In DT this half term, Year 5 have been designing and then making their own pizzas. To introduce the topic, the children completed a comprehension task all about the history of the pizza. This was then followed by a lesson learning about how different foods make their journey from farm Read more
Today, Year 5 started their new Computing topic for Spring 2: Creating Media. For the first lesson, they created vector drawings using Google Docs. To begin with, they were each given a sheet of paper with six shapes on it and had to create a vector drawing by cutting out 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, Year 5 invited parents and carers into class to support them creating their final product for our stuffed toys DT unit. This term, Year 5 have been exploring the concept of creating their own stuffed toys. First of all they designed their product and then had a practice at Read more
This week it was the turn of the girls to compete in the Heywood Sports Association Dodgeball Competition. Although, slightly more subdued than the boys competition last week, the standard of dodgeball continued to be of a high level. All the girls represented Heap Bridge brilliantly, doing themselves proud and Read more
This week Mrs Wallsworth took some of the Year 5/6 boys to compete in the Heywood Sports Association Dodgeball Competition. The event was held over two nights, Monday at Holy Family High School and then Thursday at Heywood Sports Village. The boys tried hard and the games were tough and Read more
In Art this term, Year 5 have been learning about lino printing. Lino Printing is a form of block printing that involves carving a pattern or design into a linoleum, rubber or vinyl surface that can then be printed from. In today’s lesson, we carved our final design into the Read more
On Friday we took our 7 Year 6 sports leaders on a very deserved trip to thank them for all their hard work this year. During this year our leaders have been amazing providing activities for our younger years during lunch times, helping set up for PE lessons and being 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
On Friday 10th December 14 Children from Year 5&6 took part in the annual Rochdale Borough School Games Partnership Daily Mile Santa Dash. We ran/walked and had loads of fun whilst completing this around Queens park, some enjoyed it that much they went round the course again for a 2nd 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
Last night, Year 4 pupils camped over at school. It was lovely to feel a sense of normality and I was incredibly proud of the behaviour that was displayed. All of the children had a fabulous time and thoroughly enjoyed all of the activities. Den Building When the children arrived Read more
In English, Year 4 have been looking the the poem ‘When I heard the music…’ written by Pie Corbett. First of all they listened to four individual pieces of music and drew images and colours that they imagined whilst listening to the music. In the next lesson, they created extended Read more
In Art, Year 4 have been studying the artwork of LS Lowry. LS Lowry is one of Britain’s most famous artists from the 20th Century. He is well known for painting industrial scenes and matchstick characters. Lawrence Stephen Lowry was born in Stretford, Lancashire, in 1887. Lowry couldn’t get a place Read more
This morning, year 5 have been playing maths games to finish off the successful term that we have had. After playing the different games with their partners, they then went onto design their own maths game. Children included multiplication, division, addition, subtraction, prime numbers, squared, cubed, fractions and decimals. Take Read more