Summer 1

The first summer term has flown by! The children have been working hard and enjoying their learning. They have enjoyed a visit from Micklehurst Cricket Club where they took part in a cricket session to develop their cricket skills.  Year 5 have taken part in the Blind Side workshop focusing on violence against women and girls, Nursery have enjoyed their REAL home visits and a performance from 2 Boards and a Passion theatre company, Year 5 have performed brilliantly at the Mossley School Partnership Big Sing event and Year 6 have enjoyed a day of drama and creative writing with our resident author, David Mason.

Year 6 have also completed their SATs and we were very proud of how they tackled them. They showed excellent focus and concentration, perseverance and their application of skills and knowledge was fantastic. We hope they get the results they deserve.

A number if children have also enjoyed their Top of the Tree reward activities to Tumbles, Summit up and Doodlepots.

In Nursery the children have been learning about living things and all about the garden. They have read many stories by the fantastic author Eric Carle and have particularly enjoyed reading The Very Hungry caterpillar and watching caterpillars turn into butterflies.

In Reception, the children have loved learning about growing and changing. They have enjoyed reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar and using their story map to help them retell the story together. The children learnt all about the life cycle of a butterfly and were so excited to watch their own caterpillars grow, make cocoons and turn into butterflies before they released them outside. The children have also planted their own broad bean seeds and have been carefully looking after them as they grow. In RE, they have been thinking about God’s wonderful world and how they can care for the world and living things around them.

In DT his half term, Year 1 have been busy designing and making a nice healthy fruit salad. They enjoyed tasting different fruits to help them to decide which fruits to include. The children have also enjoyed getting out and about looking at signs of spring and identifying human and physical features in the local area. They also had a sneaky play at the park!

The children in Year 2 have really enjoyed their unit of work based on Zambia and have enjoyed finding out where Zambia is, what its climate is like and comparing this country with where they live. They have also enjoyed observing and describing how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants in science.

It has been a busy term in Year 3. The children have been been reading scales and confidently dividing 100 by 2, 4, 5 and 10 to work out the intervals on the scales, finding fractions of numbers and adding and subtracting fractions. They have worked extremely hard within Maths this half term.

In English, the children have been looking at the text ‘The Day Louis got Eaten’. They looked at a picture from the text, created a list of questions and made a prediction. They then read the story and verbally retold it.  They have created an author review, written a letter and designed their own monster to write about in their non-chronological report.

In Science, Year 3 have been looking at their unit of work all about plants. They were able to label the parts of a plant and describe their function, look at the flower and label its parts from looking at their own flowers. They have also looked at how water is transported around a plant.

In Geography, the children have been looking at their local area of Mossley. They were able to discuss where they live, the borough Mossley is in, the continent and hemisphere. Year 3 have been on a walk around the local area where they identified human and physical features. They also looked at the ages of different buildings and houses and marked these on a map. The children enjoyed learning about compass direction and drew different pictures of what they saw at north, south, east and west. They then looked at the route they took on their walk around Mossley and were able to draw a map of the route and locate the human and physical features they observed. 

This half term, Year 3 have loved their swimming lessons and have been able to practice a range of strokes as well as practicing their survival skills and rescuing their friends.

In Art, the children have been creating their own animated drawings and have practiced drawing their own monsters and creating their own animations to move using split pins.

In Guided Reading, the children have started looking at their new text by Michael Morpurgo and have made some predictions. They have enjoyed answering a variety of inference, summary and explanation questions.

This term has been so much fun in Year 4! In English, the children have enjoyed using magic themed books to inspire their writing.  They even made wands and sorcerer hats and had a potion making day!  In Maths, the children have continued to learn about fractions and decimals, ordering them, comparing and rounding them.

In RE, the children looked at the importance of rules within religions and how these rules helped to create order, familiarity and helped people to make the right decisions.  In Geography, the children learned about the UK, looking at major cities, rivers and mountains and other human and physical landmarks.  They even had a go at making some of these landmarks using Lego, playdough and bricks.

In Science, the children learned all about states of matter, carrying out lots of exciting experiments which explored solids, liquids and gases.  In Art, the children enjoyed learning about children’s illustrators and how they use pictures to tell stories.  The children explored a variety of mediums such as pastels, charcoal and art pencils and had a go at illustrating some magic themed poems.

Year 5 have had a fantastic half term in class! In Science, the children have been learning all about forces and exploring how pushes, pulls, friction and air resistance affect movement. In Maths, they have been developing their geometry skills by measuring angles carefully using protractors.

The children have also begun their new historical settings text, Letters from the Lighthouse, which the children have absolutely loved so far and are thoroughly engaged in. To finish the half term, they took part in an exciting paper aeroplane challenge linked to their Science learning, testing whose design could glide the furthest. It was a brilliant way to end a busy and successful half term!

Year 6 have had an incredibly busy and exciting term, with much of their focus centred around SATs preparation. The children have worked extremely hard, taking part in lots of creative revision activities, and they thoroughly enjoyed the famous SATs Week breakfasts before celebrating all of their efforts with a brilliant end-of-week treat. Alongside this, they have been exploring the magical world of Newt Scamander and Fantastic Beasts, creating their own imaginative beasts and writing detailed non-chronological reports about them.