Today in Geography, Year 5 have been learning all about tornadoes. They have learnt about how tornadoes are formed and the effect that tornadoes can have in the areas that they occur in. In small groups, they followed a set of instructions to create their own tornado in a bottle. Read more…
In English, Year 5 are going to be writing a balanced argument about the effect that screen use has on children and whether or not it makes them lazy. At the beginning of the week, the children looked at an example of a balanced argument and identified the different features. Read more…
Today, we celebrated World Book Day with a range of different activities. To begin with the children had a mystery to solve! Pupils got themselves into pairs and then each pair was given a list of different items that had been left by mysterious book characters. Each pair had to Read more…
Today, two of the Year 6 Digital Leaders came into Year 5 to talk about being safe on the internet, linking to Safer Internet Day. They had planned some great activities, which really made the Year 5 pupils think about what they use the internet for and how to stay Read more…
On Wednesday, five children from Year 5 and five children from Year 6 visited Harwood Park Primary School for Science Ambassador training. The children took part in a variety of activities throughout the afternoon and thoroughly enjoyed it! They represented themselves and Heap Bridge brilliantly. Well done to you Read more…
In Science this term, Year 5 have been exploring different forces. Last week, we looked at air resistance. Air resistance is a type of friction between air and another material. For example, when an airplane flies through the air, air particles hit the airplane making it more difficult for it to Read more…
Today, Year 3 visited Brockholes nature reserve in Preston and what a day they had going back in time to the Stone Age – even the weather didn’t spoil our day. Here are some pictures from across the day. First was shelter building, after all, to survive you need a Read more…