ICT week

As you will have seen from our newsletter, this week is ICT week at SJL.  

All at SJL will be exploring ICT and e-safety to help them become responsible online users.

We are holding two competitions, here on our school blog.

 For more information and to take part click here or on the pencil on the left hand side!

BETT Show

A few children from Year 6 visited BETT today, the world’s largest ICT education fair! The children saw a
range of different products which could support our learning. Keep looking to see what’s posted!

Newsletter

You can find this week’s Newsletter here; http://bit.ly/xSeAPj

All newsletter links are also posted on the school website, as well as being stored on the blog.  You can find them on the right hand side of this page!

Quadblogging – connect with the world!

Quadblogging is an exciting opportunity for us at Sir John Lillie to share all our brilliant work with other blogging schools in the United Kingdom and around the world.  

Quad means 4.  We are part of a group of four blogging schools; one in Bolton in the north of England and two in Australia.  

Have a look at these other school blogs and comment on the posts and writing that they have on their blogs! 

Remember be polite and praise all the work that children, around the world, are doing.  

SS Osmund & Andrew’s RC School 

Roseville College

St Therese Primary School 

You will be able to find these links on the blogroll on the bottom left hand side of our school blog. 

January 2012

We hope you have had a lovely holiday and are now ready for the next fun-filled 5 weeks of term. 

Keep your eyes and ears open for many events coming up; Maths week and a competition on our school blog!

Dates for Diaries. . .

As you are aware, we aim to keep you updated about all the exciting events that happen at Sir John Lillie.  We publish dates through a variety of avenues; newsletters, blog, website and twitter.

From the blog here you can use the calendar that is on the right hand side, this will show you all the upcoming dates.

Please be aware that changes may be made to dates, however, we will aim to inform you of these asap.

Super Science Week

This week has been Science week at Sir John Lillie and what an amazing week it has been! There has been SO much going on, from visits from Scientists to investigations in classrooms and then finally the Science Challenge!

We wanted to show you some of the amazing entries to the challenge!

Plus, a MASSIVE thank you to everyone who worked so hard to make your mode of transport.  Prizes were awarded to 3rd, 2nd and 1st place within each phase of the school. Sue Hayward, our headteacher, was SO impressed by the number and quality of entries she has awarded each class £50 worth of vouchers with classes then choosing what to buy!

Science Week

As you will probably be aware, we are in the throws of Science week, with lots of excitement and practical task happening. The Science Fairies have been busying working, delivering daily challenges to each class. This has been a great opportunity for all of us to develop our thinking skills, questioning why things are happening, whilst also extending and consolidating our vocabulary.

Today, all class were visited by Dr Mark and his amazing workshop! Below are some videos and photographs of his session with years 5 & 6.

Alan Durant visits SJL

Wow, we have been so lucky today!

Alan Durant, author and poet, came to visit our school and work with several classes; all classes thoroughly enjoyed these workshops and so did Alan too! He was extremely impressed with your enthusiasm and questioning skills.

I really enjoyed his poems in the assembly for Upper School, especially his custard poem!

Here you can find loads more of Alan’s books on his website. 

What did you enjoy the most from Alan’s visit?

Upper School Stars of the Week!

Our Upper School Stars of the Week! Congratulations, keep up the great work!