Today, the whole school celebrated ‘Random Acts Of Kindness Day’. Each class decided on an act of kindness that they would like to do for others. Reception decorated biscuits for Year 2 Year 1 collected items for Heywood food bank Year 2 completed a colouring and decorated a biscuit for Reception Year 3 collected items for BleakHolt animal sanctuary Year 4 completed artwork and wrote messages to an Old people’s home Year 5 went litter Read more
For our reflective Friday, we read the story of one of our inspirational people – Marcus Rashford. We looked at why he is not only famous on the pitch, but off the pitch too. He has endlessly campaigned against racism, child hunger and homelessness in the UK and used his platform to be political activist to drive social change. We looked through the window to see how his actions impacted the world, the mirror Read more
This week we have been learning about being safe online. We have discussed when we should use our iPads, mobile phones and computers. Then we discussed what we should do if something happened while we were using it. Jessie and her friends, taught us a song to help us. We need to make sure we tell an adult who we trust!
In Science, Year 5 Pine enjoyed investigating magnets. First we recapped prior learning and sorted objects into magnetic, not magnetic and magnets. We discussed how we can turn magnetic materials into magnets but also looked at how magnetic materials behave differently to magnets. The children enjoyed working in groups to carry out different practical activities.
Year 5 Pine took part in a live lesson for safer internet day. We recapped the rules about keeping safe online. The children discussed how to communicate safely online and we discussed how we would deal with several online dilemmas. The children the invented their own character for the digital defence squad. Each character had a job to help protect us online.
On Friday, the children were wearing their clothes inside and we discussed how people can sometimes feel differently on the inside to how they seem on the outside. In Forest School, we recapped the 5 ways to well-being: get active, take notice, learn something new, connect with others and give. The children came up with lots of ideas for things to do at home and also spoke about what they could do if they felt Read more
This week Year 2 revised their knowledge of sentence types and suffixes through outdoor active lessons. We played Formula 1 Suffixes, speeding through an obstacle course to retrieve a route word to take back to our groups, before deciding which suffixes it connect with and working together to spell the new word correctly. We also played calypso corners, in which, a sentence was read aloud to us and we danced along with the music. When Read more
This year for Safer internet day the theme is ‘Want to talk about it? Making space for conversations about life online’. We started the day with an assembly delivered by the digital leaders who shared the importance of staying safe online. They encouraged children to talk about what they do online. In class we then completed a lesson about who we can trust online and who we can talk to if/when something upsets us. To Read more
