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P5's trip to the Catalyst Museum , by Miss Stubbs

Date: 4th Oct 2017 @ 12:49pm

P5 had a great sleep-over at the Catalyst Museum.

The children were so excited for the workshops and the sleep-over. They were so engaged in the Fantastic Plastic workshop and were over the moon with their key chains. They couldn't believe how the plastic changed texture, size and shape. 

The children were engrosed in the Explore Your Universe workshop and loved seeing the invisible UV light. 

Thank you Mr Brown, Mrs Roberts and Mrs Baskett who gave up their own time away from their families to support your children. 

It was lovely to hear the staff complimenting all the children for their manners and how tidy they left the observatory after their sleepover. Very proud teacher!

Take a look at our pictures. 

Art, by Miss Stubbs

Date: 13th Jul 2017 @ 8:01am

P4, soon to be P5 have loved art this week.

The children have explored different art techniques such as tints and tones, double dipping, sponging a background and using Brusho with shaving foam.

P5's science experiment , by Miss Stubbs

Date: 7th Jul 2017 @ 3:25pm

P5 had a great day investigating air resistance. 

Ethan, Olivia and Sophie won the competition as their rocket reached the highest point, therefore it had the least amount of air resistance. 

Well done :) 

P5's poetry workshop with Paul Delaney, by Miss Stubbs

Date: 27th Jun 2017 @ 4:02pm

Today, P5 have participated in a poetry workshop with Paul Delaney. The children loved Paul's poems and even cared their own! 

Paul chose Reilly Harrison to perform his poem at the poetry festival on Tuesday 4th July 2017. I can't wait for you to perform your poem, Reilly .

Well done to Gabriella Tabern who was a runner up for her poem about horses. This was super! 

Year 5's Cowley Language College taster sessions, by Miss Stubbs

Date: 20th Jun 2017 @ 4:21pm

Today, year 5 visited Cowley Language College for superb taster sessions.

They participated in science and sporting taster sessions, which they loved! They were also taken around the building so that they were familiar with it and were able to ask the prefects questions. 

The children have a lovely afternoon! 

P5's quidditch match , by Miss Stubbs

Date: 20th Jun 2017 @ 4:02pm

P5 loved their quidditch match today! 

Take a look at our pictures :) 

Year 5's Inspire Day, by Miss Stubbs

Date: 14th Jun 2017 @ 3:36pm

Year 5 have had a fantastic inspire day!

All children and parents had great fun exploring a variety of tasks.

These included:

bbq for the vegetable souvlaki's that the children prepared yesterday

making comic strips for a Greek myth

creating a temple using only 8 art straws

creating their own muthical creature

learning Greek dances and a variety of other Greek activities.

Thank you to everyone who came and participated, it was a wonderful morning (:

Year 5's Science week, by Miss Stubbs

Date: 12th Jun 2017 @ 10:26am

Year 5 had a great Science focused week. 

The children explored air resistance, water resistance, mechanical forces, friction and gravity. 

During our Science day, the children explored carbon dioxide. 

Take a look at our pictures to see our investigations. 

Design Technology P5, by Miss Stubbs

Date: 26th May 2017 @ 1:34pm

Today, P5 worked in groups to create Greek Temples. The children had a certain amount of equipment to meet the design criteria. Mrs Sharkey then came to judge the temples and gave points for asthetics, height and stability. 

What a great day!

Well done to the winning team!

Take a look at our marvellous Greek Temples. 

Year 5's Assembly, by Miss Stubbs

Date: 25th May 2017 @ 4:01pm

What a performance from all the children in year 5!

It was just fantastic, well done everyone! 

Great reviews from everybody who attended :) 

RSPB, by Miss Stubbs

Date: 19th May 2017 @ 3:43pm

Today, Steph came from RSPB. She explained that the RSPB is a charity and they have over 100 spaces for nature.

First, the children watched a video clip about nature and wildlife. They then discussed what they liked about the clip and why. 

Steph asked the children what wildlife we have in our school grounds. She then helped the children group the creatures into vertebrate and invertebrate. 

Outside:

Steph discussed food chains and food webs. 

Outside, the children worked together to label the school grounds with different habitats. We investigated the quad, the EYFS outdoor area, the playground and the field.

Once we got back to class, the children discussed what they would have liked to see and how they could create a habitat to facilitate the creatures they would have liked to see. 

Steph left us lots of 'how to guides' to help create a new habitat to encourage different creatures to our school grounds.

P5's SEAL cetificate winners, by Miss Stubbs

Date: 18th May 2017 @ 5:13pm

Well done to Ava McCarten and Olivia Lievesley. These two girls should be extremely proud of themselves because they were nominated by their peers for the SEAL cetificate award. 

Olivia was nominated as others were proud of her achievements.

Ava was nominated for being kind and helpful to others.

This is wonderful girls, keep it up. 😊

Year 5's pledge to stand up against cyber bullying, by Miss Stubbs

Date: 12th May 2017 @ 1:59pm

Year 5 have been discussing the consequences and impact on how cyber bullying might affect them. 

Together, the children of year 5 created their own pledge.

Take a look at content of the year 5 pledge and see what great ideas the children came up with to prevent cyber bullying. 

Squash Year 5, by Mrs Atherton

Date: 11th May 2017 @ 2:31pm

Year 5 squash session.

Guest blogger Abbie Hamilton Q5.

Hello, my name is Abbie Hamilton. On every Thursday of this half term, we have had the amazing Jim and John, they are our teachers in Squash. They help us all improve our skills and learn new games. In Squash, we start in groups of 5 or 6 and we play sets, once we have finished we play Donkey.

Donkey is a fast paced game and to keep in you HAVE to listen carefully as well as keeping your eyes on the ball at all times.Thank You for reading. 

 Written By Abbie Hamilton

Judo assembly, by Mrs Atherton

Date: 5th May 2017 @ 11:23am

In our Judo assembly, the man came up to choose people to demonstrate the type of fun you can have at the Judo club.First, he taught us about his opposite game.The aim of the game was to do the opposite of what he told you to do.An example is; if he told you to sit down you would stand up (etc).He also taught us how to get people out of the game.The first way, was to thow someone and them to stay on the floor.The second way,was to pin someone fo 20 seconds.I love this Judo session. I was second to sign up.

Kyle Montieth (Q5)

Y5 tennis, by Mrs Taylor

Date: 28th Apr 2017 @ 5:34pm

Today I saw some budding Andy Murrays and Virginia Wades when P5 went to Ruskin Drive for their tennis taster session. All children got involved and I was struck by some good sportsmanship. I particularly enjoyed watching them play the 'jail' game.

P5's Science investigation , by Miss Stubbs

Date: 20th Apr 2017 @ 1:52pm

P5 had a great time in Science yesterday.

The children worked extremely well in groups as they investigated two universal forces (gravity and friction). 

Year 5 attendance winners , by Miss Stubbs

Date: 31st Mar 2017 @ 11:24am

Well done to Vaughn Halliwell, Ava McCarten, Sophie Ruscoe, Gabriella Tabern and Ellie-May Lawton who haven't missed one whole day during the Spring term. 😬

This is fantastic, keep it up! 

Lets try to double or triple this amount of children next term :) 

SEAL cetificate winners, by Miss Stubbs

Date: 24th Mar 2017 @ 5:38pm

Well done to Chloe and Evie for being nominated by their peers for the SEAL certificates. 

Chloe was recognised for never giving up no matter how hard it gets.

Evie was recognised for setting her own goals and achieving them. 

Well done girls, you should be extremely proud of yourselves.

Shakespeare week, by Miss Stubbs

Date: 16th Mar 2017 @ 5:20pm

The children are having an amazing time this week!

Year 5 loved the performance of Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, which was led by Sky Blue Theatre Company. Some even had the chance to become the characters, which they thought was ace.

The children also performed a Tudor dance, which was led by Emma. They really showed off their dancing and listening skills during this workshop, well done year 5.

Take a look at our pictures. 

Shakespeare learning log, by Miss Stubbs

Date: 9th Mar 2017 @ 3:54pm

A huge thankyou for the learning logs that have been returned to school this week.

The children presented their work to the class and shared what they found out about William Shakespeare and his plays.

A big thank you to the families who worked together on their projects, the children were very proud. 

Why work? , by Miss Stubbs

Date: 2nd Mar 2017 @ 5:32pm

Natalie Armstrong came in today to talk to the children about the world of work. 

The children learned about what a job is and why people go to work. They discussed taxes and what they pay for in our society. Natalie explained the value of going to work and described employers expectations in the world of work. The children role-played how money travels through our communities. The focus was upon key transferable skills that the children would take with them through life and into the workplace when they are older. 

A valuable life lesson, thank you Natalie. 

P5's healthy eating day with Edge Hill students, by Miss Stubbs

Date: 2nd Mar 2017 @ 5:18pm

Sports and development students, from Edge Hill University, came to teach our year 5 children about healthy eating. 

The children began the session by looking at sporting heroes, they then found out details about each personality, Jessica Ennis, Usain Bolt, Mo Farrah, Sam Quek and Michael Phelps. Each group were then given one of the sporting heroes as their team name. After sharing the sporting facts, the children shared facts about themselves. 

The next session consisted of the groups creating their ideal lunch box. They then created a healthier lunch box using the eat well plate giving a more balanced lunch. This was then followed by an obstacle course where the children had to compete against other teams from their class. 

The final session was a Dragon's Den activity. 

Each group had to follow a set criteria to create a healthy smoothie. 

They had to include:

• The name of their company
• The name of their smoothie 
• A design for their bottle
• A label design for their bottle
• A list of ingredients 
• The price of their smoothie
• A catchy slogan to help sell their smoothie 
• An explanation about why their smoothie was special
• Finally, they had to consider who their target audience was. 

Each group then presented their product to the 'dragons'. They were then asked product specific questions from the 'dragons' confidently. 

The best part of the day was the smoothie tasting session, all of the smoothies were delicious. 

A special thank you to all of the Edge Hill students as year 5 had a really enjoyable day. 

The BASH awards, by Miss Stubbs

Date: 23rd Feb 2017 @ 5:54pm

Today, the librarian from Peter Street library came in to discuss the six books they were given to read. 

The children enjoyed sharing their opinions about the books they have read. They had great fun acting out scenes from each book and guessing which book the scene was from.

Enterprise Games 2017, by Mrs Atherton

Date: 8th Feb 2017 @ 12:27pm

We arrived at the Chamber with much excitement for the competition. There were many schools, we sat in our groups ready to start, and then Natalie gave us the countdown ten, nine eight.........We all began, the room was buzzing with children buying and selling furiously.

We stopped and had a much needed break, each school  was hoping to be the winner as there was a super trophy to bring back.

We went back into the room and the winners were announced,sadly it was not us but we had such a super time and really enjoyed the experience.

We were complimented on our behaviour and how lovely our uniforms looked..Well done to all the children who participated in this competition.

Mrs Connor