Yesterday, year 4 went on their end of year trip to EUREKA! They got to explore lots of hands-on exhibits and watched a Science show called “From the Chew to the Poo” that showed us the journey of a peanut butter and banana sandwich as it travelled through our digestive Read more…
Year 4 had a delightful time at the Bridgewater Hall, playing along with the Halle orchestra. It was truly phenomenal. The highlight was certainly hearing them do the ET theme tune.
This week, year four started cricket lessons with Lancashire Cricket Foundation. In their first lesson they practised throwing the ball under and over arm by aiming at the wickets and trying to knock them over. It was a challenging task, but there was lots of perseverance on display, so well Read more…
This week in Computing, we began looking at animation. The children used 2Animate to create simple animations. They drew a picture then learnt how to copy it to a new frame so they could then add to or change it.
To celebrate our Queen’s historic Jubilee, we danced to the most famous songs from each of the decades she has reigned for. Reception/Nursery: 2010 Year 1: 2000 Year 2: 1990 Year 3: 1980 Year 4: 1970 Year 5: 1960 Year 6: 1950 The full video of each class’s groovy Read more…
Class 9 had a fantastic day today celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. They all came dressed in red, white and blue and spent the day learning about their allocated decade – the 1970s. We learnt some key events that happened in that decade and produced some psychedelic art inspired by Read more…
Yesterday afternoon, we had a wonderful surprise: Miss McArthur popped in with her baby boy, Tobias. The children really enjoyed seeing Miss McArthur and meeting Tobias, and there were many oohs and ahhs and cuddles. Some children even got to read to him and others drew pictures of him. We Read more…
To finish off our ‘Money’ topic in Maths, we had a fun lesson today. Children were put into business teams and tasked with being the team to make the most money by making stars and selling them to Miss French. Each team was given a starting budget of £2 and Read more…
This week in History, class 9 looked at the chronology of Anglo Saxon kings. Some children came to the front and wore crowns, pretending to be some of the kings and we made a physical timeline, rearranging the children depending on the dates they reigned. Children then used that knowledge Read more…
This week we have been comparing the UK to another European country – Norway. We had a great introduction to some of the similarities and differences. We learned all about the geographical features of the country as well as their school life and finally their common foods. We then sampled Read more…