This week we have explored Africa. In Geography, we located it on the map and studied life in Kenya. We looked at the animals that live there and how the capital city of Nairobi compares to life in a village. In English, we used the iPads to create animal fact files. We learnt how to...
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Class Assembly
Form Five have been practicing their vocabulary, as a part of our Complete Comprehension unit. We have made it a little more fun with a dictionary game, where the children see how speedily they can look up new key vocabulary, that crops up on each Comprehension test, in a dictionary. A little friendly competition goes...
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The Salford Museum & The Lowry Art Gallery
The highlight of our week has been our school trip to The Salford Museum and The Lowry Art Gallery. We have been learning about life in Victorian times and famous people of that era. At the museum we learnt about a Victorian washday and helped Mr Brown wash his stinky socks. We had fun playing...
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Goldilocks and The Three Bears
This week the children have been showing us just how clever they are, ready for the Easter Reports. They have also enjoyed the first of two weeks concentrating on the story ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears.’ After reading and understanding the story, they sequenced it and enjoyed hot seating. Children volunteered to be either Goldilocks...
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Physicists
Form 6 were our accomplished physicists this week, as we emulated Sir Isaac Newton’s famous experiments with light and prisms. We decided to test his long-held theory that white light is made up of all of the colours of the rainbow. In our mission to do this, we created ‘colour wheels’. We span our wheels...
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Topic Work
We are really enjoying our topic, stories from other cultures. We have read The Runaway Chapati which is set in India and Handa’s Surprise which is set in Kenya. We are looking forward to reading more. In Geography, we have explored Australia and in particular Aboriginal Art. In Science, we have successfully grown and tasted...
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The Great British Spring Clean
It was another busy week for Pupil Parliament. Ava-Grace gave stickers out for us to put on our light switches to remind us to save energy by turning off the lights when we leave a room. We are busy creating posters to display around the school to remind parents to turn off their engines when...
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Netball
On Wednesday we played our first home game in the Worsley Schools netball A league. We hosted Wardley CE Primary School and enjoyed a great match against them, winning 12-5. Our player of the match was awarded to Ella and Lottie was given our player of the week award for great improvement in skills. Well...
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Nunchaku Success
Nunchaku Tournament Alaia from KG2 took part in the first Nunchaku sport tournament in the North West last weekend. She won ‘best sports person’ of the tournament for her tenacity, sportsmanship and for her bravery – fighting others a lot older and bigger than her. Well done Alaia – you are amazing and we are...
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World Book Day
Form Five have been working so hard on their preparation for their examinations this week! It was nice to have a little break on Thursday, to celebrate World Book Day! Lots of children came to school in their cosy pyjamas and we even had some brilliant book-related costumes! Has anyone seen Wally?