On Friday evening, some of year 5 visited the AJ Bell stadium as part of a project with Rochdale Hornets. It was a fantastic experience for everyone who went. Firstly, the children took part in a tag rugby tournament with other schools. The played well and persevered despite the rain. Read more…
Today, Year 5 have had a fun afternoon doing Forest School. In geography, we have been learning about slums and we recapped everything we have learnt so far. We spoke about how houses in slums are usually poorly constructed with any materials that can be found. We also spoke about Read more…
Year 5 have been working hard in their computing lessons this half term. We have learnt some new vocabulary and thinking about algorithms, abstraction and decomposition in computer science. The children have used Purple Mash to code a simple traffic light system. We also used a football game and thought Read more…
This week in science, both year 6 classes have been looking at chemical reactions and have been consolidating their knowledge on physical changes and what they are. The children observed 3 different chemical reactions: burning paper, lighting a candle and the volcano explosion. From this, the children were able to Read more…
During Art, we have been looking at finding meanings within a painting. Children have been looking at vocabulary such as tone, line, colour, pattern and shape. Children used descriptive language to tell the story in various paintings they observed. Then, children painted a picture that related to a story or Read more…
Year 6 have been working extremely well throughout our RE topic, ‘what do religions say to us when life gets hard?’ Within this we have been looking at life after death and Heaven. In our lesson today, we have explored Heaven and what it looks like. We have to Read more…
Year 5 have been finding out all about ‘European Languages Day’ this afternoon. This day has been celebrated since 2001, to help people understand how useful it can be to speak more than one language. In Europe, there are 24 different spoken languages. Year 5 have had a go at Read more…
This week during computing, Year 6 have been looking at coding. They have explored, investigated and made different games on scratch. The children worked very hard, thought about the schools secrets of success (don’t give up, concentrate and push yourself) whilst using scratch. Well done.
Year 5 Pine have been creating mixtures in Forest School and linking our learning outside with our science lessons. In science, we have been learning about pure substances and mixtures. We have been thinking about the different ways to separate mixtures, including sieving, filtering and using magnets. In Forest School, Read more…
Within our science topic ‘particles and chemical reactions’ year 6 have been learning new scientific vocabulary such as soluble, insoluble, solvent, solute, solution particles, pure and impure substances. The children have worked very well to carry out investigations and experiments and work scientifically. Today, we used filter paper, funnels and Read more…