Here is the current homework for Autumn 2 term. Children must complete both sets of spellings and a piece of learning challenge homework. Don’t forget, reading should be completed 3 times a week and an additional session of ReadingPlus should also be done.

After our harvest assembly, the candidates who put themselves forward for Head Girl and Head Boy went and delivered flowers to the local residents of Carr Mill. These flowers had been kindly donated by the children, parents and carers of our school.

Five Carr Mill Pupil’s artwork was selected to be exhibited in the St Helens Youth Open Art Competition at The World of Glass this year.

A special congratulations to Cameron in Class 1 who won the KS1 category with his model of The Titanic!

Here is some of the fabulous art work produced by our pupils during Shakespeare Festival 2019.

The children in Foundation Stage made fairy wands, fairy gardens and fairy layered pictures. 

Key Stage 1 children created an amazing patchwork quilt inspired by Romeo and Juliet. Showcasing their textiles skills.

In Years 3 and 4 Julius Caesar was the inspiration. The pupils each designed and made a printing block. These prints were combined with a sculpture to represent the theme ‘Revenge’.

Years 5 and 6 were studying Hamlet and as well as some sketches to represent the story, they also created multi media images.

Each class were challenged to create an exploding book for their play to celebrate World Book Day.

Please have a look at the photos below. 

Spring homework – up to and including February half term.

Y6 had lots of fun ghyll scrambling, mountain climbing, kayaking, canoeing and orienteering during their week away in Coniston.

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Carr Mill’s Christmas Choir Wow audiences!

Congratulations to classes 7, 8 and 9 who came 2nd in the Enterprise competition to regenerate Goodison Park! A team of 8 children went to Goodison Park to present their ideas infront a panel of judges. All children were an absolute credit to school and we could not be more proud. As a result, the children will have a training session in the new year with coaches from Everton.

On Tuesday, Year 5 went to Crucial Crew at The Totally Wicked Stadium. They learnt about road safety and how to make sure people are safe in a medical emergency. They now know all about CPR, the recovery position, calling 999 and when to call 101 in non-emergency situations.

Classes 7, 8 and 9 went to Lowe House  for a Remembrance Service, paying respect to the soldiers who have bravely fought for our country.

St Helens is celebrating it’s 150th birthday this year. We have joined a group of St Helens schools to create an art gallery in the town centre celebrating our town.

Artist Dave Bixter worked with a group of children in school to produce some stunning collaborative art work. 

The children learned new drawing and sketching techniques such as continuous line drawing and using a pin hole viewfinder to look very closely at what they are drawing.

The artwork is currently being displayed in St Helens town centre in the shop windows along Church Street and inside Parish Church. Please take the time to visit and have a look!

Well done to those children whose work is exhibited, the results of your work are outstanding! 

Here is the homework for classes 7, 8 and 9 for Autumn 2 term. This will run from 2.11.18 until Christmas.

The children from Years 5 and 6 had the opportunity to visit Clonter Opera Theatre in September for a musical theatre workshop. 

They had an amazing time working on their skills with the actors and then watching a live performance.

Here are some of the things our pupils had to say about this experience:

•”We got to meet some real singers and dancers!”

•”It inspired me to work on instruments.”

•”My favourite part of the trip was the performance”

•”It inspired me to sing along with the songs I didn’t know”

•”It inspired me for the future to become a singer”

•”I enjoyed it because they had different pitched voices for singing”

•”I enjoyed the rainforest noises in groups”

In Class 9 over the last 3 weeks we have been studying Macbeth by William Shakespeare. The children have thoroughly enjoyed exploring the characters in the story and examining the plot to decide who was truly responsible for killing King Duncan. They have created monologues in the style of their chosen character, written newspaper reports and narratives, performed raps in groups and recorded their own vlogs about a particular aspect of the plot. We all had so much fun on Friday (16th March) when we dressed up as a character from Macbeth for a day focussed upon visual literacy.

On the 23rd March we celebrated the work completed in classes during our Arts and Culture Shakespeare Family Assembly. Parents and carers were invited back to class to sample our Macbeth potions! They evaluated the fruit smoothies that class 9 created and had the opportunity to look at all our work.