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.