Today we took 7 children from Year 4&5 to take part in the Rochdale School Games Water Polo festival at Heywood Sports Village. This was a first competition for our children and they were amazing, they finished in 4th place. Their confidence grew throughout each game, and they all had Read more…
Last week we entered the Heywood Schools Gymnastics Competition. We took 3 teams, a Year 1/2, 3/4 and 5/6. Prior to the competition, the children had to learn a set floor routine and perform a vault suited to their age group. All the children did amazing and performed their routines Read more…
Last week KS2 were introduced to Ultimate Frisbee with a taster session from Sports Cool Bury. All the children really enjoyed their session and learning some new skills.
This afternoon, Year 4 were on the hunt to see what invertebrates they could find in our local environment. The children had lots of fun exploring the woodland area, finding different invertebrates and logging all that they observed about each creature they found. We were lucky enough to be able Read more…
Last week, we attended the Heywood Schools Sports Presentation at Newhouse Academy. The evening was to celebrate all the success during competitions this academic school year, medals were presented for First place and runners up. We would like to say a massive well done to all the children who have Read more…
This week in maths we have been learning about shapes and measures. In this lesson, we were looking at the properties of 3D shapes in terms of edges, faces and vertices and what better way to do this than by building the shapes using cubes, straws and marshmallows. Great learning Read more…
Today Year 3 went to Heywood library to take part in a range of activities and join the library. The children enjoyed looking at the wide selection of books on offer to borrow along with sharing stories, making book marks and completing a scavenger hunt. Most importantly though, they all Read more…
It was great to be back at the Etihad Manchester Indoor Athletics Arena today for our annual School Sports Day. Thank you to all the parents who came to support… your cheers helped to create an atmosphere for our sporting heroes. A huge well done to all our pupils… Read more…
This half term we have been designing and making our slingshot cars, purely powered by an elastic band. First we had to research the design of cars and the mechanisms. We looked carefully at the chassis and how to strengthen this. Here are some pictures from the design and making Read more…
Today we entered the Heywood Schools Gymnastics competition at Newhouse Academy. There were 5 schools in total who took part with over 75 children in total competing for their schools. We took 3 teams to this event a Year 1/2 team, 3/4 team and 5/6 team. The standard was amazing Read more…
Today Year 3 have been learning all about shadows. We explored how to create a shadow and also how to increase and decrease the size of shadow by the position of the torch. We then used this knowledge to create our own shadow puppet theatres. Well done Year 3.
Today we celebrated the Queen’s jubilee with a range of activities. We found out all about Queen Elizabeth 11 and completed some fact files. We also looked at the chronology of her life and ordered some of the key events within it. We completed some jubilee themed french work by Read more…
Today during PE Year 1,2,3&4 continued their celebrations for the Queens Jubilee during their PE lesson. We didn’t let the rain stop us, we started off with completing a Jubilee dance dancing through different years, then we went on to complete an obstacle course. During the obstacle course the children Read more…
Today we entered the Heywood schools Year 3&4 Mixed Dodgeball competition at Heywood Sports Village against 4 other local primary schools. This was a first competition for most of our players and they did an amazing job, some fantastic efforts. Well done Year 3&4.
Today we entered the Heywood Schools KS2 Cross Country event at Newhouse Academy. The children raced in their year groups with Girls competing against each other and the boys against each other. Year 3&4 had to do 1 lap where as year 5&6 had to complete 2 laps. It was Read more…