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Where in the world is Heapey Class?

This week in Heapey Class we have set ourselves up to sail the seven seas by learning the location and names of the world’s oceans and continents. We had to show our reasoning and thinking skills when we were given the world map from a different view point.…

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STATE OF MATTER

STATE OF MATTER

This week we have embarked on our Mega Mixes topic. We have firstly recapped on what we mean by a liquid, a solid and a gas. The children were dubious about gas as it is something you can’t always see, so we decided to create experiments to prove its existence. The children…

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Big square, small square, cardboard box…

This week we have been learning about shapes. We can identify all manner of different lines and angles (not ANGELS) and can even name some very unusual looking shapes. By the end of the week we were using our knowledge of 2D shapes to help us solve the…

Category: Limbrick Class Blog

Birkacre go Roman!!!

Birkacre go Roman!!!

On the Friday before half term Birkacre visited the Roman Museum in Ribchester.

We had a very interesting day, we got to dress up as Roman soldiers, hold artefacts and see a real Roman Granary.

The curator was called Patrick. We told Patrick what we had learned…

Category: Birkacre Class Blog

Duxbury Class Feast

Wow! What an amazing day we had on Friday! We looked fabulous, dressed as knights, princes and princesses. We even had Robin Hood who came to visit us. During the feast we enjoyed looking at photos of all the wonderful learning that has been taking place during this…

Category: Duxbury Class Blog

The Wednesday Feast Shop!

Well done to the children in Duxbury Class for making a shopping list fit for a feast! The children did a wonderful job shopping for the feast at our local ALDI store. Special thanks to ALDI staff for accommodating us and to the shoppers we met on the day. We saw…

Category: Duxbury Class Blog

Welcome back everyone!

As I’m sure you’ve all read on our newsletter we will be looking after some baby duckling in a few weeks’ time, so have started to prepare for their arrival. This week we went for a beautiful, sunny walk down to the Garden of Eden where we began collecting materials…

Category: Astley Class Blog

Bright Sparks in Birkacre

Bright Sparks in Birkacre

We’ve been lighting up our classroom this week! We have been using our knowledge of conductors to design switches from objects around our classroom such as paper clips and butterfly clips. We also used card, tape and blue tac to help us to create a switch.

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Look how scientific we have been in Duxbury Class.

Look how scientific we have been in Duxbury Class. We have investigated which material would make the best umbrella for Mike The Knight and we tested the following materials; plastic, fabric, paper towel and cardboard. We recorded each time we tested a different material and overall we decided…

Category: Duxbury Class Blog

Johnny has returned!

We found him loitering in the corridors around school so we decided we had better write down some descriptions of him in case he goes walk about again in the future. Mrs Crowther also taught us a few different map symbols to help us with our map reading skills, she thought…

Category: Limbrick Class Blog

World Internet Safety Day

Here at Heapey Class we love working and learning on computers but we have been learning how important it is to stay safe and make the internet a better place to be. Heapey Class produced some posters on what we had learnt and the main message was think before you…

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How can we describe a brick? ‘It is a cuboid’ WOW!

This week we have been continuing to explore the story of The Three Little Pigs by creating story maps, sequencing images from the story and re-telling the story using our talk 4 write actions. We have also been investigating and describing the…

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