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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, R

Year 5 had a visit from Nigel Goulding, an Environmental Education Officer from Rochdale Council yesterday. The children took part in a workshop about recycling, learning about the importance of recycling with practical examples of how to recycle well at home. The session included fun, interactive games and materials and the children learnt how making small changes now can have a huge impact on our environment. Hopefully, they now go home and put into practice Read more

By Mrs Grindrod, ago

Cenotaph Visit

Year 6 took our school poppy wreath to Heywood Cenotaph this morning. We had the chance to share a poem and a prayer, observe a moment of silence and explore the grounds and monuments to better understand the stories behind Remembrance Day and those who lost their lives during conflicts around the world.

By Mr Hignett, ago

Properties of Materials: Hardness

During our science lesson today, Year 5 have started their new topic on materials and their properties. Today’s focus was hardness. The children were given a selection of items made from different types of material that they had to organise into groups depending on whether they thought they were a hard or a soft material. Once they had made their predictions, they started their scratch test. They scratched each material and if they were easily Read more

By Miss Maxwell, ago

Electrical systems

This half term Year 5 will be investigating electrical systems and creating their own ‘doodlers’. During today’s lesson we focused on being able to identify simple circuit components and setting up our own series circuits. The children used bulbs and motors in their series circuits and looked at examples of motorised products. We linked our lesson with our careers related learning and skills builder targets by discussing careers that were linked to design technology and Read more

By Mrs Jones, ago

Ash Shared Learning

A big thank you to all the parents and family members who joined us for our shared learning session! We began by exploring our Skills Builder and discussing how these skills connect to our lessons and a variety of careers. Next, we turned into detectives, searching for clues to answer quiz questions about the different parts of the body. Afterwards, the adults traced around their children and labelled the various organs. Everyone had a fantastic Read more

By Mrs Graham, ago

Firework messy play

Today we celebrated bonfire night. We learnt about bonfire night traditions and how to be safe around fireworks. We enjoyed getting messy in our firework tuff tray. We explored the explosions of powder paint and foam and created patterns using paint brushes and other tools.

By Mrs Greenwood, ago

Swimming Lessons

Year 4 are making so much progress in their swimming lessons at Heywood Sports Village. More certificates have been awarded today with children achieving their Stage 2, Stage 3 and Stage 4. We are really impressed with how well they are doing. Keep it up!

By Mrs Murphy, ago