Willow Tree St Helens

Community primary school in St Helens, Merseyside.

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In Art, Y4 have been practising their sketching techniques and observational skills to recreate elements of still life artwork. We can’t wait to create our final piece next week and add watercolour to them 🖼️ ✍️

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As part of Storytelling Week, Y4 used their reading fluency lesson to rehearse and perform and extract of our fiction text using expression, intonation, body language and facial expressions to help convey how are characters were feeling.

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After learning about Diwali and Hinduism in RE, Y4 loved our experience afternoon 🕉️ we had a carousel of activities and in groups made diya lamps out of clay, created rangoli patterns outside with chalk, tasted Indian snacks and designed our own mehndi!

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In writing, Y4 recapped the events of our Journey text. We independently ranked the 5 most important events thinking about the cause and effect. We then held a debate, using build on and challenge to share our justifications using oracy skills. #AYYR @MoonMaddy @3SaintsEnglish

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Come join our amazing Nursery! 15 & 30 hours available. Please ring the school office for more information ✨

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Reception have enjoyed exploring the Rainbow challenges this morning. Our text this week is Owl babies. The children have worked hard creating the story characters out of playdough and creating the story setting in the creative area. 🦉

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Reception are enjoying their rainbow challenges this week. Lots of exciting activities that enhance fine motor development, mathematical knowledge & literacy skills ⭐️

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Today year 1 had a play doh disco! This helps to build the muscles in our fingers and hands which results in some beautiful handwriting in our handwriting practice. Well Done Year 1.

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Year 4 loved being involved in a physical represention of part of our digestive system today exploring a journey of food, building on our knowledge from last week. It was a rather disgusting experiment with lots of brave people eager to participate. 👍🏼

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Y3 have been learning how to use charcoal to create marks. Yesterday, they used charcoal as a way to express themselves and the results are great! Well done Y3

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From the park to Snowdon - Year 2 have been thinking about different places we could explore as artists and using pencils to illustrate these places!

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Y3 conducted a scientific experiment! They explored how water transports up the stem of the plant. Each group used different length stems to explore and observe changes. 🌿

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Year 5 have enjoyed exploring the time it takes for different planets to orbit in the Sun in Science! Well done Year 5!

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For the last few weeks Y3 have been working hard to write setting descriptions for Leon and the Place Between . It is so exciting to be able to share their beautiful work! 🔮🎩

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As part of our Jim and The Beanstalk topic in writing, Y2 have been looking at how we can use adjectives to describe the setting. Look at this piece of amazing writing! ✨️✍️🌱

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Great work in year 1 maths today, using the number lines to learn how to count on from any number up to 10.

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Y4 ordered significant events in Africa’s history chronologically. After this, we ordered the statements in order of significance, debating the 5 most important events were and written justifications. It was great linking our #AYYR skills to history! 🇧🇯 @the3saints @MoonMaddy

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Y4 work, based on our whole school text, The Little Mouse and the Red Wall. We wrote a diary entry from the mouse’s perspective including events and emotions from the text. Our artwork shows opportunities when you overcome barriers, we depicted this using sketching and colour 🖼️

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Reception has enjoyed creating bears from different creative resources. They used their fine motor skills to snip and cut different textures and materials to create the different features on a bear 🐻

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This morning before break Y3 practised their 3 times tables to Ed Sheeran. Some great voices and moves!