How do you like your pancakes? We like ours with lots of chocolate!!
How do you like your pancakes? We like ours with lots of chocolate!!
To celebrate Shrove Tuesday Astley class started the week by writing instructions that explained how we make pancakes. After all that writing we thought we deserved a treat and went to make our very own pancakes which we…
Play scripts become Out of this World!
Play scripts become Out of this World!
In Rivington Class this week, the children have used green screen technology to bring their Space play scripts to life. The plays, which are set in outer space, were really enhanced by the green screen app on the Ipads which plunged them into scenes on…
The Sound of Silence
The Sound of Silence
The children of Rivington 5 have, this week, been composing their own musical ‘score’ for a Sci-Fi Space movie. The score was split into three separate sequences entitled ‘Blast Off,’ ‘Moon Landing’ and ‘Walking on the Moon.’ The children first learned about musical…
This is not just a cake…
This is not just a cake…
This week we have been budding advertising moguls trying to create our own version of the infamous M&S adverts. We got to try the cake out and think carefully about which language we could use to best describe the sponge, filling and icing. Of course linking in to our…
Wondrous World Museum
Wondrous World Museum
It’s been a very busy week in Yarrow class! After we wrapped the filming for our space themed movie, we took a trip to the World Museum in Liverpool.
The museum has 5 floors of exciting exhibits (and lots of stairs!). We started off on the space floor and looked at…
Lights…Camera…Action!
Lights…Camera…Action!
This week, Yarrow class were transformed into a hive of budding film makers. We worked with a local film company to produce our film for the IntoFilm competition, where our film could be shown on the International Space Station!
We began by creating a storyboard of our…
Forget the Hilton the Heapey Hotel Group are moving in ........
Forget the Hilton the Heapey Hotel Group are moving in
In December we decided to go to the Garden of Eden to see if we had any mini-beasts or wildlife. To be honest there wasn’t much. We decide they needed somewhere to stay. Fast forward a month and we had our building heads on. Amazingly we…
You Won’t Believe Our PE Skills!
Do You Know What 2 x 6 is?
We do, because we know we can make an array with the pinboards! Check out our photos.
You Won’t Believe Our PE Skills!
Look how good we are at rolling a ball to our partners, we can even roll the ball through the cones and trick our partners. Well…
Germs, what germs? I can’t see them!
Germs, what germs? I can’t see them!
This week Astley class discovered that even though we may not be able to see germs they are all around us and spread very easily. We investigated this using glitter, one child put their hand in the glitter and we pretended the glitter was lots of germs.…
Busy Birkacre!
Busy Birkacre!
What a busy week we have had this week. We have done fractions with cake – always a winner! They should all be able to cut up any birthday cake or pizza equally now and name the fraction.
We have also been finding and naming co-ordinates on the netbooks and playing…
Life on Mars
Life on Mars
This week Heapey class have produced some fantastic art on our solar system. We created the planets using chalk on a black background. They look amazing! As we have been learning about the space race and the first man on the moon we made ourselves into astronauts. Our collage…
Bright lights! Bright lights!
Bright lights! Bright lights! This week we have been learning about UV light and how dangerous it can be. We have set up a little experiment in our class to see if we can observe the effects of UV light. We have discussed how we can keep ourselves safe from UV light during the coming summer…