Our St George's News items
#helloyellow, by Miss Berry
Date: 23rd Oct 2020 @ 3:01pm
On the 9th October Year 4 showed their support for World Mental Health Day by wearing yellow to brighten their day and donating money to brighten others’!
In class we talked about all the things we do in school to support our mental health and focused on the positive activities we can do when we need a boost. The children also participated in photo booths and designed posters, with the winner receiving a £5 Amazon gift voucher.
Year 4 become Scientists!, by Miss Lewis
Date: 23rd Oct 2020 @ 3:07pm
We have had a wonderful half term learning about teeth and our digestive system. We completed some great experiments.
For our first investigation we recreated the process of the digestive system by mashing up a banana sandwich. Please the photographs below for the rest of the journey.
We Also explored the functions of teeth and how we should look after them. For our investigation we looked at egg shells, representing the enamel on teeth and observed how different liquids affected the egg shell over two weeks. You’ll be amazed at the results!
Year 4 Harvest Celebrations, by Miss Lewis
Date: 23rd Oct 2020 @ 2:42pm
In Year 4 we had class discussions on what Harvest is and why we celebrate it. We then discusssed the time of year Harvest falls in and what reminds us of Autumn. Using water colours and oil pastels we painted leaves that the children drew and these are the wonderful images they created...
Year 4 Poetry, by Miss Lewis
Date: 23rd Oct 2020 @ 2:51pm
Earlier on in the term, we immersed ourselves in poetry. The children created fantastic poems titled 'Just a School'. Here are some wonderful examples...
Speed Bounce Competition, by Thomas
Date: 23rd Oct 2020 @ 3:01pm
Year 3 and 4 have been enthusiastically taking part in a 'Virtual Speed Bounce Competition'. To take part, the children had 30 seconds to jump over a hurdle as many times as possible.The children had three attempts to improve upon their personal best score, with their highest score being counted.
Within Years 3 and 4, the children were engaged and enthused through competition with their classmates, but also through competing virtually with other children from schools in the local area. Our scores have been submitted and we are eagerly awaiting the results!
Well done to everyone for taking part and to our individual winners!
Year 2 Autumn Poem, by Mrs Price
Date: 22nd Oct 2020 @ 5:03pm
Year 2 enjoyed performing their autumn poem. To celebrate Harvest each class wrote a verse in the style of 'The Sound Collector' poem. We performed it during our Harvest Assembly on Google Meet. Thank you to all the children who also brought in harvest donations for Claremount Church.
Hearty Harvest Festival Feast at Topsite!, by Miss Jones
Date: 22nd Oct 2020 @ 12:56pm
Every year, St. George's give their thanks to our farmers by celebrating Harvest Festival!
Today, Years 5 and 6 celebrated Harvest with an amazing themed lunch! Our fantastic catering team prepared a delicious Cowboy Pie, served with tri-colour mash, fruit kebabs and pumpkin-shaped biscuits. They also creatively displayed the scrumptious food, which made us all smile!
During Harvest, we also raise awareness to those less fortunate.
Food donations can still be handed in to St. George's Primary School.
As ever, we appreciate your generosity - especially during these tricky times. Thank you for your continued support, have a wonderful half-term!
Harvest celebrations, by Mrs Walters
Date: 22nd Oct 2020 @ 12:56pm
Thank you to everyone who has donated food items to our harvest appeal for Claremount Church Hub and Social Supermarket. We received so many items and are thrilled to be able to donate everything to such a worthwhile community hub.
The pictures below are just a small selection of the donations with some of our children.
Harvest Celebrations, by Mrs Roberts
Date: 22nd Oct 2020 @ 2:20pm
6D have had a brilliant few days of harvest celebrations. They have created some beautiful artwork using paints, oil pastels, fine liners and pens. They look fantastic. Some of our children then enjoyed a lovely harvest themed lunch too. What a great end to the half term!
Saying Thank You to Our Neighbours, by Cassidy
Date: 22nd Oct 2020 @ 6:51pm
Mr Cassidy and some of our Year 1 pupils went out to deliver thank you cards and boxes of fudge to our neighbours near lower site today. They delivered 36 parcels to our wonderful neighbours who have supported our road closure scheme to help us stay open and keep our community safe.
Thank-You!
Year 1 Harvest Festival Celebrations, by Mrs Horton
Date: 22nd Oct 2020 @ 10:07pm
Year 1 have celebrated Harvest by perfoming a poem called 'Feasts' by Shirley Hughes during our Google Meet Harvest Festival assembly. They have also filmed their performances and they can be seen by going to the year 1 page: https://www.stgeorges.wirral.sch.uk/class/year-1
Thank you to everyone that brought in donations for Claremount Church.
Celebrating Black History Month, by Cassidy
Date: 22nd Oct 2020 @ 6:45pm
Dear families,
We hope that you enjoyed our Black History Month artwork and messages that the children shared outside Claremount Road entrance at top site. Children have enjoyed learning about different aspects of black culture and inspirational black British figures.
Mrs Roberts also compiled this brilliant video below:
https://www.stgeorges.wirral.sch.uk/news/black-history-month-2020/57024
2C Outdoor Maths, by Mrs Malloy
Date: 19th Oct 2020 @ 3:41pm
Class 2C have had a wonderful time drawing number lines from 0 -100 on the playground using chalk. They were able to find where 50 would be and then mark on the multiples of 10. What fantastic number work 2C!
Google classroom log on help video, by Mrs Price
Date: 19th Oct 2020 @ 9:02pm
Here is a small video to help you log into Google Classrooms so that your child can access their learning on this platform. Any questions please email into the office, schooloffice@stgeorges.wirral.sch.uk , where your email will be sent to your child's class teacher.
Thank you
Speed Bounce Challenge, by Mr Knowles
Date: 16th Oct 2020 @ 8:51am
We have all been taking part in a Speed Bounce Challenge in year 5 and 6 over the last few weeks. All the children have bounced and have had a great, but tiring, time while trying to set their personal best score. Here is a little video that shows the children in action. Can you spot anyone you know? Well Done Year 5 and 6!!
Black History Month 2020, by Mrs Roberts
Date: 15th Oct 2020 @ 8:39pm
This week, Years 5 and 6 have been very busy celebrating Black History Month in school. We have made some fantastic artwork, looked at different African landscapes, recited traditional African poetry and enjoyed a talk from our very own Mr Nathan. We are going to be displaying all our work on the school gates from tomorrow onwards, and we can't wait for you to see it!
Year 6 Podcasting, by Mrs Taylor
Date: 4th Nov 2020 @ 3:56pm
Year 6 had a fantastic morning of podcasting with Hi-Impact. They created audio presentations linked to Black History Month, recorded their scripts and then edited them using GarageBand. All children have uploaded these to Google Classrooms for you to listen to. Have a listen to their final pieces - we think they are great!
Google classrooms Year3,4,5 and 6, by Mrs Price
Date: 13th Oct 2020 @ 9:16pm
Google classroom in Years 3,4,5 and 6
This a platform for teacher, pupil and parents/career engagement and a place to store their fantastic work. Children will have begun using this in school and the use of it is begin developed each week.
Teachers empower students to create, reflect, share and collaborate on work. Students show what they know or work they have completed using a variety of programs.
School email addresses and passwords have been sent home already. The link below will take you to the computing page to explain more about google in the video at the bottom of the page
https://www.stgeorges.wirral.sch.uk/page/computing-curriculum/39445
Any questions please email into the school office and it will forwarded to your child's class teacher.
Thank you
Mrs Price.
Computing Lead
Seesaw Year 1 and 2, by Mrs Price
Date: 13th Oct 2020 @ 4:21pm
Seesaw Learning in Year 1 & 2
Seesaw is a platform for teacher, pupil and parents/career engagement, that inspires students to do their best. Students can use creative tools to take pictures, draw, record videos and more to capture learning in a portfolio.
Teachers empower students to create, reflect, share, and collaborate. Students show what they know or work they have completed using photos, videos, drawings, text, PDFs, and links. It is straightforward to get student work in one place and share with parents/carers, and nothing is shared without teacher approval.
Year 2 have been using this in school for the past few weeks and are very much enjoying sharing their work from home and school. Year 2 codes have already been sent home.
Year 1 are beginning to use it this week in school. Year 1 codes will be sent out Friday 16th October.
Click the link here for a general video introducing Seesaw
Miss Gough-Hughes and Mrs Cameron-Ivanov have demonstrated how to log in and what Seesaw looks like in our school.
Any questions please email into the school office and it will forwarded to your child's class teacher.
Thank you
Mrs Price.
Computing Lead
Year 5 and 6 celebrate #HelloYellow, by Mrs Bowden-Pickstock
Date: 9th Oct 2020 @ 2:26pm
Today, across top site, we have been taking part in #HelloYellow in honour of World Mental Health Day tomorrow. We have discussed different strategies we can use to support and maintain positive mental health and shared ideas across our classes.
Take a look at our photos and fantastic yellow outfits!
2D #HelloYellow, by Mrs Cameron-Ivanov
Date: 9th Oct 2020 @ 3:38pm
Today we all wore something yellow to recognise and raise awareness of World Mental Health Day.
We discussed what mental health is, and how we can help to look after our own mental health, and support our friends with their mental health. We have also been exploring how we can use Zumos to help us share our worries, celebrate what makes us happy and how to use breathing skills to keep us calm.
We hope you like our #HelloYellow photos!
2C #helloyellow, by Mrs Price
Date: 12th Oct 2020 @ 10:47pm
On Friday we all wore something yellow to recognise and raise awareness of World Mental Health Day.
We discussed what mental health is, and how we can help to look after our own mental health, and support our friends with their mental health. We have also been exploring how we can use Zumos to help us share our worries, celebrate what makes us happy and how to use breathing skills to keep us calm.
We hope you like our #HelloYellow photos!
Dragon Club Opening & Closing Times, by Mr Smith
Date: 2nd Oct 2020 @ 8:51pm
Hello
We would like to inform you of changes to our opening and closing times across all our pods. Breakfast Club will now start at 7:30am for all year groups and close at 5:40pm across them all also. This will be in effect from Monday 5th October.
Holiday Club Notice
Can we just note that you no longer need to book holiday club in blocks and you can book separate days when required. Holiday Club bookings are still open and will close 9AM on Sunday 25th October.
Have a lovely weekend, Stay safe.
DC
St George's pupils hit the headlines with spitfire mural, by Mrs Walters
Date: 1st Oct 2020 @ 8:23am
Two of our pupils have been photographed in the Liverpool Echo with the fabulous spitfire mural, which has been painted on the RAFA Club wall opposite lower site.
The photograph and article, which features year 3 pupils Billy and Toby, appeared in the Echo this week.
To view the online article click on the link below:
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/spitfire-mural-a-welcome-splash-19024621
Year 3 Homework, by Miss Mulheirn
Date: 24th Sep 2020 @ 10:06am
Dear Parents/Carers,
We wanted to clarify a few things regarding the new homework system. All homework tasks will be set on Google Classroom. This enables children, parents and teachers to share comments about the tasks. We are aiming to minimise movement of belongings between home and school as much as possible. Therefore, both the spelling and maths books will stay at home. We will ask for these to be brought in once every half term and we will communicate this nearer the time.
We would like children to complete:
Maths - An activity from their maths homework book will be set weekly. The activity will be put on Google Classroom and ideas of how to extend and support will be on there too. Children can use their maths homework jotters to record, and we ask parents to initial and date the task once completed. There is also space at the back of the booklet for weekly comments. TTRockstars is available for the children to use at their leisure.
Reading - The children will bring home a reading book on a Friday and need to return it again on a Monday along with their yellow reading log. They record in their reading log what they have read - they do not need to log on to Accelerated Reader at home.
Spelling - The weekly spellings will be set on Spelling Shed. The children can practise their spellings on Spelling Shed, as well as choosing one activity from the spelling menu to complete in their orange books.
Any other apps or websites the children have access at school can be used as often as they choose.
We have sent step-by-step guides on how to use Google Classroom and Spelling Shed via email. The guide is also attached as a document at the bottom of this post. Please do let us know if you have any other questions.
Thank you for your continued support,
The Year 3 Team