Our St George's News items
5E’s Church Visit and Science Investigations, by Mr Knowles
Date: 29th Mar 2023 @ 4:36pm
Along with the rest of year 5, 5E learnt all about the Easter story at Claremount Church this morning. the children took part in some interesting workshops and asked some excellent questions. They were commended by the staff at the church on their behaviour and attitude throughout the trip.
This afternoon, the children donned their lab coats to investigate dissolving in Science lessons and worked like real scientists.
Year 4 Chester Residential, by Miss Willacy
Date: 29th Mar 2023 @ 3:46pm
The children of Year 4 have had a fantastic, fun-filled day of activities! They enjoyed fire-lighting, orienteering, den building and archery. The children showed fantastic teamwork skills and demonstrated their amazing resilience.
Thank you to our instructors today - Sol 🔥 Fabio 🏹 Jake ⛺️ and Rob 🧭
Well done Year 4, you have made your teachers proud 😄.
The Year 4 team
Easter egg hunt fun, by Mrs Walters
Date: 29th Mar 2023 @ 1:58pm
Children in EYFS had a lovely morning searching for Easter eggs provided by the PTA today.
With a little help from the Easter Bunny and a lot of help from Mrs Speed-Evans, the children were able to search for small hidden eggs before swapping them for a proper chocolate egg, or dairy free alternative.
Year 4 Chester trip 🏺, by Miss Hughes
Date: 28th Mar 2023 @ 7:54pm
WOW! What a first day of our trip.
After a bit of a wet start to our morning, the sun shone brightly as we marched the cobbles of Chester like Roman soldiers led by Marcus and Tiberius.
We marched and chanted our way to the Roman gardens and ampitheatre, with our shields 🛡and swords 🗡 in tow. We reinacted battle formations and even took part in our very own Roman battle to the death with our teachers. ⚔️
After lunch, Ellie, Tiberius and Sarah showed us around the Deva centre.
We learnt all about the different gods and goddesses worshiped by the Romans. 🙏🏽
We were very shocked the learn about hygiene and Roman toilets, but very interested in their many different baths. 🛁
Ellie showed us Roman armour and told us about the advantages and disadvantages of having to wear it daily. 🧣 We loved trying on the different Roman outfits, and even snapped a few pictures.
After an action packed day, we retired back to the YHA, to fill our bellies, play some games and get settled in our rooms for the night. 🛏
We can't wait to see what tomorrow brings!
The year 4 team 🏺🏛
2B & 2C's trip to Birkenhead Park, by Miss Gough-Hughes
Date: 29th Mar 2023 @ 9:54am
2B & 2C had an excellent time at Birkenhead Park, despite the incredibly wet weather we had. During the day, we met the park ranger Hannah, who gave us some maps and taught us how to use these to make our way to different locations around the park. We had to try to spot where the different photographs were taken, during our orienteering experience. We also got to visit the onsite forest school with our forest school leader Miss Nall. We had great fun in the forest, searching for minibeasts in their microhabitat, explaining what conditions these microhabitats had, building our own microhabitat and even doing some pond dipping. The highlight of our forest school visit was sliding around in the mud and getting very dirty due to the bad weather. A big thank you to the parents who helped us on our trip, despite the rain!
2A and 2D Trip to Birkenhead Park, by Mrs Cameron-Ivanov
Date: 27th Mar 2023 @ 4:03pm
We have had an excellent day out at Birkenhead Park. Our day invloved lots of exciting activities, inclduing time in forest school where we hunted for mini-beasts, made micro-habitats and even did some pond dipping! We also completed an orienteering course where we followed a map around the park to see if we could spot where certain photographs had been taken.
We hope you enjoy looking through our photographs.
3A Trip to Liverpool, by Mr Thomas
Date: 24th Mar 2023 @ 4:10pm
Today, 3A travelled to Liverpool on the train to visit the Walker Art Gallery, Central Library and The World Museum.
In the Walker Art Gallery, we explored Art through different periods of history. We talked about our favourite pieces of art, how they made us feel and the stories they told us.
Then, we visited Central Library. We were amazed at the architecture of the building and all of the wonderful books that we saw across the library. One book was even valued at £7 million!
Our afternoon was spent at the World Museum. We enjoyed our journey through 5000 years of human life in the Nile Valley. With Mrs Marshall, we learnt about ancient burial practices, explored Egypt’s relationship with other civilisations, and identified what it was like to live in Ancient Egypt.
The children have all thoroughly enjoyed their day and hope to visit these three inspirational places again with their families in the future.
3E & 3B trip, by Miss Bennett
Date: 22nd Mar 2023 @ 3:09pm
3E and 3B have had a fantastic day visiting Liverpool World Museum, Walker Art Gallery and Liverpool Central Library.
They explored the art gallery and discussed the different styles of art and their opinions on them. In the library, we were taken on a tour by one of the librarians were explored many different areas of the new and old parts of thr library. Finally we delved into Ancient Egypt for our current History topic in the museum where we had Mrs Marshall give us a guided tour and share all of her amazing knowledge of Ancient Egypt.
Year 4 - Ukulele, by Miss Mulheirn
Date: 22nd Mar 2023 @ 10:35am
The Year 4 pupils have thoroughly enjoyed their music lessons with Mr Harper this term. Over the last couple of weeks, they have learnt all about the parts of the Ukulele and the string names. Here are a few photographs!
Year 4 Experience Easter at St Hilary’s church ⛪️, by Miss Willacy
Date: 22nd Mar 2023 @ 10:20am
This week, year 4 children have enjoyed visiting St Hilary's Church for Experience Easter. Whilst at the church, children explored 6 different stations in which they learnt about the Easter story.
With Dot and Marie, they learnt about hopes and dreams, discussing Palm Sunday and the hopes and dreams of the people of Jerusalem. We wrote down our own hopes and dreams.
Colin and David taught us about Jesus being the servant King and how we can all serve each other and be kind.
We had a last supper with Louise and Debbie and talked about things we remember from when we were younger and how we are reminded of special memories.
Sue and Demi gave us a chance to explore what gives us comfort and brings us peace.
With Ian, Ann and Mark with learnt about sharing our sorrows. We learnt about the sacrifice that Jesus made for us, and his crucifixion and how the cross has become the sign of hope for anyone who is suffering.
At our last station, Alan taught us about the resurrection and how this was a sign of hope. He told us why we celebrate Easter and why it is such a special holiday to many people Christians around the world.
Thank you St Hilary's Church for hosting a fantastic experience for our children.
5B's trip to the Art Gallery Bus part 2, by Mrs Coleman
Date: 22nd Mar 2023 @ 5:35am
3C & 3D Trip to Liverpool, by Mr Thomas
Date: 21st Mar 2023 @ 4:37pm
Today, 3C and 3D travelled to Liverpool on the train to visit the Walker Art Gallery, Central Library and The World Museum.
In the Walker Art Gallery, we explored Art through different periods of history. We talked about our favourite pieces of art, how they made us feel and the stories they told us.
Then, we visited Central Library. We were amazed at the architecture of the building and all of the wonderful books that we saw across the library. One book was even valued at £7 million!
Our afternoon was spent at the World Museum. We enjoyed our journey through 5000 years of human life in the Nile Valley. With Mrs Marshall, we learnt about ancient burial practices, explored Egypt’s relationship with other civilisations, and identified what it was like to live in Ancient Egypt.
The children have all thoroughly enjoyed their day and hope to visit these three inspirational places again with their families in the future.
Wirral Schools Poetry Festival, by Mrs Horton
Date: 21st Mar 2023 @ 4:01pm
To celebrate World Poetry Day, a group of year 3 children took part in the Wirral Schools Poetry Festival at Park Primary School. They performed a poem that they had written about human rights. It was a great afternoon as they got to see performances from 6 other local schools who we have been working with on the Voice21 oracy project. They also had the pleasure of watching Martyn Harvey perform one of his poems and he gave them all a copy of his book. It was a fabulous afternoon and we were very proud of our children who came 2nd in the poetry competition.
Year 3 & 4 Team Building Challenge, by Mr Thomas
Date: 17th Mar 2023 @ 3:38pm
Earlier this week, a group of children from Years 3 and 4 attended a team building competition at Activity for All.
The children competed against other schools in a range of team building challenges collecting points across the event. St George’s finished the event in second place!
The children demonstrated great team work and problem solving skills. Well done to all of the children!
6B celebrating Science Week, by Mrs Bowden-Pickstock
Date: 17th Mar 2023 @ 2:50pm
To celebrate British Science Week, Year 6 explored inventions throughout history and used these as inspiration for our own inventions to tackle everyday problems. Year 6 were challenged to consider the materials needed, the person it would benefit and a slogan to advertise their creation.
Year 2 - British Science Week, by Miss Gough-Hughes
Date: 16th Mar 2023 @ 3:49pm
The year two's have had a great week celebrating science week. They have enjoyed using the iPad's to research food chains and read science books to help them sort images of animal food chains. Additionally, they have loved finding out about different scientists and drawing a scientist, recognizing that anybody can be a scientist. One of the best parts, was our science ambassadors bravely stepping up in front of their class, to teach the other children about different innovations throughout the year. Well done science ambassadors!
5B Art Exploras!, by Mrs Coleman
Date: 15th Mar 2023 @ 5:10pm
Today 5B had the fantastic opportunity to visit the Art Explora bus at Wallasey town hall. The theme was Radical Landscapes and we were able to see incredible works of art from the Tate by artists such as JWM Turner and Barbara Hepworth. Then we used this inspiration to create landscapes of our own.
Year 4 Geographers, by Miss Berry
Date: 14th Mar 2023 @ 2:13pm
Year 4 have been using an exciting new programme to help them explore their new geography topic : earthquakes.
They have explored tectonic plates on a map of the earth, taken a close look at how earthquakes occur, and investigated a virtual city affected by an earthquake.
We can't wait to see where else our geography takes us!
Year 1 and 2 Oracy Showcase - Human Rights, by Mrs Cameron-Ivanov
Date: 14th Mar 2023 @ 10:53am
Over the last couple of weeks, year 1 and 2 have been learning about Human Rights. We know that these are rights that everyone has, just for being human.
Each year group chose a human right to focus on. Year 1 did "Everyone has the right to a job", and wrote poems called "When I Grow Up", a line in their poems said "I'll work and learn until it's my turn, to find the right job for me"
Year 2 did "Everyone has the right to rest and leisure". Their poems had the title "If I were in charge of the World" and listed all the things we'd like to get rid of, and all the games and leisure we would like to have more of.
Within our classes, we put together a poem based on our chosen right, we then rehearsed and performed them in our classes and had a vote for the group that demonstrated the best oracy skills. We focused on physical oracy: taking clearly, gesture and posture, speed and volume of talk and expression in our voices.
The chosen groups from each class then performed their poem in front of all of year 1 and 2 in the hall for our Oracy Showcase. We invited some year 3 children to come and judge our showcase, and they gave each group excellent feedback based on our oracy framework.
Each group worked really hard on their performance and we could tell they had been practising.
The winning class for year 2 was 2A, and the winning class for year 1 was 1C. They will be taking part in a school wide oracy showcase, with children from F2 to 6, and will perform their poems at our local church.
Wallasey Schools' Tag Rugby Festival, by Mr Thomas
Date: 12th Mar 2023 @ 1:29pm
Well done to the team of Year 1 and 2 children for attending a Wallasey Schools’ Tag Rugby festival at Liscard Primary School.
At the festival, the team refined and improved their passing, receiving and dodging skills. Well done to all of the children!
Year 3&4 Bowling Competition, by Mr Thomas
Date: 12th Mar 2023 @ 1:27pm
A group of children from Years 3 and 4 represented St George’s at a recent Wirral Ten Pin Bowling competition at Riverside Bowl, New Brighton.
Thank you to Wirral School Games and Panathlon Challenge for organising this event. The children had a fantastic time!
Well done to all of the children for their fantastic bowling throughout the competition.
Year 5&6 Girls' Football Success, by Mr Thomas
Date: 12th Mar 2023 @ 1:25pm
On International Women’s Day, St George’s sent a group of Year 5/6 footballers to a Wirral Schools' football event. It was the first time many of the team had played in a competive event before, but you certainly couldn't tell!
The team played brilliantly and as you can see by the pictures, enjoyed representing St George’s playing with enthusiasm and positivity throughout the afternoon.
Well done to all of the team!
Year 1/2 Football Festival at Activity for All, by Mr Thomas
Date: 12th Mar 2023 @ 1:22pm
A team of children from Years 1 and 2 visited Activity for All and took part in a Football Festival. Across the morning, they took part in a carousel of 3 football-based activities.
Well done to all of team for demonstrating their skills and for playing with a fantastic attitude!
Year 4 - Sculpting with Paper, by Miss Mulheirn
Date: 9th Mar 2023 @ 3:50pm
Year 4 started their new art unit last week, exploring how artists use paper as a sculpting material. They loved investigating the work of Mia Pearlman, Andreas Kocks, Peter Callesen and Lauren Clay. This week, they learnt various paper sculpting techniques which they will combine in future lessons when making sculptures of portraits. Here are lots of photos!
Data Logging in Year 4 📉📈, by Miss Berry
Date: 9th Mar 2023 @ 9:39am
Year 4 had an amazing time today using data loggers to record three variables in the classroom and create graphs of the information the equipment collected.
They tried recording data manually and found out just how tricky it would have been before we had technology! After this, they chose a location to set their data loggers up in the classroom so it could record sound 🔊 light 💡 and temperature 🌡 for them automatically.
Once their data had been collected, they analysed their data to explain why there were changes in the graphs that were produced.
A huge thank you to Gemma from Hi-Impact!
