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• Menu week commencing 18th March

  Mon 18 Mar 2024
  

• Year Group Focus - Year 3

  Fri 15 Mar 2024

  The children in Year 3 have a had a very busy week full of assessments. All of the children have worked extremely hard to show just how much progress they have made throughout the year.

   

  However, as well as the work they have put into completing their assessments, the children have also celebrated Science Week by making their own time keeping pendulums and investigating how these can be made to swing faster and slower. In doing this, the children looked at the effect of both adding and removing weight and lengthening and shortening the string used to create the pendulum. As the photos below suggest, this was activity that the children very much enjoyed. In our regular science lessons, the children have been thinking about magnetic and non-magnetic materials and using a selection of magnets to sort these into groups.

   

  In addition to all the excitement caused by creating pendulums, the children, in Design Technology, thought about designing their own moving monster (or mummy as the case will be) using shape nets to create the sarcophagus that the mummy will eventually rise from. Keep your eyes peeled for the finished products arriving home.

   

  

• Local Area Walk

  Fri 15 Mar 2024

  On Thursday 21^st March Year 1 will be going on a local area walk. They will be walking to the local post office to post a letter and looking at human and physical features in the local area. Children will need to wear their school uniform, an outdoor coat and suitable footwear. 

   

  Thank You.

   

• Spelling Bee

  Fri 15 Mar 2024

  Yahya attended the spelling bee at Matthew Moss today and did very well reaching the 3rd round.

  Well done Yahya!

   

  

• Connect Song Festival

  Fri 15 Mar 2024

  The Connect Song Festival comprised of 8 schools from the network - Heybrook, Moorhouse, Springside, Hamer, Norden, Marland Hill, Belfield and Spotland. Around 180 children took part in this year's song festival which had the theme 'Happiness'. Three whole school songs were performed and accompanied by musicians from the Rochdale Music Service.

   

  Schools had chosen and prepared one song to the other schools. It was a fantastic morning of singing enjoyed by all. During the Summer Term an Instrumental Festival for Connect schools will be held at Marland Hill, where children will get the opportunity to share and celebrate their musical  achievements. 

   

  

• Science Week

  Fri 15 Mar 2024

  This week in school the children have celebrated science week and the theme for this year is time. The children have enjoyed a variety of experiments looking at how something can change over time.

   

  In year 4, the children used plastic bottles to create water clocks. They cut the bottle in half and used a compass to poke a hole in the lid. They then added water (with food colouring in) and timed how long it took for the water to pass through the hole and into the bottom of the bottle. The children marked the bottle to show every minute that had passed. They thoroughly enjoyed this experiment.

   

  In Year 2 the children observed different types of jellies. The children made 3 different types of jellies   adding different ingredients to each jelly and then observing if this affected the time it took the jelly to set. The children checked the jellies every half an hour and were definitely shocked at the results! 

   

  

• PE Superstars!

  Fri 15 Mar 2024

  Every week during PE, Coaches will be choosing pupils to be their PE superstars of the week. Well done to the following children who were fantastic in PE last week:

   

  Reception	Samrah and Ayan I
  Year 1	Hamdan and Qasim
  Year 2	Musa and Haniya
  Year 3	Azbah and Hayder
  Year 4	Roshaan and Faaris
  Year 5	Rehan and Djeny
  Year 6	Yusuf R and Oliwier

  

• Easter Raffle

  Fri 15 Mar 2024

  From Monday children will have the opportunity to buy raffle tickets for our Easter Egg raffle. Tickets will be sold  from the office for £1 per strip and tickets will be drawn before the end of term.

   

  

• Captain's Table

  Fri 15 Mar 2024

  Well done to the Following children that have been selected to sit at the Captain’s Table.

  RA	Musa	4A	Faaris
  RB	Faith	4B	Momin
  1A	Dennis	5A	Harlow
  1B	Niklas	5B	Blake
  2A	Noah	6A	Ollie
  2B	George	6B	Rhys
  3A	Charlotte	6C	Keegan
  3B	Adeem

  

• Starbook Reader - Winners!

  Fri 15 Mar 2024

  The following children have been awarded ‘Star Reader’ and enjoyed going to the ‘Starbooks’ cafe in the library to enjoy a drink and a treat as their reward. Fantastic!

  RA	Daniel	4A	Mehvish
  RB	Maryam	4B	Ethan
  1A	Phoebe	5A	Aizah
  1B	Arlo	5B	David
  2A	Ibrahim	6A	Baqar
  2B	Musa Z	6B	Alesha
  3A	Jake	6C	Ibrahim
  3B	Hayder

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

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