Just to remind everyone that the deadline for the Bird Feeder Competition is Friday 15th May. We have already had some lovely entries but please don’t miss out! Get your entries in by this Friday for a chance to win one of two Amazon eGift cards to spend however you Read more
for our act of kindness, Year 6 started to lead into our new topic: Darwin’s Delights. Much of Darwin’s research centred around bird, most famously the finches of the Galápagos Islands. We created bird feeders from lard and seed mix and set them in cups around string. the Read more
This week Year 3 Birch were lucky enough to visit Dippy the Diplodocus in Rochdale. We travelled by bus into Rochdale centre, thinking about our road safety and stranger safety and all the staff were really impressed with the behaviour of the children. We learnt lots of new facts about Read more
Year 6 were lucky enough to be one of the first classes in Rochdale to visit the Dippy exhibition at Number One Riverside and Touchstones. the children were able to take public transport and learn how to find and follow the correct bus routes throughout the local area, as well Read more
Thank you to all of the parents who attended our phonic and reading workshop and stay and play this week. All of the children loved having you in school and they have been talking about it lots in class afterwards. Thank you! This week we have been learning about the Read more
Today Year 5 enjoyed working in teams as archaeologists to find ancient Egyptian artefacts hidden around the garden. We then discussed how we could describe these artefacts using powerful vocabulary and we used the FANTASTICS to guide us. This experience lesson will help us with our English lesson tomorrow, where Read more
We have had some great fun these past 2 weeks, the naughty Evil Pea from Supertato has been getting up to mischief in our classroom. To stop him from capturing the carrots and our snack we had to come up with lots of ways to try and trap him! Read more
Reception have had an unwanted visitor these past two weeks… the Evil Pea! He first came into our classroom and took our carrots!! Supertato then left us a letter and asked for our help. Over the past two weeks The Evil Pea has done lots of silly things! We have Read more
To begin our topic last week we went on a minibeast hunt in Kayden’s garden. However as it was very wet outside we only managed to find a few Minibeasts hiding. We saw worms, beetles, woodlouse and flies. This Week we have been learning all about bees to write Read more
We went up to Kayden’s garden to make dens and nests for the woodland creatures that might come sniffing round in the garden during the night! We had lots of fun finding sticks of the right length to make appropriate dens and nests. It was great to see that the Read more