St. Helen's Catholic Primary School

As part of our D & T homework this month the children of year 4 were asked to make something with moving parts, like a toy. Here is what Zoe from 4F has sent in! Amazing work.

Home Picnics

Take a look at the wonderful picnics the children have been making and enjoying. We also have some amazing writing. Lilly decided to make a picture about all the things she likes to take on a picnic. Super work everybody - enjoy your picnics!

Keep Britain Clean

This week's mini project is to design a poster to encourage people not to leave their litter on our beaches and other beauty spots around the country. Have a look at the amazing posters we have had on the Class 3 page.

Amazing artwork

Sophie had great fun finding out about Andy Warhol and this is the result of her efforts - she experimented with different materials for each soup tin - felt tips, colouring pencils, watercolour and oil pastels.

Matisse - Glue, paper, scissors!

This week year 3 and 4 were set a challenge to produce a work of art using only scissors paper and glue - based on the work of the artist Henri Matisse. Have a look at some of the amazing work the children have done.

One pupil has been inspired by the garden, painting over leaves, some leaves were made into stamps and used to print, others like rosemary have been used as brushes. Pupils have made great pictures and some have also completed some amazing writing. Well done to you all, we are adding your fabulous creations daily!

Grand Designs

This week our year 3 and 4 home workers were set a task to redesign the schools outdoor spaces into something new and amazing for everyone - we have had the first designs from Oliver and Zoe. We love the way Oliver has made his design inclusive for the staff with a lovely juice bar too - Well done Oliver and Zoe.

Wow another fantastic piece of work for this weeks mini 'Redesign the school grounds' topic.
We love having a circus big top as well as a castle and a waterslide! Hopefully teachers can go on the 'attractions' too.

Watch out for more designs being added.

School Playground Redesign Zoe

School Playground Redesign Oliver

World Oceans Day

A great poster from a hardworking pupil - well done!

Super Science

Wow - some amazing science experiments are going on at home.

Christian and Madelaine have been growing their own crystals!

World Oceans Day

Some great work from a year 4 pupil who has really worked hard on our mini topic this week relating to World Oceans Day on 8th June. What a great effort.

Fabulous Home Learning

Well done Luc, your work is amazing!

World Environment Day inspires star pupil

A really good bit of home work from a star pupil.

The class were set a home learning task about World Environment Day on June 5th. Have a look at this great poster telling people how to protect our environment and a superb home made plant pot all planted up. Great work.

Boudicca Bobble Heads

What a wonderful collection of Boudicca bobble heads. Something to make you smile!

Our Diverse Planet

Class 4F have been very busy during Science week and have produced some fantastic work.

Building A Camp for the Roman Soldiers

4G had a great afternoon in our nature area designing and building a camp site for Roman soldiers as part of our history topic.

The start of a new display

World Book Day

4G showing off their great t-shirt designs and enjoying the reading afternoon in the hall.

Please hold the line caller.........

4G had a great morning making telephones as part of our Sound Topic. They really worked hard and we even managed to set up a 4 person call!

Everybody listening - it's The School of Noise!

4F & 4G had a brilliant morning learning all about sound with 'The School of Noise' investigating how sound is formed and looking at numerous different instruments and machines that produced sounds. The class looked at different ways of producing 'music' and we also had a go at being 'foley technicians' and dubbing sounds onto a film sound track!

A really great learning opportunity for the class, enjoy the photographs.

Pizza Express Experience

Class 4G also had a 'taste - tastic' time during our visit to Pizza Express, who kindly gave us lessons in making pizzas: dough tossing and taste testing. What a great trip out to a local business, thank you Pizza Express.

A class of bright sparks!

Class 4G have had a fantastic start to the new year. We have been completing our circuit work, looking at ways to increase the brightness of bulbs, testing items for conductivity and designing electrical switches - there were some really inventive ideas!

Listening and learning outside

Year 4 investigated different sounds in the nature area . They made their own musical instruments, listened to the birds and watched popcorn explode on the fire whilst listening carefully to the crackling, fizzing and popping!

4G were busy in the nature area - feeding the birds, climbing trees, making and building!

Southend Library

Class 4G had a fantastic time on their visit to the Forum this week. They looked at maps of Southend dating back to 1777! There have been so many changes.

They had the joy of listening to a story in the children's library and were able to check out how the library books are ordered and found out about breaking the code!

Class 4F visit Southend Library

Life without electricity

4F went into the nature area and thought about what life was like before electricity.

An illuminating morning!

4G had an illuminating morning designing and then building electrical circuits using bulbs, buzzers and switches for our topic work.

Angry Birds 2

Year 4 had an amazing trip to the Odeon Cinema on the 12th November to see Angry Birds -2. It was all free under the provision of 'into film' scheme - bonus! The children had a great time (and I think all the adults enjoyed it too!).

Outdoor Activity Day

For our outdoor activity day we decided, as a class, to do 2 activities. First we spent time investigating electricity around the school for our topic work.

We then took part in a class sketching session. We took time to use our artistic skills sketching different view points and different 'things' around the school as part of a bigger art project on shade and light. Look out for the finished project work later in the year!

Marvellous Maths

Classifying Animal Groups

The children had a great lesson, testing their patience, classifying different animal groups and working out how to split the groups into separate classes.