It’s Day 2 of Year 6’s Robinwood visit, and Valley Group have been bouldering. The conditions were cold but everyone showed excellent resilience and courage throughout, navigating their way around a tricky course.
Class 3 are really enjoying their ‘reading buddy’ sessions with Class 11. Class 11 come to listen to their ‘reading buddy’ read and also help with recognising HFWs.
Hill Group today took part in a two hour covert mission in the hills and fields of Todmorden, keenly searching for evidence of an alien conspiracy. It was a very cold mission, but all the children persevered and uncovered some interesting secrets…
Valley Group faced their fears this afternoon in the Trapeze Challenge. They had to climb to the top of a tall tower before jumping off and catching the trapeze bar.
Class 11 spent Tuesday afternoon investigating if materials dissolve. We discussed the difference between melting and dissolving and decided to look at which materials are soluble and which are insoluble. Working in teams, we set up our experiment and chose how much water we would use, what quantity of material Read more…
This morning Class 13 transformed into a newsroom. The Year 6 children worked in pairs to produce the final draft of their news reports about Sandra Trickett and the Friends of Hopwood Park. Copies of their work will be available to read by the end of the week.
This week Class 12 have been thinking about recycling. We have been learning about how important recycling is for our planet. Our PLT are holding a competition to see who can design a fabulous recycling poster! Below are some pictures of Class 12 in their designing process.
Last week, Class 12 and 13 made graphs to show their results from a science experiment. We observed what happened to three beakers of water left to stand over time. One started as ice cubes, one was room temperature and the third was hot water. We took the temperature every Read more…
This morning, Class Eleven spent time looking at improper fractions and converting them to mixed fractions. We worked through various steps using counters, cubes and arrays to enable our learning. Working with others in the class helped us to discuss ideas, help each other and find out where we were Read more…
