Design & Technology – Stuffed Toy Project

This Afternoon, children in Year 5 have continued to work on creating their own stuffed toys using skills such as: threading needles, decorating and attaching appendages using a variety of stitches (running, cross and blanket stitch) and adapting or modifying their designs. We have all really enjoyed being creative whilst learning new and useful skills during this craft project. Everyone is looking forward to taking their completed projects home with them. Well done Year 5 Read more…

Energy – speed

Rowan have extremely enjoyed our science topic, ‘energy’. This week the children have been learning all out energy, different energy stores and how it energy can be converted and transferred. They have also looked at different equations to work out efficiency, speed and power. They particularly loved looking at speed as they managed to work out their speed per as they ran 20m. The children worked very well throughout the lesson, even Mrs Alderson enjoyed Read more…

African Drumming workshop

Rowan have enjoyed playing the Djembe – a goblet drum from Africa. Mr Genty from the Rochdale Music Service told the children all about the drums history and how the African people used to gather, sing and dance to the drums. The children really enjoyed beating the drums to a rhythm and even managed a performance to Bruno Mars’ ‘Uptown Funk’ by the end of the session. The children thoroughly enjoyed the session, well done.

Baby bear’s chair

We have been working together to create a chair for Baby bear. We needed to work together to make a chair that would not only be comfortable but would be strong as well. Once we finished the chairs, we tested how many books we could put onto them before they broke. We then recorded the results in a table using the headings less than 10 books, equal to 10 books, or more than 10 books. Read more…

Eureka- Chew to the Poo!

Year 4 had a fantastic day today at Eureka. We loved exploring all the different areas in the museum. In the afternoon, we took part in a workshop called ‘Chew to the Poo’ where we learnt all about the digestive system ready for our science topic about human bodies next term. We loved the workshop and learnt lots of interesting facts.

African Drumming

Juniper have enjoyed playing the Djembe – a goblet drum from Africa. Mr Genty from the Rochdale Music Service told the children all about the drums history and how the African people used to gather, sing and dance to the drums. The children really enjoyed beating the drums to a rhythm and even managed a performance to Bruno Mars’ ‘Uptown Funk’ by the end of the session.

African Drumming Workshop

This afternoon we have had the most amazing time joining in with the African drumming Workshop. We learnt all about Djembe drums. We learnt that they come from Mali and are traditionally made from wood. We had a go at playing different rhythms on the drums and played along to some African music.

Design & Technology – Making a stuffed toy

Children in Year 5 Juniper have thoroughly enjoyed their Design and Technology lesson this week. We have designed and are making our own stuffed toys using skills such as: cutting accurately, threading needles, attaching appendages and buttons to fabric, decorating with different stitches and joining pieces of fabric together with a blanket stitch. A huge well done to all the children for their patience and resilience as some of these skills can be very tricky. Read more…

What is a good friend like?

This week we have been learning about being a good friend and who is special to us. We read The Rainbow Fish, then discussed what makes a good friend and how we can be a good friend. During the story we discussed how the fish would be feeling. Everyone then practised different facial expressions linked to their feelings. We all had lots of excellent ideas throughout the story! The children thought a good friend needed Read more…