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All set for this year's nativity , by Mrs Platt

Date: 7th Dec 2016 @ 1:49pm

We're all ready and excited for this year's Key Stage 1 nativity . 

Monday morning worship, by Mrs Platt

Date: 5th Dec 2016 @ 12:07pm

Thank you to Reverend Peter who led this morning's worship. We learned about the importance of working together and took time to reflect on how we can all make the right choices. 

We also lit the second candle on our school's Advent wreath and talked about its meaning. 

Festive fun, by Mrs Platt

Date: 2nd Dec 2016 @ 5:27pm

First Aiders to the rescue 🚑, by Miss Ellis

Date: 2nd Dec 2016 @ 11:07am

The Red Cross Society came and conducted a first aid workshop for P6 this week. They learnt some everyday first aid skills and demonstrated a very sensible attitude to the practical tasks. Well done P6 👍🏻🚑🏥

WHAT AMAZING STARS WE HAVE IN OUR SCHOOL. SINGING SUPERSTARS!, by Mrs Roberts

Date: 30th Nov 2016 @ 11:33pm

Queen's Park Choir have put out an admirable start to the advent celebrations tonight.

Our festive performance at the Parish Church was second to none. The singing was amazing, as was the behaviour, and I'm sure we left the audience feeling very, very christmassy.

Thanks to all our amazing parents, grandparents, carers and family members for your wonderful support.

Also, a special well done to Anu who provided the audience with an impromtu reading. She demonstrated amazing control and confidence. Fabulous skills Anu.

Proud of you all!

Mrs Roberts and Mr Houltram

QUEEN'S PARK REHEARSAL AT PARISH CHURCH , by Mrs Roberts

Date: 30th Nov 2016 @ 4:46pm

Come they told me pa rum pum pum pum.

TONIGHTS THE NIGHT!

We have had a great afternoon practising for our Christmas Performance that is tonight.  We worked with Mr Sleith as a conductor and an amazing pianist.

All welcome to watch. PARISH CHURCH, ST HELENS AT 5.45pm-7.45pm. TICKETS on the door £5 adults £3 children.

QUEEN'S PARK CHOIR, by Mrs Roberts

Date: 27th Nov 2016 @ 2:07pm

Deck the halls with boughs of holly, fa la la la la, fa la la la! Christmas is nearly here for Queen's Park Choir.

Our choir have been working hard with a School Music Service vocal coach to finely tune our voices and songs for the up and coming Christmas Concert on Wednesday, 30th Novemeber at the Parish Church Hall, St Helens.

Tales of our festive singing sucess to follow.  

Please keep an eye on our school newsletter for other dates for our amazing choir performances.

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Sports galore!, by Mr Gill

Date: 26th Nov 2016 @ 11:12am

This week has been a very busy week here at Queen's Park. There have been lots of different sporting activities going on throughout the week. 

On Thursday, Mr Ward organised a inter school benchball tournament which saw 3 of our network schools come to Queen's Park to battle it out to become Year 3 benchball champions. After some closely contested games, Queen's Park eventually came out on top and won the tournament! It must have been all that practising in PE! The games were played in great spirit and it was great to see so many children with smiles on their faces! 

A special mention goes to our Year 6 sports leaders who refereed the games and ensured the tournament ran smoothly. Well done and thank you! 

On Friday, the Year 3/4 football tournament came to an end with a nail biting penalty shootout in the final after a 2-2 draw in normal time. The final was contested by Real Madrid and Barcelona and after 9 saved penalties, Barcelona came out on top after slotting the winning penalty in the bottom left hand corner of the goal. Congratulations Barcelona. Look out for the next lunchtime tournament which will involve our Year 4 and 5 children. 

Friday also saw our Year 5 children take part in an intra-school handball tournament! Well done to all involved. 

We are already looking forward to another week full of sport here at Queen's Park. Check out our pictures to see what's been going on! 

Algebra fun! , by Miss Hughes

Date: 25th Nov 2016 @ 3:55pm

We love using practical equipment in Q6! We used cubes to make sequences and predict what the nth term is. We are getting more and more confident with linear equations and understanding formulae. Not only are Q6 algebra experts , they are also great at working together. Well done all! 

Tres bien!! French Yoga in Y6, by Miss Hughes

Date: 25th Nov 2016 @ 3:51pm

Huge thank you to Steph from Primary Languages who came to deliver a French yoga session to our year 6s. They absolutely LOVED it! Here they are in action.....

Y6 Governors & PTFA members , by Miss Hughes

Date: 25th Nov 2016 @ 3:45pm

In Year 6, we are so lucky to have Karen Devine & Cath Cairns as our governors. Not only do these lovely ladies work so hard to help make Queen's Park the best it can possibly be; they also come to visit us and help us with our learning. Today, Year 6 children had to tell Cath & Karen all about how to find the nth term in our algebra lesson! They spent all morning sorting out the PTFA Christmas fair then came to spend the rest of the time with Y6. 

Cath claimed she is not as clever at maths as she thought. Owen Lewis helped her solve the equations! Karen as really impressed with the speed of Katie Hamilton's reasoning. Well done you two!

Thanks for coming to visit us, for helping us with our maths and hearing us read. See you next week!

Miss Hughes, Mrs Harrison & Q6 x

Maths investigators , by Miss Ellis

Date: 25th Nov 2016 @ 11:54am

P6 really enjoyed making algebra come to life this morning. Well done you algebra experts👍🏻

Benchball Champs, by Mr Warner

Date: 24th Nov 2016 @ 8:23pm

Year 3 represented the school in a Benchball tournament today. It was held in our school and the children ended up winning it. They returned to class in great spirits and celebrated with the rest of the class. 

Thanks to Mr Ward for both organising the tournament and getting the children ready to compete. 

We are very proud of you all.

A very international afternoon, by Mrs Taylor

Date: 18th Nov 2016 @ 3:46pm

Here at Queen's Park we have just had a thoroughly international afternoon! Y6 enjoyed French Yoga with Steph from Primary Languages Network and P3 have been watching a video made by our Tasmanian partner school, St Brigid's. In the video we were able to see what their classrooms and playgrounds are like, as well as enjoying the drama that they acted out. Then we looked at our project with our Italian and French partner schools ( La Strada della Magia/ La Rue de la Magie/ The Magic Road) in which we are on a magical journey with our European friends. The children prepared to become magicians by making hats and wands. I heard some great language from them as they played at casting spells.

Q5 penpals , by Mrs Taylor

Date: 17th Nov 2016 @ 7:50pm

Q5 received letters from their new penpals in Velles, France. We planned what we would like to say to them and next week we will make a start on making cards ready to post.

Dig for victory!, by Miss Ellis

Date: 15th Nov 2016 @ 1:24pm

This morning, Abigail and Abbie helped Mr Ward plant trees on the school field. They did a fantastic job and really worked hard. Let's hope their trees grow as well as they have during their years at Queens Park 🌱🌲🌳🍃

Lunch time golden table , by Mrs Platt

Date: 15th Nov 2016 @ 12:16pm

Children are working hard to demonstrate their excellent table manners in the hope of being chosen to join our 'golden table'. Our weekly winners will be shared on the newsletter. 

Q5 caught reading, by Mrs Atherton

Date: 13th Nov 2016 @ 5:12pm

Even on our sleep over some of Q5 were caught reading. A great end to the day before we settled down. 

French Yoga, by Mrs Taylor

Date: 11th Nov 2016 @ 3:53pm

Well, I must say I'm feeling very calm and relaxed! Not just because it's Friday , but because I have been doing Yoga all afternoon with Y3. Steph from Primary Languages Network delivered lovely sessions where we were given our Yoga instructions in French. This gave us the chance to revise words for body parts and animals as well as learning lots of new vocabulary. It was a truly special way to round off the week and I hope your children are all feeling as good as I do.

Haven't got a clue ... to experts! (In just one week) , by Miss Hughes

Date: 10th Nov 2016 @ 5:49pm

We have been learning how to use the active and passive voice in English and we have been using Miss Hughes' favourite game to help us... cluedo! We can now confidently create sentences using both active and passive and we really enjoyed writing descriptive sentences about those sneaky cluedo characters. They've  been getting up to no good in Dr Black's house. 

Q6 are very "bright" - Science , by Miss Hughes

Date: 10th Nov 2016 @ 5:43pm

We have spent the past couple of weeks studying light in our science lessons. We have looked at how light travels in straight lines, how light travels into our eyes to allows us to see and how light is reflected. Look at us modelling how light is reflected in the pictures below. We had loads of fun using a periscope and looking around corners and over objects! We had a go at making our own periscopes too. Cereal boxes and mirrors worked a treat! 

Chamber of Commerce project at Gullivers World!, by Miss Hughes

Date: 10th Nov 2016 @ 5:26pm

Additional pictures from chamber of commerce innovation & enterprise project. We are so proud of you Year 6! X

Determined to sort our determiners, by Mrs Taylor

Date: 10th Nov 2016 @ 4:48pm

In French this week Y4 have delighted me with their ability to sort nouns according to masculine, feminine or plural by looking at the determiner. The children did this so well they were then challenged to put the words into alphabetical order. Having recorded their new vocabulary in their books they used bilingual dictionaries to find other classroom object vocabulary to add to the list.

Year 6 Apprentice....You're hired!!, by Miss Ellis

Date: 10th Nov 2016 @ 1:14pm

Yesterday ten pupils from our year six classes took part in the grand final of the St Helens Chamber of Commerce Enterprise competition. Since mid September, all the children have been designing a theme park based on the Gullivers World complex and creating press releases, posters,powerpoints, leaflets, budgets and environmental reports in preparation for the final. We sent two teams to the final after the judges visited us before half term and they both did incredibly well. Sadly we didn't win overall but both teams were highly commended by the judges and more importantly the children themselves were very proud of the work they had presented. Miss Hughes, Mrs Baskett, Mrs Harrison and myself were impressed by the all of the children's efforts and would like to thank them for all their hard work.🕴🏅🏆

P5 Penpals, by Mrs Taylor

Date: 9th Nov 2016 @ 10:54am

Today P5 were matched up with their new French penpals. They did a brilliant job of introducing themselves and giving personal information in French. We also saw some lovely designs for the front covers showing the relationship between our two nations. We hope our new friends in l'Ecole de Velles enjoy reading them.