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Nursery News: All About Me – Week 2!
Date: 24th Sep 2024 @ 8:07am
Nursery News: All About Me – Week 2!
This week in Nursery, we continued our exciting "All About Me" journey, but with a special focus—welcoming new friends! We are delighted to welcome new children into our class. It’s been wonderful watching friendships bloom as everyone gets to know one another and we’ve been busy helping the children feel comfortable, confident, and connected in their new environment.
Friendship in Action
To support our new friendships, we’ve been focusing on activities that encourage cooperation and teamwork. Group games, such as parachute play and building with blocks, gave the children the opportunity to work together, share, and take turns. This links directly to Personal, Social and Emotional Development, as the children learn to interact positively with one another, build relationships, and understand the importance of kindness.
Exploring Emotions
This week, we’ve also started talking about feelings—what makes us happy, sad, excited, or even a little nervous. We used stories, puppets, and role-play to help the children explore and express their emotions, this has supported children to identify and talk about their feelings and build essential skills for emotional resilience and understanding.
Creative Self-Portraits
To further our “All About Me” exploration, the children worked on creating self-portraits with paint, crayons, and collage materials. This was not only a fun way for them to express themselves creatively but also a fantastic opportunity to enhance their fine motor skills.
Looking Ahead
As we wrap up Week 2, we’re looking forward to continuing our “All About Me” topic by diving deeper into the things that make each child unique, from their interests to their families. With new friendships forming every day, the classroom is buzzing with excitement and discovery. We’ll continue to nurture these new relationships and build a strong, caring community where every child feels valued and supported.
It’s been an amazing week watching the children grow closer, learn more about themselves, and, most importantly, make new friends. We can’t wait to see what Week 3 brings!
This week in Year 6.... 20/09/24
Date: 22nd Sep 2024 @ 7:00pm
This week in Year 6 we have been writing letters inspired by the World War 2 story, Rose Blanche. We have considered the style in which to write and the kind of things we would share in a letter at this time.
In Maths, all children have worked incredibly hard at rounding numbers. We've built on our knowledge of place value and recapped how this relates to rounding.
We are so proud of our Year 6's and how they are embracing their new classes and new learning! Keep up the hard work! 😀
Being Incredible in Reception (WB 16.09.24)
Date: 20th Sep 2024 @ 4:56pm
This week in Reception the chidren have still been exporing the areas and settling into our school routines. All the children have settled really well and are starting to make lovely relationships with both the staff and their peers.
We have started our Phonics lessons this week and have been looking at the following GPCs, S, A, T and P. The children have been super at recognising the graphemes and being able to say the corresponding phonemes.
Our book of the week, this week, was 'Incredible You', the children really enjoy taking turns and telling their classmates what makes them incredible.
In Maths we have been singing numbers songs, counting up to 5 and 10.
Year 1 Weekly Blog WB 17/9/2024
Date: 20th Sep 2024 @ 2:34pm
This week Year 1 have been doing lots of fantastic learning!
On Tuesday we had an amazing opportunity to meet the author Kevin Sinfield who alongside his friend Rob Burrows wrote the book Try. The children heard all about his early life and later life in sport. They then listened to him read his book and answer questions. They were really lucky to meet such an amazing author!
This weeks English learning has been based on the bool Martha Maps it out.
Here is a link to the video if you would like to watch it with your child.
MARTHA MAPS IT OUT 🗺 Leigh Hodgkinson | Read aloud #storyoftheweek - YouTube
The children did some amazing drama learning at the start of the week creating Marthas bedroom with their body's, this helped them to write a settibng description of the bedroom as their BIg Write.
In Maths the chilldren have been ordering numbers all the way up to 30 - next week we will be finding one more!
Date: 20th Sep 2024 @ 10:40am
This week in Year 5 we have done some exceptional learning. In English we have completed our big writes on 'The boy, the bear, the baron and the bard.' It was a wonderful first big write and we are really pleased with the efforts of everyone in our classes. Next week, we are moving onto MacBeth, which is one of William Shakespeare's finest plays. Have a watch of this fun take of the play to get an idea of what the play is all about- Shakespeare in Shorts: Macbeth | BBC Teach (youtube.com).
In Topic, we have been learning about Henry VIII and his wives. Test your child and see if they can remember the fate of each wife in the correct order. If you need a recap, have a watch of this- Henry VIII ("Money, Money, Money" by ABBA) (youtube.com)
A reminder that on PE days, all children must come into school with their PE kit in a bag unless they are told otherwise. Our PE days are Monday and Friday.
Well done everyone for a great week!
Date: 19th Sep 2024 @ 1:42pm
We have had a very creative week in Class 5 & 6!
The children have enjoyed using our maker's space and create countryside collages.
They have also done a fantastic job retelling the story of 'The Big, Bad Owl' and used adjectives to describe the characters in the story.
In Maths, the children have been exploring number and place value, focusing on partitioning tens and ones.
Please can you ensure that your child brings their book bag, with their reading book and yellow diary, to school everyday - we love reading together!
Have a lovely weekend.
This weeks learning in Class 12
Date: 18th Sep 2024 @ 10:20am
Class 12 are now in the full swing of Year 5 and it's lovely to see!
The children enjoyed reenacting the Battle of Bosworth as part of their topic WOW starter. They were all fantastic performers when using a range of their drama techniques and adapted to their drama roles very well. It has been a pleasure to see the children working extremely hard in their English lessons where they are working towards writing a narrative based on the book 'The Boy, The Bear, The Baron, The Bard'. Why not ask them about our text and who has been their favourite character? We are excited to read their finished pieces on Friday.
Date: 13th Sep 2024 @ 12:42pm
Welcome Back to another school year.
It has been a super week in Year 2, we have been looking at the book 'The Big Bad Owl' by Steve Smallman. The children have been strating to write about the main character Scowl and will be writing a retell next week.
Have a look at the class pages for the Parent's Meeting PowerPoint that has been uploaded.
Thank you for your continued support.
Mr Bottomley and Miss Coyle
Date: 13th Sep 2024 @ 12:25am
Class 7 have had a fantastic start to the year showing lots of enthusiasm for their learning and asking lots of interesting questions.
In English we have been making predictions about our book Harry and the Jaggedy Daggers. They have used dictionaries to find meanings of new vocabulary in the book and uplevelled simple sentences so they are exciting to read.
In Maths we have been looking at Place Value covering counting forwards and backwards, working out missing numbers from numbers up to 1000. The class have partitioned numbers and made the numbers using equipment to show they know the value of each digit. Yhey have also been working on their 4x tables by singing times table songs, playing games, making the 4x table with equipment and chanting them.
In PSHE we have been looking at Rules and Responsibilities. The children had so much to say building on previous learning about rules in class, school, home, mosque and in life. They remembered Greenhill's BUCKET rules and showed this through team work and drama. Together they came up with Class 7's rules so they BEING THE BEST THEY CAN BE!
A fabulous start start to the new year Class 7! Well done!
Date: 12th Sep 2024 @ 4:19pm
A fantastic start to Class 12!
Date: 11th Sep 2024 @ 7:21pm
What an amazing start to Year 5, Class 12 have had. All of the children have settled back into school life very well and have established our new classroom rules. Please ask us about these and we can all tell you all about them!
We have done some fantastic learning in Maths and English and have been introudced to our new Tudor topic in History and our new forces topic in Science. We look forward to diving into our learning more over the next weeks!
Please ask your child about this terms home learning project that has been set for our Tudor topic.
Date: 11th Sep 2024 @ 3:35pm
Year 6 have had an amazing first week. We had Mr B and Mr T come to school to teach us all about World War 2 on Monday. We got to learn about how and why World War 2 started, what life was like in Britain at this time and we got to learn how to black out windows and put bandages on. We had such a fabulous day and learned lots. Make sure to ask your child all about it.
Date: 5th Jul 2024 @ 1:00pm
In Class 6, we have been taking part in a football competitionagainst Class 3, 4 and 5.
We are super excited to say that we won the trophy, but more inmportantly we played with respect.
Looking forawrd to the final weeks in Year 2 before we more to Year 3 in September
w/c 24.06.24 - This week in Year 5!
Date: 28th Jun 2024 @ 8:43am
This week in Year 1... Wb 24th June
Date: 27th Jun 2024 @ 3:59pm
This week Class 4 have done lots of fun learning!
We have been looking at the story 'No dragons for tea' and learnt all about fire safety! We have created our own Fire safety posters using imperative verbs and we also did some drama creating freeze frames from the story.
In Topic, we have been comparing now and then in relation to firefighters thinking about the differences. We are enjoying learning lots about The Great Fire of London!
We also had so much fun taste testing in Design and Technology, tasting different biscuits thinking about the smell and taste as we will be creating our own healthy biscuits in a few weeks.
In Science, we learnt all about the properties of materials! working in groups, we thought about what each object was made of and how it felt/looked.
On thursday we had a football tournament which everyone took part in and we got to show off our fantastic football skills! Well done to everyone :)
We have had such a busy week full of lots of different learning - we hope you enjoyed reading all about it.
Next week, we will be doing some letter writing to our dragon friends about fire safety and we will also be doing fractions in Maths!
Date: 21st Jun 2024 @ 12:36pm
Class 11 had a wonderful afternoon working with Mr Kennedy from North West Drama, who came in to see the progress of our performance piece for King Lear. He was so impressed with the class's attitude and drama skills and is sure that they are going to be amazing on stage.
PARENTS: please come and see the performance on 11th July at Middleton Arena; your children are working so hard and will be so pleased to see you in the audience when they perform. Tickets are £5 for over 16s and free for under 16s. They are available to buy on ParentPay, we need to know how many tickets you want so that we can let the theatre know.
We look forward to seeing you there, keep practicing lines with your child and get excited!!!!!
Year 1 Weekly Blog WB 17/6/2024
Date: 20th Jun 2024 @ 4:22pm
This week we have been doing some exciting learning linked to our Design annd Technology topic - Biscuits. In English we have looked at recipes and how they are structured. We followed a recipe to make our own biscuits and then we have written our own trying to include all the features that we found in our feature search. Next week we will be tasting a variety of biscuits and deciding what we want to put in the ones that we design and make later in the term.
In Maths we have done some fantastic dividing, starting with hands on concrete examples and moving onto pictorial and more abstract examples - maybe at home they could show you how to share some things around the house equally.
In our History topic - The Great Fire of London - we have created a timeline of the events back in 1666 and are moving onto look at the differences and similarities between firefighters back then and now.
All the children were very excited to share their news from the weekend about how they celebrated Eid and we look forward to seeing them in their Eid clothes on Friday when it is Eid party afternoon!
Date: 7th Jun 2024 @ 10:50am
This week we have continued our learning about Invaders and Settlers. We learnt about the withdrawal of the Romans and the entering of the Anglo Saxons. All our learning so far plus what is to come was placed on a timeline. We are really enjoying the interesting and exciting topic. 
Date: 6th Jun 2024 @ 5:08pm
This week in Reception we have started our new topic 'Fun at the Seaside' with our first book 'The Rainbow Fish'. The children have enjoyed telling us what they already know about the seaside and sharing some lovely stories of when they have been to the seaside with their family.
As part of our learning into the story 'The Rainbow Fish' we have been thinking about what he looks like and how he feels throughout the book. In the afternoon some of the children have been creating under the sea collage pictures.
In maths we have been learning about number bonds to 10.
w/c 20.05.24 This week in Year 5!
Date: 23rd May 2024 @ 10:33am
What a great last week to the term!
We have been very bisy completing our DT projects, making Victorian style toys using cams, and completing our autobiographys of 'Frankenstein'.
Some Class12 children have enjoyed taking part in Bikeability, Class 11s turn will be later in the term.
Please be reminded that school is closed for the children tomorrow and that next week is the half term holiday.
We hope that you all have an enjoyable half term and look forward to hearing all about it when we return to school.
Date: 22nd May 2024 @ 4:30pm
... been looking at the properties of 3D shapes in maths. They have named the properties and identified different angles in the shapes. In literacy, Class 8 have produced a non - chronological report all about The Mayans. They have included all the features and made it eye catching to the audience. Class 8 have also done some DT this week. They have planned, designed and created chocolate bars inspired from our Mayan topic this half term. Well d done Class 8! 
Date: 15th May 2024 @ 8:32am
This half term the children have been learning all about Skeletons in their science lessons.
They have learnt why our skeletons are important and have also taken part in an experiment to see if all skeletons are the same size.
The children had to measure eachothers heads, feet and arms. They concluded that all skeletons are different sizes.
They have also created a power point about skeletons.
Ask your child to show you their power point on their iPad.
w/c 06.05.24 This week in Year 5!
Date: 10th May 2024 @ 3:55pm
We have had another busy week in Year 5!
We have completed our alternative endings to Little Red Riding Hood and explored measuring differents lengths, before converting units of measurements.
During science, we have investigated the life cycle of birds and researched facts about different types of birds.
We hope that you have a relaxing weekend and enjoy the sunshine.
Notices:
-As the weather is getting warmer please ensure that your child brings a water bottle to school in order to stay hydrated throughout the day.
Year 1 Weekly Blog WB 6/5/2024
Date: 10th May 2024 @ 12:42pm
This week we have done lots of fantastic learning about Africa in Topic and English lessons. We have researched and created factfiles about African animals in English and in Topic we learned all about life in the African country of Kenya. The children were able to say how the country is similar to the one they live in and how it is different.
In PHSE we have continued our learning about Healthy Lifestyles and talked about why it is important to brush your teeth. All the children had a go at cleaning a set of giant teeth! In RE we looked at the Christian ceremony of Baptism and the sybolism within the ceremeny.
Next week our book is Handa's Surprise and we will be starting off the week by making a fruit salad - and eating it !!
Date: 7th May 2024 @ 8:37am
Ths children in the Inclusion hub have been looking at animals this half term.
They have looked at pet animals, zoo animals and farm animals.
The children have milked a cow, made bird feeders, rescued frozen animals trapped in ice, cleaned the naughtly farm animals that went in the mud and fed the penguins.
This week the children will be looking at habitats and making the habitats for the animals.
