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BULA!

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 and taking on the role of sports journalists themselves. All the class thoroughly enjoyed learning about this fantastic story and piece of local history. The Read more

By Mrs Grindrod, ago

Shared learning and lunch

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. We then spoke about designing our own prayer garden in our school grounds. Children and grown ups then worked together to create some fabulous pieces of artwork on bricks. The artwork shows Christian values and quotes that children and parents felt Read more

By Mrs Edyvean, ago

Crossing the lines

This afternoon, Year 6 have watched the film ‘Blurred Lines’ by Parvez Qadir. The film aims to tackle the topic of organised crime and county lines. During the film, we stopped and answer questions relating to specific topics: stranger danger; healthy friendships; peer pressure; grooming; keeping secrets or who to ask for help. As a class, we then discussed key vocabulary that was highlighted throughout the film such as shotters, ENDZ, food and elders. To Read more

By Mrs Alderson, ago

Learning for Life – Ella’s diary dilemma

During our Learning for Life lesson today, Year 5 have discussed what is meant by a dare, who might dare a person and why people give dares? Together we came up with an agreed definition – ‘A dare is a request or challenge for someone to do something’. Children were given Ella’s diary entries (fictional character) describing her dilemma which allowed lots of discussion in year 5 around the risks and benefits of accepting dares. Read more

By Mrs Asif, ago

Sentence stacking

In English, we have been practising our sentence structures, adding conjunctions to make our sentences more interesting and seeing if we can make sentences from packs of words that we were given. We worked in pairs and helped each other to make our sentences, then read them back to check they made sense. We wrote the sentences down and were challenged to see if we could make our sentence more interesting. The conjunctions we focussed Read more

By Miss Horrocks, ago

Fractions and finding a whole

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.  

By Mrs Grindrod, ago

Learning for life – keeping safe.

Year 6 have been exploring the topic ‘feeling safe’. Last lesson, we discussed what a drug is. The children worked well to discuss the definition of a drug and what the terms of ‘legal and illegal’. As a class we discussed and explored what drugs are used for. We recognised that drugs are ‘A substance that people use to change the way they think, feel or behave.’ We used a Venn diagram to sort different drugs into Read more

By Mrs Alderson, ago

Reflective Friday

For our reflective Friday, we read the story of one of our inspirational people – Harriet Tubman.   We looked at how she managed to escape slavery in the southern states and then spent 11 years fighting to rescue other slaves. We looked through the window to see how her actions impacted the world, the mirror to reflect on its impact on how we think and feel, and the door to think about how we Read more

By Mr Hignett, ago

Computing – Creating Spreadsheets

As part of our Purple Mash unit, we had to create a spreadsheet to record the results and probabilities of rolling dice. We recorded the totals and results, and used these to create graphs.   We were able to use basic formulae to total our results automatically.  

By Mr Hignett, ago