Mr Nicholls' Class: News items
Date: 15th Feb 2019 @ 4:18pm
The children had a wonderful visit this morning from tutors from Manchester university. They have thoroughly enjoyed their China topic this half term and were treated to Taichi and paper folding sessions as an end of term treat!
Year 2 visit from Community Safety Officer
Date: 7th Feb 2019 @ 2:34pm
Today, Year 2 had a visit from local Community Safety Officer, Lindsay King, who is based at Altrincham Police Station.
Mrs King shared a very informative presentation with the children about online safety.
Mrs King asked the children which electronic devices they used and what they used them for. She explained the different uses and functions of various apps and how old you need to be to actually have your own account. Mrs King talked about various topics such as cyber bullying, inappropriate content, spam and internet usage. The children also shared their own experiences with Mrs King. The presentation was extremely informative and the children took home many safety messages such as never giving out personal information, only playing on age appropriate games, never talking to strangers online and how to ignore spam messages.The children listened intently to the whole of the presentation and will remember how to have fun and stay safe online.
Key Stage One News Bites and Flamingos flock to Cyprus!
Date: 22nd Nov 2018 @ 12:10pm
Here is this week's Key Stage One Newsbites!
Find out all about how flamingos are flocking to Cyprus!
Now click on Discovery to take the Newsbites quiz!
Date: 7th Feb 2019 @ 9:00am
On Tuesday it was Internet Saety Day. We started the day with a fantastic assembly led by our school Digital Leaders. They explained the importance of staying safe online and discussed different scenarios children may face online. In our classes we had fun making badges and posters to show what we had learnt.
Safer Internet Day in the Infant Department
Date: 5th Feb 2019 @ 3:47pm
Today was Safer Internet Day and the day started with the infant children listening to an assembly which was presented to them by the junior 'Digital Leaders'. This assembly was all about how to stay safe online and how it is incredibly important that we never share our personal information with others online.
In their classrooms the children enjoyed completing different activities linked to the theme of the day, which included making and designing their own Safer Internet Day alien badges and each child received their own wristband which will serve as a reminder of all the important messages taught today.
Date: 24th Jan 2019 @ 1:47pm
Today the junior Digital Leadership Team came to the Infant department to help the infant School Councillors make posters for Safer Internet Day. They worked as teams creating their own posters on the laptops and each poster carried very important messages and advice about how to stay safe online. These posters were then printed out and displayed around the school. Safer Internet Day is on Tuesday 5th February and the children will be doing lots of different and varied activities on this day, all with important information about how to stay safe online.
Date: 16th Nov 2018 @ 3:56pm
We have had an exciting anti-bullying week. On Wednesday the class was involved in a dance workshop with an anti-bullying theme. The children thoroughly enjoyed it! We have also been busy making friendship cards for our buddy.
Friendship - playground activities
Date: 15th Nov 2018 @ 3:57pm
The Well-being Champions from the Reception, infant and junior department have been working hard to design and make lots of different playground activities for our Friendship Week. They wanted to design challenges that will encourage children to make new friends, read together and to problem solve. The Well-being Champions have written and illustrated beautiful friendship stories, made friendship word searches, created a friendship scavenger hunt and many more activities. The children have really enjoyed the new challenges and activities in the playground this week.
Key Stage One - Discovery news, quiz and 100 years since the end of the First World War
Date: 15th Oct 2018 @ 1:50pm
Key Stage One news.
See this week's latest news!
Now log in to Discovery and see if you can answer this week's quiz bites.
Date: 18th Jun 2018 @ 5:15pm
Year 3 and 4 were such good spirits on their sports day.
Date: 24th Apr 2018 @ 8:31am
Mrs Farrell's class had an enjoyable time learning about the mummification process as part of our History topic 'Ancient Egypt'.
Date: 7th Mar 2018 @ 8:17pm
Year 3 and Reception came together to sing to each other as part of our Singathon Day. We were impressed by the beautiful voices coming from Year 3 and Reception knew their songs really well. Well done Year 3 and Reception.
Date: 7th Mar 2018 @ 7:45pm
The Juniors all had lots of fun today at their Singathon. We sang a range of songs from ‘If you’re happy and you know it’ to ‘Sing’ (by Gary Barlow). Everyone sang their hearts out and we managed to sing 25 songs!!!
Year 3 have been learning about how to stay safe online when playing video games
Date: 6th Feb 2018 @ 4:25pm
Year 3 watched an informative video and learned a song about staying safe online when playing video games.
Date: 6th Feb 2018 @ 4:19pm
The Year 6 digital leaders presented a fantastic assembly this morning to Year 3 & 4 about how to stay safe online. They performed 2 different scenarios and questioned the children about what they learned from each play.
Well done Year 6 Digital Leaders!!!
Date: 6th Feb 2018 @ 3:58pm
Mrs Farrell’s class had great fun thinking about the positive and negative reasons of living near a volcano. They thought about lots of reasons why they would like to live near one and many more about why they wouldn’t like to live near one!
Date: 23rd Jan 2018 @ 8:38pm
Year 3 had lots of fun making their own volcanic eruptions as part of our Geography topic 'Extreme Earth'.
They worked in groups and followed the instructions to mix baking powder, vinegar, water, red food colouring and washing up liquid.
Here are some pictures of their experiments!
Date: 12th Dec 2017 @ 9:04pm
Many children performed in a music concert to showcase just how much they have learned over the term. We were all blown away by the talent. Well done to all who took part!
Our first half term in year 3!
Date: 18th Oct 2017 @ 10:09am
We have had a busy first half term and everyone is settling in well. In English we enjoyed reading, writing and performing poetry and learning how to use dictionaries. In Maths we have been learning about 3D shapes and have been making models using straws and nets. As part of our ‘Amazing Bodies’ topic in Science, we were fortunate to have Mrs Allen and Mrs McCormack come into to school to talk to us about nutrition and how our bones and muscles work. During our final week we are also learning about the Sacrament of Baptism in Religion and will be carrying out our own mock Baptism on Thursday.
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: 9th May 2017 @ 2:56pm
On Monday, we were given the opportunity to meet Premier League referee Anthony Taylor at Altrincham Community Hall.
Anthony has been named as this years FA Cup Final referee and not only did we get to ask him lots of questions, he also brought the actual FA Cup Final Trophy with him!
As you can see it was a great experience for everyone and Anthony give everyone a real insight into life as a referee.
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.
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.
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