English
Story writers
We have been writing the end of our class story this week and creating a new character idea. We had lots of fantastic ideas for our new character from evil fairies, footballers, prickly hedgehogs, magical unicorns or cruel Pirates: We worked with a partner to create lots of ideas then Read more
History
A long time ago….
We have had lots of fun this afternoon looking at different artefacts from the past. First we had a guess what we thought each object was for. We had lots of great ideas, with the hot water bottle being a piggy bank, the carpet beater a cane and a flat Read more
English
Work at it Whizz
We have been talking lots about growth mindset and Whizz has been busy this week working with children that have been pushing themselves and trying hard with their work. Here’s just a few of the children he’s been working with this week. Throughout the week he worked with Leigh, Riley Read more
Geography
Street detectives
To begin our new topic ‘Street Detectives’ we went on a walk around Heywood. We looked at different places in Heywood and why they are important. Here are some of the places that are important to us:
Music
Music assembly
Wow Rochdale music services what an amazing assembly, thank you so much! The children thoroughly enjoyed you coming in and were really keen to answer questions about the instruments you were playing and talk about them. You have inspired a lot of children to continue to play their instruments or Read more
Reading
On the way home
We started our new book this week ‘On the way home’. To begin we made predictions about what the story might be about by looking at the picture on the front cover and the title. We had lots of great ideas. We then read the blurb to give us another Read more
Design and Technology
Making pirate ships
To end our topic ‘Land ahoy’ we have been making some pirate ships. To begin we had to think carefully, from our science experiments, about which materials would be best to make our boat so it would float. We had lots of fun making these in school and would love Read more
English
Fun with reading
Ash have been excited to start our new reading challenge, all they need to do is read at least 3 times a week and change their books Monday, Wednesday and Friday. They are then entered into a prize draw for a chance to win a reading pet. Our winner this Read more
Science
Healthy eating
In our FRESH lesson we tried lots of different fruits. We were all really good at trying new things and found that we loved lots of new fruits. We tried melon, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, mango and kiwi.