Infant Sports Day
We had great weather on Tuesday for our Sports Day and we had lots of fun. There were some record breaking attempts made at throwing and standing long jump. Well done everyone in Duxbury Class!
Such a fun-filled week…
Astley class have been incredibly busy this week, with lots going on! Firstly, in Literacy we have been using all the describing words we thought of last week and writing our own description of the lion from the book ‘We’re going on a lion hunt’. All the writing was fantastic, well done…
Outdoor Classroom
On Friday it was empty classroom day. As part of our celebration of learning outdoors and our Africa topic Birkacre ventured down to the Garden of Eden to cook bananas – African style!
Great fun was had by all, smearing bananas in butter and sugar unfortunately the weather did not play fair and…
WOW! What a wonderful week…
WOW! What a wonderful week of beautiful weather we have had! We have very much enjoyed spending lots of time in our outdoor area, where it has been warm for a change, YAY!
In literacy this week we have been looking at describing words, in particular those that describe some of the wonderful…
What an amazing day we had in Heapey Class …
What an amazing day we had in Heapey Class we had this week. We transformed our class into a wildsafari. Mrs Harrison, Mrs Bades, Mr Maloney and Mrs Rennison helped us put our art skills into action and create some wonderful pieces. Thank you for all your help.
Ummmm thinking persuasively!
This week in Rivington class, the children have been thinking persuasively! They have studied various writing techniques used by marketing companies to persuade the viewers/readers to buy a product and then used these techniques to come up with an advert to sell a given product. The drama…
Seeing as Friday was a special outside learning day
Seeing as Friday was a special outside learning day we took our maths outside. We had such fun creating pictograms. It was such a windy morning we were lucky not to be blown off the playground. Unfortunately we lost a few tally charts but at least we created some fantastic pictograms.
Our Africa topic was brought to life this week curtsey of Mrs Taylor and her amazing artefacts
Our Africa topic was brought to life this week curtsey of Mrs Taylor and her amazing artefacts. Who knew she had spent most of her young life in Africa? We loved her stories and found the things she showed us AMAZING!
Manchester Airport Viewing Platform
Duxbury Class enjoyed a wonderful day of learning at Manchester Airport this week. Harold and Jenny taught the children all about the airport and the jobs done at the airport and on the planes. We all watched the ‘double decker’ Airbus A 380 land and we were lucky to see Concorde. The children…
It’s been such a lovely week …
Seeing as it’s been such a lovely week we thought we would spend some time outside. If you remember way back in October we planted some onions in our school allotment. Well the time has come to dive them up. Some of them have been lost to the birds and to be honest other just died as we didn’t…
In Yarrow we have been preparing for the year 1s empty class room day…
This week in Yarrow we have been preparing for the year 1s empty class room day, with courses such as PE, reading, find it and maths. This helps the children of Y1 learn in a more creative way. We have set up various courses to entertain the children but help them learn in a fun way too. When the…
Africa in Birkacre Class
This week we have been getting underway with our Africa topic. We have made a jigsaw map of Africa naming all the countries within this continent. We have also made salt dough maps of the continent and painted them.
It has been a busy week with tests too! We have practised for Sports Day and…