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Rights-Respecting Ambassadors - Planning meeting
Date: 30th Mar 2022 @ 4:55pm
Our RRS Ambassadors worked very hard in yesterday's meeting - thinking of lots ways in which we are teaching our school community about children's rights and other ideas on how we can improve this further. We are preparing for re-acreditation for the gold level of the award so spent time looking at the criteria for each strand of the application form.
We are proud of the work we have already done, and are continuing to do, that link to children's rights:
*Class Charters
*Assemblies
*Fundraising e.g. Sponsored Read for Ukraine, Comic Relief, Children in Need, cake sale for Oxfam, supporting the local food bank, raising money for our own school - buying new playground equipment to support children's mental health and wellbeing
*Using Picture News/Newsround/ First News - developing ourselves as global citizens
*Our learning in PSHRE and RE
*Our 'Lyme Pupil Passports' - visits and visitors, experience days e.g. our local MP talking to Y3 about his role in the community
Some of our plans for next half term are:
*Teach lessons across the school - focusing on the younger year groups who have not had as much exposure to assemblies/ lessons about them.
*Meet with all the school staff and talk to them about children's rights - spending extra time with new teachers and teaching assistants.
*Plan activities in Arts Week which link to the rights of the child so that we can show how important they are to us.
*Design information leaflets and other resources to tell parents and families about our rights.
*Contact other schools and see if they would like to know more about our work on children's rights.
*Design and make a child-friendly Equality Policy and think about how we can incorporate this into assemblies.
Eco Action Team and 'The Great Big School Clean'
Date: 30th Mar 2022 @ 2:10pm
A HUGE thank you to the wonderful Eco Action Team who stayed behind after school last night to discuss our action plan and to take part in the 'Great BIg School Clean'.
Our first job was to discuss our action plan. The projects on there are:
1) To reduce the amount of litter in our school community.
2) To improve how much we reduce/reuse and recycle.
3) To improve our health and wellbeing.
4) To reduce our school's energy bills.
5) To improve the outdoor learning provision.
We agreed that we would work on projects 1 and 5 this next half term. How we will do this:
1) LITTER: Carry out a litter pick around the school grounds tonight and then one in the local area next half term. We will organise a poster competition to encourage everyone to keep our community tidy.
5) SCHOOL GROUNDS: Nurture the trees we planted last year; plant seeds to grow our own fruit and vegetables (strawberries, carrots, potatoes and tomatoes) and use these to make something with. Keep the environment nice for Forest Schools by weeding the planters and picking up litter.. Develop outside art work in Arts Week in the Summer Term.
We started our work on Project 1 tonight - as part of the 'Great Big School Clean', we pledged to collect two bags of litter from around school. We achieved our goal!!
Take a look at the photographs of our beautiful environment - the planters we filled last year are now blooming!
Date: 29th Mar 2022 @ 3:44pm
Year 5 had a lovely time at St John's church this morning, learning all about the Easter Story. They were great ambassadors for the school and participated well in the virtual story.
Date: 29th Mar 2022 @ 2:09pm
Year 2 explored the school grounds to look for plants and animals that live there. They found dandelions, daffodils and tulips. They saw lots of ladybirds, spiders and snails too. Back in the classroom the children recorded what they had found on their habitats map.
Baby Zorg's mission to go home
Date: 28th Mar 2022 @ 3:40pm
Year 1 have been looking after Baby Zorg for a number of weeks now after his spaceship crash landed on the school field - by the car park.
Year 1 decided that they needed to learn all about The United Kingdom and Our Local Area before they could send a message to his parents.
The remembered the following key information:-
* Planet Earth
* The United Kingdom
* England
* London is the capital city of England
* Liverpool is a city near where they live
* St Helens is the town where they live
* Earlestown is an area of St Helens
* Lyme Community Primary School is in Lyme Street
* Sam's Shop is on the corner of Lyme Street and the Country Park is next to school
Y1 have left Baby Zorg in the office as they think he is missing his parents - they know all this key information will help his parents find him.
Date: 28th Mar 2022 @ 3:29pm
As a treat to end the term, Y1 participated in the inflatable fun session in KABs this morning.
All the children had a fun time.
Date: 28th Mar 2022 @ 9:49am
Year 2 enjoyed their reward time on the inflatables today!
Date: 20th Mar 2022 @ 8:31pm
Year 2 worked in groups to identify the animals that live in hot and cold places. Then they discussed how these animals adapt to their environment. The children had to work well as part of a team, listen and take turns to be the reading lead for their group.
Date: 20th Mar 2022 @ 8:07pm
Year 2 made their own healthy wraps! They worked in groups to prepare the ingredients and chopped the vegetables safely using the bridge hold. Then they filled their wraps with ingredients of their choice and enjoyed eating them! Finally they evaluated their finished products.
Date: 18th Mar 2022 @ 2:17pm
Our spring Forest School sessions have started again. This week the children were learning about new life. They looked for the signs of new life and then they made a baby using wood slices. They had great fun.
Date: 17th Mar 2022 @ 4:23pm
Today, Y1 have made smoothies! They worked in groups to peel and slice their chosen fruits and vegetables - using the bridge hold to keep the food steady while they cut it. Then they used a blender to combine the flavours. We then tasted them and evaluated the product.
Date: 15th Mar 2022 @ 3:29pm
Year 2 visited Knowsley Safari Park today as part of their current science topic - animals and their habitats.
The children enjoyed an on foot safari, a sealion show and a birds of prey show.
They had fun on the play equipment and ended the day with a guided coach tour.
Date: 11th Mar 2022 @ 3:46pm
This week, in Nursery we have been making our own repeating patterns. We printed patterns using sponges and then made our own pattern towers
Smoothie ingredient taste testing
Date: 10th Mar 2022 @ 4:56pm
We have had a very exciting afternoon in Y1! First we had to guess the ingredients of the shop-bought smoothies by using sight, smell and taste - we made some very good guesses! The green one made us think it had brocolli or peas in it but we were glad to find out that it was kiwi fruit and cucumber that gave it its colour! Next we listened to a song about why we should 'eat 5-a-day' - we talked about how drinking a smoothie could help us with this. After that we did a taste test of some different smoothie ingredients and decided which kind of smoothie we would like to make in our next lesson and why. Mrs. Roberts was very proud of how we all had a try of a variety of different things- even if we were unsure or hadn't tasted them before.
Date: 8th Mar 2022 @ 10:08am
We looke d at work by Kathe Kollwitz. She produced portraits to show a range of emotions and feelings of everyday people. We were inspired to create our own.
Date: 8th Mar 2022 @ 10:03am
The children enjoyed World Book Day in Y6. They invented some fantastic superheroes and villians. Well done to Cara on winning the spoon competition.
Date: 8th Mar 2022 @ 9:59am
Kathryn from St Helens Chamber delivered a session to the children to make them more aware of issue they will when are are adults. The children were astonished with the amount of money that came out of their monthly budgets to just pay the bills.
Date: 8th Mar 2022 @ 9:48am
The children enjoyed a workshop delivered by Irene from the St Helens Chamber. Irene's workshop was all about careers in STEM.
Date: 7th Mar 2022 @ 3:33pm
Last month our Student Council decided that they would like to raise money to buy some new equipment for playtimes to improve the activities they are taking part in. On Friday 11th February -to mark Children's Mental Health Week- we held an 'Own Clothes Day' -and raised £170. The student councillors spent some time looking online for resources that they thought they and their classmates would like. Mrs Lammond will organise a rota to make sure that the resources are used properly and fairly.
Date: 4th Mar 2022 @ 5:06pm
Year 1 have had a fabulous fun-filled day - for Word Book Day we all dressed as a Super Hero or a Super Villian.
In class, we wrote sentences about the Super Hero in our story 'Super Daisy'.
We also completed 'Super Hero Maths', made our own Super Hero Cities, made masks, designed capes for Super Heroes.
Some of us used contstruction toys to create Super Hero Cities or Super Hero Vehicles.
We shared story books with each other and the Reading Ambassadors from Y3 visited our class too.
We finsihed the day by singing some of the songs from 'A Pocketful of Songs' by Julia Donaldson.
Date: 4th Mar 2022 @ 1:45pm
Today our amazing reading ambassadors supported reading events across the school. Our Year 1 and 2 children visited foundation stage to join in story and library time.
Our Y3, 4 and 5 children supported events in Key Stage 1 and lower key stage 2.
Our Y6 children helped to set up the story spoon competition and delivered the certificates and prizes to the classes.
Date: 4th Mar 2022 @ 1:34pm
For World Book Day we read the story 'Supertato' by Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet. The children were then able to play with the evil peas, rescue the evil pea from the jelly, play with mashed up Supertato, count the different characters and write and draw about their favourite part of the story.
Date: 4th Mar 2022 @ 1:30pm
Wow! What an amazing response we had to our story spoon competition. Here are some photos of the fabulous entries. Thank you to everyone who took part. The children enjoyed looking at all of the wonderful creations and talking about the stories that the characters were from.
The names of the winners will be on our newsletter.
Well done everyone!
Date: 4th Mar 2022 @ 1:22pm
Everyone had such a good time on our trip to 'Imagine That'. The children participated in a range of science and art based activities. The best part was making their on slime.
Lyme Country Park - Science Learning Walk
Date: 2nd Mar 2022 @ 12:41pm
This morning, Year 1 have been on a Science Learning Walk - even though it was slightly wet and very muddy in places a great time was had by everyone.
We learnt some of the names of the plants in the country park - such as:-
* Scots Pine
* Hawthorne
* Gorse
* Pussy Willow
We also talked about some of the signs of 'Spring' - like the plants turning from brown and orange colours to light green. Also, when the natural water and puddles start to reduce this is also a sign that Spring is coming.
We listened to some of the birds tweeting and singing to each other - we even saw a robin.
Before we returned to school, we stopped by one of water features in the park and saw a cormorant - it feeds on fish and frogs.
It was a very long walk (just over 2 miles) and we climbed some big hills - including Skylark Hill (although Scott The Ranger told us he calls it Scott's Hill). We could see a long way from the top of the hill - we saw parts of Haydock and Earlestown Town Hall.
It was great fun!
