Alan Gibbons day

Yesterday was a very special day for St. Stephen's, because we had an award-winning writer in school to teach us about storywriting!

Alan Gibbons has written more than 50 books and hundreds of poems, and has an amazing imagination. Here are some photos of year 4 working with the great man!

Science day photos

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Science day madness!

Today was science day, and we had so much fun!

First, we had a very explosive assembly with Mr Kirk. We then created some wonderful science t-shirts using oil pastels. After lunch, things got very crazy and extremely messy! We made cups out of two pieces of card, and then had a relay to see how good our designs were. Some children's cups only lasted one run (like poor old Mew!), whereas others were still good to go after 3 or more runs! (Well done Peace and Wow!) We then had a competition to see who could make the longest possible straw that could still suck up water from a cup. Finally we got to the best, and messiest, bit - we made slime! The slime was really strange because it acted like a solid and a liquid at the same time. All you need is a cup of cornflour and half a cup of water to try it out yourself!

Have a look at our wonderful photos to find out more.

Shark posters!

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A visit from the shark guardians

On Friday, Liz and Brendan from the Shark Guardians came in to teach us about sharks, and how we can protect them. I-Rak and Luke have written more information for you below!

Hi guys! My name is I-Rak and I am in year 4 KS. Today in our school has a visitor and they come to our school to talk about shark. They have a lot of information to tell us and we are going to tell you guys some of the information we leant. First we are going to tell you about shark fin soup and this recipe is popular in china they cut the shark fin and make in to the shark fin soup! 

And it’s really bad to the shark because shark is a king of ocean and the shark take care all of  creatures and the shark don’t eat people!!! 

And we wish that you will learn something and don’t forget  to stop eating shark fin soup and  that is the way you can help shark.

Hi my name is Luke I am a student from y4ks I am telling you that you shouldn’t eat shark fin soup because it have lot of mercury poison sometime it make your arm not work and your leg too and sometime it happen to your brain and other things in your body to so that why you shouldn’t eat shark fin soup.