Whole School
Christmas jumper and dinner day!
Today, we have celebrated Christmas Jumper day and enjoyed our delicious Christmas dinner. We’ve really enjoyed singing and dancing away to Christmas music.
Geography
Geography – Fieldwork
This afternoon, both year 6 classes went to Queen’s Park to carry out fieldwork linked with our Geography topic – fieldwork. The children used their knowledge of conducting fieldwork and field sketches to carry out a sketch of our local area. They used an acronym OASIS (orientation, annotations, scales information Read more
Science
Ogden Trust Science event
Yesterday, our Science Ambassadors took part in the Ogden Trust science event where they completed two challenges towards The Crest Awards. The children had to work collaboratively with other schools to investigate and complete both challenges. The children will be completing eight challenges over the year to achieve the Crest Read more
Whole School
Shared learning
This morning, Rowan were delighted to be able to welcome parents back in for shared learning and lunch. As part of our new Science topic, Sustainability, we have been looking at the ways to reduce, reuse and recycle. To support this, we worked with parents to recycle plastic in bottles, Read more
Christian Values
Dodgeball competition
Well done to the boys that took part in the Dodgeball competition last night at Holy Family. You never gave up when faced with challenges and you all acted like sports people should and shown respect. Well done. e.
Learning for Life
French day 2022
Year 6 participated in French day. We had a delicious French breakfast, learnt lots of new vocabulary, learnt and sang lots of songs and played many French games. The children also listened to Goldilocks and the Three Bears in French and also used a dictionary to translate the story back Read more
British Values
Armistice Day 2022
Today, both year 6 classes visited the cenotaph in Heywood to pay our respects for Armistice Day. The children read out a lovely poem in remembrance of all we have lost fighting in the wars. The children placed a wreath down with a beautiful message to all the fallen soldiers Read more
Whole School
Artists
Throughout Autumn 1, year 6 have been exploring a selection of paintings through art appreciation activities. Over the six weeks drew have been collecting ideas in sketchbooks and planning their final piece after researching the life, techniques and artistic intentions of an artist that interests them. The children have produced Read more
Computing
Screen time survey
During our computing lessons, the children have been looking at the effects of too much screen time. All children in Year 6 completed a survey at home to find out how much they actually spent on their screens (TV, phones, iPads, computers etc). The children then completed a poster on Read more
History
Co-operative museum visit
Year 6 are starting a new topic all about Industrial Revolution. Today, we had a visitor from Rochdale Pioneer Museum (Cat), who delivered a workshop all about our new topic. The children were fully immersed in Rochdale during the Industrial Revolution. They focused on working conditions, food and living conditions. Read more