Dream house competition

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Huge thanks once again to Ascot Homes for allowing us to visit their construction site as part of our work in Science. Congratulations to Julia, Zoe and Zach who won their Dream House competition. They were presented with their prizes from Ascot Homes by John and Nick.

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Egyptians with Y6

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Later in the year we will be learning about the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb.  This week we visited Y6, who told us all about the Ancient Egyptian artefacts that they had been learning about. Y6 were very knowledgeable and made great teachers.  We particularly enjoyed writing messages using…

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Science - Electricity

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6B conducted an investigation in to if we changed the numbe of cells in a circuit, would it affect the brightness of a bulb.  After completing independent investigations, we decided to see how big a circuit we could make…very exciting!

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Year 6 Ancient Egyptian workshop

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We had a great day at Bolton Museum bringing our learning to life.  We learnt about the chronology and the mummification process amongst many other things.  Behaviour was impeccable and we were complimented on how well we did

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Year 4 Parliament Workshop

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On 23rd November, Year 4 had an assembly all about the Parliament and laws. After that, we took part in a Parliament workshop. We discussed and debated the for and against in creating a new law. The new law we debated was requiring all children to walk to school at least once or more a week. The…

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Year 1 War Memorial Visit

Year 1 showed their respect and manners on their walks to the war memorial today. Everyone was very polite and a represented our school so well. We enjoyed seeing the memorial to those who died in wars and reflected on the sacrifice they made. 
 

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Year 2 Trip to D’urton Rise

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Year 2 had a fantastic morning at D’Urton Rise housing development. After putting on our high-viz vests and hard hats we had the chance to look around a part-constructed house. Nick, the site manager, explained which materials they use to build different parts of the house and we discussed the…

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Y3 Trip to Moor Park

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In Geography, we have been learning about our local area and investigating it using maps.  We have learnt the difference between human and physical features and decided we needed to try and see some of these with our own eyes.

 

The children were fantastic and could spot human and physical…

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3S Science Investigation

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In Year 3, we have been learning all about our bodies and what we are made of.  We have learnt about our skeletons and can name some of the main bones and what their jobs are.

 

We decided that we wanted to conduct an investigation and came up with the question - Do longer legs make you run…

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Year 4 Cake Sale

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In the Autumn 1 term, Year 4 have enjoyed reading ‘The Boy at the Back of the Class’. The book focus was on a Syrian refugee called Ahmet. In Pastoral, we have been learning about discrimination and planned a Faith in Action project. On Thursday 12th October, we organised a cake sale. We raised…

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6B Science and PE

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As we couldn’t get outside for PE due to the rain, we combined our PE lesson with Science and learnt how to take and measure our heart rate, then observed how our heart rate changed after various periods of exercise. We concluded that doing exercise for a prolonged period of time increased our…

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First Aid

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In Year 3, we have been thinking about how we can keep ourselves and each other safe so we invited Nurse Isla to come in and teach us some basic first aid.

 

The children learnt how to put a plaster on correctly, how to bandage an injury and what to do if they find themselves in need of…

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