Physical Education
The name’s Bond, James Bond
Our new topic for PE is dance and this week we looked at freeze frames. We looked at several pictures of James Bond in different poses and then used these to create our own freeze frames in groups.
Language & Communication
Should rich people help those who are less fortunate than them?
Class 9’s Language and Communication question in this week’s English lesson was: Our focus vocabulary was wealthy fortunate privileged responsibility During the lesson, the children added their own language of the lesson, including: compassionate kind generous destitute considerate disadvantaged pauper There was a great debate around this question with excellent Read more…
Science
Taking Accurate Measurements
This week in Science, we conducted an experiment to find out what material would make the best heat insulator. We covered several cups in different materials and filled them with boiling water. At regular intervals (every 5 mins), we measured the temperature of the water using a thermometer. We bent Read more…
Art & Design
British History Heroes
This term in History, we have been looking at Heroes from British history. The people we studied were: William Wilberforce Elizabeth Fry Lord Shaftsbury Florence Nightingale Emmeline Pankhurst Winston Church To show what we have learnt, the children chose who they thought was the most important British Hero and, using Read more…
Computing
New Digital Leaders
This year’s team of Digital Leaders have now been appointed and are already hard at work. Four Digital leaders are continuing in their post from last year, taking on a more senior role and three new children were appointed after a rigorous application procedure. The Digital Leaders are: Tryphon (Senior Read more…
Arch Alliance
Digital Leader Kids Meet
Our Digital Leaders enjoyed attending Bowlee Park this afternoon for their first kids meet of the year. They were introduced to the Rochdale Digital Leader blog, learned about their first challenge and met Digital Leaders from other schools.
RHE
“Eggs”periment Results
Last week, we carried out an investigation to find out the effects of sugary drinks on our teeth using eggs. Egg shells are made up of the same material as the enamel on our teeth – calcium carbonate. We left the eggs for 4 days to see what would happen. Read more…
Kindness
Macmillan Coffee Morning
On Friday, Year 4 hosted a Macmillan coffee morning to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support. Thank you to all the pupils, parents and staff who not only attended on the day but also donated cakes and biscuits. With your support, we managed to raise £106.22
Science
How do sugary drinks affect our teeth?
Today we carried out the first experiment of our working scientifically topic. Our question is, “How do sugary drinks affect our teeth?” In order to answer our question, we planned an experiment using eggs to represent our teeth because teeth are made of calcium carbonate which is what eggshells are Read more…
Art & Design
What does Jesus look like?
Our RE topic this half term is ‘Why is Jesus inspiring?’ and over the last couple of weeks we have being learning about who Jesus is and what he did. As part of this we looked at various images of Jesus and thought about why they were so vastly different. Read more…