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Week beginning 28/11/16, by Mrs Potter

Date: 2nd Dec 2016 @ 12:40pm

First Aiders to the rescue 🚑, by Miss Ellis

Date: 2nd Dec 2016 @ 11:07am

The Red Cross Society came and conducted a first aid workshop for P6 this week. They learnt some everyday first aid skills and demonstrated a very sensible attitude to the practical tasks. Well done P6 👍🏻🚑🏥

Willowbrook fundraising event , by Miss Stubbs

Date: 1st Dec 2016 @ 5:58pm

Today year 5 had a visit from Pam Williams and Diane Humphreys who work for Willowbrook Hospice.

The children discovered facts about the hospice such as: how many patients can be looked after there, how much money the hospice needs per year, which is an incredible 4 million pounds, what the staff and volunteers have to do in order to raise that amount of money because they only recieve 1 million per year from the government and how many charity shops they have located around St Helens and Knowsley. 

The children must plan a fundraising event in order to raise as much money as possible to support Willowbrook hospice. 

The children are very excited and would like us to pass on the message about our events to support the hospice, which will be taking place after Christmas. Details to follow. 

WHAT AMAZING STARS WE HAVE IN OUR SCHOOL. SINGING SUPERSTARS!, by Mrs Roberts

Date: 30th Nov 2016 @ 11:33pm

Queen's Park Choir have put out an admirable start to the advent celebrations tonight.

Our festive performance at the Parish Church was second to none. The singing was amazing, as was the behaviour, and I'm sure we left the audience feeling very, very christmassy.

Thanks to all our amazing parents, grandparents, carers and family members for your wonderful support.

Also, a special well done to Anu who provided the audience with an impromtu reading. She demonstrated amazing control and confidence. Fabulous skills Anu.

Proud of you all!

Mrs Roberts and Mr Houltram

QUEEN'S PARK REHEARSAL AT PARISH CHURCH , by Mrs Roberts

Date: 30th Nov 2016 @ 4:46pm

Come they told me pa rum pum pum pum.

TONIGHTS THE NIGHT!

We have had a great afternoon practising for our Christmas Performance that is tonight.  We worked with Mr Sleith as a conductor and an amazing pianist.

All welcome to watch. PARISH CHURCH, ST HELENS AT 5.45pm-7.45pm. TICKETS on the door £5 adults £3 children.

QUEEN'S PARK CHOIR, by Mrs Roberts

Date: 27th Nov 2016 @ 2:07pm

Deck the halls with boughs of holly, fa la la la la, fa la la la! Christmas is nearly here for Queen's Park Choir.

Our choir have been working hard with a School Music Service vocal coach to finely tune our voices and songs for the up and coming Christmas Concert on Wednesday, 30th Novemeber at the Parish Church Hall, St Helens.

Tales of our festive singing sucess to follow.  

Please keep an eye on our school newsletter for other dates for our amazing choir performances.

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Sports galore!, by Mr Gill

Date: 26th Nov 2016 @ 11:12am

This week has been a very busy week here at Queen's Park. There have been lots of different sporting activities going on throughout the week. 

On Thursday, Mr Ward organised a inter school benchball tournament which saw 3 of our network schools come to Queen's Park to battle it out to become Year 3 benchball champions. After some closely contested games, Queen's Park eventually came out on top and won the tournament! It must have been all that practising in PE! The games were played in great spirit and it was great to see so many children with smiles on their faces! 

A special mention goes to our Year 6 sports leaders who refereed the games and ensured the tournament ran smoothly. Well done and thank you! 

On Friday, the Year 3/4 football tournament came to an end with a nail biting penalty shootout in the final after a 2-2 draw in normal time. The final was contested by Real Madrid and Barcelona and after 9 saved penalties, Barcelona came out on top after slotting the winning penalty in the bottom left hand corner of the goal. Congratulations Barcelona. Look out for the next lunchtime tournament which will involve our Year 4 and 5 children. 

Friday also saw our Year 5 children take part in an intra-school handball tournament! Well done to all involved. 

We are already looking forward to another week full of sport here at Queen's Park. Check out our pictures to see what's been going on! 

French Yoga, by Mr Gill

Date: 26th Nov 2016 @ 11:01am

P4 were treated to a session of French yoga on Friday.  They were put to the test with their knowledge of body parts - Mrs Taylor has taught us well! It was a very relaxing way to end another hectic week. Hopefully the children will be able to teach people at home some of these relaxation techniques.

The children absolutely loved it as you can tell from our pictures!

Algebra fun! , by Miss Hughes

Date: 25th Nov 2016 @ 3:55pm

We love using practical equipment in Q6! We used cubes to make sequences and predict what the nth term is. We are getting more and more confident with linear equations and understanding formulae. Not only are Q6 algebra experts , they are also great at working together. Well done all! 

Tres bien!! French Yoga in Y6, by Miss Hughes

Date: 25th Nov 2016 @ 3:51pm

Huge thank you to Steph from Primary Languages who came to deliver a French yoga session to our year 6s. They absolutely LOVED it! Here they are in action.....

Y6 Governors & PTFA members , by Miss Hughes

Date: 25th Nov 2016 @ 3:45pm

In Year 6, we are so lucky to have Karen Devine & Cath Cairns as our governors. Not only do these lovely ladies work so hard to help make Queen's Park the best it can possibly be; they also come to visit us and help us with our learning. Today, Year 6 children had to tell Cath & Karen all about how to find the nth term in our algebra lesson! They spent all morning sorting out the PTFA Christmas fair then came to spend the rest of the time with Y6. 

Cath claimed she is not as clever at maths as she thought. Owen Lewis helped her solve the equations! Karen as really impressed with the speed of Katie Hamilton's reasoning. Well done you two!

Thanks for coming to visit us, for helping us with our maths and hearing us read. See you next week!

Miss Hughes, Mrs Harrison & Q6 x

Where did the week go?, by Mr Houltram

Date: 25th Nov 2016 @ 1:14pm

So what have we been up to? What haven’t we been up to more like. We sure know how to cram a week of learning in!

For our English we have been planning a biography all about famous poet, William Wordsworth. The children are really making a conscious effort to create their own style of writing which is pleasing to see. Their finished pieces are just great!

In our Maths lessons we turned our attention to division. It sure was tricky but Q4 are very resilient and stuck at it. For our Maths Meetings this week our focus has been Roman Numerals. We are very close to knowing them all up to 100.

Science saw us explore teeth. They have some interesting names like incisors and molars. We looked at the different types of teeth and their functions and managed to compare our own to those of carnivores and herbivores. 

In our History we found out what the Romans liked to do for entertainment. Ask the children all about it. We also found out about Roman Gods and Goddesses such as Venus, Juno and Minerva. 
In Geography we researched the country Italy and came up with a fact poster. The children worked in pairs to produce some excellent informative posters. 

Well done to our Star Badge winner this week, Codie Start, who has really impressed me with her writing. Ruby, Alexia, Jia, Matthew and Kacey all scored 100% on their spelling whilst Alexia and Hayden topped our Dojo charts. A huge Well Done to all. 

See you next week!

Week Beginning 21st November, by Mrs Potter

Date: 25th Nov 2016 @ 1:11pm

Hello everyone,

This week we have been looking at a poem called 'the star' by Jane Taylor. We have also been getting into the Christmas spirit today by writing our letters to Father Christmas.

In Maths, we have been learning how to measure different objects as well as each other.

Congratulations to Ethan Austin for earning our star badge this week for a super improvement in his attitude towards schoolwork and being an all round superstar! Well Done Ethan!

Happy Birthday to Ethan Clarke and Emma Frodsham who turned 7 this week!

Have a good weekend!

Year 5 Handball, by Mrs Atherton

Date: 25th Nov 2016 @ 12:53pm

Mr Ward gave Year 5 the opportunity to take part in a Year 5 Handball Tournament. The children had a great morning in their teams. The winners overall were Jamaica with 26 points due to their excellent passing skills. Well done, great teamwork. 

The joint runners-up were Spain and France with 24 points.

All the children had a super time and their skills really improved during the session, especially team work and tactics.

BASH awards, by Mrs Atherton

Date: 25th Nov 2016 @ 12:30pm

Q5 had a super afternoon at Peter Street Library, they looked at the books that they would be reviewing for the BASH awards. The children investigated the texts and had to match the correct paragraph to the correct novel.

The children have brought some of these books home this week to read. There are some great stories, why don't you ask your child to read them to you? I really enjoyed reading them.

Mrs Atherton

Maths investigators , by Miss Ellis

Date: 25th Nov 2016 @ 11:54am

P6 really enjoyed making algebra come to life this morning. Well done you algebra experts👍🏻

Worship, by Mr Warner

Date: 24th Nov 2016 @ 8:27pm

Thanks to Ava and Demi for leading Class Worship this week. A great choice of song and some lovely reading from the Bible. Thank you. 

Benchball Champs, by Mr Warner

Date: 24th Nov 2016 @ 8:23pm

Year 3 represented the school in a Benchball tournament today. It was held in our school and the children ended up winning it. They returned to class in great spirits and celebrated with the rest of the class. 

Thanks to Mr Ward for both organising the tournament and getting the children ready to compete. 

We are very proud of you all.

Where do leaves go in Winter?, by Miss Glover

Date: 23rd Nov 2016 @ 2:16pm

Today we shared our ideas about where leaves go in Winter. We had some interesting thoughts, my favourite one was that they go on holiday. So....we decided to investigate and go on a leaf hunt. We used a leaf identification sheet and found lots of types of leaves belonging to different trees.  We found leaves on the ground and leaves on the trees! They have not gone on holiday after all..... 

Have a look at our snaps... 

Go Go Go!, by Mr Houltram

Date: 19th Nov 2016 @ 1:02pm

Q4 have worked so hard this week. I introduced the children to Lucy Gray, a poem written by William Wordsworth. We spent time simplifying some of the language - it was written in 1799 after all! 

Our aim was to write a story opening and my oh my... the results were fantastic. I'm so proud of everyone for their efforts in writing this week. 

In Maths we looked at multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100. We also tackled associative law. I think we've covered just about every way of multiplication there is! It will certainly go a long way to making us much more fluent in our Maths. 

Did the children tell you about our bulb planting? We also focused on the song 'Man that can't be moved' by The Script in our Guided Reading. The children's interpretations were excellent. Amazing imaginations. Ask them all about it! 

If that wasn't enough, we managed to describe the journey of the digestive system. We did this as a shared write and embedded our understanding with a very tense game of 'Who wants to be a Millionaire'. Lots of the children mistook Chris Tarrant for Donald Trump!! Needless to say, Q4 reached a million, (phone a friend and 50/50s came in handy!)

A special mention to Enola, who has really made a huge effort to improve her handwriting this week, you've made me and Miss Monsvoll really proud! 

A huge well done to Sophie, Ruby, Boo, Maddison, Rory, Enola, Abigail, Alexia and Jia with 100% on their spellings! 

Abigail was a very worthy winner of our Star Badge! A great role model for Q4. A huge well done to all! 

We'll be writing a biography all about William Wordsworth next week. Teeth in Science, Italy in Geography and division in Maths are all on the agenda. Go, go, go!! 

See you next week! 

A very international afternoon, by Mrs Taylor

Date: 18th Nov 2016 @ 3:46pm

Here at Queen's Park we have just had a thoroughly international afternoon! Y6 enjoyed French Yoga with Steph from Primary Languages Network and P3 have been watching a video made by our Tasmanian partner school, St Brigid's. In the video we were able to see what their classrooms and playgrounds are like, as well as enjoying the drama that they acted out. Then we looked at our project with our Italian and French partner schools ( La Strada della Magia/ La Rue de la Magie/ The Magic Road) in which we are on a magical journey with our European friends. The children prepared to become magicians by making hats and wands. I heard some great language from them as they played at casting spells.

Week beginning 14th November 2016, by Mrs Potter

Date: 18th Nov 2016 @ 12:37pm

Hello again,

This week we have been learning about Armstice Day. Well done to our Beavers who went to the Town Hall to remember the soldiers who died in both world wars, and in more recent conflicts.

In Art we have been learning how to add tints and tones to paint. We looked at the artist Paul Klee and his painting Separation in the Evening. Here are two examples. Google Paul Klee to see what a good job they have done!

Q5 penpals , by Mrs Taylor

Date: 17th Nov 2016 @ 7:50pm

Q5 received letters from their new penpals in Velles, France. We planned what we would like to say to them and next week we will make a start on making cards ready to post.

Catalyst Museum Sleep-over , by Miss Stubbs

Date: 16th Nov 2016 @ 3:45pm

P5 had a lovely sleep-over at the Catalyst Museum. The children were so excited for the workshops and the sleep-over. They were over the moon with their key chains and loved seeing the plastic change texture, size and shape. 

Thank you Mrs Ashton, Mr Curran and Mrs Baskett who gave up their own time away from their families to support your children. 

The children also enjoyed the mannequin challenge, started by Mr Curran. 

Take a look at our pictures. 

Dig for victory!, by Miss Ellis

Date: 15th Nov 2016 @ 1:24pm

This morning, Abigail and Abbie helped Mr Ward plant trees on the school field. They did a fantastic job and really worked hard. Let's hope their trees grow as well as they have during their years at Queens Park 🌱🌲🌳🍃