Year 5 have enjoyed a science show all about electricity this morning. A scientist came to school to show us lots of demonstrations about electricity. The children really impressed us with their knowledge and they made some excellent predictions about which materials would be good conductors or insulators. Lots of Read more…
Today has been ‘Inside Out’ day in school. Juniper came to school dressed in their clothes, but inside out! Inside Out Day during Children’s Mental Health Week is an awareness campaign that aims to enable young people to start talking about their mental health. How someone looks on the outside Read more…
Thank you to all all the parents and grandparents who joined us for our shared learning and lunch today. The children enjoyed sharing what they have been learning in RE about places of worship. Our own place of worship in Kaden’s garden is going to look beautiful with all the Read more…
Juniper have had a fantastic morning in English today. A real life national newspaper writer visited our classroom to tell us the story of the Rochdale-Fijian link with Rochdale Rugby Hornets. The children were engaged in their reading and writing by taking themselves inside the exciting world of sports journalism Read more…
In this lesson we have worked hard to ‘find the whole’. We used bar models to calculate the missing whole. The children used their fantastic knowledge of their times tables to help them. What a great effort everyone. Have a look at some of our work below.
This half term year 5 have been learning about Installation Art and about the work of artist Cai Guo-Qiang; considering the display space and scale of an artwork; creating a scaled-down version of an installation similar to Guo-Qiang’s gunpowder drawings. The children have really enjoyed exploring with everyday objects to Read more…
On Wednesday afternoon, Juniper enjoyed listening to a song called Make You Feel My Love, originally by Bob Dylan and then re-recorded by Adele. They learnt some of the lyrics and had a go at singing along. In addition to this, they also played some notes from the song on Read more…
This half term we are learning all about Magnetism. This lesson we have been investigating 2 different types of forces: contact forces and non-contact forces. We discussed and watched clips about friction, upthrust, air resistance, water resistance, gravitational force and magnetic force. We carried out some mini experiments to see Read more…
Juniper have thought really carefully about their advent promises this year. We have beautifully decorated our advent candles with a promise that we are going to try to keep throughout Advent. Well done everyone!
This half term the children in Juniper are learning how to play a brass instrument. The music teacher has been very impressed with the children’s use of tempo and rhythm. They have all learnt how to play different notes with their instrument and will hopefully be able to play a Read more…