We had the artist Hugh Templeton join us in school today. He worked with us to help us create a piece of art work using water colours. We tried to recreate the picture of the Earth that Apollo 11 took when they landed on the moon. We really enjoyed the Read more…
We had a fab morning at Heywood library with Erica from Rochdale Schools Linking Team. We did a book hunt looking for books that linked to the themes of home, kindness, meeting new people, working together and making the world a better place. We hope that the Linking Read more…
Yesterday, we visited our link school, Littleborough Primary for the day. We took part in lots of different activities with them and we had a really fun day. We played circle time games, drew around our hands and decorated them, worked in teams to build marshmallow and cocktail stick towers Read more…
Today we took part in lots of activities as part of our MAF fun day. MAF is a charity that we have partnered with this year. We made paper aeroplanes and had a competition to see whose plane flew the furthest, we took part in a prayer zone challenge and Read more…
This afternoon, we started a new project in our DT lesson. It is a create and design project with the royal Opera House based around ‘The Magic Flute’. We spent the lesson discussing: * What is opera? * What is a set designer * Our design brief * Items we Read more…
This afternoon, Year 4 Maple visited Heywood library. We enjoyed looking through the selection of books and taking some time reading for pleasure. Every child chose a book to bring back to school that were able to stamp themselves. What a lovely afternoon we’ve had!
Maple have had a brilliant day at Eureka. We looked around the ‘Living and Working together’, ‘All About Me’ and ‘SoundSpace’ Gallery and enjoyed the science show ‘From the Chew to the Poo’ Science Show. Well done Maple – you were all fab!
This week has been British Science Week, we did an experiment to explore how different sized particles interact with our respiratory system. We used different sized sieves and colanders, chickpeas, pasta, rice and sand to simulate how we breathe in and filter the air around us. We made a prediction Read more…
Our DT unit this half term is ‘Cooking and Nutrition: Adapting a recipe’. Last week we carried out some market research and taste tasted different biscuits as well as looking at the packing and deciding who the target audience was for each biscuit. This week we followed a basic recipe Read more…
