As part of our Super Scientists topic Class 6 have been investigating light. We learned about Issac Newton and the discovery he made about light. We used torches and prisms to explore how we can see the different colours of light as a rainbow.
We have a had a great first week and are really enjoying being back at school. We have been getting used to the new rules and routines and easing back into our learning. We have really enjoyed the team building challenges, particularly seeing which table could make the longest paper Read more…
This week Class 9 have been learning all about 3D shapes. We recapped the names of the shapes and learnt some new vocabulary ‘faces‘, ‘edges‘ and ‘vertices‘. Then, today, we got to apply everything that we had learnt when Miss French challenged us to build 3D shapes using cocktail sticks Read more…
Over the past few weeks, Class 9 have been learning all about musical notation with Mr Dixon from Rochdale Music Service. They have learnt the names and lengths of different notes and then applied this to perform a piece of body percussion to Dance Monkey by Tones and I. You Read more…
Class 11 have been working excellently on subtraction of fractions. This process involves many steps: identifying improper fractions and mixed numbers, converting between the two, exchanging and simplifying whilst subtracting. It has been very challenging but the children have worked excellently — including coaching each other and verbalising their methods Read more…
This week in our Science topic on Electricity, the children in Class 10 experimented with a variety of equipment with the aim of creating a working switch. In pairs, they had a paper clip, cardboard and split pins. The children had about 20 minutes to explore the resources given, trialling Read more…
The children in Class 10 have been using their mathematical knowledge to identify the wrong calculation (the impostor) and their reasoning skills to explain why it is wrong. Can you find the impostor?
This year we are starting a brand new scheme for our Relationships and Health education lessons. Our first lesson was all about Harold the Happy, Heathy Giraffe and his story of how he realised how the scarf he wore to school one day stood for many things. His scarf left Read more…
Class 11 have now enjoyed two swimming lessons this term. 9 children have already passed all Year 5 levels and will be swimming in baggy clothes next week! Every single child has taken part and progressed really well both in their swimming and their confidence in water. Well done Class Read more…
In Maths this week, we have been learning about area. Area is defined as: the amount of space a 2d shape takes up. We have all been finding the area of rectilinear shapes by counting the squares inside it and some of us have been using multiplication to ding the Read more…