Year 3: St George's News items
Boxing Fundraiser for Autism Together, by Mrs Walters
Date: 13th Oct 2023 @ 1:59pm
One of our parents is fundraising for Autism Together by taking on a White Collar Boxing Match!
Terri Ann Simon, who has children in EYFS, years 1, 3 and 4, will be taking part in the Ultra White Collar Boxing event at Liverpool Olympia on Saturday 9th December.
If you would like to donate to her JustGiving Page you can click on the link below:
For more information about the event visit:
https://www.liverpoololympia.co.uk/events/ultra-white-collar-boxing-3/
Frank Cottrell-Boyce in Year 3 and 4, by Miss Hughes
Date: 5th Oct 2023 @ 2:15pm
Our visitor today was cosmically out of this world 🚀 astoundingly amazing ✨and just wonderous 😮
Today, Year 3 and 4 were visited by Frank Cottrell-Boyce the author of well-known children's books, Olympic ceremonies and even our beloved Paddington.
We loved hearing stories about how Frank became inspired to write and that words can show feelings.
We were all enthralled when Frank read us a few extracts from his books.
After giggling the afternoon away, we even managed to get our hands on a signed copy of his new book.
A massive thank you to Frank as well as Lisa and Sue at Linghams books for arranging such a brilliant afternoon.
Well done to gymnast Gabriella!, by Mrs Walters
Date: 18th Sep 2023 @ 2:50pm
Congratulations to year 6 pupil Gabriella who competed in the British Tumbling Championships in Birmingham at the weekend.
Gabriella took part in the youth category for ages 10-12 and having just turned 10 was placed a fantastic 17th out of 27.
Gabriella, her coaches and her family are very proud - the event was amazing, great fun and she was thrilled to represent Wirral Gymnastics Club in her first British champions competition.
Friends and family were able to support her by watching the live link at home.
Bastille Day French Menu!, by Ms Lewis
Date: 14th Jul 2023 @ 4:51pm
We enjoyed a French themed menu for lunch today, due to today being Bastille Day in France. The children could choose from cassoulet or hot ham and cheese baguettes, followed by pain au chocolat. There were lots of clear plates. We even had French music on to create the ambience!
RESPECT to the Oldershaw Diamonds Under 8s Girls' Football Team, by Mr Cassidy
Date: 10th Jul 2023 @ 9:04pm
Chess Tournament, by Mrs Drogomirecki
Date: 10th Jul 2023 @ 10:37am
We had a fantastic day at St George's Hall in Liverpool at the Chess in Schools Regional Tournamentlast Thursday. Although we didn't come away with any prizes, the children has a suburb day and represented our school beautifully. They showed amazing sportsmanship and maturity.
WELL DONE CHILDREN!
Computer Training Success, by Mrs Walters
Date: 27th Jun 2023 @ 11:53am
St George's hosted a successful training session last week for Crumble Controllers.
School staff were joined by teams from other local primary schools and Teach Computing Cheshire and Wirral.
The company took to Twitter to say a big thank you.
VR fun in year 4, by Mrs Walters
Date: 15th Jun 2023 @ 11:15am
Year 4 had a great time using the VR headsets this week to explore the rainforest.
The children used the nunchucks to move around and were able to see all the plants and animals in real life.
Sophia said: 'I enjoyed the VR because it felt like I was in the real world.'
Eliza thought the VR sets were amazing and said: 'You can see lots of different animals, plants and trees and it's really fun.'
Wirral Coastal Walk Success, by Mrs Walters
Date: 15th Jun 2023 @ 9:45am
Congratulations to everyone who took part in the Wirral Coastal Walk on Sunday - and thank you to everyone who sponsored our staff team!
They walked the full 12.5 miles to raise money for our year 4 pupil Daisy Scamp's family. Daisy is currently undergoing extensive treatment for Myeloid Sarcoma, a rare form of cancer. More than £1,000 has been raised on the Go Fund Me page since half term making the total raised more than £5,200.
One of our year 3 teachers, Mrs Kisby, also took part in a sponsored 100km run throughout May after being challenged by her daughter!
Also thank you to everyone who donated by putting money in the collection buckets last week - we raised a further £250, which is amazing!
If you would like to donate to the Daisy fund please visit: https://gofund.me/6bf02bac
Year 3 Singing in the Sunshine, by Mrs Kisby
Date: 14th Jun 2023 @ 10:46am
This morning year 3 worked with the the music teachers of St Mary's to prepare for a music concert to celebrate St Mary's High School 60th birthday. The children all joined together to sing Eye of the Tiger.
Co-op Funding Boost for Sensory Garden, by Mrs Walters
Date: 12th Jun 2023 @ 2:57pm
A huge thank you to the Co-op in Wallasey Village who kindly donated £150 to the PTA from their local community fund.
Store manager Barrie Blythyn presented Mr Nathan and Mrs Roberts with the checque and the money will beused for a sensory garden at upper site.
Great Glider Share, by Mrs Kisby
Date: 9th Jun 2023 @ 3:51pm
Today we celebrated the entries for year 3 and 4 for the Great Science Share. It has been fantastic to talk to all of the children and to share what materials they chose, why they chose these to use them as well as discussing their results. At playtime we launched all the gliders at the same time to see the results for ourselves. The children all talked about the factors that could impact on the flight of the gliders - the wind - and then we used this as a quick investigation by flying our gliders against the wind and with the wind. We concluded that the the wind helped the gliders fly further as it gave them and extra lift so they flew further. Well done to everyone that entered. We look forward to sharing these on the Great Science Share website on June 13th.
3A, 3D and 3E visit to Port Sunlight River Park, by Miss Bennett
Date: 26th May 2023 @ 2:37pm
In Geography and Science this half term, Y3 are finding all about rivers and plants. To support their learning, 3B and 3C visited Port Sunlight River Park to explore the area and find out more about the wildlife, plants and had a particular focus on the River Mersey. They were lucky enough to meet the local ranger who shared a lot of information about the area and the children had the opportunity to ask him questions to find out more about their Geography and Science units of work. They also used their map skills to locate different physical and human features along the different parts of the river from what they could see from the summit of the River Park. What a great morning they had!
3B and 3C visit to Port Sunlight River Park, by Miss Bennett
Date: 25th May 2023 @ 2:55pm
In Geography and Science this half term, Y3 are finding all about rivers and plants. To support their learning, 3B and 3C visited Port Sunlight River Park to explore the area and find out more about the wildlife, plants and had a particular focus on the River Mersey. They were lucky enough to meet the local ranger who shared a lot of information about the area and the children had the opportunity to ask him questions to find out more about their Geography and Science units of work. They also used their map skills to locate different physical and human features along the different parts of the river from what they could see from the summit of the River Park. What a great morning they had!
Y3, by Miss Bennett
Date: 25th May 2023 @ 2:43pm
On Wednesday Y3 we're very proud to host their very own Ancient Egyptian museum at English Martryrs church on St George's Road. Family, friends and even members of staff from school were invited to attend.
The children were amazing in showcasing their Ancient Egypt knowledge they have learnt in History, Literacy, Artand even PE. We were so proud of their oracy skills in welcoming their visitors, explaining their learning and overall being excellent hosts of their very own museum.
What a brilliant event, the children were truly the stars of the show and their teachers could not be prouder. Well done Y3!
Year 3 Food in Religious Festivals, by Mrs Drogomirecki
Date: 16th May 2023 @ 4:45pm
Year 3 had a wonderful afternoon learning all about festivals celebrated in different religions. In particular,they were learning about the importance of food in these celebrations and they even got to taste some samples!
Google Doodle fun in years 3 and 4, by Mrs Walters
Date: 12th May 2023 @ 12:12pm
Years 3 and 4 have been given a fantastic opportunity to create their own Google Doodle - and it could end on the screen!
Tabitha Brear, from the privacy team at Google, came to visit the children to talk about the company and gave them the amazing chance to design their own doodle.
The three best doodles in each class will be sent to the Google Doodle team and the winning design will win a prize and could end up as a real Doodle online!
The theme for the design is 'Where We Live' and should be created on a piece of A4 paper. The deadline for entries is Friday 19th May - so get creative!
Molly's Fabulous Fundraising Bid, by Mrs Walters
Date: 4th May 2023 @ 10:40am
One of our fabulous year 6 children is raising funds for Cancer Research UK and Marie Curie through Swimathon 2023.
Molly's grandad is currently going through chemotherapy and her family, and St George's, are very proud of her and hope she reaches her £1,500 target.
If you would like to sponsor her please follow the Just Giving link below.
F2-Year 6 Oracy Showcase, by Mrs Cameron-Ivanov
Date: 31st Mar 2023 @ 9:57am
Throughout this half term, children across all year groups have been learning about what human rights are and why we have them. Put simply, we now know that human rights are rights that everyone has, just for being human.
Each year group chose a human right to focus on and then put together an oracy based performance linked to their chosen right.
F2 have been reading Sharing a Shell by Julia Donaldson. In the story the animals discover that their lives are better when they work together. They linked this to the right of “Everyone has the right to a safe place to live”.
Year 1 created poems about jobs and how we all have the right to have a job. They looked at different jobs and the children discussed what they might want to be when they grow up.
Year 2 created a poem called “If I were in charge of the World”. This was linked this to the human right of “everyone has the right to leisure and play”. They thought about all the things
they could get rid of, so that everyone could have more time for the things they enjoy doing.
Year 3 worked together to create a poem all about children’s human rights. They were fortunate enough to perform their poem at a recent Y3/4 Wirral Schools Poetry Festival at
Park Primary School where they came 2nd place out of 7 schools. They even incorporated their drumming skills into their performance.
Year 4 also worked together to understand and explain how we have the right to think and voice our opinions freely. They worked in small groups to create short drama performance to show different examples of how people can think and voice their opinions freely.
Year 5’s focus has been on the right to an education. They began by looking at three verse poems and annotated patterns within them and how the verses varied between each one.
From here, they wrote a first draft of their own poems before editing and refining them to create a final piece, all the time reflecting on the meaning of their human right.
In Year 6, they focused on the right to seek asylum. They wanted their speeches to be emotive and thought provoking, so started by researching statistics and facts about asylum
seekers across the globe. They then began writing speeches to inform people about the horrific conditions some refugees and asylum seekers are facing in our current climate. After
watching some famous speeches, such as Martin Luther King’s I Have a Dream speech, they practised presenting their speeches to engage and inform an audience.
All year groups worked hard looking at the different strands of oracy: physical, cognitive, linguistic and social and emotional, and used these to enhance their performances.
A big well done to everyone who took part, and congratulations to those children who got to the final of our oracy showcase and performed at Holy Apostles and and Martyr's Parish Church. It was a pleasure to see all of the children perform for their grown ups and I think everyone would agree that the standards of oracy were high.
Thank you to Holy Apostles and and Martyr's Parish Church for hosting our oracy showcase, and to all the staff that made the event possible.
Please take some time to watch the performances and have a look at the photographs below.
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.
Spring Term OGDEN Trust Newsletter, by Mr Cassidy
Date: 14th Feb 2023 @ 8:27am
This term's OGDEN Triust newsletter can be read by clicking on the attached document. We are delighted to be leading such a stong, dynamic partnership to promote Science ediucation in Wirral schools.
Football fun with an England legend, by Mrs Walters
Date: 14th Feb 2023 @ 11:29am
Date: 19th Jan 2023 @ 3:09pm
How often do you use Google? Everyday? ?
Do you use it as a search engine for research? ?
Do your adults use it to search for directions? ?
Do you see adverts online? ?
This afternoon, Year 3 and 4 were fortunate enough to think about our safety and privacy of our online content and how online platforms work.
We were joined by Tabitha all the way from New York who works at Google. She talked to us about her job about privacy online and advertising.
We learnt about the different careers at Google from advertising to data protection and were able to ask her a lot of questions. We asked questions about our online safety, how Google searches work as well as what subjects we needed to study at secondary school if we wanted a career at a company like Google.
We want to say a big thank you to Tab for joining us today.
Thank you!
Y3 Oracy Assembly, by Miss Bennett
Date: 12th Jan 2023 @ 3:37pm
Today, Year 3 had their weekly assembly where they used their oracy skills to have a discussion about fables, something they have been learning about in Literacy. They worked with different children from different classes to discuss the moral of the famous fable The Hare and the Tortoise. It was great to see and hear how confidently and maturely the children spoke to each other, using talking tips and talk tactics to aid their discussion.
Pantomime Success!, by Mrs Walters
Date: 10th Jan 2023 @ 11:09am
Congratulations to three of our fabulous upper site pupils who took part in the very successful Chrysanthemums' Pantomime at the Floral Pavilion last week.
Bethany (Year 5) Madison (Year 6) and Hollie (Year 5) were part of seven amazing performances of Red Riding Hood. Well done to them all!
