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European Day of Languages, by Mrs Atherton

Date: 28th Sep 2016 @ 4:56pm

The children had a wonderful time learning all about Germany. They located it in Europe and found other key countries, we had a discussion about Brexit and if we still classed ourselves as being in Europe. We learned some key German phrases and participated in bundesliga with Mr Ward in the afternoon.  

A super day to widen our horizons. 

Mrs Atherton. 

Antony Gormley, by Mrs Atherton

Date: 8th Sep 2016 @ 5:45pm

For the last two days, Q5 have been learning about Antony Gormley and his sculptures. Today, the children created their own sculptures in the style of The Field for the British Isles.

Did you know that the people of St.Helens were part of this artwork?

Ask your children to tell you more about it.

The children created some super sculptures, have a look at our talent. 

Mrs Atherton

Year 5's surprise visitor, by Miss Stubbs

Date: 7th Jul 2016 @ 8:30am

Last week, year 5 had a surprise visitor, who burst in during class worship. He informed the children that he was hiding from the constables and needed a place to hide for the day. 

He introduced himself as a highway man and told the children stories about his life and gave them information about the reality of life as a highway man. 

The children wrote a ballad, adapted the original newspaper stories so they told the truth and created new wanted posters to stick up around the town. 

This really helped the children visualise what a highway man was like, which linked to the highway man poem that year 5 are studying in class. 

Maths G and T day. , by Mrs Atherton

Date: 22nd Jun 2016 @ 5:45pm

Mrs Connor was very impressed with the Year 5 children who attended the G and T Maths session today. The children worked hard to solve the problems and answer the mathematical challenges, the children came a creditable fourth place, great work Josh Edge, Mackenzie Smith, Aanu Abe and Katie Hamilton.

Well done. 

Posters from Velles, by Mrs Taylor

Date: 20th Jun 2016 @ 3:54pm

We enjoyed receiving posters from our French penpals about their favourite books. It was interesting to see whether they liked books that we have read too.

The Highway man, year 5 , by Miss Stubbs

Date: 14th Jun 2016 @ 4:04pm

Year 5 have been exploring the Highway man poem by Alfred Noyes. Today they met Bess and the Highway man and were able to ask some questions to give them more detail about the characters.

Take a look at our wonderful characters, you may recognise them 

Sports week , by Miss Stubbs

Date: 13th Jun 2016 @ 3:49pm

Year 5 have had an excellent start to sports week, beginning with Zumba dances from around the world. 
We really have some great movers in year 5. 
This afternoon, both year 5 classes to part in a bench ball carousel. All of the children were engaged, it was great to see their competitive spirit. 
The children had a great time 

Cowley Taster Day, by Mrs Atherton

Date: 11th Jun 2016 @ 2:59pm

On Wednesday the Year 5 children attended a taster morning at Cowley International College. Whilst there, they were given fruit and water and then they were shown around the school by Cowley prefects. The two sessions that the children were involved in were team building sessions on the field and drama in the hall. All the children were excellently behaved, well done Year 5, you made us proud. 

Intra School Competitions, by Mr Ward

Date: 27th May 2016 @ 5:00pm

The last week of the school term normally means lots of intra school competition to give our children the opportunity to apply the skills they have learnt into really life situations. This week year 6 had a kiwi cricket and rounders tournament, year 5 boys had a rugby competition and year 2P and 3Q had a Benchball competition. Well done to all involved....

Recycling Centre, by Mrs Atherton

Date: 27th May 2016 @ 4:36pm

Q5 visited the Gillmoss Recycling Centre today. Kirsty explained what happens to the waste when it arrives at the centre. The children were fascinated by the processes and the machinery in the centre. Please ask you child to tell you all about their visit and let them sort your recycling, they are all now experts at what goes into each recycling bag.

Did you know St.Helens only recycles 40% of their waste? 

Seal Certificates, by Mrs Atherton

Date: 26th May 2016 @ 9:57am

Today, Joshua Edge and Ellie Horsley have been awarded Seal certificates by their peers. Ellie received the award for showing how pleased she is for other peoples' achievements. Josh was nominated for being sensible enough to realise his mistakes and being able to make things better by saying sorry. 

Well done Josh and Ellie, you both show super Queen's Park spirit. 

Poetry with Paul Delaney, by Mrs Atherton

Date: 20th May 2016 @ 10:57am

Queen's Park School were lucky enough to have Paul Delaney in school today. First of all, he held a whole school assembly to entertain the children with his poems, then, he spent the day working with Year 5. 

The Year 5 children really enjoyed learning about Paul and listening to his humorous poems. Each child then created their own poem based on Paul Delaney's poem: 'There is nothing finer than...' 

After writing and editing their poems, the children were given the opportunity to perfom their poem to the rest of the class. 

Once all the children had completed, edited and performed their poems they were then judged by the adults. The winner will attend the St. Helens Primary Schools' Poetry Festival on Monday 4th July.

In Q5, the outright winner was Cymon Ellison (well done Cymon), he had used interesting word choices and had a great rhythm throughout his poem. 

The runner up was Anu Abe, her perfomance of the poem with actions was really effective (great work Anu).

Our reserve was Harrison Latta, he had some really imaginative ideas in his poem (good ideas Harrison). 

The whole of Year 5 really enjoyed Paul's visit and will be uploading their poems to his website:

www.pdelaney.co.uk

to see if they can win one of his signed books. 

Thanks Paul. 

Weaving display, by Mrs Atherton

Date: 18th May 2016 @ 12:54pm

The children used different art resources to create a background for their plates. Next, they used wool to weave the Viking Tree of Life: yggdrasil. Well done Year 5, they make a really effective display for our corridor. 

Maths. Nets of 3d shapes, by Mrs Atherton

Date: 18th May 2016 @ 12:33pm

The children really enjoyed testing which nets made 3d shapes.  

The Future Saints..., by Mr Ward

Date: 18th May 2016 @ 8:29am

Year 5 boys are progressing very well with their rugby league skills...

The Queen's Hat. , by Mrs Atherton

Date: 13th May 2016 @ 4:02pm

The children have spent the day writing a book in the style of The Queen's Hat written by Steve Antony, we read it together to celebrate the Queen's 90th birthday. The children then adapted the story to be set in St.Helens. All the children were engaged with this activity and I can see some potential authors in the future.

Thank you to the kitchen staff, who provided an excellent cream tea, which the children really enjoyed. 

The children have enjoyed their creative writing day. 

Why Work?, by Mrs Atherton

Date: 2nd May 2016 @ 5:09pm

Natalie came in from the Chamber of Commerce, she encouraged the children to think about the world of work.The class discussed what attitudes might be needed for a successful working life, this involved dress code, behaviour, reliablity and qualifications. The children were able to see how this may affect them as they head towards adulthood. 

Weaving, by Mrs Atherton

Date: 2nd May 2016 @ 4:56pm

As part of our Art topic, Q5 have tried their hands at weaving, they used a paper plate as their loom. The Children we weaving the Viking Tree of Life:Yggdrasil. The children used a variety of resources to create their background landscape and then used wool to weave their tree. Most chldren really enjoyed this task, although others, sadly, may never weave again. All children tried their best and some children provided peer support. The plates look fantastic on display. 

Mr Lyon, our trainee teacher, has certainly learned some new skills and was very pleased with his end result.

Year 5 Inspire Viking Day, by Mrs Atherton

Date: 2nd May 2016 @ 4:21pm

Year 5 had a great morning with their parents completing the Viikng activities. The Viking Longboat proved to be a very challenging task, well done if you completed this. The clay proved very popular with all ages. A special thank you to all the parents who joined us and the staff and volunteers who organised all the activities. 

Miss Stubbs and Mrs Atherton were very impressed with the concentration and excellent behaviour of all Year 5, well done. 

Badminton Competition , by Mrs Kellett

Date: 17th Mar 2016 @ 8:43pm

Miss Hughes took four children to represent Queen's Park at Hope Academy today.  They played against 11 other teams and came 3rd.  What a fantastic achievement.  Well done Bertie, Bella, Scott and Aanu.  Well done guys and thank  you to Miss Hughes to organising it.

Playing with Collage , by Mrs Kellett

Date: 13th Mar 2016 @ 11:07pm

Just having a play around with photograph software. How great do our Year five children look at the Primary Enterprise Challenge! 

Year 5 enjoyed world book day, by Miss Stubbs

Date: 8th Mar 2016 @ 11:03am

Last week year 5 participated in lots of fun and exciting activities for world book day. 

Our theme this year was Greece, so we decided to act out a Greek myth. 

The children were were aborbed into the WHOOSH activity which focused upon the story of Medusa. 

Take a look at our fantastic acting and action shots. 

French penpals, by Mrs Taylor

Date: 24th Feb 2016 @ 5:44pm

Primary Enterprise Challenge , by Mrs Kellett

Date: 14th Feb 2016 @ 10:05pm

On Friday, while most of you had a lie in, I took 10 of our year five children to St Helens Chamber to the Primary Enterprise Challenge. The children took part in a competition based on a game. The game was very much like Monopoly but has a 'business' twist. The children had to purchase assets, deliver goods, work out transport and insurance cost as well as buying and selling. There was an awful lot to think about. I was so impressed with both of our teams. Their behaviour was impeccable and I was extremely proud. Then they announced the winners!!  Our team from Q5 came 3rd out of 9 schools. They did brilliantly. Well done. 

Seal Certificates February, by Mrs Atherton

Date: 12th Feb 2016 @ 12:07pm

Well done to our proud children who were nominated by their peers to receive Seal Certificates.