As part of our work as a Rights Respecting School, we have today started work on the ‘OutRight’ campaign. OutRight is UNICEF UK’s annual children’s rights campaign that empowers children and young people to speak out about children’s rights. It’s a campaign by children, for children that helps them to promote Read more…
This week, we have been learning about climate change and its impact on the planet. We came across new key vocabulary like fossil fuels, atmosphere, greenhouse gas and global warming. We then created a poster showing the ways climate change is affecting our Earth.
This week in Geography, Class 13 have been learning all about earthquakes. They had to explore the classroom for information cards and use them to answer some questions about how and why earthquakes occur. We will continue this learning next week as we focus on one of the Earth’s major Read more…
On Wednesday, Year 5 visited the Liverpool World Museum and participated in an art workshop in the Walker Art Gallery. The children thoroughly enjoyed looking around the many exhibits, with particular favourites being the Ancient Egyptians and the Aquarium. A fantastic day was had by all!
Today, class 9 took part in a VR workshop all about climate change. We got the chance to link it to our learning in Geography and English and discover even more about it. We experienced the effects of melting ice caps and deforestation as well as meeting polar bears, orangutans Read more…
We had a delightful Geography lesson today as we started by recapping what we learnt last lesson by grouping facts about Norway and the UK together. we then sampled some delicious Norwegian salmon. I think we agree it’s an acquired taste.
To celebrate Earth day tomorrow we talked about recycling, saving water and how important it is to keep our earth clean and healthy. We did some writing and made special posters to remind us to think about our planet.
This week, Class 9 have been looking at old maps of Heywood and comparing them to present day. We used our knowledge of grid references to see what was the same/different in certain areas of the town. We decided that in the past, Heywood was quite rural, but as time Read more…
This week in Geography, we have been exploring Europe. We discovered that Europe is the second smallest continent in size but has the third largest population spread over 50 countries. We then used atlases to identify some countries and their capital cities.
Today in Geography, we have been looking at the impact of earthquakes and discussing the devastating affects that they can cause. After talking about the process of an earthquake, Class 13 were given the challenge of running a rescue mission and deciding which tasks would be a priority during an Read more…