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Goodbye ducklings, have fun at the farm….

This week we have all grown incredibly close to our beautiful ducklings, we have cared for them by making sure they have enough food and water, we have looked after them by cleaning out their very messy box and we have kept them clean by letting them…

Category: Astley Class Blog

VIKINGA! VIKINGA! VIKINGA!

Monday saw us on our adventure to Lancaster to meet two real life Vikings, Linden and Olaf. Boy oh boy that Olaf was one scary guy! We learnt so much, for example did you know that in a Viking home the men cannot sit down until all the ladies have. In fact it is the…

Category: Limbrick Class Blog

More Mixing for Mega Mix Mad Class

More Mixing for Mega Mix Mad Class

From making cakes using ingredients written in French, to creating a Marvellous Mixture of liquids and soluble and insoluble solids … (and then having to work out how to separate them all again!) … That’s been our week in Rivington Class.

On…

Category: Rivington Class Blog

Do you know the difference between warp and weft?

We do. Because the Vikings couldn’t just nip to the nearest Tesco to get their clothes, they had to make their own and this meant weaving cloth. This week we have had a try at weaving our own cloth on our very own mini looms. Some of us were…

Category: Limbrick Class Blog

‘Fee Fi Fo Fum! I smell the blood of an Englishman!’

We couldn’t believe it in Duxbury Class when Mrs Cordingley received an e mail to say that Jack and the Giant had been spotted in Chorley! So we went outside to take a look and we did find some evidence and clues to suggest that this in…

Category: Duxbury Class Blog

Birkacre Orthodontists!

Birkacre Orthodontists!

This week Birkacre have been teeth chattering! We have been looking at our teeth and discovering the different shapes they are as well as the different jobs they do.

So we decided to have a good look at own and each others teeth with the help of mirrors. Mrs Murphy…

Category: Birkacre Class Blog

6 little ducks started hatching one day…

There has been so much excitement in Astley Class this week as we awaited the arrival of our beautiful baby ducklings. The fun began on Monday morning as the eggs were brought to us in an incubator to keep them warm. On Tuesday we started to notice…

Category: Astley Class Blog

Roger Dean Artwork Inspires Birkacre

Roger Dean Artwork Inspires Birkacre

As part of the topic monsters and aliens Birkacre class have been looking at the artwork of Roger Dean.

So far Birkacre have copied their favourite piece by roger Dean, then they have begun to create their own alien world.

Next they will produce a…

Category: Birkacre Class Blog

Under the sea!!!!

Heapey Class have turned into marine biologists over the last week. We are fully fledged experts on the puffer fish and great white shark!! Who knew these fish could be so much fun. We really sunk our teeth into learning about these sea creatures and used our amazing writing…

Category: Heapey Class Blog

Rivington Class become Experi-MENTAL!

Rivington Class become Experi-MENTAL!

This week in Rivington class, Mr.Roden challenged us to come up with a question we would like to find the answer to related to dissolving. Here’s what each group came up with:

-Which dissolves quickest – sugar or salt?

-Will sugar dissolve…

Category: Rivington Class Blog

World Book Day

Well done Duxbury Class readers for making a fantastic effort to dress up as your favourite characters. See if you can tell who we all are.

As a follow up to our Feast on Friday we have been writing recounts to explain what we did on our shopping trip to Aldi as well as what…

Category: Duxbury Class Blog

World Book Day Bonanza!

WOW! Once again I was blown away by all the effort that went into the fantastic costumes for World Book Day, everyone looked brilliant! We had such a fun day, we designed and made our own bookmarks, discussed what our favourite books are and importantly why they are our…

Category: Astley Class Blog