Design and technology
Making biscuits
Our DT unit this half term is ‘Cooking and Nutrition: Adapting a recipe’. Last week we carried out some market research and taste tasted different biscuits as well as looking at the packing and deciding who the target audience was for each biscuit. This week we followed a basic recipe Read more…
Careers Related Learning
Careers Week
To start off our careers week in school as part of World Book Day, we had a visit from PC Partington and one of his colleagues. They are police dog handlers and they brought some of their police dogs with them. They talked to us about what their job involves Read more…
Design and technology
Year 4 Linking Project
Today, our linking project school, Littleborough Primary came to visit us for the day. Touchstones also joined us and delivered two workshops. They were a shadow puppet workshop and a body movement workshop and were both based around the book The Crown by Emily Kapff. We had lots of fun Read more…
Art & Design
Soap Sculptures
In our art lessons we have been learning about sculpture being a form of art. One of the artists we have looked at is Barbara Hepworth and the sculptures that she has created. We were then given the task to create our own sculptures out of soap. Have a look Read more…
Learning for Life
The importance of good oral health and hygiene
This morning, year 4 had a visit from our school nurse. Michelle told us all about the importance oral hygiene, we learnt what teeth are and how to look after them, what we use our teeth for, how many teeth we have and which are deciduous and permanent and the Read more…
Art & Design
Shared Learning with parents
This morning was our shared learning when our parents came into school to complete an activity with us and then we got to have lunch together. As we are currently reading the book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, our task was to invent a new chocolate bar, come up with Read more…
History
A visit from Touchstones
Today we had a visit from Touchstones museum. It was a brilliant introduction to our History topic for this half term – Romans. We had a discussion about where the Romans originated from which led on to us looking at the vexillum which is a flag used by the Roman Read more…
Art & Design
Year 4 Maple
Year 4 Maple have settled in brilliantly! Our class text for our English lessons this half term is The BFG By Roald Dahl so we started the school Year off with some fun BFG activities. We created dream catchers, drew pictures of the BFG and we also looked at some Read more…
Mathematics
Year 1 money
During maths this week, year 1 Willows have been learning to recognise money and count coins. They have done some problem solving with coins, looked at real money and used coins to pay for items during shop role play. We’ve had lots of fun!