We talked about the importance of hand washing today. Some adults and children used paint to represent germs because they ‘hadn’t washed their hands’. We played a clap and high 5 game where each child ended up with some blue paint on their hands. This showed how much the germs Read more…
This week has been random act of kindness day. Ash have been writing ‘Bee happy’ messages and have been putting them up around school. We have been writing jokes or messages to make everyone smile. Look out for our signs around school. We have also been colouring in some Read more…
This week has celebrated Random Acts Of Kindness Day. Birch has recognised this by collecting items for Heywood’s Banardos charity shop. Thank you to all the children and parents/ careers who have donated. Miss Lomax will take these to Banardos at the end of the week.
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…
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…
This week is online safety week. Year 3 Birch recognised this by reading “Tek The Modern Cave Boy” This book is designed to look like an iPad and teaches the children how and why spending too much time on technology computer games, can effect your wellbeing and relationships with family Read more…
Year 6 have been looking at lifestyle choices and how they affect us. We looked at drugs, smoking and alcohol and how they impact our bodies. The children created texts to give readers the information they need to make them aware of the dangers and how they can help Read more…
As part of Safer Internet Day, we enjoyed listening to the story ‘Webster’s Friend’. In the story Webster is talking to a stranger online and telling lots of fibs to impress him. As a class, we discussed the dangers of talking to strangers online and what to do if we Read more…
This week in PSHE, Year 3 have been learning about how they could help someone in an emergency. As part of this we talked about calling the emergency services, what constitutes as an emergency and the types of questions we may get asked if we did need to ring 999. Read more…
If you go down to the woods today, you might get a big surprise! Willows definitely got a lovely surprise when they went down to the woods. We received a very special email from Little Red Riding Hood… So we went down and had a look around… Read more…
