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Date: 21st Apr 2023 @ 2:44pm
We loved receiving a special delivery this week. It was a basket full of food... and a beautiful new book for us to read...The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch. We enjoyed making predictions and bringing the story to life in our Story Whoosh style. We then wrote our own diaries pretending to be Mr Grinling to explain that had happened on the day his lunch was stolen by those scavenging seagulls.
We have also begun our DT Learning that is linking to our science learning for Healthy Lifestyles and Living Things this half term. We have carried our product research on popular fruit salad combinations and look forward to designing and making our desired products next week.
Date: 20th Apr 2023 @ 3:58pm
The children in Learning Base 2 have been looking at the frogspawn that Mrs.Sullivan-Boardman brought from the pond in her garden.
They watched a video to explain what will happen to the frogspawn over the next few weeks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAcwjWi6I9Y
They are so excited to hold the frogs before Mrs.Sullivan-Boardman takes them back to the pond.
Nursery Weekly Blog WB 17.4.2023
Date: 20th Apr 2023 @ 1:14pm
This week in Nursery we have all been extremely excited to welcome some VERY special visitors. On Monday eggs arrived in Nursery and we carefully placed them inside the incubator and waited and watched hoping that they would hatch. On Wednesday we were delighted to see that the chicks started to hatch - boys and girls - and we loved watching them come out and start to grow.
Also on Monday we received our caterpillars. They were very small and we had to be very careful as we put them in pots with some food. They have already started to get bigger and fatter and we are excited to learn about what will happen to them in the coming weeks when we do lots of learning about the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar next week.
We look forward to welcoming grown ups into Nursery next week to meet the chicks and caterpillars and have a look at all the children's fantastic learning.
Date: 19th Apr 2023 @ 9:11pm
Class 9 came back to school after the Easter holidays ready to learn. Our new topic The Vikings has already grabbed the childrens' attention.
We have also started our Science learning on States of Matter and the first lesson looked at solids, liquids and gases. The children had to find out about particles and how these particles can vibrate and spread out.
In PSHE the children talked about having a good bedtime routine to help them sleep, like reading a book, having a bath or listening to music was a few ideas. Then the children came up with a guide to having a gd sleeping routine.
Date: 18th Apr 2023 @ 4:16pm
We had an amazing time on our class trip to Alexandra park looking for plants in our local area. We saw so many from our plant check list and had lots of fun doing it!
Date: 18th Apr 2023 @ 4:12pm
BELIEVE ACHIEVE SUCCEED! Thank you to The Harmony Trust for our amazing books we received as a gift for world book week. We love reading and cannot wait to get our noses stuck into these amazing stories. Some children needed a little tap to bring them back to the room as they were already lost in their new adventures.
FIRE SAFETY! Thank you to Greater Manchester Fire service
Date: 18th Apr 2023 @ 4:06pm
FIRE SAFETY!
We loved having the fire service come into school this week. We learnt about how to stay safe in a fire and they fire service even showed us some of the features on their fire truck! We learnt how to use the water hose and gave a few of the teachers cars abit of a wash.
There has been a break in!!!!!
Date: 18th Apr 2023 @ 3:58pm
There has been an intruder in Year 2! We have had very suspicious activity within our classrooms and learning areas this week. We used our inference skills to work out what had happened and who it could have possibly been breaking into our school over the holidays. CCTV has shown us that a cheeky mouse and his robot friend have left tools, design sheets and foot prints all over over classrooms.
We then created our own design just like the inventor who raided our classrooms!
31.3.23 - Victoria Memorial in London
Date: 31st Mar 2023 @ 4:01pm
The children have been learning about the 'Victoria memorial in London'
They had previously looked at the 'Victoria memorial in India.
They compared the features of both memorials and wrote about them.
Date: 31st Mar 2023 @ 8:39am
This week Class 3 have had so much fun! We had a very special visitor - Dexter the bear who loved joining in with all of our learning.
We loved practicing and creating actions to The Great Fire of London song...
We also had to say goodbye to our very special Mrs Roscoe, moving on to work for her husband. We will miss her so very much!
Date: 30th Mar 2023 @ 4:57pm
Class 9 write non-chronological reports about orangutans in the rainforest. Thet were amazing and everyone was so proud of themselves. They used all the features of a report with lots of interesting facts and great pictures.
Nursery Weekly blog WB 37.3.2023
Date: 30th Mar 2023 @ 12:55pm
This week we have done lots of fun learning about the Easter Bunny. We read the book The Story of the Easter Bunny and got excited in case he visited us with his basket of eggs - we have made chocolate nests to put our eggs in just in case!
Here is a link to the story in case you would like to watch it at home!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP__j1Fviaw
We have decorated our own eggs using bingo dabbers, played matching games with decorated eggs and played hunt the chick outside.
After the holidays our new topic will be growth and change and we are getting excited for the arrival of chicks and caterpillars!
Date: 30th Mar 2023 @ 10:58am
EXTRA EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT
Year 5 have been writing newspaper reports this week, all about the storms of 2022. We have been writing headlines and getting eye witness acounts of Storm Dudley and Storm Eunice.
In maths, we have been looking at percentages and we have all been putting 100% into our work.
During our PE lessons, Year 5 have created a dance relating to our topic on rivers.
Over the Easter break, we will be looking at the Victorians. Can your child create a project over the holidays all about Victorian life? This could be a poster or a model - the choice is up to you. #BeAnExpertLearner
Date: 24th Mar 2023 @ 4:05pm
The children in learning base 2 have been continuing their learning all about 'My mum'.
They were extending the learning that they were doing for Mother's Day.
The children drew their mum wearing her favourite clothes and the talked about why their mum is special.
They then read words and wrote captions to describe them.
Reception Blog Week Beginning 20.03.23
Date: 23rd Mar 2023 @ 5:22pm
This week Reception have been learning about the story 'Hattie Peck'. The children acted out the scenes from the book, describing Hattie's journey to find her eggs. Following the theme of the story the children took in creating a story map, drawing one scene from the story with a super sentence.
In Maths we looked at comparing different amounts, discussing which number is bigger and who has more.
To follow the theme about 'Amazing animals, in the afternoon the children have been learning about David Attenborough. They had a go at drawing a self portrait, concentration on his features. We talked about how he looks after animals and the planet.
Nursery Weekly Blog WB 20.3.2023
Date: 23rd Mar 2023 @ 1:08pm
This week in Nursery we have been doing lots of great learning about old and new toys and what is the same and different about them. We have looked at some old toys , how they work and then made some toys of our own like them - some cups and balls and some penny spinners!
We have written shopping lists for the toy shop and painted our favourite toys as well as playing skittles and wheres the tedyy?
Our book this week has been The Toymaker, a lovely story about Matthew who makes dolls out of wood for his poorly daughter Mary to cheer her up. Many years later Mary comes back with her own daughter to the shop to find the dolls still in the cupboard. We used the story to think about different emotions.
Here is a link to a video of the book if you would like to watch it at home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXwQNoGuev0
Next week our learning will be all about Easter!
Date: 21st Mar 2023 @ 11:35pm
Class 9 were asked to find out about Alexander Graham Bell the inventor of the telephone. The children had fun making their own string and cup phones and worked out the tighter the string the clearer you culd hear your friends voice. They tried different experiments to see how vibrations travelled through different materials. Class 9 went on to create a Powerpoint all bout the inventor Alexander Graham Bell.
17.3.23 - Mother's day learning
Date: 17th Mar 2023 @ 3:41pm
The children in learning base 2 have been learning about Mother's day
They discussed what their mums do for them and why they love them
They then wrote an acrostic poem describing their mum
They then made these into cards for their mums.
We hope that their mum's love the cards
Date: 17th Mar 2023 @ 3:14pm
This week in class we have been exploring our learning using our different senses.
The children had great fun playing with the snow, mark making in the sand and using the instruments to create music.
We have also been using paint to create caterpillar and butterfly pictures.
Date: 17th Mar 2023 @ 7:57am
This week the children were learning about the digestive system. They used tights and food to recrate what happens when we eat. They were so enthusiastic and used some great technical vocabulary too.
Date: 10th Mar 2023 @ 1:59pm
Date: 10th Mar 2023 @ 9:01am
10.3.23 - SNOW day learning
Learning Base 2 - you have additional learning to the 'Victorian memorial in India learning which is added on the website weekly.
YOU have a SNOW day learning plan xxxx
1/. Look out of the window - What can you see?
If you can see any snow, please find some wellies, gloves, hat and scarf and your warmest coat
2/. Go and play outside
Jump in the snow and make footprints. Roll a snow ball and see if you can make it into a massive ball. Turn it into a snowman.
What will you use for the eyes, nose and mouth??
3/. Come inside and have a nice warm drink
Talk to your parents about how playing in the snow made you feel. Were you excited, happy or even scared?
4/. Create a picture - draw, collage or paint a picture of playing in the snow
5/. Snuggle on the sofa reading your favourite books
10.3.2023 - 'The Victoria memorial' in India
Date: 10th Mar 2023 @ 8:02am
The children have been looking at buildings and gardens in different countries.
This fortnight they are looking at 'The Victorian memorial' in India.
They looked at the pictures and videos of the Victorian memorial and described it.
They then read concepts in print words to describe it and then wrote a caption to add to the picture.
Next week they will write an advertisement to describe it.
Nursery Weekly Blog WB 6.3.2023
Date: 9th Mar 2023 @ 12:47pm
This week we have done some fantastic learning about night and day based on the book 'Cant you sleep little bear?'They have really enjoyed thinking about how the bears were feeeling throughout the story.Here is a link to the animated version of the story which you could enjoy with your child!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1aJimzuzbg
The children arrived on Monday morning to find that there was a cave in Nursery - they loved exploring with lights and shadows and even doing cave drawings on the cave ceiling. They have made some sensational sensory bottles with glow in the dark stars to use in the cave and Nursery - watching how the stars swirled was very relaxing!!
The children have also made a shadow puppet theatre and experimented making shadows with their hands.
Next week we will be looking at pushes and pulls using the book The Enormous Turnip.
Date: 8th Mar 2023 @ 8:52pm
Class 9 had a great start to their Science topic on teeth and digestion by finding out at home about the different teeth we have. In class children used their iPads to watch which teeth they used for eating a slice of apple. The children found out about the particular job each type of tooth has. Why don't you ask them to tell you all about teeth. 
