Book Competition

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We Love Books!

During the school closure, Rochdale Council asked pupils across the borough to take part in a very special book competition. The competition focused on recreating famous book covers at home using whatever they could find. Have a look at these fantastic covers. Well done to…

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Year 2 Memorable Experience

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Year 2 Memorable Experience

Year 2 will be learning about the Great Fire of London this half term. To help set up the experience we started to find out in our classes all about what happened and the sequence of key events. We used books, videos and the Internet to help us to research and…

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Year 2 Visit Middleton Library

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Year 2 visited Middleton Library on Monday 5th November 2018. We were looking forward to the opportunity of going there and being able to read for pleasure. We walked down on a cold morning and were greeted upon our arrival. We had the opportunity to explore the children’s library and have the…

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Year 2 Visit from the Edgar Wood Society

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Year 2 were privileged to receive a visit from the Edgar Wood Society. Our guests brought along none other than Mr Wood himself!

   

He had travelled through time to come and talk to Year 2 about his work and early life in Middleton. Mr Wood was very surprised at how different Middleton…

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Year 2 Marvellous Middleton

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During Autumn 1, our topic was called Marvellous Middleton and as I am sure you can guess, we were finding out all about the amazing place where we live. Middleton has such a rich history with so many significant places and people who have lived here. One such person is Edgar Wood.

Edgar…

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Year 1 Attend the Royal Wedding!

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Year 1 arrived in school on Friday 18th May 2018 to celebrate the Royal wedding of Prince Harry to Meghan Markle! 

 

The children wore their best outfits as they knew they needed to be the best wedding guests at the party! Look how smart we all looked!

   

We enjoyed eating a special…

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Year 1 Visit from a Spaceman!

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Year 1 received a visit from a spaceman!

The spaceman arrived to much excitement and quickly got to know the children’s names. He introduced himself and told the children exciting stories about his space adventures and answered questions about his job as an astronaut. He talked about other…

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Year 1 - Alien Invasion!

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Year 1 returned to school after the Easter holidays to find this mess! We spent so much time exploring and tidying (!) the mess which had been left.

  

Our pupils came together to think about what could have happened and more importantly who had caused this catastrophe! There were…

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Year 1 and the Beanstalk!

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During Spring term Year 1 have been finding out about plants. We explored our school grounds and found out the names of common flowers and trees. We thought about which plants and trees we have in our own gardens.

   

We read stories about plants including Jack and the Beanstalk! We really…
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Year 1 Life Cycle of a Chicken!

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Year 1 had the pleasure of looking after and caring for a little batch of eggs for two weeks! The eggs arrived one morning and we were very excited. The pupils help to set up the enclosure which the chicks would live in. Then we waited excitedly for our eggs to hatch!

    

The first crack in…
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Year 1 Celebrate World Book Day 2018

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On the 1st March 2018 Year 1 celebrated World Book Day! All pupils came to school dressed as either a book character or a Horrible Histories character! Have a look at our amazing costumes!

 

Throughout the day, pupils had the chance to participate in book-based activities. We also created…
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Year 1 Visit Lancaster Farm

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Year 1 visited Lancaster Farm and through enjoyed the whole experience. We enjoyed seeing the animals as our topic this term has focused on naming animals and identifying which group they belong to. We have looked at and named body parts, recognising similarities and differences between species.…

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