Our Recent Blog Posts

To view posts by class or curriculum area, use the menu above. We hope you enjoy reading our posts.

Animation

During computing, we have started exploring the world of animation. We learned how animations work and had a go at creating our very own flip animations. It was great fun bringing our ideas to life, Read more

Violins

We are really enjoying our violin lessons with Rochdale Music Service! We are learning lots of new skills, developing our musical abilities and having great fun along the way.

Which tooth brush?

During science, we conducted an investigation to find out which toothbrush hardness would be best for brushing our teeth. We tested different types and discovered that a soft-bristled toothbrush was the most effective choice. We Read more

Musical chair Maths

In Year 4 Hawthorn, we always enjoy an active maths lesson on a Friday! This Friday, we took part in a fun game of Musical Chair Maths. When the music stopped, we stopped dancing, found Read more

Anglo-Saxon houses

The Anglo-Saxons used to build their houses using wattle and daub, so we decided to try recreating the technique ourselves. It was messy, tricky and much harder than we expected! It really made us appreciate Read more

Teeth

During Science lessons, we have been looking at the different types of teeth and their functions. We then looked at shape of each tooth and created our own set using clay!

Anglo-Saxon workshop

We had some lovely visitors from Touchstones museum come to our school and deliver an Anglo-Saxon workshop to our Year 4’s. They taught us lots of interesting facts about the Anglo-Saxons, brought a box full Read more

PE

Year 2 have had lots of fun in PE this week. We had three different activities to complete: dodgeball, football and then free choice with equipment. We then ended our PE lesson with a class Read more

PGL

What an amazing start to Year 6. Our children had the best weekend at PGL. The children loved taking part in lots of the activities, some of our favourites were raft building, abseiling, trapeze and Read more