Our blogs

Seal Certificates, by Mrs Atherton

Date: 26th May 2016 @ 9:57am

Today, Joshua Edge and Ellie Horsley have been awarded Seal certificates by their peers. Ellie received the award for showing how pleased she is for other peoples' achievements. Josh was nominated for being sensible enough to realise his mistakes and being able to make things better by saying sorry. 

Well done Josh and Ellie, you both show super Queen's Park spirit. 

Football Frenzy!, by Mrs Ashton

Date: 25th May 2016 @ 4:43pm

This afternoon our Year 5 and 6 Football Club held a 5-a-side tournament!

We focused on our school values of 'Respect' and 'Honesty' by refereeing our own games. This was very successful and some excellent behaviour was displayed by pupils. 

We look forward to organising some more football events for next term! 

Mr. Westhead 

Egg-straordinary work!!! , by Miss Ellis

Date: 25th May 2016 @ 2:08pm

We've just finished dissecting eggs in science as part of our work on life cycles. Flowers last week, eggs this week...P6 are become quite brutal!! What living thing will be next? 🐌🐟🐋🐅🐊🐘

Robot Hand, by Mr Warner

Date: 24th May 2016 @ 10:38pm

Today some very strange things happened within the classroom. A robot hand appeared in the room whilst we were out during morning break. It was surrounded by police tape and a crime scene warning sign. This has caused much excitement amongst the children. It later moved onto the canopy in our reading area. Many questions have been left unanswered. Where did it come from? Who does it belong to? Why was it in our classroom. 

The police are working around the clock in their investigation.

If anyone spots the hand, or indeed the rest of the robot can you please contact a menber of the Year 4 staff.  

Look who came to visit us today!, by Miss Fisher

Date: 24th May 2016 @ 9:12pm

Clink the robot popped into the Year 1 classrooms today.  We found him to be very friendly and he answered lots of questions about how his appearance.  The children then learnt how to join two questions with a 'sticky and'. This writing skill will help us write our job descriptions to hopefully employ our own robots!  

A visitor came to Q1 AND P1 today , by Miss Glover

Date: 24th May 2016 @ 5:52pm

CLINK. YES CLINK. Clink the robot came to see us today.  We are writing a job description for a robot, we interviewed him asking him some questions about his appearence. 

Check out our pictures. 

Outdoor work in PE, by Miss Ellis

Date: 23rd May 2016 @ 3:11pm

P6 and Q6 really worked hard in applying their cricket and rounders skills in our inter-class tournaments this afternoon. If only rounders was an Olympic sport, we'd definitely be competing for gold medals!!🏅🏆

Clink the Robot, by Miss Hope

Date: 22nd May 2016 @ 4:02pm

This week we had a visit from a very sad robot called Clink. He was so upset because he wasn't as exciting as some of the other robots in the shop. We wanted to help Clink so we decided to write a letter to persuade someone to buy him. 

Have a look at some of our super writing. 

A message from Clink , by Miss Glover

Date: 22nd May 2016 @ 10:59am

Clink , by Miss Glover

Date: 22nd May 2016 @ 10:55am

In Literacy we are reading the quality text Clink, this fits in with our Key Stage topic Robots! This week the book revealed that Clink is a robot which can do jobs! We have looked at the authors use of verbs, adjectives and nouns and used some key vocabulary in our writing last week. The children decided that in fact, they want a robot of their own. As a result of this, on Friday children wrote their own introduction for job application so they can employ their own robot. I was very impressed. 

I have photographed some Q1 STAR writers-  a big well done!!! 

Money, money, money!, by Miss Fisher

Date: 21st May 2016 @ 9:55am

This week in Year 1 we have been learning about money.  We have found a great page on a website with lots of fun money games (address below) but don't forget giving your child the opportunity to use money in real life situations is the best way to learn.

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/money

Gillmoss Recycling Centre Trip, by Miss McCormack

Date: 20th May 2016 @ 7:27pm

Today we had a very exciting morning at Gillmoss Recycling Centre. 
We discovered lots of facts about rubbish and recycling such as, in a year each family throws away rubbish which is equivalent to the weight of three polar bears!
We also got to see the machines which are used after our recycling has been collected. Unfortunately, there was an engineering problem with the machines today so we were unable to see them working, however, Kirsty was fantastic and we thoroughly enjoyed every minute of our visit. 

I'm so proud of how we represented our school today and how fantastic and well behaved every member of our class was throughout the whole visit.
Finally, I'd just like to say a huge thank you to the following people for making the trip possible: 
Mr Ward for organising this trip and for driving the minibus, Mr Curan for driving the minibus and staying with us during the visit, the parent helpers who dedicated their time to come with us this morning and last but not least a massive thank you to Kirsty for being a wonderful host and teaching our children lots of new things which they can hopefully take home and help our planet!

Maths in Q3, by Miss Hughes

Date: 20th May 2016 @ 4:51pm

We have been learning about 2D and 3D shapes in maths. Our children are showing fluency and reasoning when sorting shapes by their properties. Well done Q3! 

Songfest, by Miss Hughes

Date: 20th May 2016 @ 4:33pm

Q3 and Q4 have started their practises for Songfest. We have been learning songs such as -

David Bowie medley

Jess Glynn - Hold my Hand

Bear Necessities

Rock Star

I Got Rhythm

Siyahamba 

There are sounding amazing so far! We can't wait to show off what we can do in the show with all other schools :) Information to follow. Big thanks to the Music Service for teaching the children the songs.

Happy 90th Birthday Queen Elizabeth! , by Miss Hughes

Date: 20th May 2016 @ 4:12pm

God Save The Queen!

Happy 90th Birthday Queen Elizabeth. 

Lots of love, 

Q3 children at Queen's Park 

Gillmoss Recycling Centre, by Miss Hughes

Date: 20th May 2016 @ 3:45pm

We had a super day at Gillmoss Recycling Centre today! We learnt lots about recycling and how the centre works. Did you know that every year, one household produces the equivalent of 3 polar bears worth of rubbish? (In weight) ... AND most of that can be recycled. We are going home to tell our families about how we can be more green and eco friendly. 

Thank you to Kirsty at Gillmoss who was a super teacher, taught us loads and made us laugh lots! 

Miss Hughes and Miss McCormack x

Clink the robot comes for a visit!, by Mrs Potter

Date: 20th May 2016 @ 12:48pm

Yesterday Clink paid us a visit. What an amazing day we had! We all want him to come and live with us. Today we wrote about him in Big Write.it was our best writing ever!  Here is a photograph of our loveable robot.

Poetry with Paul Delaney, by Mrs Atherton

Date: 20th May 2016 @ 10:57am

Queen's Park School were lucky enough to have Paul Delaney in school today. First of all, he held a whole school assembly to entertain the children with his poems, then, he spent the day working with Year 5. 

The Year 5 children really enjoyed learning about Paul and listening to his humorous poems. Each child then created their own poem based on Paul Delaney's poem: 'There is nothing finer than...' 

After writing and editing their poems, the children were given the opportunity to perfom their poem to the rest of the class. 

Once all the children had completed, edited and performed their poems they were then judged by the adults. The winner will attend the St. Helens Primary Schools' Poetry Festival on Monday 4th July.

In Q5, the outright winner was Cymon Ellison (well done Cymon), he had used interesting word choices and had a great rhythm throughout his poem. 

The runner up was Anu Abe, her perfomance of the poem with actions was really effective (great work Anu).

Our reserve was Harrison Latta, he had some really imaginative ideas in his poem (good ideas Harrison). 

The whole of Year 5 really enjoyed Paul's visit and will be uploading their poems to his website:

www.pdelaney.co.uk

to see if they can win one of his signed books. 

Thanks Paul. 

Flotsam, by Mr Warner

Date: 19th May 2016 @ 11:27pm

We had a great time with the launch of a fabulous book called Flotsam. Children were asked to sift through the sand to find clues. Lots of items gave them an indication as to what the story may be about. Some even found messages in bottles. Some fabulous writing was produced in the following days. 

What a fantastic week at Queen's Park , by Mrs Kellett

Date: 19th May 2016 @ 9:45pm

The children have been so busy this week.  We've had a visit from Clink the robot, a visit to Garswood Primary to meet an author, a poetry festival, a singing festival, Judo assembly and that is as well as the fantastic lessons that have taken place all week.  Phew!! 

Judo Assembly , by Miss Glover

Date: 19th May 2016 @ 8:20pm

KS1 had a great time yesterday afternoon. We had a special Judo assembly. A black belt instructor told us lots about Judo. Some lucky boys in Q1 had chance to try out the sport with close supervision. In that short time we learnt about respect on the mat and some key Judo moves! 

There will be a Judo lunch club coming to Queen's Park for KS1.  Looks like we already have some professionals in training...check our pictures. 

Year 5 poetry workshop, by Miss Stubbs

Date: 19th May 2016 @ 2:35pm

Paul Delaney, a well known author, has been into year 5 all day, involving the children in a poetry workshop. 

The children have written their own poems about what they enjoy. All of the their poems are fantastic, they have really used their imagination. 

Katie Hamilton has been chosen from P5 to represent Queen's Park at the St Helens poetry festival in July.  Jessica Bairstow has also been chosen as a reserve. 

The children have the chance to win a signed book, if they enter a competition on Paul Delaney's website, www.pdelaney.co.uk. 

Weaving display, by Mrs Atherton

Date: 18th May 2016 @ 12:54pm

The children used different art resources to create a background for their plates. Next, they used wool to weave the Viking Tree of Life: yggdrasil. Well done Year 5, they make a really effective display for our corridor. 

Maths. Nets of 3d shapes, by Mrs Atherton

Date: 18th May 2016 @ 12:33pm

The children really enjoyed testing which nets made 3d shapes.  

OPERATION!!!!😷🤕🚑🏥, by Miss Ellis

Date: 18th May 2016 @ 12:06pm

Today P6 have pushed the boundaries of primary science and conducted a series of surgical procedures on each other!!! Only joking!!! During our revision of the human body, Macauley, Lilly and Ellis performed heart, lung and kidney transplants on our volunteer patient, Andrew. Anybody wishing to make an appointment with our surgical team can contact the office😀😀😀😀😀🤕