Today we had a visit from Touchstones museums. They came to talk to us about the Romans which is our History topic for this half term. We looked at a map to see where the Romans originated from and then we looked at some vexillum’s which is a flag used Read more…
We had the artist Hugh Templeton join us in school today. He worked with us to help us create a piece of art work using water colours. We tried to recreate the picture of the Earth that Apollo 11 took when they landed on the moon. We really enjoyed the Read more…
Yesterday, we visited our link school, Littleborough Primary for the day. We took part in lots of different activities with them and we had a really fun day. We played circle time games, drew around our hands and decorated them, worked in teams to build marshmallow and cocktail stick towers Read more…
Today we took part in lots of activities as part of our MAF fun day. MAF is a charity that we have partnered with this year. We made paper aeroplanes and had a competition to see whose plane flew the furthest, we took part in a prayer zone challenge and Read more…
This afternoon, we started a new project in our DT lesson. It is a create and design project with the royal Opera House based around ‘The Magic Flute’. We spent the lesson discussing: * What is opera? * What is a set designer * Our design brief * Items we Read more…
This afternoon, Year 4 Maple visited Heywood library. We enjoyed looking through the selection of books and taking some time reading for pleasure. Every child chose a book to bring back to school that were able to stamp themselves. What a lovely afternoon we’ve had!
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…
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…
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…
