Whole School Chatter
Y2 computing
Today 2D have worked with Mr. Moffatt to use Scratch Jr to make our characters talk, and even tell jokes!
Year 3 Computing
3McK have been using the Makecode Editor on the Micro:bit website 👨🏼💻👩🏽💻 They looked at the similarities and differences between Madecode Editor and Scratch!
Year 3 Music
🎶Today 3McK had Music with Mr Wheatcroft. We continued practicing our recorders and learned the notes B A G 🎶
Nursery Places – April Intake
Is your child turning 3 soon? We only have 1 place available in our morning session! Please visit our school office for more information ☺️
Save the date!
This years Summer Fair will be held on Saturday 17th May 11:00am-2:00pm. More information to follow!
5M – Important Reminder!
We’ve temporarily moved classrooms for the week!
New Location: KS2 intervention room
Date: 24/01/25
Thank you for your understanding and flexibility!
Miss Martin
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Year 1 Big Friday Quiz
Great teamwork today in class to retrieve lots of prior learning. Well done everyone!
Reception, Chinese New Year
This week we have started learning all about Chinese New year ! Today we have made our own Chinese dragons, ready for a parade.
Superkind
Awarded Superkind Change-maker certificates today for their heart-felt posters to raise awareness of World hunger.
Well done girls!
Chinese New Year
This morning, we have started our Chinese New Year Celebrations! We talked about all the special things that are done during this festival, and we found out the red is a special colour: it brings good luck! We used our fine motor skills to thread gold ribbon through our own red envelope and added a special coin 😋
Year One – Milo’s Money
Super sharing of ideas from Year One to answer key question number 3 – What can we use our money for?
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.
Parent Craft Session
Love is in the air! Come along and make a tealight candle holder with us:
The session will be at 2pm Thursday 13th February.
You can book on via Arbor and the cost is £2.
Refreshments will be provided.
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Year 6 DT- Making pizza
6B planned and created their own pizzas, using skills such as kneading, chopping and mixing.
People who help us🚒
This week we have been learning about people who help us, “Real life superhero’s!” 🦸♀️We visited the local fire station and had lots of fun learning all about the role of firefighters 🚒.
Kapla Blocks !
This week for DT Week, we used the Kapla Blocks to build the fire station which we had visited. 🚒
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
Everton in the Community
Laura came to remind us about the football sessions that they offer at Austin Rawlinson on Mondays, free of charge.
5pm – 6 pm mixed gender.
6pm -7pm girls only.
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Winter Planting
Today in science we planted some seeds, we are very excited to watch them grow. Today we looked at the words: flower, stem, leaf and roots.
Lean on Me 5H
5H have been enjoying learning Lean on Me by Bill Withers during our singing lessons.
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 🥰
Year 2 Partnership week
We have partnered with a school from Doha and will continue to link up with them. This time we read stories to each other’s class and will review them for one another.
Year 2 Computing
This half term we are working with Mr Moffat to show how computers show data and information. This week we made pictograms of the classes favourite fruits.
Year 2 PE
This half term we are learning Net and Wall games skills like tennis and volleyball. We learnt that even when the ball is not in our possession we need to be ready to receive it and need to protect our space.
Year 2 English
We have received another top secret book! We made predictions on what we think the book will be about.
3M MFL
3M started their new French topic today – Les Fruites. We learned the French name for some common fruits.
PE- Gymnastics
During our PE lesson today we were learning how to move our bodies in different ways. We had to create different letters using our body such as ‘L,I,S,V,O’.
Boccia
These week we had a group of Key Stage 2 children take part in a Boccia competition.
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Forest fun
We’ve explored our forest this morning! We played hide and seek behind the trees! We had to be careful not to trip!
Pancake Day
Reception have been learning about Shrove Tuesday. To celebrate we made pancakes. Our toppings included: strawberries, lemon, sugar, syrup and cream.
Year One – RE
We have been retelling the story of Palm Sunday and talking about why it is important to Christians. Look at our lovely Palm leaves.
Y2 Science Week
Today we worked with Mr Moffatt to explore Indi robots and how they move- we worked out how to use the base boards to make it move in different directions.
Science Week
We enjoyed having Knowsley Safari in this week to teach us about the dangers of plastic for animals
Neurodiversity Celebration Week
17th – 23rd March 2025
Next week children from Year 1 to Year 6 will be taking part in activities focussing on the celebration of neurodiversity. The children will learn about Autism, Dyslexia, ADHD and Dyspraxia, as well as other diversities. Your child may come home from school with questions and facts as we celebrate all of the positive aspect of being Neurodivergent! If you have any questions please speak to your child’s class teacher or Mrs Kent (SENCo).
Parents Get Involved in Neurodiversity Week.
Below is a list of workshops available to parents during Neurodiversity Celebration Week. Simply click on the workshop your would like to attend to register. You will be able to access the workshops via your mobile phone, tablet or computer. If you need help speak to Mrs Kent (SENCo)
https://www.neurodiversityweek.com/_files/ugd/46eb70_e3ce426f85ca411ebf75ef1d9ce61b10.pdf
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Science week
We are enjoying celebrating Science week! We’ve learnt lots of new things…did you know, if you put double cream into a pot and shake, shake, shake and shake some more…it turns into butter!!! We each made our own butter, then spread it on to some crackers to enjoy for snack. Isn’t science amazing 🤩
Science Week, Day 3.
Today we have had lots of fun doing a science experiment about the weather. We have learnt about the rain and got to be scientists and experiment it all on our own.
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!
Year 6- PJ day raising money for Alder Hey Hospital
The Year 6 children loved coming to school today in their Pyjamas to help raise money for our chosen charity- Alder Hey Children’s Hospital.
