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Reasonable Birkacre!!!!!

Over the last few weeks Birkacre have been learning about the Amazon rainforest, the animals and tribes that live there as well as the dangers facing the forest and its inhabitants.

As a result of this work the children have been using the language of persuasion to…

Can You Make A Book Using The I-Pad?

Take a look at our books about Katie Morag, which we made using the Book Creator app on the i-pads.  We’ve learnt so many skills!  We can take photos (safely and with permission), we know how to import the photos, add text and draw using a drawing…

Changes are taking place =D

It has been wonderfully exciting this week watching our caterpillars grow and change. At the moment they are in their cocoon/chrysalis going through an incredible change. We have been researching butterflies this week and we noticed that their wings had lots of…

Rivington class became expert designer this week as they set about creating a water movement system. The challenge was set by Mr.Maloney who had heard the children were looking at shadufs (a tool used by the ancient Egyptians) to move water from the River Nile into their irrigation…

Tweet, Tweet!

Our classroom is connected! In Yarrow class, we’ve recently set up our own class Twitter account so that we can share, connect and collaborate with the world around us. We will use our classroom Twitter account (@Yarrow_Class) to share snippets of our work, learning and life in…

Heapey Flower Show in anticipation 

This week Heapey Class have been planting mad. As part of our science topic we followed instructions and made our own green house. We looked at what seeds need to germinate and created a flip flap plant to explain. We loved planting the seeds and fingers…

Good Vibrations!

This week in Birkacre we have started our new Science topic on Sound.

Thursday afternoon found us making, listening to and observing vibrations. We now know that all sound is made by producing vibrations which are carried through the air on sound waves.

We set up some…

Can You Make A Compass?

This week we have been learning about position and direction because we need to know about North, East, South and West then we can use maps.  We have looked at a map of an island as well as the local area and we have used digi maps to find our locality.  So that we know…

The sun has got it’s hat on hip, hip, hip hurray!!

What a lovely week we have had enjoying the rare British sunshine. Long may it continue…

We started our week with a visit to church to look at the beautiful Easter garden and discuss the good news we received on Easter Sunday as ‘Good News’…

The circle of life!!!! (sang like Elton John) 

Heapey Class have had an amazing end to the term. We have worked our socks off and learnt lots! As part of our science we have looked at differing life cycles and used the eggs that hatched in Astley Class to help us. Unfortunately we didn’t get to…

Welcome back to school after the Easter holiday.

Who has been visiting us this week?

The Chorley Schools Partnership has been into school to see how well we can run and throw.  We have entered a competition with other skills in order to show how skilful we are.  All the children tried very…

There is something wriggling in our classroom…

Welcome back after the Easter holiday, I hope you’ve all had a relaxing break. This week in Astley class we have started our new topic… Minibeasts!

We have started by reading the story the very hungry caterpillar and we can’t believe how…