Geography
Street detectives
To begin our new topic ‘Street Detectives’ we went on a walk around Heywood. We looked at different places in Heywood and why they are important. Here are some of the places that are important to us:
Music
Music assembly
Wow Rochdale music services what an amazing assembly, thank you so much! The children thoroughly enjoyed you coming in and were really keen to answer questions about the instruments you were playing and talk about them. You have inspired a lot of children to continue to play their instruments or to learn to play a new instrument.
English
Descriptive Writing
This half term Maple are learning about ‘Rivers & Mountains’. We immersed ourselves in the topic by listening to the sounds a river makes and watching clips of majestic mountains. The children thought about what they might hear, see and touch if they were there. They imagined what it would be like and asked themselves questions about the height of the mountains and the depth of the river.
Reading
🍬🍭🍫Which book is Year 3 Reading this half term? 🍫🍭🍬
Can you guess from the pictures of our classroom, which book Year 3 Birch is reading this half term? We are thoroughly enjoying reading this book in our daily class reading time. Well done to all the children who won a ‘Wonka’s Golden Ticket’ for reading every night this week. The children are excited to see if their ticket will be pulled out to win a prize at the end of this half term. As Read more
Art & Design
Diwali
This week in Reception we have been learning about Diwali. We have been talking about different religions and cultures and their celebrations. We found it very interesting learning about Diwali and finding out how it is celebrated. To celebrate Diwali we have been very busy completing lots of different activities. Reception have learnt the story of Rama and Sita, we then made puppets and role play masks to act out the story. We have also been Read more
Reading
Secret Reader
Reception had a surprise this morning. They found out that every Friday morning someone special was going to come into class and read us a story. We were very excited to see Esme’s mum come into class this morning to read to us. She brought a book with her that her mummy used to read to her when she was little. It was ‘The Elves and the Shoemaker’. Thank you Esme’s mum for coming into Read more
English
Secret Reader
This morning we had a special visitor in our class. We were very surprised to see Alex’s mum who had come to read us a very funny story called ‘I need a wee!” We really enjoyed the story and we read it again throughout the day. Thank you Alex’s mum!
Reading
On the way home
We started our new book this week ‘On the way home’. To begin we made predictions about what the story might be about by looking at the picture on the front cover and the title. We had lots of great ideas. We then read the blurb to give us another clue. In this story there is lots of repetition so the children soon picked up key phases and could join in with the story as Read more
Reading
Lending Library
This week a lending library in Reception has been introduced. We had lots of children come into school to choose a book with a parent or an adult. Thank you to everyone for taking part and we hope you have enjoyed reading your book! The lending library will be open again on Tuesday from 8.35am. We hope you’ll all come again to choose another book!
Reading
Quiet Reading Time
The children came into school this morning and prepared for a busy day ahead by quietly reading. The classroom atmosphere was calm and relaxed. There was some beautiful examples of concentration from the children and after reading the children were set up ready for the day!