Today, the Reception children had their transition day in their new classrooms with their new teachers. After having circle time, in which we got to know each other, we then read the story ‘The Cautious caterpillar’ which was about a caterpillar who was very nervous and feeling a little bit Read more…
In Science this half-term, Year 2 have been learning about states of matter. This week we learnt what a mixture is. We then completed a mixture experiment to find out which substance (soap, washing up liquid or bubble bath) combined with water makes the best bubbles. We had lots of Read more…
On Thursday afternoons this half-term, Year 2 are completing a carousel of activities to improve various skills. They are improving their letter formation using ‘bubble writing’, working on their comprehension skills using information based on our current topics, practising their spellings through a variety of activities and, this week, practised Read more…
Year 2 have been working hard completing their assessments this week. Wow! Miss Lomax and Mrs Graham could not be any prouder of them all! They have worked so so hard not just this week but all year- this has really shown in their recent work! Well done Year 2! Read more…
To celebrate the King’s coronation this weekend, Year 2 designed and made our own commemorative plates. We followed a tutorial on how to draw King Charles, then added our own designs.
This week in Guided Reading, we began our new book ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’. The children were really excited to begin this story. They have been fantastic at answering prediction, retrieval, inference and grammar questions about the pages they have read so far. Some children have also been adding Read more…
On Wednesday, we had a really exciting Easter Fun afternoon. We used natural materials to decorate Easter cards, we went on an Easter egg hunt on Kayden’s garden, we spotted the Easter bunny, we drank hot chocolate and ate Easter treats left by the bunny, watched an Easter Film and Read more…
A huge well done to some of our Ks2 children who entered Rochdale Borough Council’s dance competition on Tuesday. They competed against 11 other primary schools with the theme of ‘A night at the movies’. The children were absolutely fantastic and won the best overall dance group! Part of their Read more…
During British Science week we have learnt all about different types of scientists and were amazed at how many amazing jobs there are that involve Science. Year 2 were given the task of creating animal/ bug hotels. We were very lucky to have some fantastic Year 6 children to come Read more…
Today, the whole school celebrated ‘Random Acts Of Kindness Day’. Each class decided on an act of kindness that they would like to do for others. Reception decorated biscuits for Year 2 Year 1 collected items for Heywood food bank Year 2 completed a colouring and decorated a biscuit for Read more…