Physical Education
Boys Y5/6 Football
Well done to all those who represented Y5/6 in Heywood Premier League competition
Mathematics
Rounding
During maths lessons this week with have been looking at rounding to the nearest 100 and 1000. We struggled slightly with rounding to the nearest 100 so during Fridays lesson we played lots of games to make sure we were secure before moving on to the next lesson.
Art & Design
Colour Mixing
In out first colour mixing Art lesson, children explore how primary colours can be combined to make new colours. Using paints, they experiment by mixing red, blue, and yellow to create secondary colours like green, orange, and purple. The lesson encourages hands-on discovery, creativity, and careful observation as pupils notice how changing the amounts of each colour affects the result.
Computing
European Languages day
We had a fantastic day celebrating European Day of Languages! We began the morning by enjoying a delicious croissant while listening to some traditional French music. Afterwards, we explored the amazing diversity of languages and cultures around the world and within our own classroom. Using a map, we located different countries and learned about their flags. The children then had the opportunity to colour in lots of different flags, and many even chose the flags Read more
History
Industrial Revolution workshop
Today Year 6 took part in a workshop delivered by Rochdale Pioneer Museum. The workshop was an introduction into our new topic for this half term. The children focused on key vocabulary such as: Victorian Era, Industrial Revolution, agriculture, trading and cotton. The children took part in games, role play and hands on activities focusing on life in Victorian Rochdale from Cotton Mill Kings, to the lives of the working poor’s stinking sewers to spoiled Read more
PSHCE
Crucial Crew
Yesterday Year 6 were lucky to attend Crucial Crew event at Rochdale Football Club. The children took part in various actitivies looking at ways they can keep themesevles safe in the community. The range of fun interactive workshops were from Greater Manchester Police, British Transport Police, Your Trust, Travelsafe, and Eco Councillor – in each one they learnt some valuable safety lessons. We would like to thank everyone involved for their hard work and enthusiasm Read more
Learning for Life
Year 6 – Crucial Crew
Yesterday Year 6 were lucky to attend Crucial Crew event at Rochdale Football Club. The children took part in various actitivies looking at ways they can keep themesevles safe in the community. The range of fun interactive workshops were from Greater Manchester Police, British Transport Police, Your Trust, Travelsafe, and Eco Councillor – in each one they learnt some valuable safety lessons. We would like to thank everyone involved for their hard work and enthusiasm Read more
Forest school
Forest School Fun
This afternoon Year 5 Pine enjoyed our first forest school session. We incorporated our skills builder lessons into the session and focused on teamwork and leadership skills. Using the information they have learnt in Geography the children worked together to build slum shelters. We also made Christian value rocks that we’ve hidden for the Reception children to find tomorrow.
Mathematics
Greater than and Less than
Year 1 have been introduced to greater and less than symbols today. We used our essential skill of ‘Teamwork’ to create mathematical sentences using cubes and our crocodile symbols.