Subitising 3

Did you know…we can now subitise 3! This means, if we see 3 objects together, we no longer need to count them! We know there are 3 objects just by making links and noticing patterns.

Peer massage

Mrs Ritchie helped us use our massage skills that we have recently learned from Maria. We made sure to ask permission before we started 💆‍♀️

What is safe to go into my body?

Today, we talked about what is safe to go into our bodies. We know that food and drink are safe, but we must remember to ask adults first. We might think a bottle looks like it has juice, but we should check. We talked about how medicine is safe, but we should never take medicine without a grown up – only medicines that are meant to be for children are safe. We also had a go at opening a medicine bottle…but it was too tricky! The special lid is to keep us safe.

What is safe to go into my body?

Last week, we talked about what was safe to go onto our bodies such as sun cream, soap, plasters. Building on our learning, this week we talked about what is safe to go into our bodies. We talked about medicine and how this is only safe when it is given to us by a trusted grown up. We also looked at vitamins and at first, we thought they were sweets! Vitamins and medicines come in special bottles and tubs with lids that we can’t do to make sure we don’t have too much.

Year 6 – Anfield – Diversity Workshop

This afternoon pupils from Year 6 went to Anfield to attend a Diversity Awareness Workshop. They asked some super questions and demonstrated a really inclusive attitude – we were really proud of them.

Year 4 – Dogs Trust

Today we had an interesting session from the dogs trust. 🐕‍🦺🐩🦮 We learnt about how dogs use their senses and how to safely interact with dogs.

Year 6- Dogs Trust Assembly

Year 6 found the Dogs Trust assembly very beneficial, as it taught them how to approach a dog safely and what to do if an unknown dog approaches them.

Dogs Trust

Year 3 thoroughly enjoyed a workshop today with Dogs Trust. We learned how to correctly approach a dog and different ways to ensure we are safe around them.

Our link school in Qatar

We were so excited to meet the children in Flamingo class all the way in Qatar! We sang some songs, read a lovely story and made some new friends 🥰 see you again soon Flamingo friends 🦩

Year 5 – Global partnership

5M are creating newsletters for children in Year 5 at United School International in Doha. They are sharing information about life at Stockton Wood and life in Liverpool. We can’t wait to find out about life in Qatar.

Tubes + cars = FUN 🤩

We’ve made our own car tracks and tunnels with some tubes and boxes today! We balanced the tubes on the furniture and drove our cars down to see how fast they could go! We had to work as a team.

Big Cook, Little Cook

Have a look at our ingredients…what do you think is on the menu today? We had to listen really carefully to Mrs Sefton as she told us the steps of the recipe…

Wear you scarf to school day 🧣

Staying safe, indoors and outdoors

Last week, we talked about how we stay safe both indoors and outdoors. The children were fantastic – they knew straight away that we must follow rules to stay safe. The children were able to confidently talk about the rules we have in nursery to keep our classroom safe and happy, so we moved outside. We looked at the road, and talked about some of the dangers we might come across and how we can keep ourselves safe.

Stay and Learn

Thank you to all our families who joined us for stay and learn this morning! It was a huge success and the children really love welcoming their families into their classroom. We made our own dough, made some porridge and tasted it just like Goldilocks, cutting and sticking, and fine motor activities. The children really enjoyed it and we hope you did too 🥰

Stay and Learn

We have had a fantastic afternoon with our stay and learn! We enjoyed showing off our learning. Thank you to our families who helped us with our maths focus today!

Year One – Super Kind

We are so proud of our Year One Change Makers! Following our assembly last week these pupils have made posters encouraging people to recycle! #Super Kind

Valentine’s hugs

Today, we talked about how Valentine’s Day is all about love and friendship. We talked about all the people we love, and spoke about ways we can express our love to our family and friends. Lots of children suggested hugs, so that’s exactly what we did! How better to spread joy than to paint each other a picture, and give each other a cuddle…then our paintings will match! True friendship ❤️🥰

LGBT+ Awareness

As part of LGBT+ awareness week, we read a booked called ‘Introducing Teddy’. We discussed the story of gender and friendship. The children wrote letters to Tilly from Errol.

LGBTQ+ Week

5M are working hard with a partner to research famous LGBTQ activists. We will present our findings before planning and writing biographies.

Who helps us?

We have started a new PSHE unit : Rights and respect. We have been discussing how different people help us.

Visit to ‘the park’

We enjoyed visiting the new ‘park’ today! We conquered some fears (because crossing a wobbly bridge is much scarier than it looks sometimes!), and used our core muscles to help us keep our balance. We had 2 children who initially wouldn’t cross the bridge, but with some encouragement, they not only did it with help, but they then did it all by themselves! We create safe opportunities for children to take risk 🥰

Big cook, little cook

Today we made shortbread biscuits! We weighed the ingredients, and mixed them together. Once they were ready, we let them cool…but they didn’t last much longer than that! 😋

Year 2 collaboration

Wow! We had a fantastic collaborative story session with our new friends in Qatar!

Celebrating our families

This week in reception we have been discussing our families! We drew pictures of our families and made paper chains to celebrate! Using our fine motor skills we were able to glue and stick to make the chain.

Tasting pancakes

We tasted some pancakes and some toppings today! They were absolutely delicious 😋 happy Pancake Tuesday!

Pancake races!

We took turns to race with our pancakes to the gate and back! We cheered for our friends as they balanced the pancakes carefully. We dropped some, but that all adds to the fun 🤩

Pancake Day

Reception have been learning about Shrove Tuesday. To celebrate we made pancakes. Our toppings included: strawberries, lemon, sugar, syrup and cream.

World Book Day

We are dressed in beautiful colours today to celebrate World Book Day! We talked about all the colours we could see on our clothes – our carpet looked like a rainbow today 🌈 we read the Colour Monster book, and spotted the colours from the story on our clothes!

World Book Day 🌎📚

Reception had some special visitors this afternoon. Year 4 came down to read some of our favourite stories!

Science Week 👩🏻‍🔬👨🏽‍🔬🔬🧬

Reception enjoyed their butter this morning on crackers for snack!🧈

Dyslexia

This morning we had a really good discussion about dyslexia. We discussed how everyone’s brain works differently, and the strengths and struggles that come with this.

Neurodiversity Celebration Week

A huge thank you to Mr Boyd for hanging our neurodiversity umbrellas! Neurodiversity is an umbrella term used to refer to all of the different ways of thinking. This week the children are learning about Autism, Dyslexia, ADHD and Dyspraxia. Ask your child if they know any famous people who are neurodivergant!

Neurodiversity week

To celebrate Neurodiversity week, 4D have been learning about how we are all different from one another. We have been focusing on dyslexia, dyspraxia, ADHD and ASD.

We especially have been loving our colourful school.

PJ day for Alder Hay

Today we wore our PJs for Alder Hay hospital. We know how much they help us!

Spring has sprung!

Thursday (20th March) marked the first official day of Spring, and we cannot wait to spend more time in our beautiful garden. We celebrated the first day by planting some beautiful plants in our planter 🪴

Y6 Well-Being

We have been working so hard in Y6!

Ice lollies, or lolly ices? Well deserved down-time in the sunshine!

Year 6- Play Leaders

Year 6 Play Leaders have been enjoying their time with KS1 this week, creating safe and exciting games at break times.

Year 6 Well being time

Year 6 enjoyed time in the sun with ice lolly’s after working really hard with their revision before SATs.

Fire Champions at LFC

Yesterday year 5 had a wonderful time at LFC taking part in the fire champions programme. We learned a lot of valuable skills on how to stay state in our and community and at home.

Fire Champions Fun at Anfield

Year 5 learnt so much about staying safe in our community through fun activities, with the emergency services at Anfield! How exciting!
We are now officially Fire Champions ambassadors!

Year 6- SATs Well-being

Year 6 choose to watch part of a film for well-being today after working really hard revising. We are all so proud of you!

Year One – Big Friday Quiz

Wonderful retrieval of prior learning in our Big Friday Quiz today. Well done everyone! Our winning team scored full marks!

Working Hard in Y6

The children have worked so hard and they remain very positive about next week’s assessments. Ruby-Mae is a natural, born teacher and has been helping others during break time.

We have had Quiet Place massage and some reading time for our well-being. Jack and Carter chose to read the weekly newspapers for!

Mindful week

We started our mindful week with a good discussion. We also relaxed to some music with mindful colouring.

Well-being week

We are enjoying our well-being activities this week. Today, we sat in the cool shade to listen to our chosen story for the day. This was a wonderful idea from one of our children ❤️

Well-being yoga

We started our morning with some lovely yoga! It’s trickier than it looks!

SATs are completed!

We are unbelievably proud of our Year 6 children for absolutely smashing their Year 6 SATs this week! They have shown such maturity and resilience, but most of all, they have had fun! Well done Year 6!

Picnic

Year 4 came and shared their picnic with us! They worked very hard and reception enjoyed their food. Thank you Year 4!

Year 6 SATs Treat

Year 6 had a fantastic day at Old Trafford Cricket Ground celebrating all their hard work towards SATs. The day was filled with lots of activities and great laughs were had all round.

The Seashore

This week reception are exploring the sea and the seashore. We have explored different textures in our tuff tray. We used rice crispy for sand, jelly for the sea, rocks for rock pools and shells. Around our classroom there are lots of sea activities to explore!

PSHE ~ Communities

Today we had a good discussion about all the different communities we belong to. When then thought about the Stockton Wood school community and thought about all the different communities we people that help us.

First Aid

Sheila came to speak to both year 4 classes this afternoon about her role as a first aider. She discussed the training she has received and how she would deal with an emergency.

Transition

Today, we took advantage of our Reception classrooms being empty, and went over to have a little explore and a story in each of the rooms. Not all of our children will be moving up, but it’s lovely for all children to be involved in this ❤️

Dobbies Garden Centre

Reception had an amazing time at Dobbies Garden Centre. We made our own flowers and played in the soft play. We all have lettuce seeds, a pot and soil to take home to plant 🪴 . Thank you Dobbies and thank you to everyone who helped us to walk there!

Cricket Day!

5M had an excellent session of cricket this morning! There was an opportunity for us to practice our resilience skills too!

Watch out for information on how to join free cricket sessions at Austin Rawlinson.
Tuesday – girls and boys after school and Sunday – girls only!

Aspirations week – Travel agent!

Year 5 would really like to thank our lovely visitor for coming in to talk to us about his chosen career.
We learnt that as a travel agent, as well as enjoying travelling, you need to be good at listening, researching and managing money. You will also need to be good at interacting with other people, building trust and problem solving.

O said it was a very interesting presentation!

R said she would like to become a travel agent when she is older because he inspired her!

When I Grow Up

Reception were excited to show and talk about what they would like to be when they grow up! Throughout the day we heard about lots of different jobs and explained why we would like to do the jobs chosen.

When I grow up I’d like to be a …

Aspirations Week – A Life in Football

Years 3, 4 and 5 really enjoyed hearing Mr Jones talking about a range of different careers there are in Football. It was really interesting to hear about how hard he worked to be a professional footballer!

Aspirations Week

Big thank you to Harry for coming in and telling us all about his life as a fire fighter and at the prison service. We learnt so much about these fantastic jobs and his life.

Year 6 Residential

The children arrived in high spirits ready for the adventures over the next few days.

Year 6- Raft building

Year 6 had to work together to build a raft which would float and and travel 200m. Were they able to do it….

Year 6 Residential- Testing the rafts

The children took to the water in their rafts but some things didn’t go to plan…

Year 6 Residential- Dinner Time

Year 6 Residential- Campfire

We ended our first evening with a fantastic campfire, where we roasted marshmallows, sang songs and danced the night away!

Now I am grown up

This week reception have been exploring growing up. We have been thinking about how we have changed since we were babies. We have used crayons to draw a picture of ourselves as a baby and then as us grown up now!

Year 6 Residential- Tunnelling

Year 6 braved the tunnels this morning while adventuring underground.

Year 6 Residential- Jacob’s ladder

We challenged ourselves with heights today when taking on Jacob’s Ladder! The children were amazing!

Year 6 Residential- Jacob’s Ladder

Year 6 Residential- Archery

The children had to use their aiming skills to try and hit the bullseye when completing our archery activity!

Year 6 Residential- Evening Quiz

The children had to work together to solve questions where the answers were hidden around the mansion grounds.

2025 Residential Completed

The children were fantastic and the memories made will last a lifetime!

Year 6 Residential- Aerial Trek (Part 1)

The children had to test themselves when facing the heights of the aerial trek! They definitely conquered their fears! We were all so proud of you!

Year 6 Residential- Aerial Trek (Part 2)

We took to the heights and explored both layers of the Aerial Trek apparatus.

Art Week🎨

This week we are learning all about an artist called Paul Klee. We have learnt he uses shapes when painting his pictures. Today we made our own self portraits, we used an our maths knowledge of shapes to help us! We are true Artists🎨

Bike Right

Reception had fun learning to ride bikes safely. We used the safety helmets to keep ourselves safe. They had lots of fun playing different games when riding the bikes!

Reading for pleasure

Every Thursday, we bring our book bags into school and choose a new book to share with our family ❤️

Pirate Week

This week Reception are exploring pirates. Across our classroom are lots of pirate 🏴‍☠️ activities for us to explore such as; pirate colour by numbers, pirate tuff tray, pirate map making and pirate stories!

Imagine That!

Reception had an amazing time at imagine that! We made snow, slime and a fridge magnet. We had lots of fun exploring the science, art, imaginative and outdoor areas!

Visiting Reception again!

We crept through Reception classrooms to have a little explore of their outdoor environment on our own. We had lots of fun before our Reception friends came to join us 🥰

Welcome Reception!

Welcome to Reception. We are having lots of fun exploring our new classroom and making new friends.

Our first week !

We have had an amazing first week in reception. We have had lots of fun exploring our classroom and making lots of new friend’s. We are very excited for next week!

Welcome to Year 6

We have had a fantastic few days with our new Year 6 cohort! They were all very excited and are definitely rising to the challenge!

Reception R’s Class Motto

Today the children discussed what they want their class motto to be. The children said that they love to play with kind friends and we talked about how we can be a kind friend.
At the end we decided that our classes motto is going to be:

Always Be Kind

All the children agreed and signed the motto with their handprint 🖐️

PSHE

In reception, we have been exploring ourselves. In PSHE we shared our favourite things and why they are so important to us.

Friendship

This week reception have been exploring what makes a good friend. We said that; kind hands, kind words and kind actions are what make a great friend!
Today we have made a friendship potion where we’ve added: kindness, happiness and smiles to our potions 🧪.

Peace

Following on from our assembly theme of ‘Peace’, in our collective workshop time we have been creating posters about peace means to us.

Emotions Week!

This week reception have explored emotions. We have read lots of stories to help us understand different emotions including; The Colour Monster, The Worry Monster and The Worrysauras. The children have used a range of materials to create their very own Feeling Jars inspired by The Colour Monster!

PSHE-SCARF

In our PSHE SCARF lesson this week, we discussed the word ‘trust’. We thought about the people who we trust and why. We discussed our family and friends. Then we wrote and drew the five people that we trust!

Emotions Week

Reception explore The Worrysaurus by Rachel Bright this week. Using the story puppets and the story cards the children ordered the story and recreated the story in our small world.

Emotions Week- The Very Hungry Worry Monster

This week, Reception explored the text The Very Hungry Worry Monster by Rosie Greening. We discussed when and why we might feel worried. We also discussed what we can do if we feel worried and who we can talk to. Reception created their very own Worry Monster using cotton pads, pipettes and coloured water.

Making our own cereal snack!

We were so excited when we found out what our activity was…we could make our own cereal snack! We had to choose which cereal we wanted, and then scoop it into our bowl. We talked about what a full bowl might look like, and aimed to get our bowl about half full. We then had to carefully pour our milk…a couple of small spillages later and we were able to enjoy eating our cereal! We even got to wash our own dishes afterwards!

Obstacle course

Our obstacle course had a pattern today…up, down, up, down! Movements like this help to develop our core muscles and gross motor skills!

The colour of us

We read ‘The Colour of Us’ today as part of our PSHE lesson, which linked really well with our learning of Black History Month. We spent some time looking at our own face in the mirror and talking about what we could see. We talked about the ‘skin colour rainbow’ in the book and added our own hands to the rainbow. Did you know that every persons skin colour is unique to them?! That’s part of what makes us special 🥰

Black History Month

Today in Reception we explored how we are different and how we are the same! We looked at our hair colour, eye colour and skin colour. We discussed how even if we look different we are the same inside and we should always be kind to everyone!

Changing Feelings

In PSHE we have been discussing changing feelings. Sometimes this happens, but why? How do we feel about the change? We watched the trailer of the film ‘Wonder’ to discuss how some children’s feelings changed.

Hello Yellow Day – Year One

We have enjoyed a range mindful activities and sharing what makes us happy with each other.

PSHE – Feelings and Bodies

Today we talked about how our bodies and minds can be hurt and what we can do to help us feel better.

Hello Yellow!

On Friday, we enjoyed recognising Hello Yellow day and what it means. First, we made a link with our current maths learning of colour, so we went on a hunt to find things that are yellow! We enjoyed some lovely relaxation afterwards 🥰❤️

Making our own sandwiches

This week, we enjoyed building our own sandwiches! We talked about the health and hygiene aspect of handling food, and made sure we thoroughly washed our hands. We carefully spread the butter, then had to choose between chicken or cheese for our filling…and then our favourite bit…time to eat!

Learning what makes us special

Today, we read a story called ‘Hey you!’ by Dapo Adeola. This is a story about hope and dreams – we can dream anything, and we can be anything. It’s full of positive affirmations which we loved repeating. We talked about all the different attributes that make us special, including our skin colour. #blackhistorymonth

Road Safety/Black History Month

Did you know that traffic lights were invented by Garrett Morgan? Well, Nursery do! Today, we talked about how traffic lights help to keep us and drivers safe on our roads – J even said he is like a superhero for stopping cars from crashing as we talked about traffic lights giving cars each a turn to move safely. We had a talk about how to stay safe on roads when in a car, and how to cross the road safely.

Diwali – Rangoli Patterns

We have been learning about the festival of Diwali! The children independently made some of their own Rangoli patterns on the carpet using our magnetic shapes 🥰

Music

This week in Music, Reception explored following a beat. Using a range of different instruments they listened carefully and repeated the beat.

RE

In RE this week Reception have read the story of the Precious Pearl from the Bible. We discussed what Christians believe this story symbolises and why it is an important parable to Christians. We created a box to put our own precious things inside to keep safe. We used; card, scissors, glue and felt tip pens to create our boxes.

Yellow Day

Reception had fun on Yellow Day. We discussed our feelings and how we can help ourselves when we are feeling sad or upset. We created yellow paper chains to brighten up our space!

Scarf🧣

In our PSHE lesson, we drew special pictures for our friend Sam, to help make him feel happy. We had fabulous ideas and used lots of colours to create kind and cheerful drawings. Some of us drew rainbows, smiling faces, and hearts to show we care. We talked about how small acts of kindness can make a big difference. After we finished, we sent our pictures to Sam’s school so he could see them. We hope they make him smile!

Maths Party Day

Reception had lots of fun on maths party day 🥳. We explored lots of different maths activities that helped us with; patterns, numbers, counting and shapes!

Diwali

Reception have learnt all about Diwali- The Festival of Light! We have had lots of fun exploring different Diwali activities; we made our own diya lamps, paper chains, festival food and Rangoli patterns.

Reception Stay and Learn

Thank you for coming to our stay and learn! Reception had lots of fun showing their adults what they do in school!