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Traditional Tales
Welcome back to Heapey Class. We have been busy bees already. In literacy we are learning about Traditional Tales and hope to write our own in the next few weeks. This we have been story tellers and shared well known Traditional Tales with our friends. We are loving the stories and can’t wait to…
Category: Heapey Class Blog
‘Our Heroes’
We have jumped straight into our new topic this week ‘Our Heroes’. We have very much enjoyed exploring our new role play area and dressing up as Spiderman and various other heroes.
This week we’ve been focusing on our real life hero’s fire-fighters and looking at how they help keep us…
Category: Astley Class Blog
It’s back to routine for Birkacre class
Birkacre Class
It’s back to routine for Birkacre class this week after their half term break. this week we have been writing explanations about how rain falls and investigating the Water Cycle and how it works. We have focused on the processes of evaporation and condensation. We took part…
Category: Birkacre Class Blog
Magic Maths!
Magic Maths!
During maths this week we have been learning to make repeating patterns. Some children have made patterns with shapes, others with cubes and we have even learned about number patterns like odds and evens! You could try making patterns at home with your children using knives, forks…
Category: Duxbury Class Blog
Hairy Maclary Story Time.
Hairy Maclary Story Time.
This week we enjoyed reading the story Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy by Lynley Dodd. The children have been learning about rhyming and repeating language in stories and have even created their own actions to the story. Please enjoy the recording of their story…
Category: Duxbury Class Blog
Belonging to Gods Family
Belonging to Gods Family
During our topic in Come and See this week we have been learning about belonging to God’s family. The children have learned about their home families, school family and how to be a part of God’s family through baptism. We visited St Joseph’s Church to learn about and…
Category: Duxbury Class Blog
Blink of an eye .....
We have somehow managed to reach the end of our first half term in the blink of an eye. I am so pleased with how Astley Class have settled into all the school routines; they have made a great start to their school life. So, as a reward for all their hard work we decide this Friday we would have an…
Category: Astley Class Blog
Super Smoothies!
Super Smoothies!
This week, as part of our Healthy Hearts programme, we designed our own healthy super smoothies!
First, we looked at all the different fruits, vegetables and seeds we could choose from and then we picked out some combinations that we thought would work well together.…
Category: Yarrow Class Blog
Watch out David Attenborough Heapey Class are hot on your tail!
Watch out David Attenborough Heapey Class are hot on your tail!
Heapey class have had a snapping time this week learning all about the saltwater crocodile in literacy. We learnt all about the habitat, diet and description and consider ourselves as crocodile experts. We made our own non-fiction…
Category: Heapey Class Blog
ICT skills on Google maps
This week we have been using our ICT skills on Google maps to plan our own American Road trip. We used the help tool to find out how to measure distance. We then used the distance tool to plot and measure the distance from city to city on our trip and then calculate the distance of the entire…
Category: Rivington Class Blog
Birkacre Work Out
Birkacre Work Out
Last week we had a special visitor in school, Jess Taylor. This athlete helped us to do our sponsored event and talked to us about her training and fitness. It was very inspirational as she told us about injuries and how sometimes things just don’t go right but you keep…
Category: Birkacre Class Blog
Science and Industry museum in Manchester
A Grand Day Out
On Tuesday 6th October Birkacre had a wonderful day out at the Science and Industry museum in Manchester. The visit related to our topic of Around the world in 80 days where we looked at the history of transport and the people who pioneered it.
We listened to a talk…
Category: Birkacre Class Blog