During this week’s lesson, we used our R.E. lesson to explore our local area in Heywood to think about the ‘wows’ and ‘ows’ of our world. We discussed the amazing things in the natural world that we could see and hear (wows) as well as looking out for anything we Read more
This half term Year 5 will be learning about cooking and nutrition. In last week’s lesson we learnt all about the farm to fork process and how meat products, specifically beef, are produced. In today’s lesson the children had to adapt a recipe. We started by taste testing and comparing Read more
What a brilliant day we have had! Well done to everyone for being absolute superstars and so well- behaved! The movie was great and the golfing skills even better!
Year 5 have finished our architecture art unit by designing our own monuments. The children looked at famous monument examples and thought about how they would like to be represented. We then brought our ideas to life, annotating them to show what our monument means. We have also studied a Read more
Some children from Year 5 Pine and Juniper have had the opportunity to work with Breaking Barriers, a Rochdale-based, multidisciplinary production company this morning. The children worked with the company to raise their awareness about Violence Against Women and Girls. We started by watching a monologue and then discussing in Read more
This week our computing lesson turned into a physical exercise activity. This half term we’re learning all about concept maps and the importance of recording information. We demonstrated the idea of a physical concept map using string. We then discussed how difficult it was to remember everybody’s ideas and why Read more
Year 5 Pine had their first forest school session of the half term today. We had the perfect weather for a fun afternoon of shelter building and den building. We worked on our team building skills and reintroduced the rules of the forest.
Pine have been learning how to link ideas across paragraphs using adverbials of time, place, number and tense choices. We read through a number of texts and identified the adverbials used, then we tried to order a story by identifying the adverbials.
This half term we will be looking at architecture as part of our art topic. Today the children learnt about observational drawing and effective ways to draw the size of an object accurately. We used pencils and rulers as visual markers for the size of a house. We spent time Read more
