As part of Science week, we have created our own planets using water colours and we used chalk to create our backgrounds. We also tried some foods that Astronauts would eat in Space. We tried different ‘Freeze dried’ fruits!

Check out some pieces from year 3 writers. They have been creating persuasive pieces encouraging families to join our school. I did not bribe them with chocolate at all! 

Today, we had a fabulous chocolate workshop to celebrate Black History Month. Our governor, Agnus Fough showed the children how chocolate is made and how it is transported to the UK. Then they tasted three different types of chocolate and voted which one that they liked the best. It was lots of fun and we all learnt a lot. Thank you Agnes!

Today we have used different mediums to complete our finished Lowry inspired pictures. We have created matchstick men in front of either Dukinfield Town Hall, Portland Basin or Tennyson Avenue. The finished work will be displayed in our Art Gallery. 

To celebrate World Space Week year 3 have created planets that are out of this world. We have also been watching clips on BBC about how the planets orbit the sun. Our guided reading work has been all about the Solar System too.

Year 5 have learnt about the planets in our solar system for this half term's Earth and Space topic. Today, they created their own planet using oil pastels as a medium, and wrote a fact file to accompany it. 

Year 6 have really been improving their skills and managed a small team tournament today. Great work Y6!

Agnes, our school governor visited Year 2 and talked about chocolate! Agnes came from Ghana, West Africa. Children learnt where cocoa came from.  They even got to taste some. 

The class came up with questions to ask a Victorian working child. They paired up with other children to hot seat their partner who had to be in the shoes of a working child. This will help them with their diary entry which we will be starting later this week. 

The theme this year is Living in Space. "Living in Space" isn't just about designing spacecraft or stations — it's about solving the complex challenges that come with turning space into a home. Keep an eye out for blogs this week.