What a fantastic day we have had! We began with an assembly led by Miss Fisher, in which we learnt about VE Day and it’s significance. We heard from 2 class members whose great grandparents fought in the wars. Then we learnt about rationing and how much food we would have been able to buy from the shops. We used our maths skills to work out how much this would have cost us in today’s Read more
Year 3 had a great time today exploring the micro:bit hardware and software. They loved creating their own code to make the micro:bit show emojis and other patterns!
Some children from Year 5 Pine and Juniper have had the opportunity to work with Breaking Barriers, a Rochdale-based, multidisciplinary production company this morning. The children worked with the company to raise their awareness about Violence Against Women and Girls. We started by watching a monologue and then discussing in groups and as a whole the issues raised. This production aims to educate young people about VAWG, help them recognize the signs, and empower them Read more
In our PSHE lesson this week, Year 5 Juniper have been looking at how everybody is different, the different skills we have, our interests and what makes us diverse. We started by playing a game where we had to swap seats if the command related for us, for example swap seats if you can play a musical instrument. This allowed us to see how different amounts of people have different skills. This led on to Read more
This week our computing lesson turned into a physical exercise activity. This half term we’re learning all about concept maps and the importance of recording information. We demonstrated the idea of a physical concept map using string. We then discussed how difficult it was to remember everybody’s ideas and why it would be easier if we recorded the information visually. We also completed an online safety quiz to refresh our memories on the importance of Read more
Year 5 Pine had their first forest school session of the half term today. We had the perfect weather for a fun afternoon of shelter building and den building. We worked on our team building skills and reintroduced the rules of the forest.
This half-term, Year 1 are learning about the Jewish faith. Today we went on a coach to visit a synagogue. A lady showed us around, and taught us lots about the building, artefacts, and how they worship God.
This week in Year 5 Juniper, we started our new topic called Craft and Design: Architecture. The children this week learned all about observational drawing, scaling, sketching and accuracy. The children enjoyed drawing items from their memory to practice, before they went ahead to draw a house using the techniques they had learned. They added depth to their images by using different pencils. The children really enjoyed this first lesson and can’t wait for lesson Read more
Pine have been learning how to link ideas across paragraphs using adverbials of time, place, number and tense choices. We read through a number of texts and identified the adverbials used, then we tried to order a story by identifying the adverbials.
This week we have been reading ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’. We have been reading the story, acting it out and then we planted our own beanstalk.