ORGANISATION and PERSISTENCE

Our fantastic winners of our keys to success certificate have shown great organisation this week; always ready to learn and having everything they need. Well done!

Hampshire Games Week

Across Hampshire, schools have been or will be taking part in a range of activities to celebrate all aspects of PE, School Sport and Physical Activity. The children at Stanmore have loved taking part in all the different activities and the week has allowed them to explore a a whole range of aspects of physical health.

Monday - exploring leadership in sports

Tuesday: Physical activity

Wednesday - Wellbeing

Thursday - cross curricular work

Friday - Competitions

As you can see from the pictures, the children had a fantastic time and were particularly keen to record the points on the energise me website to earn some miles.

Aspen class earned the most miles, with a grand total of 196!

Year 5 and 6 Hampshire games

Stanmore Makes the news!

Yr 5 and 6 were featured in the Hampshire Chronicle this week celebrating their entrepreneurial spirit during our ‘Grow a Pound’ week.

Building work

As you may have noticed the building work is well and truly underway at Stanmore Primary School. The windows are looking great and ground work has begun on the new extension. We thought it may be helpful to show you the drawings of the finished building to give you a clear idea of what our fabulous school is going to look like. It should be a fantastic addition to our school.

Grow a Pound week

Grow a Pound

This week year 5 and 6 became entrepreneurs and created their own business’. After getting into groups the children bought in a pound each and devised their own products to sell. They needed to work out the cost of all the resources, market their ideas and work out the profit they may make. The final steps were to make their product and then set up their stall.

The culmination of this event was the chance for all the other year groups to come and purchase the range of goods on offer. These included fidget toys, cupcakes, lemonade and bracelets. The three yr 5 6 classes were fantastic all week and showed themselves to be excellent potential businessmen and woman as they raised a grand total of £172. The children will be voting on the charity they want to choose to donate the profits to, with a little left over as a treat for the classes. Well done Year 5 and 6!

Jubilee Celebrations

Jubilee Breakfast

Parents and children dressed in Tiaras or Diamonds to attend the Jubilee Breakfast at school. everyone looked fantastic and thoroughly enjoyed their bacon or sausage sandwiches. Thanks to everyone who bought tickets and to the kitchen staff for their early start.

Jubilee Lunch

Children gathered on the school field this lunchtime in house groups to celebrate the Queen’s amazing 70 year reign. We all enjoyed delicious cucumber and coronation chicken sandwiches and the whole school looked amazing in their red, white and blue. Thanks again to Mandy and the kitchen staff and to Mr Foard for helping sort all the tables.

Cricket

The school Cricket competed in a tournament this week at St Cross Cricket Ground. We were up against stiff competition and even though it was our first ever match we still managed to win one of our games. Staff were really proud of how the children behaved; they managed to combine a competitive edge with a great attitude (particularly with the heavy rain showers)..

Year 3 and 4

Yesterday we went on our amazing walk up St Catherine’s Hill! We were relieved that the weather was pleasant. We were also really pleased by how so many of you made it up all of the 331 steps to get to the top! Thank goodness we had some tasty snacks in our picnic bags to enjoy when we got there!

It was great that so many of you could join us!

Super Science at Stanmore

Year 5 and 6

This week in science we explored filtering and dissolving; conducting our own experiments with mixtures and solutions. The children showed their understanding of a fair test and looked at different variables. Things did get a little messy…..

Year 3 and 4

This half term, the children in Year 3 and 4 are learning about developing shades, tones and tints in their painting. They are learning to mix secondary and tertiary colours and develop them further by adding black and white paints. They will be using these skills to create a monochromatic painting of an image inspired by the South Downs artist, Mark Greco.

SATS are over!

Year 6

A huge well done for our yr6 cohort this week completing all their SATS test. We were all so impressed with their mature attitude and their resilience throughout the week. Thanks so much to the kitchen as well for the delicious breakfasts. The children celebrated on Friday afternoon with a visit from our local ice cream van. and luckily the sun appeared just in time. Thank you to the FoS for their support.

Year 5 and 6

Year 5 and 6 have been expert scientists this week investigating mixtures and solutions and how to separate them. The children then tested their filtering systems outside, using a bucket of muddy water, to investigate which materials helped to sieve out the dirt and purified the water. We all decided we still wouldn’t drink the ‘clean’ water!

Enjoying the sunshine

Year 2

This week we have carried on exploring plants and in our science looked at the difference between wild and garden plants. We went on a hunt around the school to see what we could find and we're surprised by the amount of plant life we have around our school site. We found lots of wild flowers including eyebright and speedwell, plants hidden in the grass, and also some wild strawberries. We are hoping for some strawberries to grow from them. The children then came back to class and dissected a flower to help identify all the different parts and then wrote what those parts are for.

Year 5 and 6

YR 6 took their Maths revision outside today and enjoyed the sunshine! Year 5 and 6 also enjoyed music lessons this week, playing the double harmonic scale which features in Arabic music. We played the notes: C Db E F G Ab B C.

Welcome back to the Summer Term

Year 2

This week Mr Reads writing group started the week by doing some gardening. This was to help inspire our writing for the next few weeks where we will be looking at the book "Curious Garden" by Peter Brown. Our first writing task was to think about our gardening and how we could use our senses to describe the experience. The group have written some great recounts as a result of their experience.

We tidied up the raised beds in the outdoor classroom and planted some new flowers in the house team colours. See the before and after pictures of the raised beds.

Year 3 and 4

Yr 3 and 4 are starting a new book this term - Leon and the Place in between - and to start the text the children took part in circus skill training. There was skipping, hula hooping and even an attempt at juggling!

Year 5 and 6

In Science this week Year 5 and 6 started their new topic - Material and changes in properties. The children took part in an experiment this week to test whether mysterious objects were magnetic, permeable, rigid or transparent. This will help us with our final outcome where we have to design a new clothing range for an outdoor clothing company - keep an eye on the shops!

We also started a new text (The Boy in the Tower) and arrived in our English lessons to discover we had been taken over by pernicious vines and plants! The children discussed how the plants might behave and made decisions about what they would pack should disaster strike!

Plays and performances

Year 1 and 2

Year 1/2 has been learning the recorder this half term and were able to perform to parents and carers this morning. They played a number of songs including a boogie and finishing with baby shark. They have worked really hard on their music and the music teacher was very impressed with their progress.

Year 3 and 4

Year 3 and 4 performed in our Spring Assembly this week.

They spoke with confidence in front of an audience for the first time since COVID closures. There were more than 100 adults who came to watch our performances - it was so great to have so many people join us in school again!

This week was time for our second ever performance of our Beyond The Beat musicians. Wind, strings and brass instruments all delighted the audience by how much progress they had made! We were also joined by some expert musicians from Hampshire Music Service as well as from Kings School and Westgate School.

Year 5 and 6

To end our Evolution topic, we studied a range of fossils. We were each given a different fossil; from it, we had to determine what the creature could have looked it, its diet and what its habitat might have been. We also discussed how fossils support the theory of evolution.