Today, Class 7 have been working on the poem: ‘Nature Trail’ by Benjamin Zephaniah, which is about different animals that live in a garden. As this year’s theme is all about refuge, we discussed as a class how the animals in the poem all go into the garden for safety, Read more…
In RHE, class 7 have been working on their co operation skills. We had to work in pairs to try and make different animals or objects using the same shapes. They managed to make a turtle, a bat, a giraffe and a house. We then discussed whether it was easy Read more…
This week, we elected our school council members for this year. The children who wanted to be elected had to decide on reasons why they would be best suited for the position, write a short speech and then present it to the rest of the class. The children all voted Read more…
This week in our Power Maths lessons we have been using counters and dienes to help us with our understanding of place value to 1,000. We enjoyed making different numbers with the maths resources and experimented different ways to partition different numbers. For example, 253 could be partitioned into 253 Read more…
During our first computing lesson this week, we went through all of the important rules needed when using our devices. We all had to agree to follow these rules and signed a contract to show this!
In todays computing lesson, we have been learning about Binary Trees. We have used our questioning skills that we learnt in last weeks lesson to create a Binary Tree for animals. First, we did one all together. We separated animals using questions such as ‘Do they live in the sea?’ Read more…
Last week, in class 5, we visited Rochdale Fire ground. In Year 2, we learn about The Great Fire of London and the development of the Fire Service in the UK. Our school trip was FANTASTIC! We learnt all about the fire service and refreshed our memories on The Great Read more…
In computing this week, Class 5 have been learning about questioning. We have been creating Yes/No questions to sort shapes and characters. We played a great game of guess who in small groups and the children came up with some excellent questions (some very detailed ones as well!) Here’s some Read more…
Today a group of 6 year 2s headed down to Hopwood Primary to represent us in a science tournament. It was all about problem solving and having experiments last over a period of time. It was super competitive but more importantly, super fun! we ended up winning! We had a Read more…
It was national Hour of Code week and because it was Christmas week, the children completed a ‘Grinch’ themed coding challenge. They had lots of fun completing each challenge, and learnt some new skills which will help them in their Coding lessons next term .