In out first colour mixing Art lesson, children explore how primary colours can be combined to make new colours. Using paints, they experiment by mixing red, blue, and yellow to create secondary colours like green, orange, and purple. The lesson encourages hands-on discovery, creativity, and careful observation as pupils notice Read more
European Day of Languages – Year 4 Celebration! On the European Day of Languages, Year 4 had a fantastic time celebrating the amazing diversity of languages and cultures across Europe – and in our own classroom! We started the day by learning how to say “hello” in lots of different Read more
Thank you to all of our parents, children and families that have sent in donations for Heywood Food Bank. Mr Singleton has taken the donations this morning.
We have had a fun day celebrating European day of languages. We came to school wearing red, white and blue then started the day by eating delicious croissants while listening to French music. We have been learning how to say hello and hi in French and took part in a Read more
Today we have celebrated the European Day of Languages! We have enjoyed many different activities a big thank you to Mrs Pilliteri for organising the day. We have enjoyed a French breakfast, Spanish dancing, learning to greet each other in different languages, searched for flags, coloured in greetings and dressed Read more
We have some very talented children in Year 3 Birch who kindly brought in some medals and trophies to showcase their achievements in sport outside of school. We have someone who is on a football team outside of school who won the Autumn and Spring cup, won the league and Read more
This week has been arts week and we have learning about Artist David Hockney. We created a fact page about him, drew a picture of his famous Garrowby Hill and then coloured in pictures of his artwork using the computer.
This week has been Art Week, and we’ve taken inspiration from Vincent van Gogh’s famous Sunflowers artwork. We explored different styles of sunflowers through sketching and drawing, and then brought our creations to life using a variety of colouring mediums. These included felt tips, oil pastels, watercolours, and pencil crayons. Read more
For this year’s art week theme – The Natural World, Year 1 have studied the artist Andy Goldsworthy, we have collected and remembered facts, looked at his artwork, collaged a fact file and then created our own pieces inspired by Andy Goldsworthy. During cool time, some of us practised what Read more
Year 4 went to Queen’s Park today to look at the River Roch as a part of our Geography lesson. We looked at both the physical and human features that we could see along the river. We looked at how the river meandered and anny erosion we could see. Sadly, Read more