This week we celebrated Safer Internet Day with the theme: “Want to talk about it? Making space for conversations about life online.” We talked about what we like to do online, creating an “Alpha-Net” with one activity for each letter of the alphabet, before working as a group to order some Read more…
Today, we were lucky enough to have a visit from Altru Drama who entertained us with a performance of their play! “Back to the App.” The play was about Freya, Ben and Hallie who all loved the internet – and their phones and tablets; they’d spend all day on them Read more…
This week, Class 9 were lucky enough to get hands on with a range of sources about Viking life. The children were challenged to see if they could work out if it was a primary or secondary source of information and to think about what it could tell us about Read more…
This week in Geography, we have been exploring Europe. We discovered that Europe is the second smallest continent in size but has the third largest population spread over 50 countries. We then used atlases to identify some countries and their capital cities.
This week, we started reading Anglo Saxon Boy by Tom Bradbury in our English lessons. We began be exploring the front cover and reading the prologue in order to make predictions about what we though would happen. We then read chapters 1 to 3 and clarified some new vocabulary and Read more…
We started science off today with a brilliant lesson – we were given a set of electrical equipment and challenged to make the bulb light up. By doing this, we discovered that the bulb would only light up if it was part of a complete circuit. Over the next few Read more…
This term in Class 9 we have been learning how to play the violin. We have been having weekly lessons from Miss Hannah (from Rochdale Music Service) and have learnt the names of different notes, their durations as well as the meaning of the terms beat, pitch, rhythm, tremolo and Read more…
This afternoon, a theatre company visited school and performed the pantomime ‘Aladdin’. All the children really enjoyed it and some lucky ones even got some sweets!
Today, Class 9 took part in the Hour of Code; a global event involving tens of millions of children in 180+ countries around the world. The Hour of Code is designed to demystify coding and show that anybody can learn the basics. The children had a great time coding to help Read more…
This week we have been researching the life of Dr Barnardo in preparation for writing a biography of him. On Monday, we worked in groups to reassemble a biography that had been cut up and then on Tuesday, we used the iPads to search the internet and find out interesting Read more…