This week year 6 had to use their investigative skills to piece together some clues presented to them about our next English unit of work. The clues included: binoculars, string, a fossil, sand, a map, a footprint and some leaves.

What do you think could have happened? 

We had a special visitor as part of Maths week. One of our parents came into school to talk about how he uses Maths in his job as an architect. We were all amazed by the houses he built and want to be architects when we grow up. 

Broadbent Fold's girls football team had a friendly football match against Gee Cross primary school. They showed great determination and never gave up ending the game 3-2 to Gee Cross. Kasia got player of the match for her fantastic goal keeping skills. Well done to everyone who braved the winter weather and took part.

Year 5 and 6 loved taking part in the quicksticks hockey competition on Wednesday night. Year 6 played Manchester Road and Cannon Burrows winning all of their games without conceeding any goals.

Year 5 lost to St George's 1-0 and drew against Cannon Burrows. Everyone showed great teamwork and some fantastic hockey skills. A special mention to Henry who got MVP for the Year 6 team and Kasia who got given a school games badge for passion. Well done to everyone that played. 

Year 2 really enjoyed making their own pizza wraps, making soup in the mud kitchen and making homes for different characters.

Year 5 enjoyed making their own mini fires and making delicious pizza wraps.

Today, Year 3 children looked at different properties of rocks including density, permeability and durability. We moved around the classroom and completed different experiments. We checked density of rocks by testing if they sank or floated. We used a small square of sand paper to test how durable the rocks were. To test permeability we added few drops of water using a pipette onto a rock and observed whether it was absorbed. We also completed a rock game on Education City and researched rocks using different books. 

This week, Head Teacher's certificates were awarded for fantastic effort in writing. We also had Good to be Green Awards and Bronze Awards. Well done everybody!

Well done to this week's Head Teacher and Good to be Green award winners. Thank you for always being ready to learn and enthusiastic about your learning. Well done to X and N who have achieved their blue / red belt in their recent Martial Arts grading. Well done boys! Keep up the hard work!

This week in Topic, we have been exploring the countries that make up the UK and their capital cities. The children have used Atlases to locate major cities in Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland and used a key to plot them on a map of their own! Well done everybody! Super knowledge of London too everybody!