This week we have celebrated recycling week in year 2 by completing fun activities around recycling. We discussed why this is important and we coloured in a picture to remind us of how we can take care of our world. We then went outside and cleaned up our playground by Read more…
This week was Recycling week, in Maple we discussed what recycling, reusing and reducing meant. We sorted images under the three categories and discussed how we could all be more environmentally friendly. We then designed our own recycling symbol, we came up with lots of brilliant designs!
To celebrate recycling week, year 1 have been learning about what happens to our waste and why recycling is important. This linked in really well with our science topic ‘materials’ in which we have been identifying different materials by their properties. In our enquiry area, children have been using their Read more…
We used the bins to recycle all sorts of different objects today! The children discussed what each object was made out of and then put it in the correct bin.
This afternoon, Year 5 participated in a lesson – ‘The environment and Recycling’ – which was delivered by Nigel Goulding from Rochdale Borough Council. Children were able to learn and understand all about the damage humans cause to the environment. Nigel also explained how we can help by introducing the Read more…
In gardening club over the last 2 weeks, we have had lots of fun making caterpillar grass heads and creating watercolour paintings. We have planted plugs into our planters and we hope to see some growth soon.
We are already loving our new planting topic. We went up to Kaden’s Garden to do some planting in the sunshine.
Children loved gardening club today and enjoyed researching which plants are able to grow in winter conditions. We then went up to the garden and tidied the garden.
The children are loving the hot chocolate and the chance to purchase a Fairtrade product. Remember, every Friday the tuck shop will be available for 50p an item.
This half term in RE we have been reflecting on and discussing reasons why people do or do not believe in God. Today our focus was to explain why to many Christians the natural world is evidence for a belief in God. We explored Kaden’s garden and the children went Read more…