COOKIE NOTICE

This site uses cookies to store information on your computer Please review our cookie policy

Accept
Decline
Text size
A
A
A
Background/Foreground

Mr Kerigan's Class: News items

Year 5

Date: 24th Jan 2020 @ 10:16am

The Year 5 have had another busy week!

In science we have been learning about irreversible chemical reactions and made carbon dioxide by mixing materials. 

We had a visitor from The Cultural Diversity Service who taught us about Indian culture and Hinduism. 

Today, in music,  we continued to learn how to play brass instruments and can already play ‘Hot cross buns’.

 

 

Christmas Stockings

Date: 16th Dec 2019 @ 2:56pm

When we were making Christmas Stockings , the teachers gave us some felt to make it out of . You could decorate it and we put whatever we liked on them . We used some thread and needles to sow the two sides together once we have decorated them . I thought it was really fun, I can’t wait to finish my stocking!

Atlantic Adventures!

Date: 27th Nov 2019 @ 2:08pm

Mr Phelan, (Ciara’s dad) came in to talk to us about the fantastic adventure that he will soon be taking part in - rowing solo across the Atlantic!

He showed us pictures of all of the food that he will have to pack to take with him for the 60 day (or so) journey, lots of chocolate, haribo and crisps! Jim will have a water maker on board to make his own water for drinking too.

Jim has been practising rowing, training and learning a lot of new skills like tying knots in preparation for the race.

The race starts from an island called La Gomera near Tenerife and finishes in Antigua.

There will be 35 other boats taking part with 109 competitors from 15 different countries.

We asked Jim why he was going to do this and he said that he wanted to challenge himself and learn new skills, he wanted to set an example to Ciara and her brother Sam (and anyone else) that you can do difficult things if you work really hard and keep trying and also he is going to raise money for Team Felix, a fantastic charity close to our hearts.

Jim will start his adventure on 12th December and we wish him all the best and look forward to hearing about his adventures when he gets back!

Science Workshops

Date: 20th Nov 2019 @ 12:24pm

Mrs Shaw came in to deliver a fantastic Science workshop to start our new Science topic - Materials!

Using the equipment in Gymnastics

Date: 19th Nov 2019 @ 10:42am

Today we learnt to use some of the balances, poses and movements that we have been practising on the equipment.

Yoga

Date: 11th Nov 2019 @ 3:04pm

We enjoyed a taster session of yoga this afternoon and started to learn some poses. Yoga can help us to become calm and mindful.

Our first craft club

Date: 6th Nov 2019 @ 4:41pm

Tonight we had our first after school craft club! The children were given a variety of materials and were able to make anything they liked that was based on a poppy. We were so impressed with the results. 

Year 5 Anglo Saxons & Viking Day

Date: 4th Nov 2019 @ 8:06pm

Today Year 5 enjoyed a visit from Mr Smith, an Anglo Saxon/Viking expert. He showed them many artefacts from the time and explained what they were for. They learned about clothing, food, weapons, how they lived, money, and much much more. 

Gymnastics

Date: 29th Oct 2019 @ 10:08am

Today we had our first gymnastics lesson in Year 5. Everyone has grown stronger and more flexible since last year, we enjoyed getting better at some of the same exercises and trying new things.

Working with our Buddies

Date: 17th Oct 2019 @ 2:58pm

We met up with our Buddy class today. It was lovely to learn a little bit more about our Buddies! 

Each class sang their special song from their Class Assembly to each other too.

Rosary with our buddy class

Date: 17th Oct 2019 @ 2:53pm

Today we had an opportunity to meet up with our Buddy classes to say the Rosary together during October.

The Mini Vinnies from the Junior classes led us in praying a decade of the rosary and in thinking about the work of Mission Together after the inspiring assembly we had from Mary Deardon earlier this week.

We finished with the Mission Together prayer using sign language together.

Our Class Assembly

Date: 17th Oct 2019 @ 11:40am

We enjoyed performing our class assembly about Celebrating our Gifts and Talents this morning, we have been working hard to learn our song and our lines and there were some fantastic performances from musicians and gymnasts too!

William Morris Art

Date: 25th Sep 2019 @ 2:55pm

We looked at some William Morris designs and copied a design and then did our own inspired by William Morris.

By Phoebe

Collective Worship

Date: 11th Sep 2019 @ 9:52am

This morning Genny led us in a lovely Collective Worship on the theme of new beginnings.

We listened to a reading from Isaiah 43:18-19

Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See I am doing a new thing. Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.

 

After listening to the reading we wrote our own prayers about making a new start, forgetting arguments in the past and thinking about what we can do to help others.

Thank you for starting us off so well Genny, we are looking forward to next week’s Collective Worship!

Welcome to Year 5

Date: 15th Nov 2018 @ 1:02pm

Welcome to Year 5!

In Year 5 we work hard to promote collaborative learning and create an exciting curriculum where every child can let their light shine.

In History we continue our journey through time and we focus on The Saxons and The Vikings.  Just take a look at the video below to find some information out about the Vikings for yourself. During our Geography topic we compare and contrast physical and human features of the UK and North/South America.

“Feel the force” is our exciting Science topic, with lots of experiments too! Everyone enjoys the “Parachute” experiment!

Throughout the year we take part in a range of sports: Lacrosse, Gaelic Football and Cricket are some of the highlights. Another highlight is our trip to Robinwood in the Summer Term.

Our Maths focus is fractions and a continued development of our Arithmetic skills. Writing imaginative and creative passages is a target in Year 5. We will introduce a range of writing genres such as; Suspense writing at Dracula’s Whitby and persuasive writing based on “Our use of Plastics.”

Please click on your class teacher's name to see their exciting news!

Mrs Farrell

Miss Kirk

Miss Carr/ Mr Blain

Key Stage Two News Bites and the World's first plant selfie (Years 5 and 6)

Date: 3rd Jul 2019 @ 10:09pm

Here's this week's News Bites and find out about the World's first plant selfie!

Now click here to take the News Bites quiz.

Digital Leader Report 2019

Date: 2nd Jul 2019 @ 4:28pm

A report from the Digital Leaders 2018-2019

Ava, Molly, Anna, Tom, Maryclare and Becky

 

Staying Safe posters  - September 2018

At the beginning of our year of being a digital leader, we designed our own ‘staying safe online’ posters which are all up on the school walls. Many people look at them as they are passing in the corridors. We wrote on the posters about how to stay safe online and all the dangers of the online world. Some posters contained a quiz to catch the attention of the pupils in our school and so people can test themselves which is a fun way to take in knowledge and enjoy it at the same time. For this we earned our safeguarder badge.

 

Anti Cyberbullying week - October 2018

We held a competition where you had to design a comic strip about cyber bullying where a child was playing a game online and someone started bullying the child. So the child followed advice about how to stop the bullying by telling a trusted adult. They both reported and blocked the bully and the story ended well. We picked a winner from every class and every winner got a coding book. The comic strips that won are now on display on the Computing display board. Now some of the children are aware of what you need to do when someone is cyberbullying you.

 

Google Be Internet Legends - November 2018

People from Parentzone/Google came to our school to talk to us about being internet legends and staying safe online. Internet legends is a game created by Google. In the game you learn in a fun way how to keep safe online. There are islands that you can choose to play on. The islands are called: Kind Kingdom, Reality River, Mindful Mountain and Tower of Treasure.The app that you search in the search bar is called Interland and you click on the first result. During the assembly the people from Google passed a toy cat around all of the children to see how fast news can travel. We had a picture at the end of us all with emojis.

 

Helping the KS1 computing teacher with Year 1 - December 2018

In December, we went to the infant department to help the Year 1 computing teacher. The Year 1s were making fruit kebabs as part of their lesson on algorithms. We got the iPads and we videoed the Year 1s as they made fruit kebabs. We videoed all three classes. We helped them on kebabs because they were doing a project called TV chefs. Mrs Patiniott couldn’t have done it all by herself. We also earned our educator badge. 

 

Pupil Survey December 2018

We created a pupil online safety survey. On the survey there were questions like: What games do you play? And also what PEGI level are your games? We then put the survey online for all the students to complete anonymously. Once we found out the results, Mrs Needham put them into percentages and we presented them to Mr Blain and some other members of our school ‘Online Safety working party’. For this task we earned our leader badge.

 

Review of Typing Club and Spelling Shed - February 2019

Typing club is a program online that teaches you how to touch type for free. It takes you through a series of lessons and progressively gets harder each lesson. Spelling shed is a brilliant app to helps you learn your spellings.

In February, we went to a workshop with the other digital leaders. We used a programme called Screen cast-o-matic to take a video of the computer screen and we went and did a video on how to use typing club where you can learn how to touch type and spelling shed where you can learn your spellings. This is a very easy way to learn how to type fast and spell. These are useful skills because when you need to type fast then you will be able to if you practise hard enough and you can easily learn to spell in a fun way. We achieved our reviewer badge for doing this.

 

Safer Internet Day - February 2019

On Safer Internet Day 2019, we went to the infant department to do a presentation and a little role play about a monster called Zap and his friend Zoom. They were playing a game together when the game asked for Zap’s full name for points. We taught the children that we should never tell anyone our full names online as it may be dangerous. Later we went back to the Junior department and, after Mrs Needham’s assembly, we did some role plays about buying games online, how we should ask permission from our parents and another about inviting people to join a game who we didn’t know. For this day we earned our presenter and safeguarder badges.

 

Network meeting with St Hugh’s - March 2019

In March, St Hugh’s digital leaders visited us in school. They came so that we could teach them how to use a micro computer called a crumble. When they arrived, we greeted them in our reception area before taking them down to the sunshine room which is where we worked that afternoon. First we got the equipment together that we needed. Next all of us sat down to begin. The St Hugh’s digital leaders picked the project that they wanted to work on and we got started. With the crumbles, we used the crumble programming app to make the sparkles, which were attached the crumbles by crocodile clips, start to flash different colours. Through the afternoon, we got quite a lot done with the crumbles and eventually we moved onto animation using the StikBot sets. With the StikBot, we created StopMotion animation videos. We got creative and started to have fun making up short films. All of us had a great afternoon and we earned our networker badge for it.

 

Guide to making a crumble - April 2019

After the networking meeting with St Hugh’s, we then created a guide to using a crumble and how to use it. We used the google slides and pictures to create the guide. We achieved the creator badge for this. 


Technical skills - throughout the year

Throughout the year, we have been supporting staff with our skills and knowledge about computing. We have helped teachers and teaching assistant with technical issues. For this we have earned our technician badge.

 

We have had a fantastic time being digital leaders this year. We have learned how to use crumbles, microbits and make animations. We have met other digital leaders and found out about what they have done in their school. We would recommend other people apply to be a digital leader for next year.

 

Key Stage Two News Bites and Young inventors take the STEM challenge (Years 5 and 6)

Date: 27th Jun 2019 @ 8:26am

Here's this week's Newa Bites and find out about how young inventors are taking the STEM challenge.

Now click here to take the News Bites quiz!

Key Stage Two News Bites and Remembering Rembrandt (Years 5 and 6)

Date: 19th Jun 2019 @ 12:30pm

Here's this week's News Bites and find out about

Now click here to take the News Bites quiz!

Key Stage Two News Bites and Remembering D-Day 75 years on (Years 5 and 6)

Date: 13th Jun 2019 @ 8:36am

Here's this week's News Bites and find out about how we remember D-Day 75 years on.

Now click here to take the News Bites quiz!

Key Stage Two News Bites and Chelsea Flower Show (Years 5 and 6)

Date: 23rd May 2019 @ 9:31am

Here's this week's News Bites and find out about the Chelsea Flower Show!

Now click here to take the News Bites quiz.

Key Stage Two News Bites and Anglo-Saxon Chamber of Secrets (Years 5 and 6)

Date: 15th May 2019 @ 2:09pm

Here's this week's News Bites and find out about the Anglo-Saxon Chamber of Secrets!

Now click here to take the News Bites quiz.

Key Stage Two News Bites and World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day (Years 5 and 6)

Date: 8th May 2019 @ 8:23pm

Here's this week's News Bites and find out about World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day.

Now click here to take the News Bites quiz.

UKS2 Summer Newsletters

Date: 4th May 2019 @ 7:11pm

Welcome to the Summer Term.  Please click on the links below to access this Term’s Newsletters for Upper Key Stage Two:

Year 5

Year 6

Key Stage Two News Bites and Duke of Wellington's Anniversary (Years 5 and 6)

Date: 2nd May 2019 @ 8:23am

Here's this week's News Bites and find out about the Duke of Wellington's anniversary.

Now click  here to take the News Bites quiz.

Contact the School

St Vincent's Catholic Primary School

Orchard Road,
Altrincham,
Cheshire,
WA15 8EY

Main Contact: Headteacher Mrs Harrop

SEND Contact: Mrs Farrell and Mrs Sutton

Tel: 0161 911 8040

admin@stvincents.trafford.sch.uk

Testimonials

We couldn't be happier with St Vincent's, our children are really happy there. - Parent Survey
It is a wonderful environment, our children are flourishing - Parent Survey
The school ethos gives the children excellent opportunities to develop their spirituality and knowledge of their faith. - Parent Survey
It is a really friendly school, I have been made to feel very welcome. - Parent Survey
We love St Vincent's, keep doing what you are doing! - Parent Survey
Pupil’s behaviour is exemplary, and they respect and care for all in the school community - Denominational Inspection
Ofsted Outstanding Provider Logo
School Games Platinum Award 2021/22-2022/23
CPD champion School
Primary Science Quality Mark 2021-2024
Dyslexia Aware 2022-2025
Diocese of Shrewsbury Logo
Music Mark School Member
All Together gold School 2021
Wellbeing Award for Schools
Living Wage Foundation Logo
360 Safe Accredited Safer Online Logo
Primary Geography Quality Mark Gold 2021-24
UNICEF Rights Respecting Schools- Silver Right Aware
Leading Parent Partnership Award 2021-2024
EDPA 2022-2025 Award
Trafford Council Inclusion Charter
Improving Children's Mental Health: Place 2 Be