Mrs Needham and Mrs Jenning's Class: News items
Date: 13th Oct 2017 @ 4:53pm
As part of our current Science topic, How My Body Works, we looked at what is in blood. We were then able to make our own version of blood to help us remember each part and its function!
100 Books to Read in Year 5 & 6
Date: 21st Sep 2017 @ 2:03pm
Reading gives your imagination wings! Let them transport you to new worlds and introduce you to amazing people who live exciting lives. Fly away with a good book!
The Year 5 & 6 children are being encouraged to embrace their love of reading by working their way through this list of 100 books. It has been wonderful to see so many children walking around with their head in a book. So many wonderful books to choose from, I wonder if anyone will manage to read them all! Once you've read a book from the list remember to tick your name off on the display that can be found in each of the Year 5 & 6 classrooms. How many will you manage to read this year?
Date: 18th Sep 2017 @ 11:27am
Year 6 loved welcoming their Year 3 buddy into the Junior Department.
The Elephant Thief - Author, Jane Kerr, comes to visit St Vincent's!
Date: 29th Jun 2017 @ 4:28pm
The Year 4, 5 & 6 children were delighted to get the opportunity to meet a real life author yesterday. Jane Kerr, a previous parent at the school, has written a top selling children's book about the exciting journey of a boy and an elephant travelling from Edinburgh to Manchester. As well as hearing the astonishing true story behind the plot of the book they were able to pick up some fantastic writing tips!
We even found out that one of our family's at the school are ancestors of the keeper, Lorenzo Lawrence, who was the real life companion to the elephant, Maharaja, back in 1872. Emma and Jane can be seen below having a special photo taken together to mark the unbelievable connection.
If Jane's visit captured the imagination of your child, 'The Elephant Thief' can still be purchased through school using ParentPay. She has also very kindly offered to visit again before the end of term to sign any copies bought from school or elsewhere.
Jane's visit has certainly inspired some of our children as they have already started writing the first chapter of their own books! Keep going, who knows what the future holds for our talented young authors!
Date: 3rd Apr 2017 @ 2:28pm
As part of our Water Cycle topic we wanted to understand the process of condensation. So, we created some of our own!
We used a glass bowl, very hot water, a plate and ice cubes. When the plate (cooled by the ice cubes) was placed on top of the bowl of very hot water we were able to see droplets slowly forming on the underneath of the plate. As more and more droplets collected they started to fall - just like rain!
Year 6 Lentern Fundraiser Disco
Date: 3rd Apr 2017 @ 10:35am
In order to raise money for our Lentern Charity, Year 6 organised a fundraising disco and all paid £1 to enjoy the fun afternoon.
Date: 2nd Apr 2017 @ 6:33pm
In Year 6 we are working hard to improve our writing. We have written instructions to give to our Year 3 buddies for them to create and complete an obstacle course. We had fun designing and creating our obstacle course and then thought carefully about how to write our instructions so they were clear to follow.
Date: 1st Apr 2017 @ 10:06am
Our class really enjoyed writing and illustrating books for their year 2 friends. It was lovely to have Mrs Crook and her class in our classroom and see them smiling while we read them stories.
Date: 3rd Apr 2017 @ 10:00am
The children have been taking turns to plan and lead collective worship sessions for each other. These sessions have been incredibly prayerful and thought provoking.
Date: 1st Apr 2017 @ 9:55am
We had a special visit from Xinyi’s mum. She talked to us all about the celebrations for Chinese New Year and how this will be the year of the Rooster. The children in our class were either born in the year of the Rooster or the Dog! Mrs Lian also brought in some special items for us to look at; a dragon puppet and a money wallet which children traditionally receive a gift in at Chinese New Year.
A Parent's Blog on Internet Safety
Date: 25th Jan 2017 @ 10:30pm
We are very grateful to one of our parents who has written a blog about how she keeps her children safe when they use the internet at home. The blog has some very useful thoughts and links to important information regarding Internet Safety, filtering and monitoring information for mobile devices and game machines as well as links to to practical information regarding Internet Safety. Please find a direct link to this blog by clicking here.
Date: 3rd Apr 2017 @ 10:36am
The children had to complete a tower challenge as part of the STEM day. The task was to build the tallest, most stable tower using only newspaper and sticky tape. Here are some photographs of the children building their towers.
Date: 3rd Apr 2017 @ 10:16am
As part of Dyslexia Awareness Week we had a 'No Pen Day.' Here are photographs of the children completing a Mathematics challenge in teams. The aim was to make squares using a set number of match sticks. To make the task extra challenging, and to work on collaboration skills, the children were only allowed to touch a certain colour match stick.
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