This week, we’ve been taking part in the ‘Monster Kickabout’ in partnership with Nike and Sports Direct. We have entered a competition to design a new football kit and were set the ‘Goals Galore’ challenge. The aim of the challenge was to see how many goals the class could score 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…
In Geography today, Class 9 explored how the use of land in Heywood had changed over time. Applying our previously learned knowledge of four figure grid references, we looked at historical maps to see what land was used for in 1890, 1950 and 2019. We discovered that since 1890, Heywood Read more…
Class 9 had fun making the water cycle in a bag this week in Science. This activity was a fun way to learn about the role that evaporation and condensation play in our weather. They bags are taped to the window so we can watch closely to see our oceans 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…
Today we took part in a Kahoot! quiz to test our understanding of our new text ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ so far. Children had iPads and had to answer questions related to all our lessons to compete for first place! We really enjoyed the quiz, and it provided some topics Read more…
As part of our RHE lessons, we have had the opportunity to learn first aid skills. First Aid is the help and care that we can give to someone who is sick or injured before full medical help arrives. Class 9 were taught how to practise basic first aid skills, Read more…
For children’s mental health week, we thought about how we express our feelings. The children in school made feeling scribbles, where they took their pencil for a walk and then chose colours for their feelings. If they were feeling a lot of an emotion then they coloured lots of big Read more…
This half term in PE, we have been learning how to play hockey. We started by learning how to hold the stick correctly and manipulate it so that we’re only ever using the flat side of the stick to hit the ball. Then we moved on to passing and tackling.
In Computing this week, we’ve been learning about malware. We have looked at what it is, where it comes from, what it does and how to avoid it. We made posters to make other people aware too.
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