Year 5 had a fantastic day at St Annes beach yesterday. We had some time enjoying the beach and having fun. The children created mermaid art, built amazing sandcastles, played frisbee, played catching games and persevered with kite flying. We also had some time working with the Lancashire Wildlife Trust at Beach School. Here we learnt about how the beach is a habitat for lots of flora and fauna and how they work to protect Read more
On Thursday 7th July, Maple took part in the Rochdale Science-Faith Festival at St. Luke’s Church called God and the Big Bang. We took part in interactive workshops with the opportunity to discover, discuss and debate the compatibility of science and faith.
This week we have been learning all about bees, we started by reading the story ‘The Bumble Bear’. We answered lots of questions about the bumble bear and talked with our partners about our favourite part of the story. During continuous provision we have been creating our own bees using the paints and the creative resources. We painted the body of a bee under our faces to make it look like we were the Read more
On Monday morning, Year 5 visited New House Academy. We spent the morning in the Design and Technology department where we learnt about the various aspects taught there and were able to see some of the creations made. We then got the chance to create our own work. Pine created badges and Juniper used saws to cut out a sign. We then had a drink and biscuits before heading back to school.
We competed an investigation to see how we change a solid to a liquid by melting. We were challenged to find a place outside that we could keep our ice cube to stop it melting quickly. We found that by keeping it in our hands it melted quickly due to our boys heat. The best place to keep it was rolled up in our T-shirt then to go into the shade. to see what happens Read more
We had a fantastic morning taking part in Sports Day. We all tried our best and had lots of fun, even though it did start raining! A huge thank you to Mr Tomkins and Mrs Hughes for all of their hard work in organising this event.
Today we have enjoyed having our parents, grandparents, family members and carers come to watch us in our first sports day. We took part in lots of different sports activities throughout the morning and came up with the top boys and girls who then had their very own race. The staff at school are very proud of all the children and it has been amazing to see so many family members and carers come to watch. Read more
On Wednesday, Maple took part in our sports day. We all tried our very best and worked together well in our teams. We really enjoyed all the activities and especially the races at the end.
This half term Year 4 Maple are learning all about different types of rocks and fossils and today we used chocolate to help us remember the rock cycle. We used different types of chocolate (milk, white and dark) to represent the different layers in sedimentary rock. We then applied heat and pressure to the chocolate and watched as it began to go though metamorphosis and turn into metamorphic rock. We left our melted chocolate to Read more
During Science lessons we have been looking at the three different types of rocks; Igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic. We started our Science lesson this week by completing a ‘Kahoot’ quiz where we answered questions about what we already know as a recap. We then used chocolate to represent the different rocks and to help us explain the rock cycle. We started off with a mixture of white, dark and light chocolate to represent the sedimentary Read more