Well done to all our Year 5 and Year 6 dancers that attended the dance festival at Middleton arena last week! The children have worked really hard in their after-school club over the last few weeks and have shown amazing skills in listenning, creativity, staying positive and aiming high, but most of all teamwork!! You were outstanding on that stage and we are really proud of you all! It looks like we have some budding Read more
Year 2 had lots of fun in forest school, in the sun. They made a wormery and created some creative habitats to link to our Science topic on Habitats.
This morning, Year 1 were very lucky to have a visit from a local baker. To link to our DT topic, in which we are currently studying our topic ‘Cooking and nutrition’, we invited a local baker in to talk to us about her career. She told us about all the skills she needed to be a baker such as creativity, problem solving and aiming high, she talked to us about what school subjects have Read more
Today in Year 5 we completed an NSPCC PANTS lesson. The children discussed the PANTS rules and had some brilliant discussions about how they would respond to different scenarios. Well done Year 5.
In our English lesson this morning, we used thesaurus’ to find alternative words to use in our writing for ‘dirty’ and ‘mystical’. We created word banks and then wrote sentences containing our chosen words.
In DT we are going to be designing and making a healthy smoothie. Over the last 2 weeks we have learnt lots about fruits and vegetables, how we know a food is a fruit and where fruits and vegetables grow. This week we focussed on preparation skills. We learnt how to hold a knife and fork and cut foods of different textures and how to juice lemons and oranges. We also practised our skills by Read more
In Science, we have been learning all about sound. We have learnt about the 5 senses, how sound travels, and how parts of our ear work. This week, we learnt about pitch. We first played a game where we listened to a sound and had tocolour pictures 2 different colours, depending on whether it was a high pitch or a low pitch sound. We also went on a hunt outdoors to listen for things that Read more
Today we have been continuing our learning about structures by learning about structures made by Sir Anthony Caro We used his structures as inspiration for our own structures
In Science, we have been learning all about sound. We have learnt about the 5 senses, how sound travels, and how parts of our ear work. This week, we learnt about pitch. We first played a game where we listened to a sound and had to stand up tall for high pitch or crouch down low for low pitch. We also went on a hunt outdoors to listen for things that create low or high Read more
In DT we are going to be designing and making a healthy smoothie. Over the last 2 weeks we have learnt lots about fruits and vegetables, how we know a food is a fruit and where fruits and vegetables grow. This week we focussed on preparation skills. We learnt how to hold a knife and fork and cut foods of different textures and how to juice lemons and oranges.