We’ve had a brilliant week in Maple, we have learnt so much about different types of careers. We have been reading books which include inspirational characters and real life stories about how people achieved their dream careers. We’ve had lots of visitors such as Police Dog handlers, The Manchester Fire Read more…
To start off our careers week in school as part of World Book Day, we had a visit from PC Partington and one of his colleagues. They are police dog handlers and they brought some of their police dogs with them. They talked to us about what their job involves Read more…
Today, our linking project school, Littleborough Primary came to visit us for the day. Touchstones also joined us and delivered two workshops. They were a shadow puppet workshop and a body movement workshop and were both based around the book The Crown by Emily Kapff. We had lots of fun Read more…
In our art lessons we have been learning about sculpture being a form of art. One of the artists we have looked at is Barbara Hepworth and the sculptures that she has created. We were then given the task to create our own sculptures out of soap. Have a look Read more…
This week was Mental Health Week, the theme was ‘My Voice Matters’. We had lots of discussions in class about what Mental Health is and who they can talk to so they can get their voice heard, we also discussed what things are important to us, what helps us feel Read more…
This morning, year 4 had a visit from our school nurse. Michelle told us all about the importance oral hygiene, we learnt what teeth are and how to look after them, what we use our teeth for, how many teeth we have and which are deciduous and permanent and the Read more…
This morning was our shared learning when our parents came into school to complete an activity with us and then we got to have lunch together. As we are currently reading the book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, our task was to invent a new chocolate bar, come up with Read more…
In Year 4 we have been learning about the Rock Cycle. We began our Science lesson today with a Kahoot to go over facts that we had previously learnt about rocks. We then used play dough to explain the process of how the different rocks are formed. We began with Read more…
The children in Juniper have been given the opportunity to run a stall at the Christmas Fair this year and to plan, research, source and make the products that we will sell. The whole class has been involved in deciding what sweet products would sell best, researching Christmas themed sweets, Read more…
This week was Recycling week, in Maple we discussed what recycling, reusing and reducing meant. We sorted images under the three categories and discussed how we could all be more environmentally friendly. We then designed our own recycling symbol, we came up with lots of brilliant designs!