Year 6 have been set the challenge of creating poems and pieces of artwork, ready for the reopening of the Dippy exhibition. Head of Schools for Rochdale, Gillian Barrat, gave the children the opening lines for three verses of a poem which would demonstrate that during lowdown and the pandemic, Read more…
Bird feeder competition ends today at 3pm so get your entries in as quick as you can. We have had lots of excellent entries so far! Make sure you enter yours to be in with the chance of winning one of two Amazon vouchers! Good luck
Why not try something different for home learning this week? Below, I have added some screenshots of the Eco schools website, suggesting some activities that your children might love to do during these times. This is the direct link https://www.eco-schools.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Marine-Eco-Schools-At-Home.pdf If you do one of these activities, please tweet us Read more…
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…
At the the beginning of this week we read the story of the three little pigs. We had lots of different activities linked to the story around the classroom and Miss Horrocks set us a special challenge! We were a bit worried when she said she had invited the big Read more…
Space really does rock! A very generous parent let us look at his space asteroid collection where we saw some items that were once orbiting mars and jupiter! The children were amazed and Mrs Nuttall was excited to see the rocks that were 4.5 billion years old! We were Read more…
This week we have been doing lots of investigations. Our first experiment was to investigate how the level of water in a glass affects the sound made when tapping the glass with a pencil. We filled the glasses with different amounts of water and we had to find out how Read more…
This week, we have been learning about Jack and the Beanstalk. Whilst we have been learning about the story, we have also been learning about planting and growing. We have carefully planted a beanstalk bean with cotton wool so we can watch it grow. Everyday we have come into school Read more…
As part of British Science Week and our new topic ‘Playlist’, the children have been investigating pitch. The children carried out an experiment to find out if different amounts of water in glasses made different sounds. Some made high pitched sounds and some made lower pitched sounds…but how did the Read more…
This afternoon, Year 5 have independently researched some of the cures that medieval doctors used to cure the Black Death. We compared their methods to the work of doctors and scientists today and realised how much we have progressed! We then explored the properties of herbs and wrote some fantastic information Read more…