Physical Education
Cricket Fun
Maple have enjoyed their PE lesson this week with a Cricket coach. They have learnt some new throwing and catching skills and are becoming familiar with the rules of Cricket. Fantastic job Maple!
Christian Values
Children In Need 2020
This week, the whole school have been helping to raise money for Children In Need. Each class have been completing the ‘Act Your Age’ challenge in their PE lessons with our PE coach Mr Tomkins, and today came to school in their pyjamas. Mr Tomkins is amazed at how well Read more
Growth Mind-set
World Mental Health Day – Snowdrops
For World Mental Health Day, we all wore yellow. Throughout the day we took part in lots of lovely activities and talked about how it is important to keep our mind healthy as well as our body. We liked that Miss Horrocks called it our ‘rainbow brain’. We did some Read more
Physical Education
Fun in PE
This morning we have had lots of fun in PE: climbing, balancing, moving and jumping in different ways from the large apparatus.
Physical Education
Eating Healthy
This week we have been learning about how to be healthy and what is good to eat to keep our bodies healthy. We need to be healthy to be super superheroes! We researched being healthy and found out that eating lots of fruit can help our bodies be healthy. All Read more
English
Stay and Play
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
Mathematics
Feel the pulse
During PE this week, we enjoyed looking at how and why our pulse rate changes. We looked at resting heart rates and discussed what these might tell us about our fitness levels. We wrote a hypothesis about the link between the two. We decided to test the hypothesis by completing Read more
Music
Northern Ballet School visit
Year 5 have had a fantastic afternoon with professional dancers from the Northern Ballet School. It was the first of our dance workshops, which is leading to performances at the Bridgewater Hall and the Hallé St Peter’s. The children grew in confidence during the session, used their growth mindsets and Read more
Physical Education
Thank you Link for Life
Today we had our last session with Link for Life for FRESH. We looked at the healthy plate again and talked about a balanced diet. William was awarded the winner of the best healthy plate and Imogen won a prize for the best listener: After our discussion with Emma Read more
Physical Education
🍏🍇🍌🍓FRESH Fridays🍓🍌🍇🍏
In our topic lessons we have been looking at food groups and healthy eating. To support us in our learning we have had visitors in for the last two Fridays. We spent the first half of the session outside doing sports games for exercise and the second half inside learning Read more