Science WeekScience Week Everyone had an exciting time developing their scientific investigation skills during this year’s Science week: Year 1 learnt about the Jurassic world of

Science Week

Everyone had an exciting time developing their scientific investigation skills during this year’s Science week:

Year 1 learnt about the Jurassic world of dinosaurs - sorting them into sets based on different physical characteristics (e.g. neck size and teeth shape) using a Venn diagram and they even went hunting for their footprints in the Friendship Gardens!

Year 2 investigated whether girls are smaller than boys by doing lots of measuring, recording in tables and drawing of pictograms to present their findings!

Year 3 completed exciting missions like finding out what the features of a long-flying paper aeroplane are and how to build a periscope to peek around corners.

Year 4 made observations of the flora growing around school and made bird feeders to encourage birds to visit the Friendship Gardens!

Year 5 became CSIs to solve the mystery of who stole a mobile phone, measuring how long it takes for tea to cool and measuring how the average size of a splat of liquid changes when dropped from different heights (to find out how tall the culprit was after he left some blood stains).

Year 6 imagined they were stranded on a desert island and needed to purify sea water so compared different types of filters to create their own solar stills.

As well as all this, the whole school enjoyed watching a performance of a science-themed show called Bunsen Towers in which the children had to solve the mystery of the missing diamond by applying their knowledge of separating mixtures and states of matter.

Year 1 Eureka! Trip

Year 3 visited the historical city of Chester where they: marched around the streets dressed as Roman soldiers, were given a guided tour of the old amphitheatre and visited the Dewa Roman Experience to learn about what daily life was like in the city 2,000 years ago.

Commemorative coins

To commemorate Queen Elizabeth II becoming Britain's longest reigning monarch, everybody was given a special golden coin to keep and cherish.

Buddhism

Year 4 took part in a workshop about Buddhism to find out about the religion. They made a simple shrine and practiced the art of meditation.

Harvest festival

Year 6 helped to lead this year’s Harvest service, in which they explained about the grain chain and read part of Psalm 65 to remind people everyone how God provides for us.

Year 2 Touchstones Trip

Year 1 had a great time at Eureka! where they visited the My Body exhibit and pretended to be: doctors, dentists and nurses to help them learn about how their bodies function. They also took part in a workshop about healthy eating, in which they investigated fruits and vegetables.

Ordsall hall

Year 5 visited Ordsall Hall in Salford to learn about what life was like living there during the Tudor period. The children explored the different rooms of the house and dressed up in Tudor clothes to take part in a mock Tudor feast, complete with traditional dancing.

Crucial crew

Year 6 went 'crucial crewing' to learn all about how to safely deal with dangerous or challenging situations such as fires and traffic accidents.

Food to fork

Year 2 visited Tesco Extra where they: explored the produce department, created their own fruit kebabs, looked around the bakery and made their own bread.

Children in need

The staff and children raised £224.63 for this year’s Children in need appeal by: burying Pudsey biscuits, guessing how many Smarties were in a jar and donating £1 to wear spotty clothes for a day.

Class assemblies

The first three class assemblies of the year have taken place:

Year 4 Year 4 described some of achievements made by the ancient Greeks and re-enacted the tale of the Trojan Horse which was used by the ancient Greek army to secretly enter the city of Troy.

Year 5 Year 5 recounted the history of Tudor period, including an explanation of how the different monarchs ruled the country. They also acted out a song to explain about what happened to Henry VIII’s six wives.

Stockport air raid shelters

Year 6 travelled back in time to World War II in November when they visited Stockport to learn about living conditions on the ‘home front’ during the Blitz. They dressed up in period clothes whilst handling a variety of artefacts from the war, including: an air raid siren, stirrup pump and a gas mask. Afterwards, they then went down in the tunnels which were dug underneath the town for residents to shelter in – which had their own toilets, café and medical area.

Year 6 Year 6 explained how they use exciting sentence structures in English lessons, including how they have combined some of them to help them achieve their writing targets and make their work fantastic.

Poetry day

Staff visited different classes to read their favourite poems and teachers went to other year groups to deliver fun poetry lessons during a special poetry day. The children then wrote their own class poems and shared them in a special showcase assembly.

Remembrance

Years 2 walked down to Middleton's Garden of Remembrance on 11th November to attend a short memorial service and to look at the poppies which had been placed by the cenotaph.

Dinosaur day

The whole school enjoyed watching a very special dinosaur assembly in which they learnt about the diets of different species and how fossils formed from their remains. They also met a baby allosaurus and Millie, the tyrannosaurus rex!

Christmas celebrations

Lots of events took place this year to help celebrate Christmas:

The PTFA organised a successful Winter Fair with lots of stalls and raffles.

Year 2 experienced a Victorian Christmas at Tatton Park, where the mansion which had been transformed to retell traditional carols.

The infants performed this year’s nativity play in which a little angel helped a donkey, a lamb and a dove on her journey to Bethlehem.

The choir sang beautifully to shoppers in Middleton Arndale.

The whole school took part in a special Christmas church service at All Saints and Martyrs, Langley.

Everyone enjoyed eating a roast turkey dinner with all the trimmings.

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