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EYFS - People Who Help Us

Date: 2nd Jul 2024 @ 6:54pm

This week we have been learning all about the People Who Help Us in our community.

 

The children have loved dressing up as these special people. 

 

We asked the children who are some of the people that help us?

 

"We have learnt about nurses, doctors and ambulance drivers" - Jonas 

 

"Policeman" - Elliott 

 

"Bin drivers and rubbish men" - Polly

 

"Our teachers who teach us in school" - Delilah 

 

"Bus drivers" - Matthew 

 

"Firemen and women" - Zach 

 

 

 

EYFS - Jesus Feeding the 5 Thousand

Date: 2nd Jul 2024 @ 6:49pm

This week in Religious Education, we have looked at the story of Jesus feeding the five thousand. 

We learnt how the story of Jesus feeds the 5000 is in all four gospels. We listened carefully to find out that Jesus was in a remote place. We learnt that it grew late and the crowd were hungry. Jesus blessed the food and gave it to his disciples to share.  

 

Then we were told about the miracle that everyone was fed and that there were still baskets of food left over.

 

"He shared the bread" - Ezra 

 

"Jesus made sure everyone had some food. They were so hungry" - Ella 

 

"It was a miracle" - Kit 

EYFS - Chinese New Year

Date: 2nd Jul 2024 @ 6:27pm

 

This week, EYFS have been learning about Chinese New Year. The children found out about this very old festival and its traditions.

 

They looked at the timeline of Chinese New Year. We found out that on New Year’s Eve, families spend time together and share a special, traditional Chinese meal. On New Year’s Day, the children wake up to red envelopes which contain money and lollies. In the evening, families celebrate in the street with fireworks. These are set off to frighten evil spirits away.

The children enjoyed Chinese mark making, dressing up in traditional Chinese clothes and food tasting.

EYFS - Music and Movement

Date: 2nd Jul 2024 @ 6:21pm

Reception have been attending weekly Music and Movement sessions. They have learnt lots of musical vocabulary and learnt the names of instruments. 

EYFS - Stay and Play Communication and Language

Date: 2nd Jul 2024 @ 6:17pm

Communication and Language is at the heart of our EYFS Curriculum

Children in Reception (F2) and working to:

  • Understand how to listen carefully and why listening is important
  • Learn new vocabulary
  • Ask questions to find out more
  • Engage in story times
  • Retell stories
  • Learn rhymes, poems and songs
  • Engage in non-fiction books
  • Share non-fiction books 

 

To further support our children with this, we invited parents and carers to stay for a Stay and Play INSPIRE session. The children completed a range of Communication and Language activities with their parents. 

EYFS - Tiger Who Came to Tea

Date: 2nd Jul 2024 @ 6:05pm

Have you ever had a guest eat more than their fair share? 

 

EYFS had been learning all about The Tiger Who Came to Tea this week. They have loved the story and how the tiger emptied the fridge and cupboards! The children have tried some food from the story too. 

 

"We drew pictures of the food" - Hallie

 

"He is SO greedy!" - Harper 

 

"He has a rumbly tummy" - Cooper 

 

"Silly tiger!" - Jonas 

EYFS & Y6 - Christmas Craft Afternoon

Date: 2nd Jul 2024 @ 6:01pm

Today with their prayer partners, Reception and Y6 had a Christmas Craft Afternoon. The children made hats, stockings, Father Christmas models and more! 

"I loved working with my brother" - Kit

 

"I got to sit with my prayer partner and make my own Father Christmas" - Oliver 

 

"Best afternoon ever!" - Harry

EYFS - Bouncy Castle

Date: 2nd Jul 2024 @ 5:59pm

Today EYFS have had an extra special Christmas treat!

 

The children had two sessions to play on the bouncy castle and soft play area.

 

The children loved going down the slide with their friends. 

 

"It was the best day ever" - Eleanor

 

"I went fast" - Joel

 

"We had fun" - Elsie 

EYFS - The Wriggly Nativity

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 

EYFS - The Gruffalo

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 

EYFS - Fine Motor

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. 

Y6 - Robinwood

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

 

Y5 - French Breakfast

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. 

Y5 - Brass & Woodwind

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

Y3 - Visit to World Museum

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

Y3 - Active Maths: Time

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

Y5 - Conversion

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

EYFS & Y2 - Maths Lessons

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. 

Y5 - Tie Dye

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. 

Y1 - Athletics

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.

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