Happy Pancake Day Everyone! We followed the recipe and had lots of fun whisking the ingredients together. We also enjoyed tasting the different toppings too!  

Nursery children are only 3 and 4 years old yet they already use the internet for lots of different reasons. In school and at home children discussed with adults what they use the internet for, we found out children watched videos, played games and of course learnt lots of information through the internet that teachers show them. In nursery we have also used 'skype' to speak to Adarsh, a former nursery child, who moved to the USA and found out about his new school. 

Year 6 have been specifically looking at how to keep themselves safe online. They explored and discussed ways and means to keep themselves safe online and introduced and explained the SMART rules to Year 4.

On Tuesday 5th February, the whole school participated in Internet Safety Day. This years theme was: Create, Connect and Share Respect: a better internet starts with you. In Year 3, we explored why we use the internet and how we can play the role in helping create a safer online community. Year 5 came to talk to us about cyberbulling and how to think SMART. We then created posters which we shared with Year 1 children. We taught them everything we know about internet safety. At the end of the session, Miss Lewis asked lots of questions to see how much we had learnt.

Yesterday was E-Safety Day and Year One really enjoyed participating in lots of different activities that teach us how to be safe on the internet. We learnt all about a penguin called Smartie and helped him to make the right choices when strange things he had never seen before popped up on his tablet such as adverts, the App Store, websites that his older brother had been on and a game that included a chat room. Together we discussed whether this has ever happened to us before when we are at home and talked about what the right thing to do would be. We even learnt a song...

Using resources loaned from the NHS Foundation Trust (Be Well Tameside), Mrs Anson delivered an important lesson to Year 5 on nutrition and how to look after your teeth.  Following the lesson the class visited Year 3 to share their knowledge.  Both classes enjoyed the activity and some fantastic learning took place.  It sees we have some budding health advisors and dentists in our school!  Well done everyone!  Mrs Blomeley

A Chinese restaurant role play area has been created in our nursery classroom, children have been taking food orders and pretending to be waiters and waitresses. Our funky fingers area has Chinese numbers and children have the opportunity to match pom poms to the correct numbers using tweezers which develops fine motor skills.

I am highly impressed with all the additional work Year 6 is doing at home. A massive thank you to the parents for supporting their child in completing their creative Viking homework. Don't they look fabulous!

In Spanish we have been talking and writing about our favourite foods. In English, we have created a class book and filled it with our fantastic poems that we wrote about Rainforest Animals in the style of Paul Hess. In Science, we have been exploring different types of rocks,  their properties and if they are waterproof. In Maths, we have been learning how to tell the time to the nearest minute on an analogue and digital clock. We have been adding and subtracting time and learning about am and pm. Stay tuned for more…

Year One have really enjoyed their practical maths all about time. Together we have discussed the different ways that we can tell the time including different devices and even the light and sounds from outside. The children then completed a range of activities such as showing the time to o'clock and half past, playing a 'Tell the Time' board game, time bingo and some of the children really enjoyed exploring time with their friends and the big clock. We even challenged ourselves further by showing an hour earlier and later by reading worded problems.