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14th June 2024The children of EYFS had a brilliant time on their trip to Denton library. We listened to stories related to our "We are Explorers" theme, sang nursery rhymes and explored...
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3rd May 2024As part of our learning about growing this half term, the children of F2 have been doing lots of growing, including growing cress. We have written instructions out for how...
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3rd May 2024The children of EYFS all enjoyed our trip to the farm, to support our learning about Spring and growing.
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3rd May 2024F2 went on a local walk to find the places of work of different people who help us in our community in Denton. We used this information to make a...
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26th April 2024Our pupils in F1 and F2 were very excited to be visited by two PCSOs and a paramedic as part of their People Who Help Us topic. We got to...
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23rd February 2024Today in F2 we were lucky enough to have a visit from a science teacher. He talked to the children about science and we shared some amazing experiments. We have...
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19th February 2024After last week's floating and sinking experiments, where we found out that the shape of an object affected whether it can float or sink rather than just the weight, this...
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29th January 2024The class are currently learning about electricity and they have been using electrical equipment to make circuits. They have drawn diagrams of their own circuits and then made them to...
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29th January 2024The class made waist coasts for their teddy bears. This required them to design a waistcoat and then measure and cut their own material before sewing together the shoulders and...
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22nd January 2024The children of F2 have loved using our crates to create a cosy new home for Stick Man and his family.
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22nd January 2024After reading a non-fiction book about winter and finding out that food is scarce for birds, the children of F2 have been making bird feeders for our outdoor area.
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22nd January 2024The children of F2 are really enjoying retelling the Stick Man story on our small world tray.
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22nd January 2024The children of F2 have had an amazing time exploring the winter weather. We have been comparing it to the season of Autumn and painting our own beautiful winter trees.
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22nd January 2024The children of F2 did an amazing job getting creative around the theme of the Nativity. We are artists!
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19th January 2024The children of F2 loved our visit to Denton Library. We can't wait to go back again soon!
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19th January 2024The children of F2 learned that on Remembrance Day, we are remembering the soldiers who fought in the war a long time ago. We created out own poppy art in...
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19th January 2024Bill the owl came to visit us in our classroom! We asked him lots of questions. We found out that he was bored of eating mice, so we have helped...
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19th January 2024After going on an Autumn walk to explore the changes in our season, we created our own paintings of Autumn trees. We focused on our vocabulary words of roots, trunk...
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18th January 2024For our DT unit, the children had to design and make a biscuit with packaging for someone who has previously taught them in school. They learnt a lot of different...
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18th January 2024In Art, we have been learning about Andy Warhol. Here we are practising the blotting technique to create various images just like Warhol would have done.
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18th January 2024In Geography, we have been learning about the Americas. We used google earth to locate various place in the Americas and found out about where it is located compared to...
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18th January 2024In our Outdoor Education unit, we have been practising our orienteering skills. We used maps of the school to find different markers to solve clues.
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18th January 2024In PE, Year 4 have been doing Outdoor Adventure activities. Part of this is to work together. Here we have been making letters together. Can you guess what letter we...
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21st July 2023Year 4 enjoyed their trip out to the Tree Top nets in Heaton Park on Wednesday. They bounced and climbed 'til they dropped and then some. They were an absolute...
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10th July 2023The children of EYFS all enjoyed a fabulous trip to the library today which tied into our Explorer theme. The children of F1 sharing their Walking Through the Jungle book...
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7th July 2023As part of our explorers theme, the children of F2 have been on a minibeast hunt! We have been learning about different minibeasts and their habitats- we made predictions about...
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30th June 2023This week, the children have been retelling the story 'Lost and Found'. They enjoyed coming up with fantastic actions and using loud, clear voices to retell the story. In Collective...
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27th June 2023After starting to learn about some of the features and artefacts in a church, today the children of F2 made a visit to our church to see them for ourselves....
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23rd June 2023Wow, what an amazing EYFS sports day we had this morning. Each child competed in a running race, a javelin throw, a bean bag pick up race and an egg...
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23rd June 2023The children of F2 have been practising their threading skills this week. Linked to our explorer topic and our work on minibeasts, we have been creating our own spiders and...
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12th June 2023In Year 2’s liturgical prayer this week, we celebrated the upcoming feast of Pentecost. The children shared the scripture and acted out the story. They explained the meaning of the...
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25th May 2023The rain decided to stop for our field trip. The children enjoyed walking around the local area and used maps to find different places. When we got to the park,...
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19th May 2023The children of F2 have loved adding some new bedding plants into our outdoor environment this week. We have been excited to see some of our plants and bulbs sprouting...
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5th May 2023The Year 5 children have spent two days doing bikeability both in school and out on the roads of Denton. They have all really enjoyed the experience and their behaviour...
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5th May 2023In Year 6, we have been learning about the life of King Charles III, retrieving information from a range of texts and developing our understanding of key vocabulary. We have also...
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5th May 2023This week, Year 3 led our liturgical prayer. Their focus was on the importance of having faith and as part of this the children acted out the story of Doubting...
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25th April 2023In F2, we have been creating simple timelines using our class text "The Girl Who Planted Trees". We looked at the how the mountain in the story changes over time,...
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25th April 2023We have some exciting new visitors in our classroom: five tiny caterpillars! They are living on our discovery table and we are excited to watch them grow. Today, we found...
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31st March 2023The children of F2 have been transfixed by the Easter story. This week, we talked about how Good Friday is the saddest day, but it is soon followed by the...
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29th March 2023As part of our new Spring and Growing theme, EYFS have had a fabulous morning down on the farm this week! We have been stroking rabbits, taking a tractor ride,...
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27th March 2023F1 have had a lovely week inviting parents in to join us for some phonics based stay & play sessions. The children loved sharing their learning with their grown ups...
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27th March 2023As part of our People Who Help Us topic in EYFS, this week we had a special visit from some PCSOs. They talked about what they do in their special...
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27th March 2023Years 1 and 2 had great fun watching Tango’s Big Adventure. The children listened and interacted well throughout the performance. They were the perfect trainee zookeepers. The children learnt that...
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10th March 2023Year 2 were very excited to receive a visit from The Fire Service this week. The children enjoyed listening to the firefighters talk about their jobs and hearing about how...
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10th March 2023As part of our People Who Help Us topic, F2 have been learning about firefighters. This week, a mystery bag was left in our classroom full of equipment and we...
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3rd March 2023This half term, we started our new topic by sharing our home learning challenge: creating a junk model of a person who helps us. We loved sharing our models and...
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27th February 2023Year 2’s class liturgical prayer took place this week. The theme was based on the scripture verse ‘Love one another as I have loved you’ and the children told the...
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27th February 2023Year 3 and 5 enjoyed a French breakfast this morning. Year 5 acted as the waiters and Year 3 as the customers. They asked each other what they would like...
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17th February 2023As part of our learning about The Storm Whale in Winter, we have been designing a new boat for Noi's Dad. We began with some floating and sinking experiments, making...
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17th February 2023Year 4 and Year 6 enjoyed a virtual author visit with Robin Scott-Elliot as part of Tameside's Ready Steady Read festival. The children enjoyed listening to what inspired Robin to...
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13th February 2023The children of F2 have been doing some fantastic investigating about ice. First we observed melting ice in our classroom: what it looked like, felt like, talking about how it...
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8th February 20234P have peer revising and editing their writing before they share their journey stories with F2 this week as part of their celebration of writing. The children ensured they followed...
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3rd February 2023This week 4P had their class liturgical prayer. They explained 'The Feast of Presentation' to the school community. The children read from the gospel of Luke and discussed the importance...
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31st January 2023In the first part of our Winter topic, the children of F2 loved engaging in our class text of Stick Man by Julia Donaldson. The children re-enacted the text on...
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27th January 2023F1 have been learning all about Chinese New Year and exploring lots of fun activities. We made Chinese lanterns and looked at different artefacts including red envelopes and gold coins....
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24th January 2023Our children have been learning all about the Chinese New Year. We found out about lots of different traditions, shared a Chinese New Year story, made Chinese New Year celebration...
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10th January 2023This week we have found out about winter from information books. We have been thinking about how some animals hibernate in the winter months and some birds migrate to warmer...
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3rd January 2023GIFT Team delivering their Advent collective worship to Year 1.
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3rd January 2023F2 children spread so much joy delivering their Christmas cards to the local community.
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3rd January 2023Wow! We can't believe it is the end of Autumn term! It has been such a fun week full of Christmas cheer with children sharing their understanding of Advent and...
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16th December 2022The children have been out and about this week in their festive clothes delivering Christmas cards that they have made, to local residents of Denton. The children really enjoyed the...
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16th December 2022Advent This week, we have been very busy in Year 6, with our preparations for Christmas. The children attended Mass with Year 2 on Wednesday - they read and sang beautifully and...
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16th December 2022The children have been out and about this week delivering Christmas cards to local residents of Denton. The children really enjoyed the experience and there were some lovely comments from...
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16th December 2022Year 2 had a lovely time making and delivering our community Christmas cards this week. The children were extremely sensible and polite when leaving school and on our walk. A few...
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16th December 2022In Year 1, we have had great fun making and delivering Christmas cards to the local community. It has been lovely to receive messages of thanks from people who have...