Visitors

Visitors to our school

We are always pleased to welcome visitors to our school and here are details of just a few of our most recent guests:

QUANTUM THEATRE
As part of the Creative Curriculum, Quantum Theatre were invited into school to perform 'The Starry Messenger'on Thursday 1 October 2009. Keystage 1 learned all about day and night whilst Keystage 2 learned about the planets and famous astrologers. The children really enjoyed the performance and later shared their knowledge in class discussions.

GLADIATORS On Wednesday 11 June 2009 two members of Roman Tours Ltd came into school and provided a truly unique experience for our Class 5 children. Dressed in full replica costume, they told the children more about the life of a gladiator and even reinacted a bear fight! Some of the childen(and staff) had the opportunity to try on various items of clothing as well as fight the bear...

	Mrs Sagar and slide show of India One of our Reception children is a Sikh and having just come back from 10 days in India, his mum very kindly came in during April 2009 to show photos of their trip on the classroom whiteboard.
	The children were delighted and enthralled with the stories to match each picture and they particularly liked the Golden Temple. We were very glad that the children could experience a different culture, dress and way of life and we are most grateful to Mrs Sagar for giving them this opportunity.

Health and Safety Talk
On Thursday 2 April 2009 Mr Neil Taylor came in to speak to the children at an assembly about Health and Safety in construction and building.

The company building our new classroom extentions, Hankinsons, had arranged Mr Taylor's visit in order to remind the children never to play on building sites and he stressed the importance of following the rules.
The children also enjoyed dressing up in some of the protective safety clothing and footwear.

Fire Safety Talk
Members of a local fire crew came into school on Thursday 16 October 2008 to talk to the children about the importance of fire safety, with particular emphasis on fireworks and Bonfire night.
At a whole school assembly, they explained the dangers of carelessness and stressed the need for care at all times, giving examples of how accidents happen their serious consequences.

The Pop Project
On Wednesday 1 October we welcomed The Pop Project who took the children through an historical journey of popular music from the 1950s to the present day.
The children were involved in workshops where they had the opportunity to join in songs, dances and even dress in the clothing from each era, led by the three musicians. Everyone had a terrific time and thoroughly enjoyed the experience.

Circus-ology

Reception children through to our Year 6 children were given a display of circus skills when 'Circus-ology' came to visit in April.

Each year group had an individual session when they had the chance to try out different skills appropriate to their age such as juggling,stilts and unicycles.
All of the children had great fun and thoroughly enjoyed their day of circus activities.

Circus Surreal Our junior children were treated to an impressive display of juggling when members of the Circus Surreal came in to demonstrate their skills one afternoon in April.In addition to entertaining the children with their tricks with footballs, the performers also demonstrated the art of face painting, using four children as models.

Ferronious the Roman Soldier
On Thursday 10 April 2008, as part of their history topic, Class 3 and Class 4 enjoyed a visit from 'Ferronious the Roman soldier' from Roman Tours. During the day the children had the opportunity to learn more about life in Britain before the Romans invaded and the impact they had, the evidence of which we can still see today.
The children were shown a range of artefacts relating to the period and some items were passed around the hall for closer inspection.One child was invited to dress as a Roman soldier and 'Ferronious' explained why each item of clothing would have been worn.
The highlight of the day was the opportunity for the children to march across the playground as a Roman army and go into battle, using shields to protect themselves -the effectiveness of this defensive grouping was tested by other children enthusiastically throwing bean bags!

Campaigning for Fair Trade
As shown by our Fair Trade web page, we actively encourage our children to think about 'making a difference' and so we were particularly pleased to welcome Fair Trade campaigner, Mr Basil Wakefield.
Mr Wakefield came to speak to our junior children on Thursday 8 November and in addition to relating interesting experiences from his trip to Africa, he also explained about the principles behind Fair Trade and how we can help to make Sale a Fair Trade town - the children are now keen to persuade their parents to buy more items showing the Fairtrade mark.

Childhood memories of The Second World War
Class 4 have been learning about the Second World War and in particular, how the war affected children. In October, Mr Jim Law, a grandparent and parishioner of St Margaret Ward, kindly agreed to come in to talk to the class and share some of his own experiences from the war years. Although he was only a small child at the time, Mr Law had many interesting stories to tell and the children listened intently before asking their own questions.

Police Visit
In September two members of Traffords Mounted Police Division came in to talk about their duties and their role in the community.The children asked lots of questions and one of the many interesting facts they discovered was that the horses are usually named after characters in Dickens novels!

Anglian Home Improvements
Earlier in the year,Anglian Home Improvements launched a nationwide art competition, inviting children under 12 to draw a view of their 'window on the world', relevant to climate change, the environment and green issues.

Lewis, one of our Year 6 children, was selected as a regional finalist and on Wednesday 12 September, Melanie Russell, Anglian's Director of Communications presented Lewis with his prize - £1,000 to spend on art equipment for our school and a commemorative stained glass window of his design to display in school.
Ms Russell commented, "Lewis's design really caught our eye and worked well to demonstrate both the positive and negative aspects of todays society."

As a school, all of our pupils worked hard on their designs and everyone was overjoyed to hear that Lewis had won one of the top prizes from Anglian.

Sports Roadshow Sports students from South Trafford College provided a morning of physical fun for Class 3 and 4. The children completed a variety of physical activities including orienteering, developing and improving all their PE skills. The sports students were well organised and enthusiastic, ensuring our children had a memorable morning.

Snorri the Viking Classes 3 and 4 were delighted to welcome 'Snorri the Viking' to our school on 24 April.He arrived in his longboat..(only joking, he had a van!) loaded with artefacts from the viking era. The children spent the morning learning all about Viking times, weapons, armour, houses, trade and coins. A fun time was had by all and best of all we learned lots of interesting new things.

Maths workshop with Mr Eadie from St Ambrose College

St Ambrose Maths Workshop
In July, two members of the St Ambrose Mathematics department along with 5 of their Year 9 boys came into school to work on a problem solving module with our Year 5 children.

Our Year 5 children working with St Ambrose team

Rainbow Trust
A representative from the Rainbow Trust inspired our children with an informative and colourful presentation explaining the very special caring and loving environment of the Francis House children's Hospice. Our school regularly supports fundraising for this particularly worthwhile cause through selling beanie babies and badges.

Cycling Proficiency
Each year,instructors from Trafford's Road Safety Unit come into school to run a three day course from the Safer Cycling Scheme.This year 21 of our Year 6 children took this excellent opportunity to receive supervised ' on road' training, concentrating in particular on observation, starting and stopping and manoevres at junctions.

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