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Date: 27th Jun 2023 @ 2:26pm
What a fabulous week we have had, the weeks really are flying by!
For RE this week we have started a new theme all about special times. We began our session thinking about what we mean by ‘special times’, the children talked about holidays and birthdays. We then began to reflect on our school year and the special times we have had together. The children have made a list of their favourite special times and we will then talk about these in our final WOW service.
On Wednesday we had the best time for Sports day, we were glad the rain stayed away and we could take part in our races! We are very proud of them all and their sportsmanship.
Continuing with our ‘Superheroes’ theme. The children have enjoyed re-telling the story of ‘Supertato’ using a variety of different vegetables. They have been able to also think about healthy and unhealthy food; the children sorted a variety of different foods as talked about why we need to eat lots of fruit and vegetables and not as many sweets and sugary drinks. The children have also talked about the different activities they would like to take part in for our superhero dress up day!!!!
We hope you enjoy visiting our summer fair, look out for us on the bouncy castle!
We wish you all a lovely weekend
Mrs Bevin, Mrs Molloy and the Reception team
Reminders:
28th June – 4th July - Scholastic Book Fair
Wednesday 5th July – Super hero dress up day
Wednesday 12th July – Final WOW service 2pm @St Peter’s Church
Friday 14th July – Team TSP Break the rules Mufti day
Wednesday 19th July – School finish 1pm
Date: 23rd Jun 2023 @ 10:42am
What another great week Year 2 have had!
In Maths we continued our topic of ‘Geometry’ where we looked at ‘Position and Direction’. We described our movements by looking at language such as ‘anti-clockwise and clockwise’ ‘left and right’ as well as ‘forwards and backwards’. We then tried to direct each other around the room to an end point using this language, realising how important it was to tell them turn the correct way. We even got to use ‘Beebots’ to travel around the classroom, making sure we ended up in the correct place by being super careful when giving our directions.
We finished our book ‘Grandad’s Secret Giant’ in English and had a great class discussion talking about the message of the story and how it’s important to think how our actions make others feel, just like when Billy ran away from the giant. Then we made our own brochures trying to entice people to visit ‘Gableview’. We used our imagination to think what we would want the town to have and included these in our leaflets.
In Science, we continued to explore our topic of ‘Little Masterchefs’ We recapped the Eatwell Plate discussing what each section/colour represented and what foods went in each. We then discussed our favourite pizzas and how they fit into each Eatwell Plate section. We were shocked to discover that a well-topped pizza ticks all the boxes! We designed our own pizza, thinking about what toppings we want on it for our own when we go to Sorrento’s next week. All this pizza talk made us hungry!
Have a lovely weekend, Year 2 !
Reminders:
- PE lessons take place every Monday and Wednesday this term.
- Please can you ensure that children are sent to school with water bottles, hats and sun cream.
- Sports Day – Wednesday 28th June
- Under the Sea performance - Wednesday 28th June
- Summer Fair – Friday 30th June
Date: 23rd Jun 2023 @ 10:26am
We are roughly half-way through our final half-term at Trinity St. Peter’s!
Throughout the week, we have continued with our revision of Maths topics via ‘whodunit?’ challenges and general revision packs. While the weeks are becoming busier with production rehearsals, we want to ensure that the Year 6’s knowledge is still being retained.
Wednesday was ‘Thank a Teacher’ Day and the Year 6 children were instrumental in organising this for the whole school. Prior to the day, the children planned activities that could take place, thinking about how they could work logistically and what they needed to know in advance. On the day itself, the children were then very busy, dropping off individual cards to each member of staff – including office and kitchen staff and Mr Essery – as well as breakfast, snacks and afternoon treats! The children were also armed with a variety of room sprays, fans and moisturisers to offer to staff throughout the day. It all went down very well and the TSP staff were very grateful to the children! Then, as a final celebration for everyone, the day concluded with a special guest: Alex Ander, a very comical magician!
On Thursday, our final primary school trip took place as we ventured to Alton Towers! The children had been very excited in the build-up as we discussed how the day would work, looked at the theme park map and watched videos about particular rides. We set ourselves a challenge to all attempt Wicker Man when we first got there – before deciding if the ‘big rides’ were for us or not – and we are so proud to say that the class faced their fears and went on it! Well done, Year 6! Following this, we went on some rides as a class (The Rapids, The Runaway Mine Train, Thirteen) but also split into groups at various points to allow us to go on the types of rides we wanted. Despite limited time at the park, we were able to get on several other rides in groups, including Galactica and Oblivion. All in all, a successful day! Check the Year 6 Twitter page for all the pictures.
Have a great weekend, everyone!
Date: 22nd Jun 2023 @ 7:55pm
Another week complete in the Year 5 classroom!
We completed our Design Technology project centred around ‘Building Bridges’. As always in DT, we worked through each of the crucial stages: Research --> Design --> Make --> Evaluate. Following our learning about various famous bridges from around the world and their differing structures and features, the children were tasked with researching a bridge that most interested them. Then came the design phase before the actual construction commenced! There was plenty of innovation and creativity on display in the bridges that were constructed and, crucially, most met the design criteria. Following our constructions, it was time for the all-important necessary safety tests. Some bridges were not so fortunate here and crumbled (literally) under the pressure of these tests! We enjoyed this project and it was great to observe the teamwork between pairs and the imagination put into the final bridge designs and constructions.
We have also continued our Geography focus related to Japan, which included learning more about the capital city of Tokyo. We also focused on the human geography of Japan in one lesson before moving onto physical geography aspects in another.
This week was also National School Sports Week! To mark this event, our Sports Ambassadors helped to ensure that there was a different sport available for the children to play at breaktime and lunchtime. The sports included dodgeball, tennis, badminton and more. Great fun was had as many children got involved with a different sporting activity during their free time.
In Maths, we have focused on converting measures, including kilograms to grams, centimetres to metres and millilitres to litres. Next week’s lessons will involve problem solving using the four operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Have a great weekend, everyone!
Reminders:
-KS1 & KS2 Sports Day on 28.6.23 (pm).
-Scholastic Book Fair (after school) on 28.6.23 to 4.7.23.
-Team TSP Summer Fair on 30.6.23 (pm and after school).
Date: 22nd Jun 2023 @ 4:14pm
The weeks are flying by in Nursery, we are having so much fun!
This week we started our new theme ‘Under the sea’. The children were left a very special gift of new sea creatures and divers for our water tray and a new ‘under the sea’ story book. Using ‘Commotion in the Ocean’ as a stimulus, we looked at the different sea creatures that we could see and identified their features. The children then enjoyed making their own jelly fish in the creative corner. In the home corner, the children have also enjoyed acting out being by the seaside, making ice creams, relaxing on sun loungers, or going for swim. We have had so much fun!
Nursery learnt about the importance of staying cool in the hot weather. We worked together to make some shade over our sand area and enjoyed playing under it. We then played parachute games together outside.
On Friday, Caroline came into Nursery for Godly play. Caroline discussed the Pretzel prayer and how when you look at a pretzel it can remind us of crossed arms in prayer. Thank you for a lovely session Caroline!
We hope you have a lovely weekend and see you all next week.
Miss Dalley and the Nursery team.
Please can you ensure that your child has sun cream applied before they come in.
If your child has a discussion book, please can you make a little comment in the book each week when you read with your child.
Reminders:
Wednesday 28th June – Nursery Sports Day @ 9am on the school field.
WOW service 2pm @ St Peter’s church
28th – 30th June – Scholastic Book Fair
Friday 30th - June School Summer Fair
Date: 22nd Jun 2023 @ 1:36pm
We've had fun in the sun again this week and have absolutly LOVED it! This weather certainly brings out the best in us.
With only four weeks left, we have got a lot to cram in!
In Maths, we continued with our Place Value topic with a specific focus on numbers beyond 50. For this, we had to connect our learning back to Autum Term, using our understanding of numbers bonds to 10 and one more and one less to solve some tricky questions. As well as this, we learnt about the value of the two digit numbers themselves, recognising tens and ones within given numbers. All this learning had to end with an exciting game of Place Value Bingo! A highly competative version we must say!
Our Phonics lessons got underway again this week after having a week off due to the Phonics Screen Check. This meant that all groups started new books, recapping previously taught sounds, red words and green words with a focus on reading speed and pace. After, we all created an excellent piece of writing on the chosen book.
This week, we have also been completing a series of assessments this week in the afternoon. The focus of these assessment are for staff to understand what the children need more support on. These assessements are not shared with parents and are just for teachers.
In PE, we continued to practice for our upcoming sports day which will take place next Wednesday. Our focus was to continue to practice our team work skills for the three legged race as well our sportsmanship for the individual races. PE didn't just stop there though, as it was National Sports Week this week, we got the equipment out at break time, playing tennis, hula hooping and skipping!
On Wednesday afternoon, we had the most wonderful surprise, a magician came to visit! We were amazed by his wonderful performance which saw members of our class get involved. We loved having a good giggle with him and the rest of the school. Thank you so much to Mrs Pringle for organising such an incredible treat!
Reminders
- Sports Day is next Wednesday 28th June between 1pm and 1:30pm. Please ensure that all children bring a hat to school this day as well as an additonal water bottle, where possible.
- Summer Fair will take place on Friday 30th June, the children will attend the fair with their classes first, they will need to be picked up from their class door before returning to the fair with their parents, should parents wish too.
- It is incredibly warm at the moment, please can we ask ALL children to have a water bottle and hat with their each day.
- School will close for summer on Wednesday 19th July at 1pm.
Date: 20th Jun 2023 @ 1:19pm
Well we can’t believe how quickly the weeks are flying by!!
For RE this week we have enjoyed Caroline visiting us for Godly Play. Caroline continued with the theme of ‘Prayer’ and discussed the Pretzel prayer and how when you look at a pretzel it can remind us of crossed arms in prayer. Caroline then shared pretzels with the children as they all said a prayer together.
We continued with our theme of ‘Superheroes’. This week we have loved the story of ‘Supertato’ and on Monday we discovered some frozen peas in blocks of ice with letter asking us to help them escape! The children then enjoyed using warm water and salt to help the peas escape, the children had so much fun! The children have also enjoyed making pictures of the Evil Pea and writing wanted posters to help catch him. On Tuesday, we received a parcel and letter from Supertato with his book for us to read.
What a wonderful time we had at Martin Mere, the children were absolutely amazing and such a shining example for our school. The children were so excited to go on the coach and have been excited for weeks. On arrival; our first stop was to take part in a ‘Pond Explorers’ workshop, here we used nets to see what we could find living in the water. We then had time for our wild walk and then we were off to lunch followed by a minibeast hunt! The children loved exploring the play area before it was time to head back to school! We are sure the children slept well because we certainly did!!
Enjoy the weekend and see you Monday!
Mrs Bevin, Mrs Molloy and the Reception team
Reminders:
Wednesday 28th June – Reception Sports Day @ 9.30am on the school field.
WOW service 2pm @ St Peter’s church
28th – 30th June – Scholastic Book Fair
Friday 30th June School Summer Fair
Wednesday 5th July – Super hero dress up day
Date: 20th Jun 2023 @ 10:21am
This week has flown by! It must be all the excitement leading up to our fantastic Summer term events.
In our RE lesson this week, we unpicked the Lord’s Prayer to comprehend the meaning behind the prayer and the terminology used. We identified that the Lord’s Prayer is a Christian prayer which Jesus taught his disciples to say. The prayer begins by making it clear who people are praying too because Christians believe that God is the Father of everyone.
Our focus in Maths this week was symmetry. With the knowledge that a line of symmetry is a line that cuts a shape exactly in half. This means that if you were to fold the shape along the line, both halves would match exactly. We then moved onto finding symmetry with coloured squares and completing half of a given image. Next week, we will focus on interpreting graphs and reading statistical information.
We have continued to be inspired by the story ‘Blue John’ when writing and have loved delving into the four chapters we have read so far. We considered what we might see and hear if we were the child dancing in the cavern with Blue John and incorporated the use of similes to describe what our senses would experience. Later, we moved on to creating an explanation text to outline how Blue John was created using Geographical vocabulary associated with the aspects of a cave.
Connecting out understanding of symmetry in Maths, we explored the design features of the Taj Mahal. Using half of an image outlining the Taj Mahal building, we then created the basic structure of the building on the other half of the blank page to create symmetrical artwork.
To celebrate National School Sport Week, our Sports Ambassadors devised a plan to set up different sporting activities on the playground for us to enjoy at breaktimes this week. From dodgeball to tennis, we spent our breaktimes playing with friends, developing our skills and enjoying time taking part in team games. We are thrilled to have been given the opportunity to grow in confidence and take part in sports we might not normally play.
Thinking like a Historian, we examined how the Vikings tried to take over the country and explored how close they got. We grasped that Vikings kept coming to Britain for almost 300 years first as raiders then as conquerors. We identified a period of time when the Vikings were successful and another when they were not. Using terms such as raiders and settlement, we discussed the importance of the Danelaw as an area of Viking settlement and analysed turning points in the Viking’s fortunes.
The countdown is now on to Sports Day and we are looking forward to inviting our loved ones to come and watch us race next week! Have a great weekend, Year 4.
Reminders:
Sports Day – Wednesday 28th June
Summer Fair – Friday 30th June
Date: 18th Jun 2023 @ 2:06pm
An exceptionally hot week, for an exceptional class!
We wanted to start of by first explaining how proud we are of all the children in Year 1, who this week completed their Phonics Screen Check (unbeknown to them!). The children all worked hard to read, segment and blend the words back together and regardless of whether they 'pass', we are proud of all the hard work they have put in this week, and throughout the year! Keep shining Year 1, in everything you do.
In Maths, we completed the first of our termly assessments, and the children worked, again, extremely hard with this. They will complete their second assessment next week along with two reading assessments. In additon to this assessment, the chidlren started our new topic, Place Value to 100. The children worked hard to put their prior knowledge to use, connecting their learnnig back to our previous place value topic to remind them of the number order and the value of tens and ones. They will continue with this topic next week.
In PE we practiced for our upcoming sport day, which will take place on Wedneday 28th June, working together and supporting each other in each activity such as the three legged race, which proved trickier than we thought especially if you were teamed up with Miss Jones!
On Friday, we had an extra specail treat, when Mrs Molloy brought in her garden sprinkler! We LOVED running through it too cool down, which was made even better when Miss Jones handed out the ice pops! From all of us here in Year 1, we hope you have a delightful weekend and enjoy this incredible weather!
Reminders:
- PE lessons take place every Tuesday and Wednesday this term.
- Please can you ensure that children are sent to school with water bottles, hats and sun cream.
- Reading books should be returned every Friday morning ready to be swapped.
Date: 16th Jun 2023 @ 1:34pm
The sun is hot, hot, hot but that hasn’t stopped Year 2 from their work! We have had such a great week.
In Maths we continued our topic of ‘Statistics’ where we explored various ways of recording data. We recapped ‘Tally Charts’ and ‘Block Diagrams’ whilst introducing ‘Pictograms’ as well. We discussed the importance of including a key and how this key shows us what number each symbol represents. We then started our new topic of ‘Geometry’ starting with looking at ‘Language of Direction’ and exploring all the different ways we can describe direction e.g., above, below, between, right and left.
We continued reading our book in English, ‘Grandad’s Secret Giant’. We discussed and inferred how Billy and the Giant were feeling through certain situations, putting ourselves into their shoes (or rather big boots) to see how they felt. We continued to find loads of similes throughout the story, getting really excited when we discovered them.
We continued our giant exploring in Art where we created our very own dream jars from the BFG. We added lots of colour, sparkles and of course all our dreams! Not only this, but we created paper versions as well, creating gorgeous dream jars through watercolours and then writing our dreams and wishes for the future. We have some very ambitious dreams, which we are sure everyone will achieve no problem.s
In Science, we continued to explore our topic of ‘Little Masterchefs’ We explored the Eatwell Plate discussing what each section/colour represented and what foods went in each. We talked about how important it is to have things in moderation and the bigger a section is, the more of it we should eat. In History, we researched seaside holidays from the past and discussed how they are similar and different to the seaside holidays we have now.
Reminders:
- PE lessons take place every Monday and Wednesday this term.
- Please can you ensure that children are sent to school with water bottles, hats and sun cream.
Date: 16th Jun 2023 @ 9:48am
A busy week with lots of sunshine!
Throughout the week, we have continuing to practise our drama skills, both in class and in the shade on the school field. We have discussed potential scenes we would like to do, as well as ideas for songs to perform. The children have then had time in groups to come up with ideas and perform in front of their peers, thinking carefully about stage directions and voice projection. The children have been very enthusiastic about it all and it was great to see so many asking for bigger speaking roles. We have already nearly learned one song we will be performing at the end of term and once again, the children’s efforts have continued to impress. We think it is going to be a great show! We have talked about how our parents will enjoy the show more if our plans and the final script are kept a surprise…so please do try and have some restraint at home and avoid asking your children about what they will be doing! We can however assure you that all the children will get the type of part in the show which they want.
In Maths, we were visited by Mrs Bennett from Formby High School. She led an activity on symmetry, where the children had to design masks for a display. Not only did the children need to think about the symmetry of the shapes they used to create their masks…but also the use of colour too! It was trickier than we thought!
As scientists, we revisited our Space topic from Year 5. The children were asked to recall what they could remember about the sun and moon before being given the question, “Why do they appear to be the same size in the sky?” They learned how the sun and moon appear the same size because the sun’s diameter is about 400 times greater – but the sun is also about 400 times farther away. To demonstrate how this works, we were set the task to take photographs with our friends, using distance to manipulate the final images. The results were great! Check out our Twitter page to see them.
Have a great weekend, everyone!
Date: 16th Jun 2023 @ 8:12am
We have had so much fun in the sun this week!
This week the search began for our missing sand. After seeing our ‘Missing sand’ poster, Mrs Meredith kindly came down to Nursery as she thought she had found our missing sand. In her hand was a bag that said ‘yellow’ on it. The children each lifted up the bag to see if the contents were heavy or light. We then opened it up to see what was inside! Unfortunately, it wasn’t our sand, it was just shredded paper! Never mind, the search continues!
On Tuesday, we gained some new tadpole friends in Nursery. The children have been learning about the life cycle of a frog and we can’t wait to see the tadpoles grow. On Thursday, Fred the frog left a challenge for Nursery to find the missing pieces of his jigsaw in the outdoor area. We followed the clues and then worked together to piece the jigsaw together. We discovered the jigsaw was an image of the life cycle of a frog and we discussed the different stages of growth and the change. Great team work Nursery!
Nursery have been very busy this week making tasty treats for their very special Dads and Grandads. We read a lovely book called ‘My Dad is brilliant’ and the children talked about why their Dad or Grandad is special to them. We hope you love the amazing cards and tasty rocky road that the children have made for you!
We hope you have a lovely weekend and Father’s Day celebration on Sunday. See you all next week!
Miss Dalley and the Nursery Team
Reminders:
Please ensure all children have a sunhat, sun cream and a filled water bottle in their bag daily. Please can you ensure your child has suncream applied before they come to Nursery in the morning.
Wednesday 28th June – Nursery Sports Day @ 9am on the school field.
WOW service 2pm @St Peter’s Church
Friday 30th June – Summer Fair
28th – 30th June – Scholastic Book Fair
Date: 15th Jun 2023 @ 8:22pm
We’re not quite sure we really believe that it is Friday already; this week has passed by in a flash!
In another week of glorious sunshine, our PE lessons involved Tri-Golf and Kinball. In Tri-Golf, the children honed their technique and skills before progressing onto designing their own golf course. Using a variety of obstacles (and their own creativity), the children were tasked with designing a golf course hole for their friends to try. In Kinball, it was all aboard the Kinball train as the children had to work together to ensure that the train didn’t run out of track on its journey. The children loved this mini-game and also a further teamwork-based activity which involved working together to move the Kinball down the line both efficiently and whilst maintaining full control. Great fun was had in both PE lessons and bring on next week!
We had plenty of mindful moments throughout the week too as the children, in one activity, followed a calm script to notice more about how they were feeling. We also focused on mindfulness of sounds by first paying attention to the environment around us before focusing in on a specific sound and following it for as long as we could.
In Art, we carried on with our Cityscapes focus as we painted our own cityscape silhouettes which replicated photos of different cities, either at sunrise or sunset. The children’s creations were carefully made and stunning to look at.
Our Maths lessons this week involved recapping our mathematical learning so far this year through some assessments. We are delighted with the children’s positivity, resilience, maturity and overall effort in completing these assessments to the best of their ability. Well done, Year 5! Next week’s Maths lessons will focus on converting measurements (ml to L and g to kg).
Wishing you all an enjoyable weekend and thank you, Year 5, for all your hard work during a very warm week!
Reminders:
-Please read the guidance on Google Classroom for a ‘spelling challenge’ that the children have been set for the remainder of this academic year.
-English and Maths homework will continue as normal for the time being on Mirodo as usual.
-Should the warm weather and temperatures continue, please ensure that children apply suncream in preparation.
Date: 14th Jun 2023 @ 9:29pm
We hope you all had a fabulous weekend and are enjoying the sunshine!
For RE this week we continued to learn about our theme of ‘Prayer’. We learnt about how we can use our hand to help us to pray using each finger for a different meaning, for an example the thumb because it is closest to you when you look at your hands reminds us to pray for people we love. The children then enjoyed drawing around their hands and talking about the ‘five finger prayer’.
We are loving our theme of ‘Superheroes’. This week we watched a short film about 10 rules of a superhero, we then asked the children to think about if they could have a super power what their superpower might be and why they would like to have that power. The children described to their friends how they would use their powers, what fun we had!
We have also spent the week thinking about Father’s Day and the special father figures in their life. We made a card and a special gift to share with our Father’s / father figures and talked about what makes them so special.
We have also taken advantage of the lovely weather this week and enjoyed lots of water play, watering our plants and cold ice pops for snack!
We wish you all a lovely weekend!
Mrs Bevin, Mrs Molloy and the Reception team
Reminders:
Please ensure all children have a sunhat, sun cream and a filled water bottle in their bag daily.
Wednesday 21st June – Class trip to Martin Mere
Wednesday 28th June – Reception Sports Day @ 9.30am on the school field.
WOW service 2pm @St Peter’s Church
Friday 30th June – Summer Fair
28th – 30th June – Scholastic Book Fair
5th July – Super Hero dress up day
Date: 13th Jun 2023 @ 10:15am
The sun might be shining, but the heat hasn’t stopped our productivity this week!
In RE, we discussed how we have all had opportunities to pray in many different ways, through our school assemblies, time in church and our own reflective time. We explained what prayer means to us and concluded that a prayer is an expression of belief and commitment. Using our handprints, we unpicked using our five fingers, five things we pray for including those who teach us, lead us, those who love us and those who are sick and weak.
This week we have carried out lessons to recap our learning and completed assessments to showcase our knowledge. The positivity and passion for learning that fills the room when the children are tasked with showcasing their thinking is incredible to see!
We are delighted to announce that our Multiplication Check is officially over and we couldn’t be prouder of the commitment and dedication the children have shown towards recalling their times tables. What a joy to hear from all of the children that the test ‘Really wasn’t anything to be worried about!’
In PE, we have been working hard to prepare for our up and coming Sports Day. From the egg and spoon race to the sack race, we smiled and laughed throughout as we raced our way to victory against our friends and even mastered a three-legged race. We cannot wait to show our parents and careers the races we have been practising in a couple of weeks.
For our History lesson this week, we thought about the perception people have of the Vikings and why this might be so. We unpicked different accounts of Vikings and noticed that they differed depending on whether they were written by a Saxon or a Viking. Later, we found that the Monks had lots of wealth giving them the ability to write their version of what happened to them and therefore, sheading a bad light on the Vikings.
Continuing with our focus on the wonders of bubbles, we investigated whether or not bubbles can change in size and the science behind why a bubble pops.
A week full of hard work and smiles, Year 4. Thank you for shined brighter than the stars in the universe!
Reminders:
- As the weather is becoming warmer, please ensure your child brings a sun hat, water bottle and sun cream to school.
- Children reading on the school book band should ensure their book is brought back into school to be changed on their reading day each week.
Date: 9th Jun 2023 @ 1:21pm
What a busy but fantastic first week back we have had! It was so lovely to see all the children back and enjoying spending time with their friends and hearing about what everyone got up to.
In Maths we started our new topics of ‘Statistics’ where we explored various ways of recording data. We looked at ‘Tally Charts’ where we discovered that after scoring four marks, we have to cross the gate to make it a group of five. We talked about how this makes it far easier to read than having to count loads of little lines. We even noticed the correlation between that, counting up in 5s and the 5-times tables. Not only this, but we explored ‘Tables’ and ‘Block Diagrams’ and deciding which way to record data we liked the best.
Our new book in English is ‘Grandad’s Secret Giant’ which generated some discussion about other various fictional giants such as the BFG. We started by creating our very own giants, making them as tall and as long as we could. Some of us decided to make them a friendly giant while others decided theirs would be the scariest. As a class, we discussed what a simile was and then used our new knowledge to describe our giants. Some of the similes we created were superb! ‘His hands were as big as rowing boats; his head was as big as a boulder and his feet were as wide as three double decker buses’.
In Science, we explored our new topic of ‘Little Masterchefs’ where we discussed what we thought a Masterchef was. We brainstormed with names like Gordan Ramsey and Jamie Oliver popping up. We then discussed what health and safety rules are needed in the kitchen when preparing and cooking food. Rules that we came up with included tying back your hair, washing your hands, washing fruit and vegetables and cleaning up any spillages. We even found out that chefs traditionally wore hats to keep their hair back but even better, the taller their hat, the higher rank they have in the kitchen!
We ended the week with an amazing visit from Simon Hunt who came to tell us all about and read his new book ‘Delilah Rose the Bogey Princess’ to us. We had an absolutely amazing time, from trying to reach our toes up to our nose to getting our finger ‘stuck’ up our noses. We felt loads of different emotions when reading the book - shocked, appalled, delighted and so many more! We absolutely loved it. We have been inspired to write our very own books and were in awe when Simon told us we are all already authors from the stories we write in school!
Reminders:
- PE lessons take place every Monday and Wednesday this term.
- Please can you ensure that children are sent to school with water bottles, hats and sun cream.
Date: 8th Jun 2023 @ 8:38pm
Well, we are back…for our final half-term at Trinity St. Peter’s!
In Reading and Writing, we have been working on a unit linked to ‘adventurers’ and ‘leadership’ and we have learned about a number of significant literary and real-life explorers such as Beowulf, Charles Darwin and Robert Falcon Scott. Our final task this week was to write four paragraphs about a leader of our choice. There was a wide range of leaders chosen, both real and fictional, from various time periods and areas of profession. Volodymyr Zelensky, Emmeline Pankhurst, Captain America, Winston Churchill…the list goes on! All the children should have now uploaded their final pieces onto Google Classroom if any parents wish to have a read – we would highly recommend!
As linguists, we have moved onto a new topic in Spanish: ‘The Beach’. A very relevant topic indeed! This week, we learned new vocabulary linked to items you would take on a beach trip and practised writing / saying phrases and sentences to describe this.
In PE, the children were given the choice of what they would like to do as a class for Monday’s lesson. As this is the children’s last half-term in primary school, this is the time to make some final memories altogether and so we thought about the best possible games we could play that would encourage this. Games such as dodgeball, bench ball and rounders were discussed, but in the end, the vast majority voted on a whole-class game of ‘man hunt’! This was a great idea as the children have never played this as part of a PE lesson; usually it is reserved for break time. We played a few variations of the game, each time reflecting on what worked and how we could improve the next round. The children had a great time – especially as their running / hiding area was not limited to just the school field!
Thursday’s PE lesson with Mr Brindley saw the children practising their driving and chipping in golf. A special ‘well done’ to those children who represented the school in a golf tournament at Formby Hall on Wednesday afternoon; another great opportunity for our pupils, who made us all very proud.
Our week concluded with a visit from author, Simon Hunt. Simon is a teacher but also author of the story, 'Delilah Rose: The Bogey Princess' and (upcoming) 'Billy the Bottom Burping Pirate'. He delivered a great workshop to the UKS2 classes and kept the Y6 pupils back for a talk on aspirations. Thank you, Simon!
Have a great weekend, everyone!
Date: 8th Jun 2023 @ 4:33pm
What a busy week we have had in Nursery! We hope you have all had a lovely half term break!
On Tuesday we hopped onto the coach and went off to Farmer Teds! We could not contain our excitement! The children took part in lots of different activities such as handling Guinee pigs, riding on mini tractors, visiting the minibeasts and even getting to stroke a snake! We then went on a very exciting tractor ride where we saw lots of ginormous dinosaurs. We gave a big ‘roar’ as we went past and the children enjoyed naming the different dinosaurs. We then watched the ‘sheep show’ where the Farmers told us all about the different sheep at the farm. One of them had the same name as one of our friends! What a fabulous day we had!
Following on from our trip, the children learnt all about where wool comes from. Kindly, one of the Farmers at Farmer Teds gave us some wool to take back to Nursery to handle and explore. The children recalled the process of how the wool is sheared from the sheep and how it can eventually be be used to make wool clothing such as socks, jumpers and hats.
On Wednesday Nursery could not believe what had happened! The sand had disappeared from Nursery. The children came up with many ideas as to where it could have gone or who could have taken it. We then decided to make a poster to help us find the missing sand and delivered it to each class in the school. I wonder where it could be!
We hope you all have a wonderful weekend and see you all next week.
Miss Dalley and the Nursery team
Reminders:
Tuesday 13th June – TSP Father’s Day Present Room
Wednesday 28th June – Nursery Sports Day @ 9am on the school field.
28th – 30th June – Scholastic Book Fair
Date: 8th Jun 2023 @ 2:02pm
We can’t believe it is here already…the FINAL half term of Year 5! Time certainly has raced by up to this point but we are not taking anything for granted as there is still so much left to achieve and plenty more memories to be made. For now, here are some highlights from a week where the sun and children alike were shining brightly.
With the start of June, we commenced our new monthly value focus of Koinonia. We learned how Koinonia can be translated from Greek into the words, ‘fellowship’ and ‘communion’. We extended this further to the sense in which koinonia means community and working together for the common good of other people. We will continue to built upon our understanding throughout the rest of this month!
In Maths, we have continued our focus on 3D shapes and their properties and progressed onto recognising different shapes from their various nets. Next week’s lessons will recap all of our learning so far this year through some assessments.
In our reading work, we have been reading ‘The Hunter’ by Paul Geraghty, which is the story of a little girl called Jamina who goes out into the African bush with her grandfather. Her dream is to be a hunter when she is older but, when she is separated from her grandfather, she finds a baby elephant whimpering besides its dead mother. As Jamina bravely helps the little orphaned elephant, we are eager to find out where this journey takes her.
We had a great treat to end our week as we were visited by author, Simon Hunt who visited to share his love for storytelling, reading and writing with the children. We enjoyed listening to his story, ‘Delilah Rose the Bogey Princess’, and the opportunity to hear about how Simon's book came to be published as well as always remembering to dream big, inspired us even further. We will be sure to keep an eye out for any future books written by Simon!
A brilliant week and wishing you all a fantastic weekend. See you all on Monday!
Further information:
-We enjoyed welcoming Miss Fitzpatrick to our class on Wednesday following Mrs Guyers’ last day with Year 5 to start maternity leave.
-Brass lessons will continue to take place every Friday throughout this half term.
-Year 5 PE lessons will still take place on Wednesdays and Thursdays each week for this half term. Please ensure that your child attends school in their full PE kit on these days.
-Please also note that homework has been uploaded as usual to Mirodo as it will be each Friday throughout this half term. As previously, the homework will be set each Friday and should be completed on or before the following Wednesday.
-Weekly spellings have also been uploaded to Google Classroom, which will be tested next Friday (16th).
Date: 7th Jun 2023 @ 9:31am
We hope you all had a fabulous half term and all ready for a fun packed final half term in Reception!
For RE this week we have started to think about Prayer. We began our session thinking about when we pray and prayers that we knew. We then looked at lots of different objects we may use to help us pray, such as rosary beads and holding crosses. We talked about the Lords prayer and how he taught this to his special friends ‘The Disciples’ in case they did not how to pray or what to say.
On Monday we enjoyed our first visit of the half term to ‘Forest School’, we have so much fun and just love visiting our forest school site each week. This week we spent some time exploring the changes in the environment and then went on to use some of the natural resources around us to create faces on the trees, if you pass forest school see if you can spot any of the faces!
We were very excited to start our new theme ‘Superheroes’. The role play has been turned into a superhero headquarters, where the children have had the opportunity to dress up as a superhero and think about what the role of a super hero is. The children have enjoyed thinking about what makes a superhero and if they know any superheroes? The children also enjoyed thinking about if they were a superhero what super powers would they have and why? We look forward to seeing where our learning will take us!!!
As we finished for half term our caterpillars had changed into beautiful butterflies and out tadpole had grown legs and changed into a frog. The Birds nest has four chirping chicks in and we have enjoyed watching the parents gathering food and listening carefully to chirping they make!
We wish you all a lovely weekend and continue to enjoy the sunshine!
Mrs Bevin, Mrs Molloy and the Reception team
Reminders:
Tuesday 13th June – TSP Father’s Day Present Room
Wednesday 21st June – Class trip to Martin Mere
Wednesday 28th June – Reception Sports Day @ 9.30am on the school field.
28th – 30th June – Scholastic Book Fair
Date: 6th Jun 2023 @ 9:53am
The final term is upon us and we are delighted to be spending lots of opportunities learning and having fun in the sunshine.
With a focus on shape and space, it was time to recap our understanding of angles and how we can determine whether an angle is acute, obtuse or a right angle, focusing on 90 degrees as our guide point. With the help of Pac-Man and his right-angled mouth, we found the types of angles in the letters of our names and identified that a full 360-degree turn can be split into four lots of 90 degrees. Our attention then turned to comparing the sizes of angles, before identifying the different types of triangles. Next week, we will identify the names of quadrilaterals and make different 2D and 3D shapes using art straws to determine their properties.
Moving on from stories surrounding the wonders of volcanoes, we now delve into the depth of caves and caverns with inspiration from the wonderful book titled ‘Blue John’. The story sees us venturing down into the caves where the Queen of Darkness lives and we follow the adventures of her rare and precious baby, Blue John, who has been created using the blue of a glacier and the gold of the sun. Using the text, we discussed what stalactites are and used similes to describe how they grow. We used aspects of the text to correct the use of past tense and used commands to write a set of instructions.
We observed and investigated bubbles in Science, exploring whether all bubbles rise and if bubbles can change colour or shape. In Art, we remembered that the heaviness or lightness of the shading we use can change with the pressure of our pencil and/or making the lines and dots closer together or further apart. In PE, it was time to start preparing for our up and coming Sports Day by completing some speed running races to increase our pace and carrying out different obstacle courses to enhance our speed and agility.
Our History lessons this term all stem around our perspectives of the Vikings and the stereotypes we hold. We generated a range of adjectives and nouns used to describe Vikings and reinforce the chronology of the times of the first Viking raid using a timeline of events. In the role of Saxon spies, we draw from memory, a Viking ship and then posed questions to analyse its features. Next week, we will examine why Vikings have such a bad reputation.
A huge thank you to the incredible Simon Hunt who joined us this week to share the delights of his book which is titled, 'Delilah Rose: the Bogey Princess' and some wonderful and inspiring poetry.
An excellent week and we hope that the sun continues to shine long into the weekend. Enjoy and see you on Monday!
Reminders:
- Due to the sunny weather, please ensure children bring a water bottle, hat and suncream to school.
- PE days continue every Tuesday and Friday.
Date: 3rd Jun 2023 @ 6:28pm
And, just like that, we have started our final term in Year 1 and what an adventure we will have!
We had the most incredible time on our school trip to Tatton Park on Thursday, where we were able to travel back in time to the Victorian Era and experience what life was like back then. We loved donning tradtional Vicotrian clothing and acting out parts of their every day life from school to cleaning, even the teachers got involved! This was the perfect start to our new History topic, ' Is it better to be a child now than in the past?'. As the weeks progress, we will use our experience from this trip as well as aretefacts to compare life now, and then.
In Maths, we started, and finished, our new topic, Geometry, exploring the postion and direction of various objects describing postitons after they are moved. Next week, we will visit our topic on Place Value, exploring numbers to 100.
We explored materials and textures in Art and investigated how different one can affect the other. This week, we explored how you can create different patterns and pictures using a range of different medium such as; paper, tissue paper and paint. We are delighted with how our creations turned out.
The summer weather brought with it the summer sports and we absolutly loved getting outside to complete both Athletics and Striking and Feilding. In Athletics, we completed a range of different activities in preparation for Sports Day from running races to the egg and spoon. It was very exciting. As well as this, we practiced hitting, large and small balls, with a variuos bats exploring how the different ones create more power or 'stirke' to move the ball across the field.
We explored summer in Science as well, comparing our current glorious summer weather to the previous seasons. We discussed we must keep ourselves safe in the sun and identified various items that we shoud used as a result.
Reminders
- Please can you ensure that children are sent to school with water bottles, hats and suncream. The weather is getting hotter and we do not have the resources to supply the children with the above. Please also note that staff are unable to apply suncream to children so please can you practice with your child at home.
- Next week the children will complete their Phonics Screen Check, the check itself will be seamless and the children will be unaware of it compared to other assessments. As stated previously, we will not be able to share results with you until the reports due to the government deciding on the pass score. TO support your child, please complete the videos which have been shared with you over School Spider.
- PE days will continue to be on a Tuesday and Wednesday each week, please ensure children are dress appropriotely for their lesson.
Date: 26th May 2023 @ 1:12pm
What a busy, hard working week Year 2 have had!
In Maths, we continued our new topic of ‘Time’ where we explored past the hour and to the hour. We discussed how when the minute hand goes to a new number, this means five minutes have passed. We utilised our 5-time tables extremely well this week for this. We then created our own flower clock to help us remember which side is to the hour and which is past.
Our ‘Under the Sea’ dance is getting better and better each week! We introduced some new creatures into our dance including sharks, crabs, fish and even some jellyfish. We look forward to performing this for everyone.
In Geography, we recapped on all the knowledge we learnt about seas and coasts. We also explored new facts about the five seas. We discovered that the Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean and the Artic is the smallest ocean.
In our guided reading sessions, we finally finished our book ‘The Fantastic Mr Fox’ and what an amazing book it was! We absolutely loved going on this adventure with Mr Fox and his friends, digging through tunnels and escaping from Boggis, Bunce and Bean the evil farmers. We then finished off the week by watching the movie and discussing the similarities and differences from the book.
Have a well deserved and long week off, Year 2! Please see the Virtual Classroom attached for resources to support you further, should you wish.
Reminders:
- PE lessons will now take place on a Monday and Wednesday this term.
- Please ensure that children come to school with a water bottle each day, especially during these hotter days.
Date: 26th May 2023 @ 10:51am
Attending the opening of a new restaurant; a little bit of golf and some tennis in the sun…it’s been a very ‘Formby’ week!
Perhaps the main highlight of this week has been our writing focus, which has been writing a review. On Monday, we discussed why, when and how we use reviews before considering how you would word positive and negative reviews of the witch’s cottage in the story of ‘Hansel and Gretel’. On Tuesday, the children came to school and discovered that their classroom has been transformed into a new restaurant called Bar 23. They were shown to their tables, waited on by the staff and ordered food and drink from the menu. Each child’s experience was unique to say the least! Some had a great time while others were left feeling dissatisfied and underwhelmed. Once the children ‘left’ the restaurant, they had to rate their experiences and write up a review of this new establishment. The children thoroughly enjoyed this short writing unit and it has certainly been reflected in the reviews they have written. For some children, this has been their best piece this year!
Our ‘crime and punishment’ topic in History has also continued. The children learned about trends during many different periods: Roman, Tudor, Victorian and Early Modern. They were then given the opportunity to focus on a period that interested them most and carry out their own research into crimes and punishments at that time. Their next lesson involved them reading the tale of Robin Hood, which enabled them to think creatively and critically about the justice system at this time.
‘RSE Week’ has brought us lots of new information, questions and certainly some (possibly awkward) laughter along the way! On Thursday, as a whole class we recapped on our RSE lessons from last year and recalled the changes our bodies will go through during puberty; however as we discussed these in our gender groups last year, this week we were able to learn about and have empathy for what the opposite gender will experience. This created lots of questions from the children, which were easily explained through the brilliant ‘Kay’s Anatomy’ book by Adam Kay. (Please note: as per message sent to parents, the relevant chapters of this book can be found on Google Classroom.) Throughout the rest of the day, we discussed peer pressure and consent; personal hygiene and where you can go for support. The children participated in these lessons with great enthusiasm and maturity; we are very proud of how they conducted themselves.
In Art, we explored how artists use different perspectives and media when creating various pieces. On Tuesday, we had an enjoyable afternoon focusing on our own artwork linked to ‘landscape’ – as you will be able to see on our Twitter feed.
Our PE lessons this week have continued with ‘tri golf’ on Monday and tennis on Thursday. The children competed in mini-matches in both sports, enjoying the sunshine outdoors while doing so. We have been impressed with the improvements the children have made in both areas. Also, a special ‘well done’ to those children who competed in the cross-country events this week. We were very impressed with the children’s enthusiasm and perseverance!
Have a great half-term break, everyone!
Date: 25th May 2023 @ 7:39pm
How have we reached this point already? The end of the penultimate half term of Year 5 for this amazing class! Throughout this half term, we have achieved so much and you have hopefully gained a snapshot of our incredible learning either within this blog or via our class Twitter page. This week was no different in terms of memorable moments in learning with plenty to report…
In our Maths learning, we have been focusing on 2D and 3D shapes. A particularly fun lesson was our active Maths lesson which involved finding different shape challenges hidden around our classroom and the outside area. The children then had to apply their knowledge of regular and irregular shapes to successfully solve each challenge question. Other lessons have included identifying the properties of 3D shapes in a practical lesson involving building skeleton shapes using blu-tack and art straws.
In English, we completed our author book work which was the culmination of our writing from throughout the half term. The children were tasked with creating a hybrid persuasive-information piece using their knowledge gained from our lessons on environmental awareness alongside our focus picturebook, ‘The Paperbag Prince’. Their impressive writing was also accompanied by some equally impressive artwork.
We also completed our final AR (Augmented Reality) project in Computing which we started last week. This involved us using our creativity to create our own “scenes” and then bringing them to life through AR within our classroom. The children enjoyed seeing their creations come to life and projecting their scenes and images around the room.
Our Collective Worship work continued our focus on our monthly value of ‘Courage’. We explored two powerful videos; one showing physical courage (a bird learning to fly) and the second video representing moral courage (Desmond Tutu discussing the resistance to apartheid). The children discussed these poignant videos in such a deep, meaningful way and applied their understanding of courage brilliantly.
What a week and a fitting way to end this half term. See you all in a week’s time for the FINAL half term of Year 5. We’ll be sure to make it the best yet!
Reminders:
-PE lessons next half term will still take place every Wednesday and Thursday.
-There is no set Maths and English homework for next week, however the Year 5 ‘Virtual Classroom’ has been updated and attached to this blog, which includes links to a variety of websites and resources. All pupils' individual passwords can be found on Google Classroom. Don't forget, there is also the ‘Practice’ section on Mirodo where the children can choose any topic they wish to practise for Maths, Reading, SPaG or Science.
-School re-opens on Monday 5th June.