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.
History
Famous sea explorers timeline
In History we researched different famous sea explorers. We found out lots of fun facts about them then we shared what we found with the rest of the class. Afterwards we worked together to create a timeline of the sea explorers.
Year 2 - Ash
RNLI
We had a special visitor in on Monday to tell us all about the RNLI and how to keep safe in water. We even had the chance to dress up:
Computing
Welcome back
We had a lovely start to the year by completing lots of fun pirate activities for our new topic Land Ahoy! We have made pirate hats, painted a pirate ship or pirate on purple mash for our front covers for our books, used the Beebots to direct around a treasure Read more
Science
Baby pictures
In our topic we have been looking at how we have changed over time. Yesterday we brought in our baby pictures so that we could look at the similarities and differences in ourselves between then and now.