Some of our Year 6’s from both classes have had a wonderful time creating bridges. The task was to create a bridge using newspaper and tape. Mrs Beeley has been very impressed with the team work and how the groups worked very well together. All the bridges were able to hold owl and Bruce and two even held Mrs Beeley!

We are celebrating British Science Week in school from 11-15 March 2024. Parents and grandparents can help!

We’d like to show children the range of STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) jobs that people in our community do. If you would like to come and tell the children (either in your child’s class or other classes in school) a little bit about your job during science week, that would be fantastic! The children always love these sessions. The session can be as short or as long as you like.
Contact Mrs Smith (our science lead) via enquiries@stwilfridssheffield.co.uk to discuss.

We’ve had a lovely afternoon with Year 3 for Storytelling Week. We began by setting up the classroom with some cosy areas to sit and enjoy a story. Then the year 3s arrived and we sat together hearing different stories.

In Y6 magpie (along with our Y5 science friends!), we have been exploring how we can separate mixtures. We looked at evaporation, sieving, filtration and magnetism. The mixtures we separated were: flour with raisins; salt with water; sand with water and paperclips with rice. Can you guess which method we used for each? We are waiting to see how the evaporation turns out over the next few weeks!

Thank you to the parents who joined us yeaterday evening. We hope you found the information useful. For those unable to attend, here are the presentations. Please get in touch via the enquiries email in you have any questions.

It has been a lovely first week back after the summer.

We’ve had plenty of time enjoying the sunshine and being back together. It’s been wonderful to catch up with children from last year and get to know new children in the class. It has felt really lovely in the classroom; promising for a brilliant year together.

We enjoyed spending some time as a whole year group doing team building activities and look forward to doing lots together across the year. We tried to order ourselves on benches (harder than it sounds), travelled our team across a lava filled playground via 4 sheets of newspaper and tried to get a hoop round the circle without breaking hands.

We’ve also done lots of getting to know you activities as well as planning for the year ahead.

One thing that all staff have been really proud of is Year 6 taking on their new roles as buddies for the younger children. The year 1’s and new reception children have hugely benefitted from their role models joining them for dinner and showing them how to be kind and respectful on the playground. I’m sure their fantastic efforts will continue to make a postive impact across the school. Well done year 6.

Reminder about the Coronation picnic tomorrow (2.15pm – 3.15pm) that would be great.

Reminders that:

– We would be really grateful for donations of cake/scones etc to share (the PTA will be taking voluntary cash donations for these on the afternoon)

– Children can come to school wearing red, white or blue

– Children can bring an extra snack to enjoy in the afternoon 

-Parents must let us know if you are wanting to collect their child early to join you on the field 

We had a lovely Penitential service with Year 6 this afternoon. We considered what we wanted to ask forgiveness for and considered how we are going to start again in our Lent journey.

In Maths, year 5 have just begun a unit on angles. We explored finding acute, obtuse, reflex and right angles around the classroom. Can you find any in your home?

We then used our knowledge of the different types of angle to create shapes on the geoboards.

Yesterday, we explored air resitance using spinners. We carried out a fair test. Our indpendent variable was the length of the wings and the dependent variable was the time the spinner took to fall. We had to keep everything else the same to make the test fair. Lots of us took repeat readings to ensure our results were accurate.