This week we have been learning about keeping safe online. We discussed how using Purple Mash we can complete ‘safe’ searches and what this means – all the content in Purple Mash is created for children, there are no links outside of Purple Mash and details of your work are only shared on Purple Mash, not anyone outside of school. We compared this to searching online and what we can do if we encounter anything Read more
Today we have been looking into how to keep ourself safe online. We have been working on our online posters for the digital leader poster competition.
Science club have been working towards the Crest Award. In order to be successful, the children have the independently complete different challenges. This week the children completed the task ‘Crafty rafts’. We then tested them in water to see which raft held the most amount of counters before it sank.
As part of our D&T Come Dine with Me topic, we looked at how the ingredients we will be using, make it to the shelves in the supermarket. We looked at how they are grown, picked, packed, shipped and delivered across different continents around the globe or from within Britain itself.
Today we have had our next Linking Project meeting day with our partner school, Ashfield Valley. Thanks to Touchstones, we had workshops creating shadow puppet workshops and a body movement workshop both were based around the book ‘The Crown’ It was so much fun meeting up with our partner school. We worked with our partner for most of the day as well as enjoying play time together.
For safer internet day 2024, Year 6 discussed ways in which they can stay safe online and promote online safety. Children disccused and explored the positivies and negatives of the internet and how the internet has the power to change our lives. Then, they playes an online quiz to test their knowledge before playing a game linked to online safety. We also read the book ‘Ella and her mobile phone’ that highlighted issues with mibile Read more
Cross Country champion, Heidi, took part in the Greater Manchester Primary Cross Country Race on Saturday morning. She finished 1st for Rochdale, 15th overall out of 99 runners! We are extremely proud of Heidi. Please comment to congratulate Heidi on her amazing achievement!
This week, Year 1 have been super grammarsauruses. They have been learning about two different types of nouns. We have learnt actions for each to help us remember them, sorted words and images into proper nouns, common nouns or not a noun, played games to test our knowledge and completed some fantastic work in our books.
In art, year 1 have been learning about and creating 3D art. This week, in forest school, we created our own 3D sculptures, of an animal of our choice, using clay and natural materials. After working so hard in lessons today, we also had some free time exploring forest school once our sculptures were complete.
Juniper have been working on ‘finding the whole’ in Maths this morning. We have used our knowledge of finding fractions of amounts and our times tables to calculate the answers. We’ve drawn some fantastic bar models to visualise and calculate. These have really helped us in our learning.