In Reception we looked at different festivals that are celebrated throughout the year and how they are celebrated. We learned about the hindu festival of light ‘Diwali’ and ‘bonfire night’, we compared how they are celebrated and completed some crafts around this. We made firework pictures, Diva lamps, Rangoli patterns, watched a fireworks display and even moved like fireworks in PE, it was lots of fun!
This year, Year 4 are taking part in ‘The Linking Project’. We have been partnered with Marland Hill Community Primary School and today we got to meet our partner class for the first time. We met at the M6 theatre in Rochdale where we took part in different workshops and activities and we watched a performance of ‘A Tiger’s Tale’. We had a lovely day and are looking forward to meeting up with our link Read more
Today, Year 5 Juniper have carried out a Wellbeing Workshop. The children were able to spend time in The Rush Room with staff from their class and a lady called Jenny who led the workshop on wellbeing. The children were able to discuss what worries are, and learnt all about fight, flight, freeze and flop. The children carried out lots of different activities throughout their session including a ‘Spot the Difference’ activity to show how Read more
This week, Year 5 Juniper have taken part in a MoneySense workshop in relation to our finance week. A volunteer from NatWest bank came in to tell us all about the career that they have had working in finance and what their role is in the job that they do. We then carried out an activity where the children were able to work together in groups to plan a birthday party. The children were given Read more
Thank you to all the parents and grandparents who came to our shared lunch and learning. The children had so much fun (and I hope the adults did, too). We started our first Science lesson about organs in our body. We completed a quiz about the heart, lungs, stomach, skin, and skeleton. The answers to the quiz were put up all around the hall. Afterwards, these organs were added to an outline of the body Read more
In geography this half term we are learning about the countries of the UK. In this lesson, we used an atlas to identify where each country was. We then labelled our own maps of UK.
Well done to Y5/6 athletics squad: second place in the Heywood Sports Partnership athletics competition.
This week, we had 2 special visitors from Natwest bank who came into school to talk to us about money. We completed three different activities. The first one was looking at ‘wants’ and ‘needs’—we discussed how we need to have food, water, clothes, and shelter and how other things are what we just ‘want’ like chocolate, trips out, or holidays. In the second activity, we listened to a scenario about a boy who wanted a Read more
We have been learning about light this half term. We used our enquiry skills to learn what light is and how we can see objects. What the difference between day and night is. Which materials are reflective. How shadows are formed and how the size of shadows can be formed.
Thank you to our visitors today, we really enjoyed learning about their careers in banking during our question and answer session!We then became fraud investigators – we worked in groups and looked at all the exhibits and summarised the information to get the bottom of who might have committed the fraud. We presented our finding in groups and even included tips on how we could help and protect ourselves and others from fraud in the Read more