This morning, children from different schools in the Arch Alliance took part in a Spelling Bee competition. This event was held at Milnrow Parish and was a great success! Four children from year 4 to 6 represented Heap Bridge very well. Well done to all the children who took part Read more…
Year 3 were very surprised when they came back from half-term to discover lily pads in the classroom! They discussed how they thought the lily pads had got there and who they thought had visited the classroom. It turned out we were not the only ones surprised by the sudden Read more…
In English, we have been exploring the animation ‘The Blue Umbrella.’ The animation tells the story of Blue and Red, two umbrellas on a rainy day in a city. During this rainy day, the two different-coloured umbrellas meet and fall eternally in love. We have started writing a narrative and Read more…
In English, year 5 have been looking at persuasive features and how these can be used, in order to support them in their writing. Children have planned and written some fantastic work to encourage people to visit Egypt.
This term we are studying Ancient Greece. The children have been busy this week finding out about Greece today in terms of physical and human geography. They then used their research to write a persuasive piece on visiting to Greece. Some great writing Year 6. I’m very tempted to go Read more…
Year One were very lucky to welcome the author Anna Lucas into our classroom to share her new book ‘Sir Undercracker’. The children enjoyed listening to the story while joining in with the rhyming pairs and learning some new vocabulary with Anna! Prior to the visit, the children developed questions Read more…
In English this half-term, Year 3 are taking part in a Big Writing Adventure. The Big Writing Agency have hired us to help Cat and her friends who are going on a school trip to a castle. They need our help to write a play script so they can re-enact Read more…
Year Two had a fantastic morning with Anna Lucas.Anna is a real author who came into school to read her new book, ‘Sir Undercracker’. We all enjoyed a fantastic story session with lots of actions, learning super, new vocabulary along the way. Anna talked us through the process of writing Read more…
Reception had a wonderful time joining in with Anna and Sir Undercracker this morning. They listened carefully for the rhyming pairs, joined in with all the actions and learned lots of new vocabulary. I am sure the children will continue to enjoy exploring this book. Thank you Anna!
Today was the 22nd year there’s been a World Book Day! World Book Day is a charity on a mission to give every child and young person a book of their own. It’s also a celebration of authors, illustrators, books, and (most importantly) it’s a celebration of reading. In fact, Read more…
Yesterday we celebrated World Book Day and all the children dressed up as various different book characters. All the children out in a lot of effort into their costumes and looked brilliant! through a range of book related activities and tasks in the afternoon. In the afternoon we did Read more…
Today the children wore fantastic costumes to school, celebrating world book day! Throughout the day we have read stories in relation to the characters that the children are dressed up as. The children have enjoyed reading and writing their own stories.
Today we celebrated world book day through a range of book related activities and tasks. Here are some pictures from across the day. Guess the book character. Children had to ask a range of questions that could only be answered with yes or no. Share our favourite books and learn Read more…
Today, the whole school dressed up for World Book Day. Year 5 children took part in many book day activities and they all looked fantastic in their outfits. Following on from World Book Day, this week’s homework is to write a detailed book review of your favourite book on our Read more…
Reception have been sharing the story of The Runaway Pancake. They have joined in with the story repetition and created the characters. Today they learned why we have Shrove Tuesday and talked about their favourite toppings on pancakes. We all enjoyed flipping and tasting the delicious pancakes.
Reception have been enjoying the warm weather outside and acting out the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. They enjoyed playing the different character roles and experimented with porridge and cereals.
Reception were very surprised to see the Evil Pea had visited their classroom this week. They received a recorded message asking them to help save the trapped vegetables and then set straight to work writing their lists. They went on to create their own Supertato models to use just in Read more…
In the past few weeks Year 1 have been learning about different cultures, we have discussed the different animals, food, climate, clothing and dance styles in lots of different countries. In English we created our own story based on a different culture after reading Handa’s Surprise. Year 1 enjoyed getting Read more…
Over the past two days, 12 children in Year 5 have been working with Mrs Weatherhead, MBE and author of the children’s books ‘Starfly’. They focused on writing and reading skills based around her books. The series of books ‘Starfly’ are an exciting children’s novel about the early life of Read more…
In Year 4 this week we have been studying the poem ‘When I heard the music…’ by Pie Corbett. First of all we listened to three pieces of instrumental music: Under the Sea – The Little Mermaid How Far I’ll Go – Moana Once Upon a Dream – Sleeping Beauty Read more…
As we approach the end of the term in time for the Christmas celebrations, we have been looking at the poem “Twas the night before Christmas”. The children enjoyed reading the poem aloud and looking at the use of rhyme. They then worked in groups to create their own version Read more…
This term we have been working on our extreme earth topic. As part of this topic, we have been learning all about volcanoes. Here is just some of our work. English Cross Curricular writing. The children produced a recount as if they were there when the volcano erupted. News Read more…
This week, Year 5 have been writing about the Dream Giver based on the video below. Take a look at some of our excellent writing.
Reception have really enjoyed writing sentences about the Gruffalo this week. They are becoming confident using their phonics to help them sound out words.
Reception have produced some wonderful writing about fireworks. They created rockets from a cone and a cylinder and even made their own backing paper in the form of Jackson Pollock!
This week, a group of our Year 6 pupils were given the opportunity to work with Yvonne Weatherhead, the author of the story book “Starfly, seeks the red fox”. The children enjoyed reading the story and completing a range of tasks around the theme of red foxes. One of the Read more…
In Year 4 we are writing a spooky story linked to Halloween. Our two characters Luca and Jack go and explore a haunted house, but what danger and scary events lie ahead of them? Last week we completed a DADWAVERS grid to support our writing and help us to use different Read more…
Today was all about Bonfire Night. The children have been working on poetry over the last couple of weeks along with features such as similes, metaphors and personification. Today we had a go at writing some personification poems around the theme of the bonfire. Some lovely imagery here. Well done Read more…
Today, year 5 have written some fantastic firework poems. Children used many literary features to add imagery to their poems including: personification, similes, onomatopoeia and metaphors. Take a look at their excellent work below
