Author: Branwood School (Branwood School)

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Mother’s Day

KG1 have been very busy this week. The children have been thinking about how important their Mum’s are to them and they have been making some lovely art and crafts for Mother’s Day. They have also been very busy matching quantities to numerals, working in their Maths workbooks. The children have also been working hard...

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Branwood History in the Making

On Tuesday our netball team played a fantastic away game as part of the Worsley Schools League against St Augustine’s C of E. The final score was 15-5 to Branwood. Well done to all the team and a special mention for Ella who was nominated player of the match. For the first time in Branwood’s...

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Lacrosse Success

Yesterday we took part in the Salford School’s Lacrosse qualifiers hosted by St Edmunds RC Primary. Our players had a fantastic afternoon showcasing skills learnt from their lessons in school. They did brilliantly, ending up with bronze medals and narrowly missed representing Salford in the Nationals. A massive well done to all of the team. You...

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Sean Perkins visit to Form 1

We saw the return of author Sean Perkins this week. Form 1 had great fun turning their ‘Teacher into a Creature’. Sean has visited Branwood a number of times and his visits have always been enjoyable. Form 1 really enjoyed his silly stories and enthusiastic storytelling.

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WWII

Form 4 have made great progress with our WWII topic this week! We have been exploring shading techniques and have been using grids to help us to recreate photographs of WWII aircrafts. We have also been looking at the roles of different men and women who helped with the war effort – a highlight was...

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Famous People & Teacher Creatures

We have been learning lots about various famous people this week, including Florence Nightingale and LS Lowry. The children have been giving presentations of their individual projects. They have all been amazing, with the children speaking loudly and clearly and answering some challenging questions about their individual famous person. Well done to everyone. We also loved our...

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A Busy Week in Form 3

Form 3 have had another busy and exciting week. We had a visit from Sean Perkins, an author. The children firstly attended his assembly and then later took part in a brilliant poetry workshop with Form 4. The workshop was about Space Poetry and the children looked at how to create a rhyming poem titled...

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Sean Perkins visit to Form 5 & 6

Form 5 and Form 6 had a wonderful time with author, Sean Perkins. Sean is a poet and songwriter, as well as an author, and ran a session for the children about how to write song lyrics and rhyming poems. The children had an amazing time and it was lovely to see some of their...

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Sean Perkins visit to KG2

KG2 enjoyed listening to Sean Perkins talk about his books in assembly. He then came to visit our class. He introduced the children to a character called ‘Silly Pie’ who eats rhyming words. The children enjoyed feeding Silly Pie with rhyming words and singing a song with Sean. They then made their own rhyming word...