minutes.
"I always look forward to the Fun Run. This year I brought my dinosaur costume but still managed to do 15 laps!" - Josh Y4
"I really enjoy dressing up every year and doing the laps with my friends. We always end up on the same because we run side by side" - Holly Y5
"I'm sad that this was my last Fun Run in St Basil's. I managed to do 26 laps this time" - Alma Y6
Date: 20th Jun 2024 @ 11:30am
Year 3 and 4 have been improving their tennis grip and control with the ball. They have started to work on backhand and forehand strokes.
Date: 20th Jun 2024 @ 11:26am
Year 6 have been working on a variety of different skills including dribbling, shooting and the different types of passes. This has helped them in game situations were they have also came up with tactics together as a team.
