🌈 Random Acts of Kindness Day To celebrate Random Acts of Kindness Day, year 4 created some bright and colourful artwork to share with residents at a local elderly care home. Our goal was simple — to spread a little happiness and bring some extra colour into their day. Each piece was made with care, creativity, and kindness in mind. We hope our artwork brings smiles, sparks conversations, and truly brightens their day. Sometimes the Read more
This half-term in after-school club, we have been developing our essential skill of problem solving through a range of engaging and active challenges. Pupils have taken part in activities such as the Human Knot, where teamwork and communication were key to untangling themselves, as well as exciting code-breaking tasks that required logic, reasoning and careful thinking. We have also enjoyed a variety of games and quizzes that encouraged strategy, resilience and collaboration. Throughout these activities, Read more
This half-term, Year 1 have been exploring the art skill of creating 3D forms using paper. During our recent lesson, the children worked collaboratively to design and build a large spider model inspired by Maman by Louise Bourgeois. We used a variety of techniques to turn newspaper and tape into 3D spiders. The activity encouraged creativity, problem solving and teamwork, as the children shared ideas and supported one another to achieve a fantastic final piece. Read more
This week we have been taking part in Random Acts of Kindness. We collected donations for Bleakholt Animal Sanctuary, made pictures for our friends, created a Word Art on the computer for our friends and we completed a Kindness tree to show how many time we have been kind this week.
Reception have been discussing how we can show a random act of kindness. This afternoon, Reception decided to make cards and pictures of our nursery children. We hope they like them and they make them smile!
Year 2 had a wonderful time celebrating Random Acts of Kindness Day! We collected donations for Bleakholt Animal Sanctuary, bringing in pet food, blankets and toys to help care for animals in need. The children were proud to know their kindness will make a real difference. We also had a visit from our Anti-Bully Ambassadors, who helped us create special word art describing another child in the class. We used kind and positive words, then Read more
Year 5 have been litter picking today as our part of our ‘Random act of kindness’. Random act of kindness week is a global, annual event dedicated to encouraging, celebrating and practicing small acts of kindness to foster community, positivity and connection. Well done year 5.
In STEM Club this week, our task was called ‘Bridge Blunder’. The children were given the task of building a bridge that would stretch over a 20cm span. The children were only able to use paper, scissors and sellotape to make their creation. This was quite the challenge! Once the children had made their creations, they were put to the test by adding weights to the bridges to see which bridge was the strongest and Read more
We took part in collective worship led by the Digital Leaders about Safer Internet Day. This year’s theme was “Smart Tech, Safe Choices – Exploring the Safe and Responsible Use of AI.” In class, we then completed a lesson to learn more about artificial intelligence (AI). Together, we discussed which pictures showed the use of AI. We used these ideas to help us create our own picture that included different examples of AI. After that, Read more
Some year 5 children have continued their journey with other Rochdale schools, working scientifically to identify a problem within our local community that we can solve through scientific enquiry. The session took place at Rochdale Town Hall and began with a guest speaker from Cambridge University who spoke with the children about his work and offered an insight into identifying environmental problems that could be solved through investigation. We also looked at the characteristics of Read more