: Blog items
Date: 17th Jan 2024 @ 5:28pm
On Wednesday a visitor called Alison came into school. She was a Toy Museum curator. We used our imagination and drama skills to be transported into a museum where Alison looked after all the toys. We learnt facts about toys from the past such as teddy bears, dolls and moveable toys. We also used our imagination to invent a new toy and acted out this toy for everyone to see.
Next week we will be using this experience to write a recount using time connectives and extend our sentences using 'and.' In our Connected Curriculum work linked to our history skills we will use the facts we have learnt to find out which toys from the past we would like to play with and compare them with toys from the present. We will also magpie the snap game we played with Alison to match old and new toys that are the similar.
Date: 17th Jan 2024 @ 5:19pm
On Tuesday we came to school in the snow. After register the first thing that we had to do was go and play with ourfriends in the snow! Mrs Hughes and Mrs Thewlis joined us as well. It was lots of Fun!!!
Date: 16th Jan 2024 @ 2:13pm
We have been learning about Winter in Nursery. We've been finding frozen blocks of ice all over our provision. Yesterday we received a letter from some penguins, asking us to help them get free from the ice that they were trapped in. We planned experiments in our key worker groups to work out how to free them.This morning there was snow all over the outdoor area but no trapped penguins. This afternoon we found the penguins frozen in ice outside, next to our water tray, so we sprung into action!
Mrs Ganners group poured warm water on the penguins and it melted the ice.
Mrs Blakeley's group banged the ice with a hammer to break the penguins free.
Mrs Wyment's group got a bucket and put in some warm and cold water. After that, they put the penguins inside the bucket and waited.
Ms Marley's group put the penguins in a tray and put it outside and waited for the sun to come out.
We hope you enjoy looking at the photos of our learning as much as we enjoyed setting the penguins free!
Date: 16th Jan 2024 @ 12:00pm
This morning Mys Hughes allowed all the children to experince a fun-filled five minutes outside before they started their lessons. The children had so much fun and it was lovely to see them all playing so nicely together.
Date: 14th Jan 2024 @ 3:16pm
This week we tried our full spring term timetable. We now do PE on Monday afternoons and started the week with some games linked to the work we did with Chiaria our City coach. On Tuesday we started our new topic in Computing all about Bee Bots. We discovered how we could program the Bee Bots using some algorithms. We realsied that some bugs appeared so we changed the algorithms and tried again to make the Bee Bots move in certain directions. We really enjoyed this session and next week we will be showing you all how to use a Bee Bot by creating some videos. Check out blog post next week for those videos!
In writing we finihsed our Found poster where we describing Threadbear and started to sequence the story 'Threadbear' using pictures and sentences from the story. We worked together with a partner to get the pictures in the correct order. Then we used our Talk for Writing phrases and actions to retell the story to our partners.
Next week there will be lots more learning happening with a very special visitor coming into school on Wednesday. Check out next week's blog post!!!
Date: 14th Jan 2024 @ 10:02am
This week, we worked with our art teacher, Mrs McAffer. First, we used our observational skills to create a continuous line drawing of penguins. Next, we continued to use our observational skills and focused on the tone, lines and shapes in pictures of penguins. Finally, we explored using a different media to draw penguins.
Date: 12th Jan 2024 @ 4:56pm
The week feels like its disappeared in a whirl of writing, maths and Ancient Greeks!
In writing, we have created some very scary monsters in preparation for writing a story inspired by a greek myth. We wrote two descriptive sentences and then inputted them into bing image creator. They are going to be excellent inspiration, I'm sure.
In reading, we have started to get stuck into the ancient Greek myth of Heracles. The class were aware of Hercules - the Roman equivalent but they weren't aware of the ten tasks he had to complete so they are very enthusiastic about the exciting stories of him killing beasts.
In maths, we are working our way through learning about area and perimeter. I was so impressed with the class' ability to move from counting squares within a rectangle to find its area, to multiplying two sides to calculate it instead. Next week, we will be thinking about how to calculate the length of missing sides in composite rectilinear shapes so that we can calculate the area accurately.
And finally, today we went on a school trip to Manchester Art Gallery to take part in a drama workshop about Pandora's box. The staff were blown away by the exceptional levels of behaviour. It was the first time we've used public transport for a trip which caused a few concerns but I'm very pleased to say that we will be able to do more of this in the future. The children listened to adults, followed instructions in busy areas and were so sensible. It was by far, the proudest day I've had with this class since September. Well done 5HC!
Date: 12th Jan 2024 @ 2:12pm
What a busy week we have had!
As part of our geography learning, we have created some rain gauges to see how much rainfall there will be in our area over the next two weeks. Each Tuesday and Thursday, we will go to the playground and check our rain gauges to see how much water is inside of them. We are measuring in cm. We have also said that because next week is forecasting cold temperatures, our rain gauges might even freeze! We put our rain gauges in the forest school garden, but we had to ask for Mrs Thewlis's permission first! We hope that it will rain so that we can see how much rainfall there is!
Don't forget we have our visit to the river Medlock on Tuesday, to conduct a river study. Please make sure that children are wearing a warm coat, and sensible shoes. We will still have PE on Tuesday morning.
Kandinsky Inspired Art in Reception
Date: 12th Jan 2024 @ 1:52pm
This week in our connecting curriculum program, we took a look at warm and cool colours and how they match with the seasons of the year. With a focus on cool colours for winter, we created some Kandinsky inspired artwork. Check out the beauitful results below!
Date: 12th Jan 2024 @ 8:25am
Hello, we have been super busy in 4AK this week!
We created our art sketchbooks and sharpened our continuous line drawing and backwards/forwards drawing skills. See the attached pictures, we are so proud!
In maths, we have been multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100. In science we have been learning about the particles in a solid, liquid and gas. We also made a rain gauge in Geography and we can't wait to observe and see the results over the next 2 weeks. Have a look at the attached picture of our rain gauge in the school garden.
Homework has been sent out today, so please return it by next Friday.
Have a great weekend!
Date: 8th Jan 2024 @ 8:17am
Hello Reception!
We are going to be meeting a new character this week, his name is Noi. Noi has lost his friend... Do you know who his fried might be? He is big and he can swim.
Can you write who you think Noi's friend could be?
Can you guess what 2KW are going to be learning about this half term?
Date: 7th Jan 2024 @ 9:23pm
Hello and Welcome back!
This week was a short week however it was extremely busy and it was lovely to see all the children eager to come back to school and get on with their learning!
As part of the learning this week, the children were learning how to develop their prediction skills . One of the activities that they really enjoyed was predicting what objects were in the rucksack. They had to use knowledge of prior learning, knowledge from learning from home and what they have read to make sensible guesses. They then found out what was in the bag and used what they had found to predict the next topic of learning.
We found rope, plates, pans, hats, suncream, torches, lanterns, a hammer, walking boots, warm and cool clothes, sleeping bags and pillows.
We asked lots of questions and found out that it belonged to Madeleine, Miss Wolfenden's daughter. We predicted that we are going to be learning about going on an adventure and maybe different countries.
The children were very excited and can't wait to find out about the world.
Keep looking at our blogs!
Miss Wolfenden and Mrs Cooper
Date: 7th Jan 2024 @ 6:19pm
In Maths, we have been exploring 2D shapes. We have been learning to recognise and name the common 2D shapes such as square, rectangle, circle, triangle, hexagon and pentagon. We are all very confident at recognising the shapes by identifying their properties. Today, we have been sorting the 2D shapes into groups and Venn diagrams. We sorted the shapes according to their names, colours and properties.
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Date: 7th Jan 2024 @ 8:36am
Happy New Year!
Welcome back to the spring term in Year 1. The children have come back with such a positive attitude towards their learning and have grown a little taller as well!
We have had a busy few days back in class - we starting reading our new story 'Threadbear' and used adjectives to describe the main character called Threadbear. In maths we have started to learn about 2D shapes and next week we will be learning about 3D shapes.
In our Connected Curriculum we started to think about our new topic question 'Is the XBox more fun than our grandparent's toys?' In this topic we will be using history, design & technology and art skills to support us. On Thursday afternoon we launched our topic by having a 'Games Afternoon' where we played with various types of toys, board games and toys from the past. We collected some information about which toy/game was our favourite and created a block graph. In 1AI we enjoyed playing with the various board games.
Date: 5th Jan 2024 @ 7:41pm
Welcome back!
Year 3 have enjoyed their time back in school, and are extremely eager to learn all about the Stone Age.
We begun the week by reading "Stone Age Boy," where we were surprised to learn that there was no electricity and spoken language was different to today. We then launched our history topic through two exciting challenges - becoming archaelogists and searching through sand for a range of Stone Age artefacts, and becoming architects through the task of recreating Stone Henge with biscuits.
See below for our exciting creations!
Year 3 can't wait to learn more about the Stone Age over these next weeks.
Date: 5th Jan 2024 @ 6:01pm
Welcome back! I hope you've all had a lovely Christmas. We all (including the adults!) struggled to get back used to the early mornings this week but at least it was only three days!
We didn't take it easy in 5HC and got straight back into our maths learning. We have started by exploring perimeter. I was hugely impressed by the class' mental maths skills and how they were able to choose efficient methods of calculation for example, using multiplication to find the perimeter of a regular pentagon instead of repeated addition. Next week, we will be moving on to finding the area of rectangles and compound rectilinear shapes.
Please note that our PE days have changed. We will now be having our outdoor PE sessions on Wednesday afternoons and our indoor PE sessions on Friday afternoon. Please check the PE uniform which was sent out earlier this week in the newsletter.
Today, we sent home a permission letter for our trip to Manchester Art Gallery on Friday next week. We will be taking the tram so we will spend a bit of time next week, talking about manners and protocols for using public transport such as staying close to adults.
We can't wait to get stuck into our Ancient Greece learning! Have a great weekend.
Date: 5th Jan 2024 @ 5:10pm
We have had a lovely first few days back in Nursery. On Wednesday, we went into our Nursery garden to look for signs of winter using our senses. The children noticed that the weather was colder and there were no leaves on the trees. When we came back inside we talked about how we can keep ourselves warm. These are some of the responses from the children.
“We can rub our hands”
“stamp our feet”
“put a blanket on”
“wear our hat”
“put our gloves on”
As part of our ‘Friday Challenges’, we have been using our senses to explore the new winter resources in the classroom. We also used our fingers to roll small, medium and larged sized balls using the playdough to make snowmen! Finally, we used our subitising skills to subitise to 3 (when we are able to look at a small group of objects and realise how many there are without counting).
Please take a look at all the fun we have been having in the photos below!
Date: 5th Jan 2024 @ 5:09pm
Happy New Year!
We have had a busy three days and the children have completed lots of work. We have written persuasive letters in wriitng and continued to explore division in maths. The children have worked hard and come bac to school with a really positive attitude. Next week our PE day has changed to Tuesday so the children should come in their PE kit (Black bottoms and white t-shirt) on Tuesdays and Fridays this term. Well done everyone... Its going to be a busy 2024 with SATs on their way and transition to high school so keep up the good work.
Don't forget to do your homework for Monday if you haven't already. The pages are Grammar- pg 8 Maths pg 11 and Reading pages 18/19.
Date: 5th Jan 2024 @ 1:50pm
WOW! What a week it has been!
On Thursday 4th January, we discovered a mysterious egg on the playground. Parker thinks that might be an alien or T-Rex in the egg. We've been discussing the egg a lot this week, and what we should do about it! We have decided that we will write a letter to Mrs Hughes, to convince her to keep the egg, or to not keep the egg. Some people want us to keep the egg so that we might be able to have a pet, whereas others don't want to keep it incase it is dangerous. Take a look at the egg on the attached document...we're sure it moves!
In our science lesson, we have been learning about solids, liquids and gases which are the three states of matter. Have a look at the attached document for some pictures!
Homework is being sent out this week, so please return it by next Friday.
Date: 5th Jan 2024 @ 11:27am
Our connected curriculum topic this half term is, Why do some animals live in cold places and some in hot? As part of our topic, we have been looking at where different animals live. First, we chose an animal that either lived in a hot habitat or a cold habitat to draw. Then we used half of the animal's face to draw the other half. We had to look very closely at what we could see to ensure we drew the animal accurately.
Design & Technology Competition 2023
Date: 3rd Jan 2024 @ 9:38am
Date: 29th Dec 2023 @ 11:41am
We hope you have all had a safe and happy break this Winter.
Attached is a copy of our Spring overview, which shares all of the exciting topics we will be learning about this half-term.
We can't wait to get learning when we see you all again on Wednesday 3rd January.
Miss Brookes and Miss Higgins
Date: 14th Dec 2023 @ 7:00pm
We have had such a lovely week in our final few days before the holidays. On Monday we had our Christmas party and had lots of fun playing games and dancing. On Tuesday we had a lovely visit from Father Christmas. We asked him questions and sang him a song. On Wednesday we had our delicious Christmas lunch with our friends.
It's been a very magical Christmassey week in school but I think we are definately ready for the holidays!
Date: 8th Dec 2023 @ 10:14am
It's been a busy week again in school and it's looking very Christmassey!
This week we performed our Nativity 'Baarmy Bethlehem' three times! On Monday we performed our dress rehearsal to Year 3 and 4 who enjoyed it a lot. On Tuesday we perfomed it two times in front of KS1 grown ups from home and Nursery/Reception grown ups from home. It was amazing but a very tiring day!
Next week it will be even more Christmas fun with a possible visit from Father Christmas, Christmas party day, Christmas dinner and lots more Christmas fun and activities.
Date: 7th Dec 2023 @ 7:30pm
Wow what a busy week!
1HB has been very busy and it's beginning to feel alot more like Christmas! We have made some Christmas cards, our Christmas party hats and table decorations for our Christmas lunch. However the highlight has been performing our school nativity 'Baarmy Bethlehem' We have worked very hard to learn all the songs and remember our lines! Our parents and teachers are very proud of us!