This half term our topic is fairy tales, this week we have been focussing on the story Goldilocks and the Three Bears; we used adjectives to describe the characters, played with porridge oats and for our writing task we tasted different flavour porridge and wrote words to describe how they Read more…
Maple are excited to be taking part in the Linking Schools project, this year will be a little different but it will be just as fun! Instead of meeting in person we had a Zoom call with our linking class at All Saints Primary School in Rochdale. We did lots Read more…
This week is anti- bullying week. Throughout the week, classes have had an anti-bullying assembly, discussed this year’s theme ‘United against bullying’ and taken part in activities and discussions about bullying. Today we came to school wearing odd socks to celebrate our differences.
Yesterday in class we learnt about Remembrance Day and why we wear Poppies. We watched a short video and looked at a PowerPoint all about Remembrance Day and made poppy flags by painting apples red and printing them, we had lots of fun waving our flags as we were leaving Read more…
Today, we recognised Remembrance Day. We watched Year 6 do a fantastic assembly via teams in our classroom, took part in the 2 minute silence and created some beautiful art work. We created silhouettes by shading the back of a printed silhouette and pushing the pencil into our art work Read more…
Today we were lucky enough to be joined by Keziah from the Anne Frank Trust, who delivered and informative and inspiring lesson via MS Teams. The he lesson looked at how we can use the story of Anne Frank to discover what stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination mean, what they Read more…
October is Black History Month in the Uk. Today we learnt about why Black History is celebrated, and about significant people within black history, including Rosa Parks, Nelson Mandela, Mary Seacole, Barack Obama and George Washington Cava. We then created our own fact files.
In Willows today we talked about Black History Month where we looked at famous black people that achieved great things! We discussed the meaning behind Black History Month and talked about how we shouldn’t discriminate because of the colour of someone’s skin. The children found it really interesting and loved Read more…
Year 6 have been set the challenge of creating poems and pieces of artwork, ready for the reopening of the Dippy exhibition. Head of Schools for Rochdale, Gillian Barrat, gave the children the opening lines for three verses of a poem which would demonstrate that during lowdown and the pandemic, Read more…
We looked at The Smartest Giant in Town by Julia Donaldson. We noticed that the Smartest Giant in town was very kind to all the animals in the story. We decided to be kind like the Giant by giving people around the school some scrummy treats! We thought carefully Read more…