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

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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