This half term in Year 4 our DT topic is Structure. In our first lesson we have been exploring different frame structures to test which are the most stable using toothpicks and sweets. We made basic geometric structures and then created larger structures considering strength and stability.
This year, Year 4 are taking part in ‘The Linking Project’. We have been partnered with Marland Hill Community Primary School and today we got to meet our partner class for the first time. We met at the M6 theatre in Rochdale where we took part in different workshops and Read more
Thank you to our visitors today, we really enjoyed learning about their careers in banking during our question and answer session!We then became fraud investigators – we worked in groups and looked at all the exhibits and summarised the information to get the bottom of who might have committed the Read more
We have been really enjoying our Music lessons in Year 4 this half term. We have been learning about motifs in music – playing motifs on the glockenspiels, composing our own motifs and performing our motifs on the glockenspiels to the class.
Thank you to all that attended Languages Club this half term. We’ve been very busy learning greetings in different languages, we looked at different European flags and matched languages to their country of origin, played games using the phrases and words we had learnt and even tasted some different foods Read more
We had a great day celebrating European Day of languages! We all dressed in Red, White and Blue to represent the colours of the French flag, ate French croissants, learnt new phrases from many different European Languages, learnt a traditional French dance in the French Dance workshop and also discussed Read more
This half term, we have been introduced to Skills Builder. It is a set of 8 skills that are important and that will be needed in our future careers. Our current focuses are the skills of listening and speaking (presenting). We have discussed the types of jobs which require excellent Read more
Today we had a visit from Touchstones museums. They came to talk to us about the Romans which is our History topic for this half term. We looked at a map to see where the Romans originated from and then we looked at some vexillum’s which is a flag used Read more
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