Today Year 5 completed our stuffed toys. The children have worked ready hard during this unit and and created some brilliant toys. Lots of the children initially found the sewing aspect difficult but persevered and should be very proud of themselves. Well done Year 5!
Juniper enjoyed a lesson with their families this morning. It was lovely to see the joy on their faces. We all worked together, thinking about the Christian value of ‘Love’ to decorate a plant pot ready for Valentines Day. Each child planted a sweetpea inside the pot. Please enjoy the Read more…
Science club have been working towards the Crest Award. In order to be successful, the children have the independently complete different challenges. This week the children completed the task ‘Crafty rafts’. We then tested them in water to see which raft held the most amount of counters before it sank.
Juniper have been working on ‘finding the whole’ in Maths this morning. We have used our knowledge of finding fractions of amounts and our times tables to calculate the answers. We’ve drawn some fantastic bar models to visualise and calculate. These have really helped us in our learning.
This half term we are designing and creating our own stuffed toys. The children have been working really hard on deciding the theme and shapes they will need and choosing and cutting the right fabrics pieces. This week we have practised using a blanket stitch. Next week we will be Read more…
This afternoon Juniper have had a visit from Rochdale’s environment education officer. They have learnt all about the 4r’s – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Recover. There was some great participation in the discussion and the children now know what goes into each of the rubbish bins we have at home. Read more…
This half term Juniper are learning to play the cornet. What a great start they’ve had! There’s been some excellent technique used to blow through the mouthpiece and create musical notes. Each week they’ll build on their skills and hopefully be able to play a tune by the end of Read more…
This half term we are answering the big question ‘If God is everywhere, why go to a place of worship?’. During todays lesson we investigated Hinduism and the similarities and differences between worshipping at home or at a Mandir. The children really enjoyed learning about a different religion and looking Read more…
Juniper have worked extremely hard this week to learn a written method for multiplying 2 digits by 2 digits. We have written a recipe for being successful. All of us have shown great progress since the start of the week and today we have been able to work in pairs, Read more…
To mark the end of our ‘Physical and Chemical Changes’ topic, Juniper have carried out an investigative task which challenged them to free a toy car from a block of ice using pure salt, rock salt and bicarbonate of soda. They had to find out which substance would melt the Read more…