The children had a treat today in music when Mrs O'Leary brought her accordion into school. She used it to accompany the children when they were playing , This Old Man. They are becoming really quite proficient and it sounded wonderful with the accordion's accompaniment.

Well done to our Reading Ambassadors who have all created a book review to display in out KS2 Library. They were asked to make a book review by Tameside Libraries to promote reading across the school. These will be shared on the Tameside Library social media accounts. 

Can you make a book review for our library? Tell us why you like the book, what it is about, who else will enjoy it and give it a star rating out of 5. 

Congratulations to Reiss for her wonderful reading and Luca for his exceptional maths work this week.

Ruby and Summer won the Good to be Green Award.

Evie is the first person to win their Silver Award.

Year 4 have started the new year of fabulously with lots of certificates. Well done everyone. 

Making fabulous bird feeders ready for the RSPB Big Schools Birdwatch and playing the Sparrow Hawk game to keep nice and warm. 

We worked collaboratively this morning to successfully complete different team games.

This afternoon, as well as practising our yoga techniques we also discussed emotions and worked in groups to act out an emotion using only our body language and facial expressions.

Year 3 are very lucky to experience the Healthy Body, Healthy Minds sessions which work on team building, and how communicating is important in team work. Children have been taught that to be healthy we all need to exercise.

The second session of Healthy Body, Healthy Minds focuses on relaxing using techniques such as yoga and ways to control emotions. 

These sessions are taking place each Thursday at Broadbent Fold.

Design Technology in Year 3.

Children first learnt in Geography about Earthquakes, they planned and designed how to make an earthquake proof building.The designs were amazing hardly any fell apart! 

Maybe future engineers could be the ideal job for Year 3.

Year 4 turned into super detectives this afternoon in search of the truth behind the disappearances of boats and planes in The Bermuda Triangle. They were engrossed with the clues and were able to match up clues and theories to try and explain the crashes. What a great detecting afternoon.

This week we looked at a selection of artefact images about Vikings around the room and had to use the clues to prove statements that you may find in history books about Vikings. We discovered that Vikings did not have horned helmets and they traded materials world-wide!