This half term, Class 11 will be having a weekly rugby session with the Rochdale Hornets. Today was our first session and we have a lot of fun! We practiced passing and moving, pocket passing and passing behind (you can’t pass forwards in rugby :D). At the end, we put Read more…
Today in Class 11, we took part in a PrimeVR workshop to support our understanding of Space. We really enjoyed it!
Due to the current Covid situation, we have been once again been unable to have our traditional Nativity plays and carol concert. However, the children (and teachers!) have not let this dampen their spirits and each class has produced a video performance for you to watch. There’s singing, dancing, poetry Read more…
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…
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