Today, Maple has been learning about how to look after their teeth. There were lots of great ideas – brushing twice a day, visiting the dentist regularly and flossing. We carried out an experiment to see if we had any plaque on our teeth and then had a go at Read more
This half-term Year 5’s topic is Allotment. The children have already made a fantastic start by clearing up Kaden’s garden which we will be using for many of our lessons. Today, we had a visit, out in the garden, from Jamie who runs a local allotment. He gave us lots Read more
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