: Blog items
What is around us that would have helped in the Stone Age?, by Miss Higson
Date: 1st Oct 2018 @ 11:54am
The Fossil Man!, by Miss Higson
Date: 1st Oct 2018 @ 11:52am
Year 3 Visit Wagamamas in Manchester City Centre, by Miss Higson
Date: 26th Sep 2018 @ 2:06pm
This week, Year 3 went to Wagamamas in town to take part in a lot of really excitng activities. We weighed our own ingredients out which were then used to cook our food, we made smoothies and could choose our own healthy ingredients and we also had a food tasting session. We tried a lot of food we had never before. It was a lot of fun! Big thanks to Wagamamas for having us and to our parent helpers who joined us. We got the tram into town too. For some of us, it was our first time!
Have a look at the pictures...
King Vortigern, by Mrs McEvoy
Date: 21st Sep 2018 @ 4:26pm
Today we learnt about King Vortigern. We listened to the story about him, Hengist and Horsa. We ranked the reasons why Anglo-Saxons came to Britain. We then wrote a mini speech, in small groups, about whether we thought Vortigern was a good or bad person. We presented our speeches to the class and then we all made our final decision. Our aim was to persuade people to switch to what we thought. After this, we explained why Vortigern's decision (to let Anglo-Saxons come to Britain) was siginificant and discussed how it chanegd Britain.
Did you think Vortigern was a good or bad king?
Our topic class discussion!, by Miss Jones
Date: 21st Sep 2018 @ 3:13pm
Today in our topic lesson, we were discussing whether or not King Vortigern was correct with the decisions he made during the Anglo- Saxon times!
Times Tables Rockstars, by Miss Jones
Date: 21st Sep 2018 @ 3:05pm
On Times Tables Rockstars, we have all been working very hard on our times tables, we are able to see who has the most improved score and speed each week. Here are this weeks winners in 5J!
Don't forget to keep practicing over the weekend.
Heliocentric and Geocentric, by Mrs McEvoy
Date: 21st Sep 2018 @ 1:07pm
In Science this week we have learnt all about how our knowledge of the solar system has developed through the decades. We learnt about the Heliocentric and Geocentric models. After this, we focused on 2 scientists in particular; Aristotle and Galileo. We worked as groups to create a speech to show what these men contributed to our understanding of our solar system.
What is the difference between the Heliocentric and Geocentric models?
Which scientist believed in the Heliocentric model?
Solar Systems, by Mrs McEvoy
Date: 14th Sep 2018 @ 4:45pm
After learning about the Solar System last week, we made our own! We found different items to represent the different planets. Then we made sure we represented the distance and the size accuractly.
What did you find the most interesting from this lesson? Which part of making the Solar System was the trickiest?
Experimenting with sound , by Mr Tarry
Date: 14th Sep 2018 @ 4:00pm
Year 4 have been experiementing with sound waves. We made plastic cup telephones! This allowed us to feel the sound vibrating along the string.
Year 6- a new start!, by Miss Isbister
Date: 12th Sep 2018 @ 1:47pm
What are you looking forward to in Year 6? What are you hoping to achieve?
The Circulatory System, by Miss Isbister
Date: 12th Sep 2018 @ 1:38pm
As part of our Staying Alive topic, Year 6 learnt about how the heart pumps oxygenated blood through our arteries to our muscles. Deoxygenated blood is then transported through our veins and back to the heart.
What did you think of this lesson? What did you learn?
Coke and Mentos - TAKE 3, by Miss Lee
Date: 19th Jul 2018 @ 4:46pm
IT FINALLY WORKED!
What we learnt: the reaction between coke and mentos is better if it is warm! This is because heat speeds up reactions.
Science is brilliant!
Salad Making, by Miss Lee
Date: 19th Jul 2018 @ 4:41pm
As part of food tech this year, Year 5 designed and made a salad that follows the balanced diet. We discussed the best foods to fill someone, as well as give them enough energy to keep them going until tea time!
The best part was the eating! They all looked so delicious.
Miss Lee
Parts of a Flower - how seeds are made, by Miss Lee
Date: 19th Jul 2018 @ 4:38pm
Following on from our science lesson, where seeds in a plant form, the children learnt aboutthe different parts of a flower as well as how plants reproduce.
This was an awful lot of information for them to process, so Mrs Grainger and I made it arts and crafty! The children learnt the parts and process, then using card, had to make a "puppet show" using the various pieces of card to show the class how a plant reproduces.
It was some high level stuff but lots of knowledge was gained in the classroom. The children produced some wonderful flower diagrams as well as using the correct scientific vocabulary when explaining how a plant produce eggs. Well done Year 5!
Wonderful Words, by Miss Lee
Date: 19th Jul 2018 @ 4:29pm
Last week in English, the children were all excited about the wonderful words they found in setting descriptions. Analysing setting descriptions, picking out specific language features, as well as using a quote for an example, was a very high level activity, showing how far the children have come since the beginning of Year 5! So proud of everyone's progress!
PDSA Visit, by Miss Lee
Date: 19th Jul 2018 @ 4:26pm
Thank you for the veterinary nurse, Rose, who told us all about her exciting job working at an animal hospital! There were a few inspired animal lovers after the talk!
Andy Burnham Visit!, by Miss Lee
Date: 19th Jul 2018 @ 4:21pm
What a fantastic afternoon at Moss Park! We had the Mayor of Greater Manchester visit our school! How lucky are we?! Andy met the children who went on the London Trip to tell him about our trip to Parliament and then he ran our assembly for Year 5 and 6. Some chosen Year 5s read aloud their poems, written about Manchester. They wrote these when another exciting guest, poet Levi Tefari came who inspired us to write poetry. It was very moving and Andy gave us some inspirational words about going for our dreams and making a difference to people's lives. Thank you so much again Andy!
Miss Lee
Levi Tafari poetry event, by Mrs Richardson
Date: 18th Jul 2018 @ 4:07pm
We were lucky to have a visiting poet in Year 5 last Thursday. Levi Tafari is a Liverpool based poet who came to perform some of his own work and then work with us to create fantastic poems about Manchester and diversity. The children were really inspired by Levi and generated lots of ideas about their home city. To top it off, year 5 and 6 had a visit from the Greater Manchester Mayor, Andy Burnham and were able to share their poems with him. He was very touched with the ideas portrayed in the poetry and the pride in Manchester.
Summer Fair!, by Miss Higson
Date: 16th Jul 2018 @ 1:01pm
The wonder of words, by Mrs Grainger
Date: 10th Jul 2018 @ 9:47am
This morning, in English, we have been reading a range of setting descriptions. Our challenge was to draw what we thought the setting looked like, based on the author's choice of words. Take a look at them, they're fantastic! There is some inspiring vocabulary too. We're busy choosing our favourites. I can't wait to read your descriptions using some of these amazing new words. Mrs Nunwick, I think we might need to order some more post it notes!
Slime!, by Mr Tarry
Date: 4th Jul 2018 @ 9:29am
We followed a secret recipe to make some slime during STEM week
Scratch in ICT, by Mr Tarry
Date: 2nd Jul 2018 @ 2:38pm
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/15364900/#editor
Click on the link to code the teddy bear
RSPB Wild Challenge, by Miss Higson
Date: 29th Jun 2018 @ 4:47pm
Hi everyone,
Here is the link for the RSPB Wild Challenge that Sam told us about. Have a read and see if you can take part!
Miss Higson
STEM week artist, by Mrs Richardson
Date: 29th Jun 2018 @ 4:34pm
We were lucky enough to have Lucy Burscough (Alfie's mum) to come in and do a workshop with us during STEM week. Lucy combines an interest in science with her art practice. The children learnt about colour blindness and how it effects different people. Thank you Lucy!
Stop Motion Animation - STEM WEEK DAY 3, by Miss Lee
Date: 28th Jun 2018 @ 4:21pm
We had so much fun on Wednesday creating stop motion animation videos. They turned out fantastic. See some pictures of the filmakers in action!
