Blog by Tag: SMSC & Cultural Capital

Year 2 managed to complete a mile of hopping, jumping and skipping around our Daily Mile, raising money for the Hospice of the Good Shepherd in our local community.

Year 2 enjoyed a trip to the Lady Lever Art Gallery on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week.  They looked carefully at designs and decorations on furniture, tapestries and paintings.

Happy Easter. Thank you for raising so much money for the Hospice of the Good Shepherd. 

As part of our ‘Design and Technology’ unit (Making Playgrounds) and in the interest of ‘Cultural Capital’ – Year 6 visited the historic ‘Birkenhead Park’. 

A Brief History of Birkenhead Park

1847

On Easter Monday, Birkenhead Park was officially opened by Lord Morpeth…

Today, Year 5 had the opportunity to visit the Catalyst Museum in Widnes.

Whilst at the museum, we were lucky to be able to travel through space thanks to the planetarium. During our time in the planetarium, we could see all the planets and constellations that we can currently see in the…

This week Reception class have been learning all about why Easter is important to Christians. We discussed the Easter story and visited Father Antony at our local Church - St John the Evangelist. He showed us around and we discovered why the church was so special to people in our local…

In Assembly with Mr Orme this morning, we paused to reflect on Ramadan, considered to be one of the holiest months of the year in the religion of Islam.  Followers of Islam are called Muslims.  Muslims believe that there is one true god called Allah.  Ramadan is in the ninth month of the Islamic…

Year 3 used their Atlases to locate where some of the most famous artists came from. 

Year 3 have been locating art in and around Ellesmere Port. They then created a map of the local area to illustrate where these sculptures could be found.