HOGWARTS COMES TO YEAR 3 

Year 3 had a fabulous day dressing up as witches and wizards, making wands and potions! Tomorrow's job is to write the spells to go with the potions... beware! 

The Great Fire of London

This half term Year 1 will be learning all about 'The Great Fire of London'.
This pupil was very proud to share with the class his adventures in London.
He saw the Monument that was built to remember the fire and visited the streets (Pudding Lane and Seething Lane) where the fire took place in 1666.
He was brave and climbed all of the 311 steps to the top of the tower and back down again!
Year 1 can not wait to use their Historical Enquiry skills to find out more about the events that happened in 'The Great Fire of London'.

Fireworks in Year 4

In Year 4, we have been reading the novel The Firework Maker's Daughter.

As it was the last day of term, we had special permission to show the children some indoor fireworks - outside.  It was very sunny as you can see in the picture, but we thought Snakes Alive was the best one. There was also Disco Inferno, Sizzling Strobes, Flash Harry and Blazing Bengals.  None of them made a noise - they all made light or sparks.  There was a lot of smoke with some of them, so it was good we were outside.

Have you ever seen Indoor Fireworks?
Did you like them?

Fairground Ride DT Day in Year 6

These photos show some children from Year 6 deep in concentration as they work to create their fairground rides from their designs.

Can you spot the amazing unicorns at the top of this ride?

They needed to include a motor to make it spin.

This group were the first to make their motor work.

Well done Year 6.

1L are in Superhero headquarters...

Year 1's new topic this half term is Superheroes and they have a special challenge...

Today they used their role play skills to show others what powers their superhero would have.
They had lots of fun and then drew and coloured their very own superhero.

Amazing animals!!

Year 1 went to Marwell Zoo and had lots of fun observing all the amazing animals.

Marwell knew we were coming as we had written a letter telling them how excited we were and which animals we wanted to see.

The weather was lovely and we had a workshop where we had the chance to touch a snake and a rat.

We were all so brave!

We will now write a recount.

Our Super Reading Corner!

Today 1L enjoyed having a lovely reading time in our new, super reading corner.

It was great to watch children get excited and enthusiastic about reading books.

They read brilliant and shared books nicely.

Keep it up 1L and I am really glad you like the new corner :)

Year 3 visit SeaCity Museum

On Tuesday, Year 3 went on a trip to SeaCity Museum in Southampton to learn more about the Titanic. While we were there, we completed a workshop about the Titanic and got to explore the exhibitions about the Titanic. We learnt lots of interesting facts about the Titanic and we started to realise the importance that the Titanic had to Southampton. Here are some photos from our trip!

Proud owners of Tudor Houses

Take a trip with year 4 to Tudor Town...

In Year 4, we celebrated all of the incredibly hard work that the children have put in to researching, designing and creating their Tudor houses! We are so proud of their projects that we wanted to share them with you...

Year One a Superhero Day

We are ready for our superhero day here in 1N! Everyone looks fantastic and we are inspired to create some fantastic ideas for our writing! 

Garden Gurus

Year 2 are using their knowledge about plants to help Gardener Gilbert refresh his garden centre. Today, we used our SPaG skills (questions and commands) to write a questionnaire that we took around the school for adults and children to answer. This means we got 30 responses from each class.

We would really appreciate your help in answering our big questionnaire about plants and garden centres. There are some tick box questions and some spaces for you to give us extra information if you'd like.

When the questionnaires are done, we will be able to tell Gardener Gilbert what is wrong with his garden centre and start making improvements using our wisdom and knowledge!

Here are the links for our questionnaires:

• 2D's questionnaire - Garden Guru's questionnaire
• 2W's questionnaire - The Ideal Garden Centre

If you have any problems answering these questionnaires please let your class teachers know!

Thank you!
Year 2

Year One Traveled Around the UK!

In Year One we have started to learn all about aviation and the countries in the United Kingdom. We decided we wanted to write an exciting adventure story about flying around the UK on an aeroplane. So, we created our own aeroplane in our school hall and flew to the different countries where we learned lots about the characteristics of each country... including special foods! We had so much fun and really enjoyed being passengers on Year One Airways! 

Our Flight around the UK

Year 4 New Forest Trip

Yesterday, Year 4 went on a trip to the New Forest. We had great fun learning about the forest and the habitats that can be found within it. There were also opportunities to get up close with animals and their skulls to see what they feel like and decide what they might eat by looking at their teeth. The trip was rounded off with a lovely walk in the forest at Bolderwood once the rain had cleared up! Here are some pictures to show you what we got up to!

Year 2's art afternoon

Year 2 have started building an art portfolio by creating a range of seaside art! Today we started it off by using a new material, oil pastels. We had a go at blending colours to make art that matched an artist's work. Have a look at us working and see what you think!



Soon we'll be looking at different methods of creating art using some material that we collect from our trips to the seaside... bet you can't guess what it might be!

Year 4 Egypt Topic Day

Year 4 have started the summer term with a topic day! 

Using maps, topic books and iPads, we are discovering lots of exciting things about Ancient Egypt.

World Water Day 2016

Today Shirley Warren Primary School helped to celebrate the 23rd United Nations World Water Day.

We started off with a very interesting assembly from Ashleigh from Southern Water who challenged us to think about where we could save water.

We then heard from Stella Typhoon (Mrs Bullas) and Aqua Lakes (Mrs Williams) who were hosting Shirley Warren News, about water around the world.  But they kept getting crackly screens! There were no reports!  So every year group found out about an aspect of water during the day. Here are some games from Year 3.

From Environmental Health correspondents to Weather Reports via songs and lots of practical activities, Shirley Warren News was finally aired at the end of the day.

Then we saw some photos of our link school, Tukela, in Zambia.  They need to raise money for flushing toilets.  Maybe you can just about see "boys" on the left and "girls" on the right on the corrugated doors in the picture. Can you see any water nearby?

As we have just had Sports Relief we are going to fund raise next term but we need your ideas for interesting ways we can raise money.  Please tell your Green Council rep any ideas you have.

Mrs Williams

Year 6 Topic: Mountains

Year 6 have been learning about mountains and how they are formed.









This is a volcano.  Volcanoes can form from the seas and also make islands out of ash and fire.  The white piece on top is not snow, it is ash: the ash turns into stone or earth but starts off as burning ash and then begins the transformation.



This is a folded mountain.  It is formed by the plates pushing together to make mountains and valleys.  Folded mountains are very good for hiking or maintain climbing because they are extremely steep and they also have cliffs which are good for rope hooks that grip on to the side of the mountain.

Here is a question for you: Do you know how plateau mountains are formed? Put your answers in the comments below.

By EB
Year 6

Y3 Trip to SeaCity!

Today, Year 3 went on a wonderful trip to SeaCity museum! We had a great time in a workshop dressing up as crew members and completing other exciting activities. Then we went on a tour around the museum, we especially enjoyed trying to steer a boat! We got to pose for a group photo, the first one we may look unhappy in but this was because we were trying to look like the crew members behind us. The next group photo we look more like our normal selves!

Longdown Farm at Shirley Warren

Children in Reception had tremendous fun meeting Farmer Ian and the animals from Longdown Farm on Thursday, 3rd of March. It was exciting to handle the animals and to learn about what they eat, what their babies are called and what noises they make. The children were very brave to smooth the goats, piglets, ducks, donkey, chickens and they even learnt a magic trick with the little chicks!