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History, Y4

Y4 History Trip the GMP Museum

4th July 2022

Year 4 enjoyed a trip to the GMP Museum on Friday, where they were able to extend their learning of crime and punishment, which is the topic that they are focussing on in History. At the museum, through looking at historical documents and photographs, we were introduced to Owen, a real Victorian thief and followed him through the charge office,...
History, Y4

Y4 History – Crime and Punishment

30th June 2022

In History, Year 4 have continued to look at crime and punishment. In class this week we learnt all about what this looked like during the Tudor period. The children found out lots about common crimes that were committed during this time and enjoyed learning about some of the gruesome punishments that criminals received! They then compared this to...
English, History, Maths, Y1, Y3

Year 3 Hard at work...

11th May 2020

Year 3 continue to lead the way with their exceptionally hard work. Raymond has been working hard learning about the parts of a plant and keeping up with his RE work; at home Connor has been concentrating really hard and produced some brilliant work; whilst Fern has written a wonderful poem about walking in the PE district; Logan and...
History, Y4

VE day poem

11th May 2020

Year 4 have put together a wonderful video to celebrate VE day last Friday. The children performed the poem VE Day by Angel Barrow. It was beautifully read and put together and was an excellent tribute. Well done to all involved. All the staff at school are very impressed with your efforts and are very proud of you all. Video...
All Pupils, History

Anne Frank's diary

5th May 2020

Anne Frank's diary has been the topic for Isabella. She has put a lot of time and effort into creating a very detailed timeline of Anne Frank. She has also researched her life and read parts of her famous diary and wrote about her life. Very detailed and interesting work.
All Pupils, English, History

VE Day celebration

5th May 2020

Jessica and Mollie have been hard at work learning about WW2. To help celebrate the girls decided to organise a 'Stay At Home Street Party' to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the end of the war. They wrote a letter and posted to their neighbours to encourage them to remember our heroes. they even had a...
Art, History, Science, Y1

Year 1 have been very busy...

4th May 2020

Some more brilliant home learning this time from the children in year 1. They have been finding out Eugenie Clark and the fascinating underwater creatures, producing magnificent artwork in the style of Kadinsky, finding out about old toys by asking Grandparents what they used to play with in the 1960s and getting well under researching everybody's favourite food for their...
Curriculum, English, History, Science, Y1, Y4

Brilliant Home Learning

1st May 2020

Isabella and Jasmine continue to be busy keeping up with their home learning. Isabella has produced a fantastic report all about St. George, whilst Jasmine has been finding out where our food comes from. Well done girls and keep up the hard work.
Art, Curriculum, Design & Technology, English, History, Maths, Y5

Year 5 Home Learning

1st May 2020

Children from year 5 have been hard at work this on their home learning. Matteo has again been hard at work on his maths, English and keeping up with his times tables. Beth has produced some fantastic art work in the style of impressionist artist Monet. Finally, Amelie has made a model of a Mayan god along with a...
History, Science, Y3

Heiroglyphics and Garden Grow

28th April 2020

More fantastic work from year 3 who have been investigating and drawing how your garden grows and writing in heiroglyphics and drawing maps of Egypt. Mrs Farrell is so impressed with your brilliant work and enthusiasm. Keep it up.
Curriculum, English, History, Science, Y1, Y3, Y4

Plants, seeds and St. George

27th April 2020

More brilliant examples of home-learning from the children of St. Mary's who are getting thoroughly involved with the work set on the school website. From planting and observing seeds, looking at the differences between leaves and also finding out about our patron saint to celebrate St. George's day. Fantastic work by all of you. Keep it up and keep...
Curriculum, History

Free tours of Egyptian tombs

23rd April 2020

Sites from around Egypt are offering free tours of the the Egyptian Tombs where a range of Pharoahs were buried. This may be especially useful to year 3. Follow the link below have a look. Virtual Tours of Egyptian tombs
Art, Computing, Curriculum, Curriculum Overviews, Design & Technology, English, Enrichment, Geography, History, Maths, Music, PE, PSHE, RE, Science

Being creative in a range of subjects

25th March 2020

Chatterpack; A huge list of free resources and websites, including mental health support; https://chatterpack.net/blogs/blog/list-of-online-resources-for-anyone-who-is-isolated-at-home Powerpoint which includes lots of useful resources for parents to use at home Seneca; https://www.senecalearning.com/ BBC Bitesize; http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize
All Pupils, Art, Computing, Curriculum, Curriculum Overviews, Design & Technology, English, Enrichment, Geography, History, Maths, Music, PE, PSHE, RE, Science

Free education subscriptions

25th March 2020

Below is an entire list of websites offering free subscriptions due to the school closure 2Simple AdmitHub ABCMouse/Adventure Academy ALBERT Alchemie American Chemistry Society Backpack Sciences Boardmaker BookCreator App BrainPop Breakout Edu Buncee Century CheckMath CircleTime Fun CiscoWebex CK-12 Foundation ClassDojo Classroom Secrets ClassHook Classtime CMU CS Academy CommonLit Conjugemos Coursera for Campus Curriki Deck. Toys DeltaMath Discovery Ed Dyslexia Academy Ecoballot EdConnect Edmodo EdPuzzle Education Perfect Eduflow Edulastic Edu-Together Elementari Emile Epraise Epic! EverFi Explain Everything Fiveable Flipgrid Fluency Matters Freckle Free Math Gamilab Genially GoGuardian Good2Learn Google For Edu Gynzy Hapara Hawkes Learning HippoCampus Ideas Roadshow IDEA InThinking i-Ready Izzit.org Kahoot Kami KET’s PBS Learning Media Khan Academy Kids Discover Online Kognity LabsLand Learning Apps Libby App ListenWise Manga High Microsoft Education Minecraft: Education Edition MobyMax Mozi MusicFirst Mystery Science NearPod Newsela Nimbus Capture Outschool Otus Packback Parlay Pear Deck PebbleGo By Capstone Peergrade PenPal Prodigy Pronto Rockalingua Salesforce ScienceWerkz Schoology ScreenCastify Seesaw Seneca Seterra Geography Scholastic Shmoop Sight Reading Suite SmartMusic StoryBoard Tailor-ED TechSmith Tes...
Curriculum, English, Enrichment, History, Y5

Year 5 Bronte Museum

28th February 2020

Year 5 enjoyed an eventful day at the Bronte Museum, Haworth. After an eventful journey the children finally arrived ready to undertake their day. However, due to the adverse weather conditions their moorland walk had to be cancelled. The children did not let this dampen their spirits though. They had the opportunity to look around the Bronte Museum and...
Art, History, Y2

Year 2: The Lowry Art Gallery School Trip

27th February 2020

This week Year Two went to The Lowry Art Gallery. The children particularly enjoyed a special workshop where they studied the famous LS Lowry painting - Going to the Match. They then used Lowry's techniques when drawing buildings and produced some fantastic pieces of Art work! The children also had an opportunity to look around the Art Gallery and...
Enrichment, Fundraising, History, News, RE

Shrove Tuesday - St Joseph's Penny

25th February 2020

As part of our charity work to support the 'St Joseph's Penny' appeal, we decided to sell pancakes at break time as a way to celebrate Shrove Tuesday, before we start our journey through Lent. St Joseph's Penny is a very important charity that supports vulnerable children and families in our local community. We enjoyed our pancakes especially sprinkled with...
Curriculum, Design & Technology, Enrichment, History, Y6

Mayan Feast

16th October 2019

After studying the Mayans for a number of weeks =, Year 5's work has culminated in them getting to try out some recipes similar to those the Mayans would have eaten. This included eating totillas made from corn (as maize was a staple of the Mayan diet), making a salsa and getting to try an ancient Mayan recipe for...
Curriculum, Enrichment, History, Y4

Roman Workshop

10th October 2019

On Monday, Year 4 were extremely lucky to have a Roman soldier visit their class to tell them all about what life was like over 2000 years ago. With a classroom full of artefacts and many thrilling tales, the soldier had them enthralled by describing what the Romans were actually like and how they invaded and took control of...
Curriculum, Enrichment, Geography, History, Y2

Year 2 Time Traveller Workshop

10th October 2019

Year 2 had a fantastic time learning about Christopher Columbus and Neil Armstrong on Tuesday morning through their time travelling guide. The children particularly enjoyed acting out the port of Genoa, travelling on a ship, and exploring new lands. They were then able to apply this to what they know about Neil Armstrong and learnt how the two explorers...