For Well-being Wednesday we practised mindfulness by creating our own zentangle pictures.

It was very relaxing!

In Maths today, we worked in small groups to match 3D shapes to their names and number of edges in a fun, practical activity. This helped us to do our independant work and explore faces too. 

This week, we have been exploring 'Where in the word do we live?' We used Google Earth on the ipads to explore our local area and identify key features, making links between what we can see from above and what we see on the ground using the street view. We then used an ariel print out of our school and the local community to identify as many features that we could. We loved using Google Earth! 

Year 3 have started the year very energetically with learning dodgeball skills.

Throughout their PE lessons they have been learning how to successfully dodge the ball. They are improving their throwing and passing skills.

Last week Year 6 started their Active Body, Active Mind sessions with Active Tameside. In the morning they looked at team building games and the importance of working collaboratively. In the afternoon they looked at mindfulness and started some basic yoga and breathing activities.

Welcome back to Spring Term in Year 5 where our topic will test the children's geographical knowledge of the world and make them aware of the impact of climate change.  In our topic "Why should the world's rainforests matter to all of us?", we will learn more about Greta Thunberg and her efforts to save our planet, as well as researching endangered animals via the WWF.   Persuasive Writing is on the agenda in our English lessons, as well as reading the award winning novel "The Explorer" by Katherine Rundell, about four children who find th

Year 4 opened a case file on the Missing Lighthouse Men from the Flannan Isles. They have been trying to solve the mystery by hunting out clues and reading evidence files from 123 years ago. I'm really looking forward to how they use these skills when we start to look at Scottish Myths and start our class text, The Secret Lake. 

Year 1 have been palaeontologists today by searching for dinosaur bones and fossils. They were very excited to find lots of different types and guessed what they thought they might be. They cannot wait to learn more about dinosaurs in our topic this half term 'What happened to the dinosaurs?'.

Welcome back and Happy New Year!  Hope you all had a marvellous Christmas break.  Here is our medium term plan for this half term plus a home learning grid for anyone wanting to do some additional learning (this is entirely optional).

We will be learning all about Winter, Polar Regions and why things freeze this half term.  We will be reading 'Lost and Found'.

Mrs K

Year 3 have been learning about Earthquakes and the techonic plates. They've learnt that earthquakes are measured using a mercalli scale.