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j.r.r Tolkien

We've been reading story's about Santa they are by some one called Tolkien who used to write to his nephews in the 19,00. He wrote as Santa.



By Rahul and Abdullaah

On monday the 7th of december we were doing art. The art we were doing was sketching
trees .With charcole and sketching pencils and we tried different types of charcole.
by lewis and michael.

Yesterday we were using charlcoal in our sketch books. drawing trees and backgrounds and we were smuging the trees. and making diffrent pattens with it.Today we were doing maths morning and we were reading.
by Ronnie and Husnain

ART

This week we have been looking at light and dark.We used charcoal and pencils to show different shades of light and dark . We got very messy with the charcoal, all up are arms all over are face!

By Helena and Mia

This week we have been sketching trees outside using charcoal and different art pencils to create different effects on our pictures.
by Miles and Ashley

christmas disco!!!!!!!!!

On Friday we had a christmas disco and father christmas came and when you visited him he gave you a tube of sweets.I got a tube of rolo's and my cousin got a tube maltesers. At the disco we also could order chips from the chippy Mrs Ames went to get them for us to eat at the disco.Over all it was a really good.
by Niamh and Georgia.

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J.r.r tolkien

The stories

This morning we learnt some more about tolkien and looked at his different stories about him pretending to be santa claus and about him sending the very strange stories to his wife and his little nefs.

Christmas Decorations and disco

On Friday we put up our Christmas tree and decorations for our Christmas disco. As me, my Mum and brother and sister walked up to School at 6:30 music boomed out from the hall it was so loud and noisy!It was really cool because you could get yummy chips. We could get sweets and chocolate too.
It was so much fun and I'm really glad I went, it got me in the Christmassy mood.

By Heidi and Sana

my dinner AND WORK! BY MEGAN AND HELENA

i can't wait 'till lunch time because i am having beef sandwiches.Mmmmmh!
And don't forget the salad and mayonaise!
By Helena

i cant wait 'till lunch time because i am having pork on my pittabread. I am also having a unhealthy chocolate brioche.I am going to tease everyone with it in the dinner hall.And Helena especially.Ummmmmmh!
By Megan


Today we were doing about the santa letters!

parswood

we are linking with a high school called parswood. We sent them pictures of half of our face with words as the other half. Then they sent us fact files about themselves.

William and Zayyan

ON MONDAY & FRIDAY

On Friday we had a Christmas party and in our class we decorate the classroom!
Today the teachers from local schools came to our school for a conference,we showed them around and two pupils of our class were supposed to show them to the hall but gave them a tour around school! We have now got a postbox for Christmas cards and it is filled to the top!

BY Malaika .R.K & Zahrah .J.A :)

Christmas raffle

This Friday we are having a christmas raffle if your ticket is drawn you will win a hamper. They are donated by the children who come in there own clothes on Friday! By Isobel and Maya

BOOK AWARDS

This year our two people from our class got chosen to read the winner for the book awards.these

are the two people who went William and Sana.

By Rahul & Hassan

OUR SPECIAL DISCO VISITOR

Tonight there is a christmas disco at St John's everyone is excited. All aftenoon we have been putting up decorations. At our disco we are having drinks,food,games and even a visitor who came all the way from the North Pole and wears a red outfit and is very special .We're getting a vist from........

Father Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Mia and Bethany

Christmas card postbox

Today were allowed to write Christmas cards to our friends. We posted the cards by putting them in the post box that we keep in the hall. Our postbox is useful because we can send Christmas cards to anyone in St. Johns!
by Malaika and Natalie

D I S C O- our acrostic poem

Dance
Interesting dance moves of mums and dads
Social
Cool
Over hyper


by Helena and Megan

Christmas disco

Today we are going to the christmas disco and were going to have a lot of food,drinks,fun and music and to tell santa what we would like for christmas. There are going to be a lot of parents and a lot of children and christmas trees the staff are always welcome and we are going to have a nice and fun time at the christmas disco we think all the teachers are coming too.It starts at 6:00 and ends at 8:00.We think everyone is going to have a great and fun time.

Today our school is holding a Christmas disco and there might be a celebrity appearance from Santa himself. It will be from 6pm 'til 8pm and very loud.

by Miles amd Ashley

christmas disco

tonight like every year we are having a school Christmas disco!we have sweets and homemade crackers on sale.and of course a DJ called Dan he brings MASSIVE speakers and lighting sytsems! also we do this thing where you decorate ballballs.

Our discoes are cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Cooking

In class N this week we have been cooking muffins and biscuits with Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Warburton. We had to measure how much ingrediants to put in the mixture it was loads of fun! By Maya and Rachel.

CHRISTMAS !!!

This afternoon we are putting up christmas trees around the school we are also rearranging our classroom for the christmas disco!!! We have just had golden time. We did choc crispy cakes and hot choc and marshmellows. The red post box is out for christmas cards to be sent through!

By Niamh and Georgia

christmas D-I-S-C-O!

Friday the 4Th of December we are doing a Christmas disco at 6pm-8pm also we are selling Christmas crackers and have some drinks and biscuits. SANTA and ANGELS are coming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And DANCING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


By Rahul and Abdullaah

playleaders

this week some year sixes (and one year 5!) have been doing play leaders, in which we play with the little ones at playtime.

by Ashley

Play leaders

This week we have been play leaders! Which means we have been organising sessions of playground games for he ks1 pupils at breaktimes.we do a warm up and a game and the infants love it.
by Bethany and Georgia

Lacrosse Team

A belated well done to our Lacrosse team who played so brilliantly in the first round of the POP Lacrosse tournament at Priestnall last week. Everyone got chance to play in several matches and enjoyed themselves a lot, coming second overall. The players are all looking forward to the next round in January.

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At some point soon we will

be meeting children from parrswood.we are sending a package to them so we cropped photos and wrote words on the side of our face to describe our personality sadly the cropped photos didnt upload properly!

Today as it is Children in Need we all have come in non uniform or pyjamas with a donation of 20p or more we could also bring dressing gowns, teddys and slippers. We are all very exited for this afternoon as we get 45 mins golden time rather than 30 mins.

By Beth Emma and Poppy

lacrosse match

On Wednesday 18 we went to a lacrosse match.The lacrosse teams were Didsbury road ,st.johns and Stella Maris.We came second Didsbury road came first and Stella Maris came third.
We had a great time.
Mia, Ronnie and Sana

FIVE PILLARS OF ISLAM.

Today Sanas dad came in to talk about the five pillars of Islam.The first pillar he
talked about was the Sadah the,sadah is about their belifs.The second pillar he talked about was called the Salah that was about prayer. The third was called the Zakah is about charity. The forth was called Saum this is all about fasting they have to fast for a month every year. The last one is called haij when it is haij in saudi arabia it is eid in other places.

Zayyan,Georgia and Niamh.

children in need day! by Megan, Isobel, and Abdulaah

Today we were allowed to come to school in our own clothes or our pj's but most of our class came in pyjamas in exchange for money. The reason was that we were raising money for children in need and we are also having an extra long golden time as well!

Pudsey bear!

by Megan, Isobel and Abdulaah.

How we raised money

On Friday (TODAY!!) it was Children in Need day and we raised money for Children in Need by coming in our PJs or own clothes!. You were allowed to take a teddy bear. We came in pyjamas because this year it is all about realaxing.(you can't relax more than being asleep in your PJs) .

By Bethany,Rachel and Michael

Today we are in no-uniform and pajamas for children in need and we had to donate money in order to come like this and to help children less fortunate than us around the world! GO CHILDREN IN NEED!

BY, lewis, Ashley and Helena

Five pillars of islam

Sana's dad came into school to speak to us about the five pillars of islam. The 1st pillar is SHADAH that means you have to believe there is only one God. Mohamed is the messenger. Muslims still believe in heaven and hell like Christians do.We found it really interesting. the second pillar is Prayer, it is a time where you talk to God this is another similarity between Christianity and Muslim. Christians pray to God as well. Also they have to pray five times a day! Sunrise, afternoon , mid afternoon, dusk and last of all evening. The third pillar is Charity. Muslims have to count up their money that they have earned and they have to donate 2.5% (if the have £100 then that would be £2.50) they only donate if they have over £800

5 pillars of islam!!!

Today class N and class h we all had a guest in the two class's the guest was one of the pupils dads.
He was telling us all about what the 5 pillars of Islam means.
The 1st pillar the Shadah.The 2nd pillar is the salah (pray). The 3rd pillar is the zakah (charity) The 4th pillar saum (fasting). The 5th pillar is the hajj (pilgrimage). we had to write lots of notes why sanas dad was talking to us. We learnt lots about the five pillars and we thought it was interesting!
Thank You for coming in.
Leah, Zarah and Malaika

penpals65

this week we got letters from our penpals.
they are from tanzania.
we wrote back too.
there are 28 of the tanzanian penpals and 33 of us.
some of us had to share.
they had strange names to us.
mine was called thabita frank.

by rachel

GREAT PENPALS!!!!!

We have got new penpals in class N.

They are from Tanzania and have many strange names like Sulleyman but names like Rachel which is a popular name here would be strange there. By Maya and Poppy

Letters to Tanzania

This week we have been writing letters to children in Tanzania. Everybody had to write to a different person but there wasn't enough penpals for everyone.

by Isobel and Natalie

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On monday we recieved a letter from our penpals . these are some letters we wrote back to them.
Are penpals are from tanzania and there handwriting is way better than ours.

we are very lucky to have penpals in tanzania.

there are 28 tanzanian penpals and 33 of us.

there names are very strange to us because we have never heard them before.

the names of our penpals are thabita frank and carolyne kitange.

some of us had to share . It is very interesting to learn about tanzania.

by Mia and Rachelz

In class we have recently recieved letters from a linking school in Tanzania. They asked us questions like:How old are you?,What do you want to be when you're older? and what are your hobbies? We replied to them and answered their questions,told them a bit about us and next week we are going to send them .

We're really looking forward to replies !!!!!!

penpals

On Monday we got in contact with a school in Tanzania. We got letters from Tanzania about pen pals. We have chosen our pen pals and wrote back to the Tanzanian school.

By Zayyan and Rahul

optical illusions

In science we have been doing on how we see things like optical illusions. Here are some for you to try out...

by Ashley and William

We have been doing in science learning about eyes and we have been doing experiments with miss gaughan. We was doing heating,burning,mixing we was heating food we was burning material and we was mixing liquid.
We was doing shapes in maths and we did drawing half of a triangle shapes and quarter of triangle shapes.

By Ronnie & Zahrah & Emma

This week we looked at optical illusions.I was very fun and intresting.We looked at some pictures and said what we saw in them.We liked this one where you could see either an old woman or a young lady we saw the old woman and the young woman.

Today in maths all the year fives went in the creative area with Miss Wood to learn about square numbers. We made models out of multilink to make it easier. We learnt that a square number is when a number is times by itself and to two consecutive triangle numbers added together makes a sqaure number.

by Natalie

Today we got some letters from a school in tanzania. Mrs Rice handed out the letters we got one each but some of us shared. The letters were about the person they are, how old they are, what they want to be when they grow up and the country they live in. After we read them we wrote a letter back. I am very excited to hear from them again.

Penpals

Today in class we have been writing to people in Tanzania to be our penpals. We are going to send them some letters and photos and hopfully we will be learning about Tanzania. I am very excited because this is my first penpal and i don't know alot about Africa.by Emma

steel band

On Thursday 12th we did steel band and we played Walking in the air, Last Christmas ,Dayo and Calipso carol. It was fun. by Isobel

Boys football match

The football mach was against another school called st johns but they were in Longsight. They won 1-5. Miles scored our goal threw the goalkeapers legs.

Our pen pals

we made friends with people from Tanzania and have pen pals with the students.My (Eleanor) pen pals called Matilda managoz and my (Sana) pen pals called Magdalena passcal mayalla.We got letters from them and they asked if we wanted to be pen pals and we got to choose witch person we wanted to be pen pals with.we have written the letters that we are going to send in rough and soon were going to write the real letters and send them.

by Eleanor and Sana

Today in school we have been learning about how light reflects on different mirrors including:concave,convex and slanted.In French we are doing presentations about climate in France and Famous people in France and all sorts of presentations too.

By Zahrah and Rahul

This week in maths we have been learning about time.We have been working on digital and anolog and how to read them for some of us it was difficult and the others it was queit easy.We needed to know the diffrence between 24 hour clock and 12 hour clock. It was very hard for me because there is so much to remember and you can easily get it all mixed up! I thought it was quiet easy because with the 1ns and the 2 s and so on you could just know that it was 1:00 or somthing like that and with the 24 hour digital like 16:00 you would know that becouse you could count on your fingers 13,14,15,16 you could say 1 is 13 2 is 14 3 is 15 and 4 is 16.


by Emma and Heidi

Light and dark week

This week we have been learning about light and dark,light sources and reflections of mirrors(Concave,convex and slanted mirrors we had a maths morning on tuesday instead of reading morning.We were learning about flowcharts about different reflections.We had an everybody

writes day.

On Tuesday morning instead of reading morning we are going to do something called maths morning. As an activity on maths morning we are going to get in to groups with our year 1 buddies and our friends from our class. With our friends we are making fun maths games for us and our buddies to play during maths morning. On Friday morning we were doing reflection.
By Niamh and Michael

Girls Football

The girls football team on Tuesday 10th November went to power league. Maya, Helena, Rachael, Niamh, Megan C, Megan H, Tunisha, Alexandra and Grace came second out of ten teams but each team had to beat another team to get to power league so it was really out of twenty. The winners were Woodley Primary who beat us two nil.

By Maya

In literacy this week we have been writing explanations about refletions. We had to explain how light reflects and write what happend in a science test that we did recently.

The title had to be a question and we had to answer the question in the middle.

by Poppy and Natalie

MATHS MORNING!!!!!

By Bethany and Mia

On Tuesday it was "maths morning"and the parents could come. We had a range off maths and logic games,and some people went on mathletics.

It was great fun and everyone enoyed it!

maths moning by william and hassan

On Tuesday instead of having a reading morning we had a maths morning we had board games,multi link and other games.we had lot"S OF wins(and losses)it was great fun.

Everybody writes day! by Beth and Megan.

On Friday 6th of November 2009 we had an everybody writes day in school and in class N we wrote poems about fireworks and bonfire night. Then we either went around the other classes and showed them our work or stayed in our classes and waited for people to show us their work.

By Beth and Megan

slanted ,concave and covex mirrors

This week we have been learning about slanted, convex and concave mirrors and where the light reflects(bounces) off them.

Slanted Mirror-
When a source of light hits a slanted mirror in a straight line, the light bounces of in a equal direction of the mirror.

Concave Mirror-
A concave mirror is where the mirror goes in.How i remeber is it goes in like a cave.When a source of light in a straight line, hits a concave mirror it it reflects in the oppesite direction.

Convex Mirror-
A convex mirror is where it goes outwards.When a straight line of light hits the convex mirror the light reflects in every angle.

from Helena

what have we been doing?

This week we have been doing on explanation texts,in our explanation text we had to have a question title,general statement, introductory paragraph and different stages. We wrote about how light reflects with different mirrors (slanted mirrors, concave mirrors and convex mirrors.)

by Ashley and Huria

French

In french we have been doing presentations about the life of people that live in France.We are going to show them to the rest of the class, only the year 5 do French with Mrs. Johnson. We have been having a great time and French is some peoples best subject.


leah and Zayyan

Our Astounding Footballers

A huge, hearty well done to our girls' football team who competed so brilliantly at the Girls' Football Borough Final at Powerleague on Tuesday. Despite the cold, damp weather everyone gave 100% on the pitch and we all had a great day.

After a useful coaching session in the morning, the team played a series of matches through the rest of the day, scoring enough points to make it through to an exciting semi-final, which they coasted through, and a final match against Woodley, who played superbly to win the competition. Our girls were thrilled to take the second place spot, and are determined to return next year and go one better!

Thank you and well done once again to all the players who came along to represent St John's - you all behaved and competed brilliantly and it was a pleasure to take you along.

Thank you also to the competition organisers, and to the parents who helped with lifts or came along to the show their support. Big thanks also, of course, go to our coaches, Clayton and Kelly, both of whom have done lots of work with the girls over the last few months.

Just a reminder that our girls' football club is open to ALL girls from Year 3 to Year 6 and happens after school every Monday, from 3:15 to 4:30. Subs are £2 each week. We're hoping to organise more matches against other Stockport schools for the new year, so let's try and get even more of our girls involved in football at school!

Mr Ellis

Everybody Writes Day

On Friday it was everybody writes day and this is a poem about fireworks.

everyone writes day

On the 6th November class n had a day called everyone writes day. We had to pick people from our class to go around the school and show the other class's our fire work poems. Some of the other class's came round the school as well and show them what they have been doing not every class did fire work poems.

by Leah & Sana

Every body writes day!

On Friday 6th November we had a day called every body writes day we had to do poems about fireworks.People from other classes came to our area and shared with us what they had done that day.

By Malaika And Georgia.

This week in science we have been learning about shadows. We have also been learning about what transparent, translucent and opaque means. Transparent means it allows light to go through the object, translucent means it allows some light to go throught it and opaque means it doesn't allow any light through it.

by Natalie & Poppy

Revise and Relax

Science Week- By Niamh.

On Monday (in the morning) we had a cup, a spoon and some ingredients, then we put some things in the cup and mixed it up. In mine i put lemon juice (which didn't do anything),coke and baking powder. It all went frothy and overflowed. When i put sugar in it it went down again. I really enjoyed this activitie !!!

Then with Mrs Rice we went in partners and we had a tealight . We got given a spoon and a little bit of bread when i put it above the candle it turned in to toast. It was yummy!!!

a great big 4! by megan

today after school we went to Broadstone hall primary to play a match of football;
first we got changed into our football kits at school and sorted out which car we were going in and we set off to the match.
then we met Clayton (our coach) and we got told our positions and the whistle went!
i was playing on the right wing and was doing really well until a Broadstone player kicked my bad ankle that i had sprained the week before so i slowed up a little bit as my ankle started to hurt. grace came to the rescue and sped down the right wing and was man of the match from then on! she got one goal out of the great big four that we had so she played the best of all of us!!
Broadstone kept making out that we fouled them and they managed to get one goal which was unfair but they are not going to power league in november for a match towards a trophy so that is alright!
megan

Class N's trip to Mellor!

Yesterday we went to Mellor on an archaeological dig trip. In the morning we went to the parish centre where we met our guides for the day!the guides were called Richard, Judy, and Alison and they told us all about Mellor and their jobs and why they like archaeology! We split into three groups-

-one did metal detecting;
-one did digging for roman items;
-and one did washing and recording their finds!

We all rotated and did every activity before lunch so we all found an object or two during the morning!

Next we had lunch back in the parish centre and played outside if we wanted to and then we gathered our belongings and set off to do a 'History Mystery Trail!'

then we got onto the coach and set off on our long journey home and we headed back to Stockport!

By Megan
06.10.09

newspaper

On Friday we had a newspaper journalist, Mayas Mum, came in to teach us about newspaper and what you need for a good newspaper report. She taught us a bit of short hand, she told us about having a good headline and she made up a story about a lion escaping in Primark - Poppy had to give us a quote about how she felt! It was exciting and hopefully some of us will be come journalists.
By Miles

mellor trip

this is a picture of us digging with shovels,
kneeling mats and dustpans.the tray full of

stuff

is our finds tray its full of pottery charcoal and
other various objects.we all had a great time in
mellor. by william

By Niamh -Mellor

On Monday, 5th October we went to Mellor on an archaeological dig. In the morning we got in to 3 groups. One group washed some roman artefacts with a toothbrush then we wrote about it. I did a clay pipe. In another group we did some metal detecting. We hovered the detecter over the ground and when it beeped we got our trowels out and started digging. We found some coins. In the last group we had a kneeler so we didn't get our knees dirty, a bucket and spade to scrape up the dug up soil and we had a trowel to find artefacts. We found lots of things it was really fun !!!

next week

this week in class n we have been looking and learning about recounts we have all had lots of fun doing it.

from leah

Next Monday we are going to Mellor for a school trip . we hope we find somthing when we go digging.
by sana and malaika

Niamh and Georgia

On Monday we are going to Mellor on an archaeological dig and trying to find viking treasure and get very muddy.

today we are going to make a viking longboat.

This week in Class H we have been learning about Invaders and Settlers. We had an extremely yummy Eid Party. We ate naan bread, rice and chick peas and mango chutney. We talked about zakat. We have also learnt alot about archaeologists. We have enjoyed the start to our school year.

Today we have been learning about the Vikings. We made fact cards about viking artefacts like swords, helmets and longboats. On one side we drew a picture of the artefact and on the other side we wrote facts about it. By Maya and Isobel

International Week!

This week we have been doing an international week. In school we have had teachers from Tanzania, Brazil and Senegal. We keep in touch with the teachers to have world links so now and again they come come over to England we go over there. Everyday this week has had a different country subject, so monday was all about britian and why it was good to be british. Also that day all of the teachers arrived, first the Brazillian teacher then the Tanzinian. Finally the Senegulese.
Yesterday on tuesday our classes went to different classrooms and did different things. In Reception we wrote leters to gordon brown about human traffiking which is basically about children having rights in the world. The letters are actually going to be sent off!! In year 1 we listened to a story called Mr Dry Bones. After in year 2 the Senegulease teachers told us some facts about Senegal like they have a river which is a rose colour! In year 3 the the teachers told us a story about a poor man and a lion with a thorn in his foot. After that in year 4and 5 we made a slave ship and wrote about how we thought we would feel if we were one of the slaves. Finally in year 6 we made fact files about slavery. Today only years 3,4,5 and 6 have taken part in the theme day and in Year 6 we made Hammer bead Jewelry, Year 4 and 5 we made pankackes and played the drums then last of all In year 3 we made a mount Kilimanjaro!

This week

This week has been called international week. We have invited teachers from Senegal, Tanzania and Brazil to come a see us. Each day has been focused on a diffrent day. Monday=Britan. We said about why it was good to be british and we focused on the well known story, Jack and the beanstalk. We did about texting, emailing, speech marks and stuff. Tuesday=Senegal day. We heard traditiiona stories and we asked the Senegal teachers what it was like living in Senegal. We keep in touch with these teachers for world links. Wednesday (Today)=Tanzania. The groups are put in are named after indian tribes in Tanzania. In Mr Middlebroughs room, we made Tanzanian jewlery with hammer beads and string. Some of the year six girls found out there was glow-in-the-dark hammer beads and got very exited. In Mrs Rices room we made traditional Tanzaia pancakes. Yummy yummy! Then, in Miss Warburton's area, we have been making Killimagaro and painting it. Whilst some children have been painting the mountin, others have been blogging about the week so far. Tommorow, some kids think it might be about Brizil. Who knows?

Kilimanjaro

kilimanjaro facts

• kilimanjaro is the tallest mountain in Africa and the world’s highest free-standing mountain.
• Kilimanjaro lies 205 miles South of the equator and stands on Tanzania’s northern border with Kenya.
• - Kilimanjaro supports 5 major eco-zones: rainforest, heath, moorland, alpine desert and glaciers.
• The name Kilimanjaro has no certain origin, but one of the most popular theories is that it came from KILMA NJARO meaning “shining mountain” in Swahili. The shiny snow on the peak led nearby residents to believe that evil spirits guarded the mountain. This myth could also explain why some referred to NJARO

- Because they saw fellow tribe members attempt the climb only to disappear or to return deformed from frostbite, the Chagga people—who live at the base of the mountain—for centuries had no desire to climb the mountain they believed was full of evil spirits.

mount kilomanjaro is the tallest mountain in Africa.It was formed 500000 years ago.

Mount Kilimanjaro

1 Mount Kilimanjaro is one of the largest stratovolcanoes in the world.
2The last eruptions on the mountain were between 150,000 and 200,000 years ago.

taster day

On thursaday class N are going for a taster day at Preistnal high school. We are going to find out more and to learn about how it will be like for us when we fianlly go there for real. For this taster day we get our own cafe! But when we actally go there, we will have to share with year eight!!!!!

By Becky!!!

This week

This week is art week. In afternoon we will go to diffrent teachers all over the school and do diffrent things with them. With mrs Zaman we have been doing tin men, and with Mrs rice we are making scarecrows. KS2 have been practasing for year sixes leavers play. On thursday most of year six has a taster day at Preistnal, our next high school, so we won't be here. On Friday, the whole school will take part of a sports day, all day! We usually have a sports afternoon, you see.

By Katie

Art week

Tuesday 30Th June '09

This week at ST.John's we are having an Art week. It will take place all week except Friday;which is sports day.

yesterday afternoon, after dinner we were split up into eight different groups. Group five; which is currently doing can people were doing scarecrows. We had to design five different scarecrows. Two were members of staff, Mrs.Ames and Mr.stocks,we supposed to keep this a secret from them until it's finished , so keep it down. The other three are supposed to represent the children of ST. John's.The way we had to make it was a bit weird but interesting in its own way. first of all we had to stuff a suit full of plastic bag then dress it. It was different Every time for instant, Mrs.Ames were dress up in what she would wear normally. Another group would make peoples faces by using balloons,bits of newspaper and PVA glue. We didn't get to Finnish but that's normally the case with these days because the it works on a rotor so one group dose an activity which an other group done.

The second day of Art week group five were making can people. we basically got tin cans and cut out lost and spare parts of uniform which people didn't want, need or lost. We had spare jumpers polo shirts and trousers. When finished they looked fantasic.

On thursday we are going to be doing to make a village for the play.

Class N theme day

On Friday class N went on a theme day at the park with lots of other schools. We went to Mersey Vale park and Heaton Mersey park to do lots of activities. First we listened to people talking about cutting wood in the past. They showed us how to cut wood with old machines. Next we went to the Heaton Mersey park to do some maypole dancing. We had to hold a strip of material which was a certain colour and started to plait it. Then we did the same but the other way to unplait it. We then had to go back to the Mersey Vale park to do some pond dipping. When we got there we got put into two groups and the first group did the pond dipping part and some people caught tadpoles and newts! Then the next thing was getting bugs out from a tray of water and putting them in containers to look at their skeleton with the microscope looking at it on the TV. We also did some willow weaving. Finally we did an art activity which involved drawing on a piece of polystyrene and then covering it with black paint and printing it on paper and material.

Arts and crafts

This term at St. Johns, all of the school will be having an arts and crafts theme. Seeing as the world is in the climate that it is, we will be using recycled materials. So far, we have been weaving with paper, hessian and binker. So far, no recycled materials. We have also been asked to bring in interesting recycled materials. Some of the collected items include cake boxes, wellington boots and yogurt pots.

Coming next: Bird feeders and insect boxes.

The paper weaving: First, get a brown piece

of paper, any size. Then, draw lines a ruler's

width from the edge in a rectangle. Draw lines

a ruler's width apart in that rectangle. Cut

straight along them. Next, get coloured strips

of paper. Weave(slide) them under and over

the holes in the brown piece of paper. When you

have done that, cut any excess paper off and

glue the ends of the coloured paper to the brown

paper. Ta-da! A paper pattern, made by you.

Eco Committee.

Here at St. John's we have elected some new Eco Gnomes. They are like the school council, but deal with the schools ecological issues. There are three Gnomes per class, and three after school club gnomes. They are dealing with several issues, and everyone wishes that they will succeed. To help them, please may you... (Look down)

Baking

This week two people are making biscuits. These biscuits are biscuits that will be decorated with icing and little silver bolls and with sprinklers .

SATs

Two weeks from now we will be doing SATs. These are tests to test our knowledge of things that we learned at school. However, these will be the last SATs ever. Next year, SATs will be replaced by single-level tests.

Trashion Show

These past three weeks in KS2 at St. John's we have been making trashion. It's fashion made out of rubbish, hence the name. We are having a trashion show tomorrow. Clips and fashion disasters to be uploaded soon! A whole KS2 performance, we have had modelling lessons, set up a catwalk, made our own rubbish clothes, and prepared for the ultimate trashion showdown!

More soon,

Class N bloggers

No energy day

Yesterday at St John's school we had a no energy day. We could use no electricity and no heating! For lights we used tiny candles, for school dinners we had cold baguettes, and the teachers couldn't use their laptops! Channel M (Virgin 878 Sky 203) came along and interviewed some of us. Also, a photographer and reporter from the M.E.N (Manchester evening news) came along and did the same and took our pictures. you can see us at http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/video/hprc/15/3/publicationdate/MEN%20news today, but over the next few days it will go to pages before that. The point of the no energy day was to see what would happen if we tried to save lots of resources. Didn't look that good, though. So the best way to save energy is not to not use it, but to not use as much.

On the 27th of march, our school's main steel band will be playing at a school in Ashton. The pans that they play are made of metal. Certain parts are tuned to certain notes, and you hit them to play that note. You pay to play the pans, and you can first start in year 2. The main band is year 6 only, and the main band goes out and plays in different places. We have played at Handforth Dean, we play at a St.George's parade, and we play at church fairs. However, you pay fifty pounds a term. There will be upcoming info on concerts, so stay tuned!

This week is the last week before we go to Borreatton Park.At Borreatton Park we will be doing activities such as zip wire, abseiling, raft building and more.We will stay there for five days.A lot of things have to be packed.Every one is excited.

In class N we have bean learning meters in poems and in art were making clothes out of rubbish.We are doing them for a trashion show for 2nd April 2009.

this week

This week is the last week of half term. Just for the year sixes, next week, we are going to be in school for three days! But it isn't going to be just any three days, its revise and relax. We will work in the morning, revising and working hard, then in the afternoon we will do fun activities. We can't wait till the afternoon on those days.

Playskripts

This week we have been doing about playskript. It was based on Heaton Mersey, in the bleach works. we learnt how to mark our own playskripts and what the markers looking for. Then we marked our own work.

Our School!!

In St Johns on friday you get to have assembly in the morning you get to show your trophies, certificates,medals,birthdays and togger award.We let parents and staff to join with us.

At playtime you get to have toys out you also get to play on the grass.Yesterday we all got to play in the snow and make snowmen and snowangles too.The teachers here are so kind and helpful to everyone.

SAT presentations

Last week our headteacher, Mrs. Ames, made Class N do a presentation on 2006 science SAT paper A page 16 question 7. Every table did their own thing, including low-budget productions, PowerPoint prresentations, TV shows and demonstrations. The question sees Josh and Safia put a cold plate with ice cubes on top on a bowl of hot water. Soon water drips from the plate. If the ice cubes melt the water cannot seep through the plate. Why did the droplets appear? Quite simple if you understand evaporation and condensation.

Peter

What we are up to !!

Recently at st johns , class n, we have been learning how to write a playscript. We have decided on a horror topic. KS2 have been practising a new song about the school rules. As well as playscripts we wrote explanations of our local area, Heaton Mersey. This week we have been on the computers a lot. St Johns school is really exciting! This week our school has been enjoying the snowy weather by making snowmen, angels and lots more !

Mrs. Johnson, one of our floating teachers, is trying to make an after school club blog. She needs lots of help. Can anyone help her?

the best page ever

The moc sats were totaly cool !!! I mostly liked the English. however, it was

very long!! oh well i enjoyed it !!!!!!!!!

We also went on a walk round Heaton Moor:

We went to look at the church it looked very old and peaceful with a statue.

this blog is realy wicked !!!!

thanks teacher !!!!

from sophie/woogy (woogy is my nickname!)

The School Council were elected last Friday. They are like the American School/Class President. they have descisions about things to do for the school, like getting new stuff such as the Wii (Yes we are getting a Wii :P ) and a sensory garden. There are two for each class. Thats all, folks!
Peter

welcome to class'n blog.this week in class'n we have been using calculators to help us with some of the hardest maths sums this week.
by David

intro to year six blog

welcome to class N's blog. we will be adding more info and pic's next week. this week we are using calculaters to sove problems. Also this week we will be doing topic and history. Our history is on the area around us. we wil find out who lived where and what was here before we came. in topic we will find out why the church is important to the community. in english we will be doing discription on the church. Outside on the playground all the class are playing games together and do not usily get into fights. we enjoy most of out lessons.
by Katie