This half term, our class has been diving into the world of rocks, fossils, and geology, taking on the role of real-life geologists. We explored the three types of rocks—igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic—and learned how they form and what makes them unique. We sharpened our skills by classifying rocks based Read more…
Thank you to our visitors today, we really enjoyed learning about their careers in banking during our question and answer session!We then became fraud investigators – we worked in groups and looked at all the exhibits and summarised the information to get the bottom of who might have committed the Read more…
Thank you to all that attended Languages Club this half term. We’ve been very busy learning greetings in different languages, we looked at different European flags and matched languages to their country of origin, played games using the phrases and words we had learnt and even tasted some different foods Read more…
We had a great day celebrating European Day of languages! We all dressed in Red, White and Blue to represent the colours of the French flag, ate French croissants, learnt new phrases from many different European Languages, learnt a traditional French dance in the French Dance workshop and also discussed Read more…
We had a fab morning at Heywood library with Erica from Rochdale Schools Linking Team. We did a book hunt looking for books that linked to the themes of home, kindness, meeting new people, working together and making the world a better place. We hope that the Linking Read more…
Maple have had a brilliant day at Eureka. We looked around the ‘Living and Working together’, ‘All About Me’ and ‘SoundSpace’ Gallery and enjoyed the science show ‘From the Chew to the Poo’ Science Show. Well done Maple – you were all fab!
In music, this half term we are learning all about how and when rock and roll originated. We will be listening to music from the genre, learning dances and using instruments to recreate bass lines in our music lessons. In our first lesson, we listened to different pieces of music Read more…
This week has been British Science Week, we did an experiment to explore how different sized particles interact with our respiratory system. We used different sized sieves and colanders, chickpeas, pasta, rice and sand to simulate how we breathe in and filter the air around us. We made a prediction Read more…
We’ve had a brilliant week in Maple, we have learnt so much about different types of careers. We have been reading books which include inspirational characters and real life stories about how people achieved their dream careers. We’ve had lots of visitors such as Police Dog handlers, The Manchester Fire Read more…
This week was Mental Health Week, the theme was ‘My Voice Matters’. We had lots of discussions in class about what Mental Health is and who they can talk to so they can get their voice heard, we also discussed what things are important to us, what helps us feel Read more…