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…
In Year 4 we have been learning about the Rock Cycle. We began our Science lesson today with a Kahoot to go over facts that we had previously learnt about rocks. We then used play dough to explain the process of how the different rocks are formed. We began with Read more…
This week in Maple we have been enjoying Coding Week. We designed a football coding game and debugged to fix any errors in the code. Some of us had a go at designing a background in Free Code gibbon on Purple Mash, we learnt how to go in to design Read more…
This week was Recycling week, in Maple we discussed what recycling, reusing and reducing meant. We sorted images under the three categories and discussed how we could all be more environmentally friendly. We then designed our own recycling symbol, we came up with lots of brilliant designs!
During Art week we learnt about Andy Goldsworthy, he used lots of natural materials to create sculptures and pieces of art. We recreated a sculpture with paint and chalk. We really enjoyed it, we hope you like our artwork too.
We made 2 types of delicious smoothies. We chopped the fruit on chopping boards making sure we sanitised our hands before preparing it. We put mango, pineapple and carrot in the 1st smoothie. Lots of us enjoyed, it tasted very sour! The second smoothie was delicious it included bananas, strawberry Read more…
Before the half term, we learnt all about Internet safety. We listened to a story read by the Digital Leaders, it taught us to think before we click and if we see anything unsafe or something we are unsure about we need to tell an adult we trust. We created Read more…