Our St George's News items

Chester Cathedral Choir Success, by Mrs Walters

Date: 13th Jul 2022 @ 12:37pm

Well done to all the children who took part in after school club linked to Chester Cathedral Choir. They were amazing!

We are so proud of all the children's hard work and commitment to the club. This performance is after only five sessions and the singing is wonderful.

Videos of their practice sessions and final performance are below.

Year 3 and 4 Summer Book Swap, by Miss Berry

Date: 13th Jul 2022 @ 11:31am

At St George's we love reading for pleasure! 

Our summer book swap was an opportunity for children in years 3 and 4 to bring in a book they'd already read and find a new adventure to dive into over the summer. 

Our School Councillors did a fantastic job of organising the books and classes, well done.

Year 2 Sports Day, by Mrs Price

Date: 11th Jul 2022 @ 3:40pm

Year 2 Sports Day. 
A great afternoon was had by all this afternoon. 
Thank you for your support

Summer Fair Fun, by Mrs Walters

Date: 11th Jul 2022 @ 2:04pm

WOW, what can we say!!! What a fabulous turnout for the summer fair on Saturday, it was lovely to see the school community out in force.

Thank you to everyone that came along, all the dancers, donkeys, the very talented Natalie Hayes providing the music throughout the day also to the police and fire service who took time out to come to the fair and all the outside companies who brought their activities for everyone to sample.

Massive thanks to all the teachers/staff and families who helped set up, run stalls and tidy up as we couldn't run it all without your support  Also huge thanks to everyone who sponsored stalls and donated raffle prizes.

Nothing to see here just the, by Mrs Dures

Date: 11th Jul 2022 @ 10:59am

Proud as punch! Well done to my wonderful class for winning The Year 5 Sports Day. I was in awe of their resilience, team work and showing excellence throughout the morning. What a way to start our last week together. Well done 5A, as ever you are role models. 
Mrs Dures

International Visitors, by Mr Cassidy

Date: 8th Jul 2022 @ 12:28pm

Our week of international visitors culminated in the visit of 9 principals and school leaders on Friday.  We had visitors from:

• Chile
• Australia
• China
• Australia
• USA
• Canada
• Ireland
• Japan

Visitors were full of praise for our school.  They commented on:

• Clear values of St George's
• How happy the children were.
• How dynamic our school felt.

Our staff love hosting visitors.  Their knowledge and experience enriches our school, celebrates our children and lifts the morale of everybody. 

Hosting Visitors from Malta and Italy, by Mrs Horton

Date: 8th Jul 2022 @ 12:18pm

This week we have had 23 visiting educators from schools in Italy and Malta. We have been working on an international project to develop the use of story telling. During this visit they have been able to observe English lessons across the school. They were so impressed with the standard of reading and writing from our children and also commented on their excellent communication skills. Our children were able to talk, in detail, about how they learn at St George's and what they love most about reading and writing. Throughout the week we were given so much feedback about the high standards of behaviour and the engagement from our pupils. We felt extremely proud of our children and our staff. What a great community to  be part of! 

Year 6 Weatherhead Maths Workshops, by Mrs Coleman

Date: 8th Jul 2022 @ 10:51am

Year 6 have enjoyed a brilliant morning with teachers from Weatherhead High School. They had an assembly where they watched a video all about the exciting things that happen at school, followed by money sense games, relay races and treasure hunts. Children commented on how fun and engaging the activities were and how they made them think about saving for the future.

Congratulations to the children who were awarded prizes for their problem solving and money-saving habits.

Author Visit with Marie Basting, by Mr Knowles

Date: 8th Jul 2022 @ 9:04am

Last week, Year 5 and 6 were lucky enough to be visited by an Author. Marie Basting discussed her book 'Princess BMX' in an assembly with Year 5 and 6 and then all of Year 5 took part in an inspiring workshop to create their own fabulous stories. Some of the children have commented on how they have been inspired to become an author and write their own pieces. The children also had the opportunity to purchase a copy of the book that Marie signed. Thank you to Marie for visiting our school.

Ukraine Concert, by Mrs Jones

Date: 6th Jul 2022 @ 10:43am

We had a fabulous evening at our concert for Ukraine last night with children from Years 1-6 taking part in our celebration of music at St. George's and raising money for Ukraine.

Thanks to all our amazing performers and to staff and parents for their support.

Year 3 Chess Tournament, by Mrs Drogomirecki

Date: 6th Jul 2022 @ 11:25am

On Tuesday, some of the year three children took part in a regional chess tournament at St George's Hall in Liverpool. The children were amazing and had a fantastic day. We took 5 teams and two of our teams came first and second in the 8 and under category. What an amazing achievement! Huge well done to all the children. 

Science of Behaviour Workshop, by Miss M Jones

Date: 6th Jul 2022 @ 11:49pm

Year 5 Eco councillors were very excited to have taken part in the pilot scheme: The Science of Behaviour.

The workshop took place at the Start Yard centre in Birkenhead and looked at how behaviour patterns influence our choices and society.

The students then applied what they had learnt to create a behaviour change campaign around plastic use in school. The scheme is due to carry on next year as our Year 5 children become Year 6, and will look at how we can implement changes within our school and locality. 

All in all, a very thought-provoking morning!

Here are some photographs:  

Year 4 End of Year Music Concerts, by Miss Mulheirn

Date: 4th Jul 2022 @ 4:43pm

All of Year 4 performed brilliantly during their end of year ukulele concerts. They kept in time with the music, played the correct strings and chords, and sang along beautifully. It was a fantastic opportunity to share all that the children have learnt in their music lessons over the year. We would like to say a massive thank you from everyone in Year 4 to Mr Harper and to all of the parents for coming along today.

Visit to Chirk Castle, by Miss M Jones

Date: 6th Jul 2022 @ 11:25pm

Some Year 5 and 6 pupils were fortunate enough to experience the delights of Chirk Castle on Saturday!

The sun was shining and the exploration was in full-swing as we turned into tourists for the day. 

Chirk Castle was built around 1295, by Roger Mortimer de Chirk, during the reign of King Edward I. It features a Long Gallery, the Chapel Music room, and a whopping 5.5 acres of beautifully maintained gardens!

We delved into the dungeons, strolled around the state rooms and marvelled at the magnificent scenery! 

If you want to find out more about Chirk Castle, visit:

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/chirk-castle

Take a look at our pictures from the day! 

Marvellous Mallory donates her hair, by Ms C Jones

Date: 1st Jul 2022 @ 4:18pm

The wonderful Mallory in year one donated her hair to the princess trust. What a wonderful cause, you are an inspiration Mallory!

Year 1 Celebration Event, by Ms C Jones

Date: 1st Jul 2022 @ 3:58pm

Our year one children had a wonderful time showing off their work to their families today. Everyone had a fantastic time and it was lovely to see our families back in St George's.

Year 6 STEM challenge day, by Mrs Price

Date: 1st Jul 2022 @ 3:35pm

Year 6 STEM challenge day at Mosslands.

18 Year 6 children spent the day at Mosslands with the National Centre for Computing Education and The Royal Academy of Engineering. They worked as a team and used their skills to build a bridge. They showed resilience, teamwork, positivity and perseverance. Well done Year 6 engineers. 

4E, by Miss Mulheirn

Date: 1st Jul 2022 @ 1:14pm

4E were so inspired by their poet visit last week! They have all written their own fantastic poems themed around the sea. At top site today, they began to practise performing their poems. They thought carefully about how a good performance poet uses their voice, face and body to entertain their audience. They then performed their poems in a place of their choice outdoors. Click on the videos to be amazed!

Well Done Mrs Skaratts-Jackson - Our RESPECT Fundraising Hero, by Mr Cassidy

Date: 1st Jul 2022 @ 6:55am

We are really proud of our deputy head who scaled the 53km Cotswolds Challenge last weekend to raise money for Pancretic Cancer charities. She started walking at 8am, had 3 rest stops on the route to refuel and finally finished at 10.15pm having raised over £900 for Pancreatic Cancer UK.  You are our RESPECT hero this month!

Year 4/5 Football Team Report, by Mr Knowles

Date: 28th Jun 2022 @ 5:01pm

Over the last two Mondays, some of our Year 5 children (and 1 year 4 child) have been able to play some friendly matches against Liscard Primary and New Brighton Primary School.

The boys played a tough match against New Brighton Primary first and drew the game 1-1.

In the second fixtures, 20 players were split into 2 teams to play against Liscard. Both of the teams managed to win their games, scoring plenty of excellent goals in the process.

While we are really proud of the boys footballing performance, we are more impressed with the sportsmanship, teamwork and conduct as part of the team. They represented St George's brilliantly and we look forward to more fixtures next year.

Year 3 visit Co-op, by Miss Bennett

Date: 24th Jun 2022 @ 2:05pm

For Year 3's current DT project, they have been asked to design and evaluate their own cereal box packaging. To do this, we took a visit to our local Co-op to explore and evaluate existing products so the children could create their own design criterias and eventually their own designs. Thank you to all of the lovely staff at the Co-op for allowing us into your shop, and giving us lots of information about your products. 

Year 2 trip to New Brighton, by Miss Gough-Hughes

Date: 23rd Jun 2022 @ 1:24pm

Today, year two took a coach to visit New Brighton for half a day. The children had the chance to explore the buildings of present and past, taking photos on their iPads to capture this. We saw the Royal Pavilion, Marine Lake, Fort Perch Roch, the beach, the lightouse, Marine Point shops, the funfair etc. We also had the chance to go litter picking on the beach, collecting lots of rubbish. At the end of our trip, we had the chance to speak to the lifeguards who taught us how to keep safe at the beach. Whilst listening to the lifeguards, we had a cool ice lolly. Finally, we took a coach back to school and had a cool down. The children all had a great day! 

Year 4, by Miss Mulheirn

Date: 22nd Jun 2022 @ 9:23am

Year 4 thoroughly enjoyed their visit from local poet and children's author Martyn Harvey.

He began with an assembly in which he performed 'The Boy with the Saucepan Hat'. 

Martyn then held a workshop with each class and the children asked him lots of great questions. They learnt how Martyn gets his ideas from the world around him and how he both writes and illustrates his wonderful books and poems. They even got chance to see Martyn's prototypes and discussed the process of editing and redrafting. The children then performed one of Martyn's poems to the poet himself, and received lots of constructive feedback and advice. Martyn brought lots of his new book with him for the children to buy which he has also signed!

What a fantastic, creative day!

Science - Enthuse Celebration Event, by Miss Gough-Hughes

Date: 21st Jun 2022 @ 10:26pm

Over the last 18 months, St George's have been working closely with several cluster schools, undertaking an Enthuse partnership with STEM. We have been fortunate to gain this support to enhance our science curriculum within school, delivering engaging and exciting science lessons and collaborating with others to share knowledge. Our aim is to continue to raise the profile of STEM and support our children to see the opportunities available to them in the future.

As part of this partnership with STEM, we held an exciting celebration event at our school, whereby the schools came together to celebrate science. 10 children from each school (years 4-6) were chosen to be the representatives, completing activities including rocket mice, VR, outdoor learning minibeast hunting, floating & sinking etc. They also shared what they have been learning within science, in their school. 

The children had great fun attending this celebration event and they made us all very proud, being excellent representatives for our school. They proudly spoke to governors, our Enthuse coach and various staff members. Well done St George's! 

Year 3 Poet Visit, by Mrs Johnson

Date: 21st Jun 2022 @ 4:45pm

Year 3 were inspired today by a visit from local poet and children's author Martyn Harvey.

He began with an assembly where he shared some of his new book ' The Boy with the Saucepan Hat'.

Martyn then did a workshop with each class and the children asked him lots of great questions. They learnt how Martyn gets his ideas from the world around him and how he both writes and illustrates his wonderful books and poems.

We were excited to be able to buy Martyn's new book which he had also signed for us,