Our Gallery
Year 4 Pierrot Self-Portraits, by Mrs Hover
Date: 22nd Oct 2016 @ 7:06pm
Year 4 have worked really hard over the last few weeks, learning about the proportions of the face and using observational drawing to focus on individual features of the face. They have learned more about self-portraiture, Pierrot and French artists who paint scenes from the circus.
PTA Chester themed bake sale, by Mrs Percival
Date: 21st Oct 2016 @ 4:38pm
Well done to everyone who took part in today's bake sale. I was really impressed with the ideas that you came up with and the cakes really did look amazing. Everyone else must have thought so too because there were none left at the end! Thanks especially to Mrs Evans and her gang for all of your hard work, as ever.
Mrs Percival
Year 2- Our wonderful city, by Mrs Harrison
Date: 20th Oct 2016 @ 8:05pm
We have had great fun this week learning all about our amazing city of Chester. We have worked on maps of Chester and for our History curriculum, have been finding out about some famous landmarks in Chester. Here we are making posters to tell everybody just why Chester is so great!
Active learning in FS2, by Mrs Bailey
Date: 19th Oct 2016 @ 2:41pm
Brook Street Lego Visit, by Mr Brown
Date: 18th Oct 2016 @ 10:46pm
Our KS2 classes were able to see the Brook Street Lego creation at first hand today.
Year 1 addition and subtraction heroes, by Mrs Harrison
Date: 14th Oct 2016 @ 4:10pm
Using their adding and subtracting skills, Year 1 became addition and subtraction heroes racing across the hall to solve a new problem. They worked really hard in their teams to solve the problems, then order them from the smallest to largest numbers.
Fantastic team work Year 1, Well done!
Year 1 & 2 Story Time!, by Mrs Harrison
Date: 9th Oct 2016 @ 10:03pm
Year 1 and 2 have had a very busy week writing some wonderful stories! Year 1 have been writing Goldilocks and the Three Bears and Year 2 have been writing the Bog Baby's story. What better way to end the week than to share our stories with each other. We had a lovely time reading our stories to a partner and giving 2 stars and a wish. The stories were fantastic and both Mrs Harrisons were very proud 😄
Antony Lishak Author Visit, by Mr Huddart
Date: 7th Oct 2016 @ 6:02pm
The children had such a great time!
Busy time in FS2, by Mrs Bailey
Date: 6th Oct 2016 @ 3:29pm
Y5 children working on an exciting writing project with Antony Lishak, by Mrs Bailey
Date: 6th Oct 2016 @ 11:38am
What gift will you use to ignite the world?
Our Year 5 children have enjoyed working with Antony Lishak today on an exciting writing project. Mr Lishak is an author who writes fiction, non-fiction and historical stories. He has given us some of the books that he has written - one called Stars about people risking their lives to save others. It took him 8 years to research this book.
We asked him some questions to find out a bit more about him.
Where do you do your writing?
He has a writing shed. Sometimes he writes on paper, sometimes on the computer, sometimes he plans it out in his head. He is always thinking about possible story opportunities.
Where do you get your inspiration for writing from?
From everyday life. He believes we all have the ability to create stories in our head and if we listen to our imagination we'll be amazed at what stories we'll find.
He loves starting the story in a way that makes the reader stop and react, feeling that they desperately want to read more.
Which of the books that you've written is your favourite?
Stars. His second favourite is Henry's Boots.
How many books have you written?
Well over 100 - although he's only had 30 pubished. His message is, don't give up! If you want to be an author, persevere.
How old were you when you wrote your first book?
6 years of age - according to his mother!
Mr Lishak introduced the project, encouraging us to develop our ideas on what is important to us and consider how we can improve our world in light of this. Over the next few weeks we will be writing about these ideas and once our written work is completed he will put our pieces into a book, along with work completed by other children in neighbouring schools.
Topical issues written about today included war, homelessness, hunger, animal cruelty, global warming and poor educational opportunities.
To find out more about Antony Lishak, please use the link below:
Meet the Sugar Detectives, by Miss Jones
Date: 5th Oct 2016 @ 5:06pm
Think Before You Drink!
Did you know that children should have no more than 24g of sugar per day?
Following our visit to Tesco last week, we decided to investigate just how much sugar there is in our favourite drinks. We read the nutritional information to find out the sugar content in grams. Then we weighed out the amount in real sugar. We were surprised by the amount of sugar in apple juice and fruit smoothies because we predicted they would be healthier. Did you know apple juice can have up to 11g of sugar per 100ml?
Here is what we found out: least to most amount of sugar per bottle
Water - 0g
Fanta - 17g
Fruit Smoothie - 26g
Coke - 27g
Chocolate Milk - 28g
Ribena - 29g
Vimto - 29g
Volvic Fruit Water - 31g
7up - 36g
Apple Juice - 44g
Lucozade - 48g
Can I cook and eat like a Stone Age man? , by Miss Jones
Date: 3rd Oct 2016 @ 8:37pm
We have been busy bees in year 3 this afternoon. As part of our topic, from Stone Age to Iron Age, we prepared and cooked stewed fruit with hazelnuts and honeycomb. We followed a Stone Age recipe; carefully measuring all of the ingredients before slowly stewing the fruit. Thank you to Mrs Hilsden for cooking with us. Tomorrow we will taste our creations and evaluate our finished product.
Thank you for supporting our Macmillan coffee afternoon, by Mrs Bailey
Date: 30th Sep 2016 @ 5:28pm
Thank you to everyone who supported our Macmillan coffee afternoon today by sending in cakes, and / or attending the afternoon and helping out on the day. It was lovely to see lots of families represented and it was great to catch up with so many of you. We raised £359.64.
Congratulations to Sam A in Year 6 for winning the lunch for 2 at Carluccio's Cheshire Oaks - a huge thank you to Mr Henshaw at Carluccio's for generously donating the prize.
Congratulations to Aidan C in Year 1 for winning the family ticket to Greenacres Animal Park and to Linda Curtis for winning the tickets for Deeside Ice Rink.
Prizes were given out at Merit Assembly on Monday.
Congratulations to Morgan in Year 6 for getting closest to the number of sprinkles on the cake - there were over 4500!
French in Year 6, by Mrs Bailey
Date: 30th Sep 2016 @ 9:38am
Today we enjoyed playing Jacques a dit to help us learn classroom instructions in French.
European Day of Languages, by Miss Jones
Date: 29th Sep 2016 @ 6:27pm
On Monday we celebrated European Languages Day. We are very lucky to have people in the class who can speak different languages. We learnt how to say hello/goodbye, tell someone our name and count to ten, in 4 different languages. Katie taught us in Slovakian, Zofia taught us in Polish, Lindsay taught us in French and Miss Jones taught us in Welsh.
Year 3 trip to Tesco, by Miss Jones
Date: 29th Sep 2016 @ 6:17pm
We all had a brilliant time on Tuesday, when we went to Tesco for the Farm to Fork Trail. Our guide was called Alan and he knew lots of foodie facts. We started off doing a fruit and vegetable hunt to explore different ways to get our 5 a day. We got to try lots of fresh fruit and vegetables straight from the shelves! We even tried raw broccoli! After that, we visited the sugar and cereal section to discuss just how much sugar we should be eating everyday. We also learnt how to read food labels to check the amount of sugar in our favourite breakfast cereals. At the end of the trail, we went into the warehouse to see behind the scenes at Tesco. This is where we made our own healthy, low sugar cereal.
The children's behaviour on the bus and in Tesco was absolutely fantastic so they were all awarded 'attitude of the day'.
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Life in Reception this week, by Mrs Bailey
Date: 29th Sep 2016 @ 5:34pm
Our children are settling in so well and showing increasing independence in the classroom.
Thank you to Alice for teaching us how to count to 10 in Italian this week.
European Day of Languages, by Mrs Hover
Date: 29th Sep 2016 @ 6:47am
On Monday 26th September, Year 4 spent the morning celebrating 'European Day of Languages'. Activities included using atlases to find the outline of different European countries and matching countries to their flags. In groups, the children researched either Scotland, Germany, Italy, Spain or Poland looking at capital cities, population, famous landmarks, food... creating an information board on their findings. They then presented their European countries to the rest of the class.
On Tuesday, the children thoroughly enjoyed learning some Polish from Franek. Franek taught us lots of words, read to us in Polish and shared some tongue twisters which were really funny!
Our Reception children have been enjoying exploring their new classroom , by Mrs Bailey
Date: 26th Sep 2016 @ 10:31am
Never smile at a crocodile..., by Mrs Harrison
Date: 23rd Sep 2016 @ 3:47pm
This week, Year 1 have had a cheeky visitor who clearly liked to eat the most objects or the bigger number. He was a very greedy Mr Croc!
During our art and computing lesson, Year 1 drew portraits of themselves with the biggest smiles they could show.
Year 3 Yoga, by Miss Jones
Date: 22nd Sep 2016 @ 4:24pm
Thank you to Becky for coming in and delivering a yoga taster session on Tuesday. The children loved learning some of the key moves in yoga, including the tree pose and good sitting. The children really enjoyed playing sneaky trees and ladybird relaxation. Miss Jones also learnt some great new games to try out in PE lessons!
Gardening in the Courtyard, by Mrs Bailey
Date: 21st Sep 2016 @ 3:44pm
Thank you to children in Year 1 for helping to plant some daffodil bulbs in the Courtyard this afternoon. We can't wait to see them in the spring.
Year 1 on an Autumn Walk, by Mrs Harrison
Date: 16th Sep 2016 @ 9:26pm
Year 1 have begun learning about the weather changes and signs of Autumn. We went on an Autumn walk to find out how many of these signs could be found in our school woods. The explorers managed to find most of the Autumn signs although they did notice that there were not many piles of leaves yet!
The class also enjoyed developing their ability to read numbers up to 100 whilst developing their turn taking and gamesmanship skills playing snakes and ladders. I wonder how many numbers they can read on signs, packaging and at home over the weekend?
First Week in Year 1, by Mrs Harrison
Date: 16th Sep 2016 @ 8:28pm
Year 2 Making Worry Dolls, by Mrs Harrison
Date: 16th Sep 2016 @ 2:08pm
This week we read the story Silly Billy by our 'Author of the Month' Anthony Brown.
Pin the story Billy's Grandma gives him some worry dolls from Guatemala to tell his worries to. We decided we could do with some worry dolls too, just in case we are ever worried :)
