Today we explored how people celebrate Chinese New Year. We watched a 'dragon dance' in the hall and listened to 5M's brilliant assembly which told us lots of information about China. We came back to our classroom and tried some Chinese food; Sweet and sour noodles, seweed, prawn crackers and…

Today, we have conducted a science experiment. We talked about what we thought might happen to the sweets once we added water to them. Some children thought they would break, some children said they would float and another child said they might even change colour. We arranged the sweets into…

This half term we will be looking at celebrations in our R.E. sessions. Today we talked about what we celebrate and how. We talked about Christmas, Birthdays, Weddings and Easter and the different things we do on these occaisions to celebrate. We celebrated coming back to school after the…

Happy New Year!

In our Spring RE topic we are learning all about Missions. We had a visit from a representative from a local charity Mustard Tree. We learnt about what they do to help tackle the homelessness and poverty problems in Manchester. 

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What a great day we had at Manchester museum! When we arrived we were given time to look around the museum before our Ancient Egyptian lesson. We loved the living things section where we saw real life frogs, snakes and even a lizard catching a cricket. It was also really interesting to see…

We all really enjoyed performing for our family and friends last week at the music performance. It wasnt easy singing and playing the ukulele at the same time, but was a challenge we greatly enjoyed. All the children in years 3 & 4 played and sang beautifully. We also felt really lucky to hear the…

This week, the current peer mediators planned and carried out a training session for the new additions to the team, who will start their role as peer mediators after Christmas. The new peer mediators who are in year 4, played memory games, listened to the older children's advice, watched role…

This afternoon, Mrs a Wheeler gave us all the components to make a circuit with a bulb, but she didn't tell us how to put it together. We knew we would have it when the bulb lit! It didn't take long before Maheen and Chris made the perfect circuit. After that, it didn't take long until we all had…

On Friday, year 6 came to tell us about the advent bags. 

We leant that every family will get an advent bag for one evening in December. Families should set out the small statues of Mary, Joseph and Baby Jesus. Together you can say a prayer, retell the nativity story, discuss the significance…

This week, we had the chance to look at Ancient Egyptian artefacts, including clothing, pottery, weapons and statues. We looked at them closely and even tried a few things on. We created different drama scenes with pharaohs and slaves, also traders selling animal fur and pottery. It was a…

We have been measuring this week in Reception, today we draw around out feet, cut them out and ordered them from the shortest to the longest!  

RE Ambassadors dropped into Reception to tell us the Nativity Story and how to use the Advent bags that will be coming home to everyone this Advent.