Year 6 are starting a new topic all about Industrial Revolution. Today, we had a visitor from Rochdale Pioneer Museum (Cat), who delivered a workshop all about our new topic. The children were fully immersed in Rochdale during the Industrial Revolution. They focused on working conditions, food and living conditions. Read more…
This week, Year 2 began their History topic ‘The Great Fire Of London’. Our first lesson was all about fire safety. We began the lesson by talking about and spotting dangers around fire and thinking about where would and wouldn’t be a good place to start a camp fire. As Read more…
We were very lucky today as Touchstones came into our school and delivered a workshop all about the Romans. We learnt facts, tried on armour and togas and made our own Roman banners. We also put on special gloves and handled some Roman coins.
We have had a fantastic first week back in Year 3 Birch! We have been learning all about ‘The Stone Age’ in our history topic, we planned a fair test and learnt all about variables in science, wrote some prayers for our prayer jars and created some art work in Read more…
This week we have celebrated the Queen’s jubilee in school. We started the week off by completing some crafts all to do with the jubilee. We got the chance to look at some old items which were 50, 60 and 70 year old items. We enjoyed looking and touching the Read more…
This week we have had Stumberlina Vintage bring in some artefacts for the children to look at. The children have had so much fun looking at the different artefacts and trying on the clothes:
This week Year 4 Maple have continued our exploration of Vikings by learning about Viking longships. We spent the afternoon pretending to be Saxon spies searching the shore to find out more information about our enemies ships. The children worked in teams to create diagrams of the ships. We then Read more…
This half term Year 4 will be learning all about the history of Vikings so this week we had the chance to visit the Jorvik Viking Centre in York. The children were able to take a ride back in time to experience the sights, sounds and smells of Viking-age York. Read more…
As part of our Civil Rights topic, Year 6 looked at examples of artwork that promotes diversity and equality. After discussing different pieces, we decided to recreate Pop Art portraits of Rosa Parks. We used watercolours for the portrait and oil pastels to blend colours for a vibrant background.
