Year 1: St George's News items
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.
Year 1 - Animals Take over, by Miss Gough-Hughes
Date: 26th Apr 2023 @ 7:07pm
Year 1 have had a very exciting visit this week from Lindsay from Animals Take Over, who came into school with a range of different animals that she looks after. These animals included: a hedgehog, an owl, a tree frog, a leopard gecko, a bearded dragon, a snake, some mice and a chinchilla. The children were lucky enough to hold or stroke all of the animals if they wanted to and asked Lindsay lots of different questions to find out more. She taught the children lots of facts about the different animal groups (mammals, amphibians, reptiles, birds and fish), their body parts, how they eat/drink, how they live, how she cares for them at her house and what they need to survive. The children thoroughly enjoyed this visit and could recall some interesting facts they had learnt. Please look on Seesaw for lots of lovely photos of your child.
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.
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.
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
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!
Christmas lunch day, by Mrs Walters
Date: 16th Dec 2022 @ 12:32pm
Children and staff across school enjoyed a delicious Christmas lunch on Thursday thanks to our fabulous Catering Team!
The Return of the Christmas Fair!, by Mr Nathan
Date: 9th Dec 2022 @ 9:09pm
A lot has changed since St George's last Christmas Fair.
Covid was barely a word. Liverpool hadn't won their 20th league title yet. Australian soap, Neighbours, was still a thing.
A covering of snow meant that the Christmas Fair possessed that authentic winter feel. It was incredible to witness so many members of our community at the fair, enjoying the Christmas spirit by joining in games, activities, getting faces painted, listening to our wonderful choir, purchasing items from our numerous stalls and indulging in hot food and refreshments. We also had a visit from Santa and his elves - amazing!
A genuine and heartfelt thank you to our school community for attending our Christmas Fair. Much gratitude must be given for the efforts of our PTA, volunteers and school staff. They all contributed to ensuring that our first Christmas Fair for three years was an overwhelming success.
Year 1 and 2 Reading Ambassadors Visit Bear Hunt Books, by Mrs Horton
Date: 24th Nov 2022 @ 4:19pm
What a lovely afternoon year 1 and 2 reading ambassadors have had! Last week they had a meeting in their classes to discover which books the children like to read. They created a list of books to try and find at the book shop. It was great fun finding their books and they picked some extras up too. We also found some lovely Christmas story books for the children to enjoy over the Christmas period.
Michelle, from Bear Hunt Books, was very helpful. After the children had selected all of their books she made them a lovely cup of hot chocolate and read them a stroy.
The children loved taking their new books back to share with the children in school.
Science Fair in the news!, by Mrs Walters
Date: 15th Nov 2022 @ 10:09am
The super succcessful science fair has made it onto a few local websites recently.
Community news site - https://www.inyourarea.co.uk/news/wallasey-schools-join-together-in-science-fair-success/
Ogden Trust website - https://www.ogdentrust.com/about-us/news/super-science-fair/
News site - Wirral - https://newswirral.co.uk/st-georges-school-science-fair/
The Tiger Who Came to Tea, by Mrs Cameron-Ivanov
Date: 6th Nov 2022 @ 4:21pm
We have had a wonderful afternoon at the Floral Pavilion watching a brilliant performance of The Tiger Who Came to Tea, based on the book by Judith Kerr.
We love the story and it was magical to see it brought to life. We all joined in with different parts of the show, a song and even some tiger aerobics!
2022 Boys' Football Team Win Wirral Sports Team of the Year, by Mr Cassidy
Date: 14th Oct 2022 @ 2:54pm
They may have left St George's but the awards still keep on coming. Well done to the 2022 Year 6 boys’ football team who won the Wirral Sports Team of the Year award last night at Hulme Hall. What a prestigious achievement. Huge thank you to Mrs Gibson for supporting the boys and their families.
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Hello Yellow in Year 1, by Mrs Stewart
Date: 12th Oct 2022 @ 11:02am
On Monday Year 1 celebrated World Mental Health Day with the help of #helloyellow.
The children were invited to wear something yellow and we took part in different activities throughout the day to promote taking care of our own mental health and wellbeing. Here are some photos of our lovely day. There are more photographs on our Seesaw app.
Thank you for your kind donations to HelloYellow!
Sisters take on a steep challenge for charity, by Mrs Walters
Date: 11th Oct 2022 @ 3:58pm
Two of our amazing children have taken on a major challenge by running up one of the steepest hills in Wallasey 100 times to raise money for charity!
Penny and Lois Conroy have raised more than £450 so far by running up Portland Street and only have 15 runs left to make it to the 100 mark!
All the money raised is for a charity set up by a family friend with bowel cancer and they hope to hit their £500 target soon.
Their friend, Danny De Brabander was diagnosed with stage 4 Bowel Cancer but has set up a charity, Team DDB, to help other people with cancer and has raised almost £100,000.
If you would like to donate some money to their challenge you can visit their Crowdfunder website at:
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/penny-lois-100-hill-runs-up-portland-street
For more information about Team DDB and the remarkable work they carry out please visit Team.DDB on Facebook.
Foyle Foundation Funding Success!, by Mrs Taylor
Date: 29th Sep 2022 @ 12:34pm
Last week, we were fortunate enough to secure a £10,000 grant from the Foyle Foundation for new books for school. We are thrilled to have been selected and have already made big plans with some of our Reading Ambassadors as to how to spend it. These plans include new texts for class and unit libraries, trips to bookshops for our Reading Ambassadors and opportunities for outdoor reading spaces to enjoy at break and lunch times. Keep an eye out for our newest and most exciting texts over the next few months.
We would just like to emphasise our gratitude to the Foyle Foundation for this fantastic opportunity - it really will make a difference to our children.
Books of Condolence for the Royal Family, by Mrs Walters
Date: 28th Sep 2022 @ 1:33pm
Our children and staff have been working hard to create beautiful books of condolence in memory of Queen Elizabeth II.
Pupils from Foundation 1 to year 6 have written notes and drawn or coloured in pictures to add to the books.
These will now be sent to Buckingham Palace, in London, to be placed in the Royal Archives.
Below are pictures of the books and a small selection of the pieces inside.
St George's Receives a Royal Thank You!, by Mrs Walters
Date: 2nd Sep 2022 @ 11:22am
We were thrilled to receive a royal thank you letter this week!
The Queen's Lady in Waiting wrote from Balmoral Castle on behalf of Her Majesty to thank our pupils for sending letters to her for her Platinum Jubilee.
We also received a thank you card with photos of the Queen and a message from Buckingham Palace.
You can see the letter and pictures below.
Community Garden August Workshop, by Mrs Cameron-Ivanov
Date: 5th Aug 2022 @ 1:57pm
We have had a lovely morning working in our Will Allen Community Garden. Thankfully, the weather brightened up and we were able to complete plenty of jobs, including weeding, checking for signs of pests, picking and harvesting our fruit and veg, and the best bit, getting to sample what we had grown.
We enjoyed a delicious brunch, where we sampled some homemade stewed rhubarb, apple conserve and mixed berry compote, as well as strawberries and raspberries.
Our most successful crops this year have been rhubarb, apples, lettuce, parsley and green beans. All the families who joined us were able to take home what we had grown, and we can't wait to see what tasty meals they make with them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
