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• Year 1 have fun with making toys!

  Fri 16 Feb 2024 Sarah Giles

  On Tuesday, Year 1 had some very special visitors. As part of their topic about toys, Toys in School came in to lead a workshop in toy making. The children really enjoyed looking at a variety of different wooden toys and learning about how they moved using pushes, pulls and gravity. Then the children had great fun making their very own moving wooden toys. Their finished toys were very impressive!

  

• Poynton Schools Joint Pupil Council

  Fri 16 Feb 2024 Sarah Giles

  On Tuesday, our Year 5 and 6 Pupil Council representatives went to a joint Pupil Council meeting held at the Civic Centre in Poynton. They were joined by Pupil Councillors from Poynton High School, Vernon Primary, Lostock Hall Primary, Lower Park Primary and Disley Primary. They discussed how safe they felt around Poynton, what they felt could be improved around Poynton and what impact they felt the removal of trees at Poynton Pool would have as well as how the biodiversity of Poynton could be retained. They shared their ideas with a very special representative from Poynton Town Council - the Mayor himself! The Mayor said he enjoyed listening to the children's perspectives on local issues and that their views will be passed over to the Town Council. 

  

• Year 5's Victorian Workshop

  Fri 16 Feb 2024 Sarah Giles

  A workshop in school allowed Year 5 to travel back in time to learn about some of the incredible inventions of the Victorian era. They made phonograph strips by punching holes in paper which were then played through the phonograph to make sounds. They learned about Morse code and used pneumatics to make a toy train travel along a railway track. finally, they dressed up as Victorians to have their picture taken as this was 'all the rage' when the photographic camera was invented! 

  

• Young Voices 2024

  Fri 09 Feb 2024 Sarah Giles

  On Tuesday, our Year 5 and 6 choir took part in Young Voices 2024. This is an incredible experience for the children as they get to be part of the largest school choir in the world! The children joined 8,000 other primary school children for a mass rehearsal in the afternoon followed by an evening performance to family and friends in the AO Arena in Manchester. The children get to perform with a professional conductor, a live band and special guest artists - Urban Strides Dance group, MCGrammar, Natasha Hamilton and Nandi Bushell. Thank you to Mrs Hall for the time she spends organising and rehearsing our choir. Thank you to all the family and friends who came to support their children and enthusiastically 'busted a few moves' to some 90's dance classics. Most of all, thank you to the children who were amazing, a real credit to our school, great company and an absolute pleasure to enjoy the experience with. For a taste of the experience, have a look at the video on our Young Voices 2024 page.

  

• Fun in the Snow!

  Fri 19 Jan 2024 Sarah Giles

  The children (and staff!) had great fun playing in the snow on Tuesday. It was lovely to see the children working co-operatively across different year groups to create giant snow balls and snowmen as well as giving each other sledge rides. Year 6, in particular, took up Mr Adamson’s challenge and thoroughly enjoyed a snowball fight at the bottom of the field. During our extended break, the children were lucky enough to see a snowbow! (A rare weather phenomenon in the UK)

  

• Draw Tukker Competition

  Fri 30 Jun 2023 Sarah Giles

  We were invited by the Automobile Association to run a ‘Draw Tukker’ competition as they wanted some children’s artwork of their TV advertisement star Tukker to decorate a very plain wall in their local office. Every class had a winner with a very special prize – they got a Tukker of their own to keep. On Monday, we had a winners’ assembly where Becca (the organiser) along with Nick and Dan (AA Patrol Men of the Year) came to present the prizes. They brought a special AA patrol van with them to show the children, who were very excited by the ‘transformer’ mechanism that enabled the patrol men to turn their vans into towing vans!

  

• Woodbank Athletics

  Fri 30 Jun 2023 Sarah Giles

  Year 5 and 6 Woodbank Athletics - It was a real pleasure to take our Athletics Team to the annual Woodbank Athletics Competition. 10 schools took part and, although we didn’t get placed in the top three, our athletes tried their hardest and a real credit to the school and their parents. Thank you to all the children for being great company and for being such a great support to all their fellow team members and also to the parents who gave up their evening to support their children - lots of enthusiastic cheering!

  

• Feliz viaje!

  Fri 21 Apr 2023 Sarah Giles

  Spanish Exchange Cards are on their way to Spain!

  Last half term, children from Reception through to Year 6 worked very hard to write a letter in our target language, Spanish, for their 'penpals' in Spain. They designed some beautiful front covers to turn their letters into cards. Over the Easter Holidays, Miss Muncey, our MFL Co-Ordinator, posted the exchange cards to our link school in Zaragoza, Spain. Señora Garcia, our contact at the Spanish School has also sent her letters and cards to us. We expect to receive the correspondence from our Spanish penpals next week. Our children and the children in Spain are very excited to receive each other's work. Miss Muncey was very proud of the children as she posted off their amazing final pieces. Well done children for approaching this project with so much enthusiasm - we are very proud of you!

  

• Year 6 Visit to Poynton High School

  Wed 29 Mar 2023 Sarah Giles

  As part of their transition to Year 7, our Year 6 pupils went to Poynton High School for a familiarisation and taster morning. The report below is written by several member of Year 6.

   

  As we walked through the Reception area, we looked at the four house teams: Davenport, Legh, Newton and Vernon. Mrs Kennedy was there to greet us and took us to the library where we sat down to ask questions and talk with her. Then we were given mock timetables and a map of the school to help us get used to the layout. After that, we were challenged to find Room 23 using the maps. We sat down with partners to learn about the history of the house teams.

   

  Later on, we went to the canteen and bought a snack. We had the choice of sausage rolls, crumpets, pancakes or croissants. Then we had to find our way to Room 12 where we had a second lesson about co-ordinates. Finally, we got to question some Year 7 pupils about their experience of Poynton High School so far. 

  

• Year 2 Visit to Delamere Forest

  Wed 29 Mar 2023

  Year 2 went on a trip to Delamere Forest as part of their 'Explorers' topic.  They had a great time den building in the forest and went on a bug hunt in the afternoon.  The weather was surprisingly kind so they were able to spend the whole day outside and even had their lunch in the sunshine!