Final TTRS Points Challenge!, by Mrs Saunders

Date: 13th Nov 2020 @ 4:35pm

A big well done to all the children in Class 4B who managed a last 15 minute challenge to try and achieve more that 10,000 points in the Maths England Week Competion. 

Maths Week in 3A, by Mrs Kisby

Date: 13th Nov 2020 @ 4:18pm

Maths Week 2020

3A have had a fantastic week celebrating maths.

Every morning we have been writing fantastic mathematical facts about ourselves and have created some brilliant Figure Me Out fact posters using a range of different calculations. We have also been learning about all the different ways we can pay for things and took part in some role play videos. The children also enjoyed sharing why they enjoy maths lessons.

In class we have taken part in The TT Rockstars challenges and have enjoyed writing on the tables to show our understanding of number lines. A fantastic week of learning, well done 3A.

Year 3 Maths Week England - Figure Me Out, by Miss Mulheirn

Date: 13th Nov 2020 @ 4:05pm

Year  3 - Figure Me Out

Here are a few fabulous ‘Figure Me Out’ posters in which Year 3 answered various questions about themselves using calculations! 

2B - Maths Week 2020, by Miss Gough-Hughes

Date: 13th Nov 2020 @ 4:41pm

Maths Week England 

This week, the children have been participating in Maths Week England! They have enjoyed completing various activities linked to Maths and taking part in this exciting week. We have learnt about symmetry and shown our understanding by completing the other half of shapes and images. Additionally, we have started learning about money and how to keep track of it e.g. by saving money up over time. We learnt about how we get money into the bank, in order to use it to buy the things we want. The children enjoyed playing with the money, using different coins to make a value in order to purchase items from our pretend shop. All children thoroughly enjoyed this week and participated with great enthusiasm. Well done 2B! 

Year 4 Maths Week England, by Miss Lewis

Date: 13th Nov 2020 @ 2:18pm

This week in Year 4 we have celebrated Maths Week England. We have participated in the TT Rockstars competition, with many children beating their high scores! In PSHE we have completed our money sense lesson. Our focus has been the difference between needs and wants. We have also explored maths in the real world. We are extremely proud of everyone and their participation with MWE! 

Year 5 Haka, by Mr Knowles

Date: 13th Nov 2020 @ 9:07am

PE Update!!

This half term in year 5 we have moved onto some work with dance and movement. The dance that we have chosen is the Haka. All the children in year 5 have been doing an amazing job learning the new movements and getting into the role of Maori warriors and New Zealand Rugby stars. We can't wait to share our dances in a couple of weeks time after a bit more practice.

I have loved hearing the news that some of our year 5 children have been sharing the Haka with people at home too!

Keep yours eyes peeled for our intimidating, powerful and explosive Hakas in the new few weeks!

Year 6 Dance, by Mr Knowles

Date: 13th Nov 2020 @ 9:38am

PE Update!!

In Year 6, we have been developing, practicing and creating some dance routines in PE linked to the theme of African Dance. We tried this out during the recent Black History Month celebrations and really enjoyed it. We have been taking part in some tutorials which helped us to gather our ideas and over the next few weeks we will be creating our own pieces which we can't wait to share when we are finished!

Watch this space...

Celebrating Diwali in 6A, by Miss Jones

Date: 13th Nov 2020 @ 3:33pm

Every year, this fantastic 6A pupil celebrates Diwali with her family. This year, she has created the most wonderful presentation to educate us about this world-famous Festival of Lights! She also brought in a selection of beautiful diva lamps, which are brightly-decorated oil lamps traditionally used to symbolise how the North Indians guided Rama back to the city from exile.

She was extremely brave to present her PowerPoint to 6A whilst being recorded. Below, you can hear her talk all about Diwali, and see the intricately detailed diva lamps.

"To me, Diwali means celebrating good over evil. It means celebrating the victory of Krishna over Narakasura. I find that story really interesting. North Indians celebrate it to emphasise Rama and Sita's return to Ayodhya, and that story is in Ramayana - a Hindu epic."

After her presentation, the rest of the class asked questions surrounding the festival! We then looked at some of Mrs Taylor's pictures from when she celebrated Diwali in India last year! 

Thank you so much for telling us all about Diwali! We hope you have a special time celebrating with your family tomorrow.

Scroll to the bottom of the page to watch the story of Diwali: 

Maths Week England 2020, by Miss Hughes

Date: 13th Nov 2020 @ 3:35pm

This week Year 5 have been taking part in Maths Week England live lessons as well as learning how to manage our personal finance. We have particualrly liked learning about influences on spending money and how to spot online scammers. 

We hope you enjoy the persuasive role playing videos talking about whether you should spend or save your money, as well as our helpful advice on how to be safe when spending money online. 

Year 5 x

Year 2 VR, by Mrs Price

Date: 13th Nov 2020 @ 4:57pm

We had a fabulous time using the VR headsets to explore the forest. This helped us generate ideas and use lots of exciting vocabulary

3D Maths Week England, by Miss Mulheirn

Date: 13th Nov 2020 @ 10:34am

We have had a fabulous time celebrating maths during Maths Week England. We have been focusing on how to explain our ideas using mathematical language, concrete objects, drawings and calculations. Here are a few videos from our lessons this week!

Year 3 - Personal Finance, by Miss Mulheirn

Date: 12th Nov 2020 @ 6:48pm

Year 3 - Personal Finance

The Year 3 children loved their personal finance lesson this week! Personal finance education is new to our curriculum this year and we are really excited to help our pupils become money savvy. This week's lesson was about the different ways to pay for things, such as cash, debit cards, credit cards, internet banking and cheques.

The pupils have been researching the various payment types and identifying their advantages and disadvantages. Over the next few days, the children are going to become bankers and will try to sell a particular payment type to their customers.

Watch this space!

3C become archaeologists, by Miss Cummings

Date: 12th Nov 2020 @ 4:06pm

3C had a very exciting History lesson today using their historical investigation skills to determine what food was like in the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age. They completed this by dissecting historical poo (thankfully not real) and deciding which items of food would have been eaten in which period of time. What a fun but slightly smelly lesson we had! 

Maths Week 2020, by Miss Reil

Date: 12th Nov 2020 @ 9:49am

Throughout the week, we have been taking part in our TT Rockstars challenge. 

Family Maths Scavenger Hunt - Saturday 14th November, by Miss Mulheirn

Date: 12th Nov 2020 @ 12:10pm

Maths Week England - Year 3, by Miss Mulheirn

Date: 12th Nov 2020 @ 1:08pm

Year 3 - Figure Me Out!

As part of Maths Week England, the children have been creating exciting, unique and challenging calculations that give answers to questions about themselves! They have done a brilliant job at applying all of the mathematical concepts they have learnt so far in Year 3.

They will use this information to create a 'Figure Me Out' poster on Friday.

Here are a few examples of questions the children have been answering through maths!

What is my shoe size?

How old am I?

How many children are in my class?

We can't wait to share the finished posters with you all at the end of the week!

2D Outdoor Learning Maths Week England, by Mrs Cameron-Ivanov

Date: 12th Nov 2020 @ 2:50pm

For Maths Week England, we have been investigating symmetry. During our outdoor learning session, we made lots of fantastic symetrical patterns using the nature around us. Maybe you could try making some over the weekend?

Here are some of our wonderful examples. 

6B Maths Week England, by Mrs Palmi

Date: 12th Nov 2020 @ 8:38pm

We have had a brilliant time during Maths Weeek England.  We got involved in the Nrich live lesson and had great fun playing the factors and multiples game against each other.  We have developed some excellent strategies to help us win when we play this game at home for homelearning.  We were also challenged to make the longest chain possible... I wonder if anyone can beat 37 (our highest score so far)?

We also completed our first personal finance lesson of the year.  We learned all about different currencies from around the world and how we can find out how much things cost in other countries. It was especially interesting to find out about the currencies of South America, which is the country we are studying in geography this half-term.

Finally, we have been super competitve when playing in the TTrockstars Maths Week England 2020 competition.  Our hardwork has been rewarded with first place on the leaderboard so far. Fantastic!

Maths Wizards, by Cassidy

Date: 12th Nov 2020 @ 10:21am

Well done to our 12 children who participated in the West Kirby Grammar School 'Maths Challenge' this month.  Challenge is designed by a group of A Level students.  Our children's excellence was celebrated with 100% certificates and awards for creativity and reasoning   Special well done to Isla Cassidy in Year 5 who won the overall competition. 

Maths Week England - Foundation 2, by Miss Mulheirn

Date: 11th Nov 2020 @ 8:03pm

 This week is Maths Week England, so the children in Foundation 2 have been doing lots of fantastic maths. We have been reading the book 'The Elves and the Shoemaker' and we made the Shoemaker's house using different shapes. What fantastic shape art! 
 

6C Autumn Artwork, by Mrs Coleman

Date: 11th Nov 2020 @ 11:15pm

6C used only natural resources to create these temporary autumn sculptures. They were inspired by shapes seen in nature after studying the work of Andy Goldsworthy.

Remembrance Service at RAFA Club, by Mrs Walters

Date: 11th Nov 2020 @ 12:53pm

Year 4 pupils were honoured to be invited to mark Remembrance Day at the RAFA Club.

Members have had a memorial built at the back of the club this year and invited pupils to lay a wreath after the two minutes silence at 11am.

Families are welcome to visit the memorial with their children.

Lest We Forget, by Mr Nathan

Date: 13th Nov 2020 @ 8:29pm

St George's observed an emotional and poignant two minute silence, remembering those who sacrificed their lives to enable us to lead the lives that we do today. Children, who belong to groups such as Brownies and Scouts, paid tribute to the fallen in their traditional uniforms. Lest we forget.

6A Maths Week England nRich Webinar, by Mrs Taylor

Date: 10th Nov 2020 @ 10:47am

6A had great fun today exploring factors and multiples with nRich. We used a game from the website, which can be played at home following this link: https://nrich.maths.org/factorsandmultiples.

Children can submit their answers until Sunday 15th November.

2C Maths Week Symmetry Patterns Outdoors, by Mrs Malloy

Date: 10th Nov 2020 @ 3:53pm

This afternoon 2C went outside and made symmetrical patterns using objects found in the Centenary Garden.  They used a piece of string as their mirror line and had lots of fun finding similar leaves, twigs, stones and fruit to make their patterns.  What great team work too 2C!  Well done.