Year 5 - Young Geographers-What lies beneath the surface of the Earth?
This afternoon in our Geography lesson, the Year 5 geographers watched a short clip on how Earthquakes occur. We then used a boiled egg to grasp a deeper understanding of how tectonic plates move. The plates come in different sizes and shapes and move when there is too much pressure. The children moved on and worked in pairs to identify the Earth's surface on a map and explore why they think earthquakes happen. They noticed that the plates were either moving in the opposite direction, away from each other and towards each other which created a fault. They also labelled the core, crust, and mantle parts of the Earth in their books.
Year 6 science
Year 6 investigated what happens to their heart rate as the intensity of an activity increases. They then used their results and presented them in a bar chart so that the data can be interpreted easily.
Year 6 P.E.- Orienteering
Year 6 have been working hard to orientate their map whilst moving around the school’s orienteering course.
World Book Day Competition
During World Book Day, we held a whole school competition to create a book cover. All of the entries were excellent! Well done to: Cassidy in Year 1 Nevaeh in Year 2 Matthew in Year 4 Sienna in Year 5 Charlotte in Year 6 The children will all receive a £5 voucher to spend at our Scholastic book fair which will be at school between 15th-21st March. A huge well done to our winners and for everyone who took part. Just a reminder that our author Raysa Farah’s book is still available on parent pay to purchase. The last date to purchase the book will be next Friday.
Smart School Council in Year 4
In our Smart School Council session this morning, we discussed whether or not we feel like we can share our problems with others. We also discussed our answers in more detail. Georgie was our class leader and Noah was our note taker and they both did a great job!
Reception- Firefighter Visit
Today the children in reception had a visit from Firefighter Foy! He told us all about his job and fire safety. The children asked lots of brilliant questions and they were really excited to try on the firefighter helmet! Lots of children have decided that they want to be firefighters when they grow up, because they want to help people. Thank you so much to Firefighter Foy for an amazing talk and for the firefighter goodies! We hope to see you again!
Year 2 - Collective Worship
During today's worship, we were having a look at all the ways we can looking after our local area. The children were amazing at coming up with brilliant suggestions in how we can look after our local area such as: recycle and not litter, litter picking, protecting animals by creating bug hotels and spaces for food. After worship we ended by saying prayers about people we care about and to all those who have been affected by the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. The children made a person out of a pipe cleaner while saying their prayer and placed that on our prayer tree.
Year 6 history
In history, year 6 have been looking at the impact WW2 had on the people and the town of Darwen. This week they looked at a significant individual named Jack Banks. Jack was only 16 when he lost his life in the conflict and actually lied about his age in order to join the armed forces. Year 6 started the lesson by asking historical questions and then used a variety of sources: commonwealth war graves website, Darwen Heritage Centre research and newspaper articles to gain a better understanding of who Jack Banks was.
Let Girls Play Campaign
Today to celebrate International Women’s Day we supported the FA’s campaign to ‘Let Girls Play’ by wearing sports kits in school, fun football sessions and 8 girls attended the biggest EVER football session at St Bede’s. It was absolutely freezing but the girls didn’t let that stop them and they really got stuck into the football sessions. We are hopeful to have some future lionesses in our school. Well done girls, we are so proud of you all! ⚽️
Year 3 Computing
Year 3 have been building on last week's stop motion skills by using a green screen. They created their own stop motions and added their own backgrounds. They worked in pairs and communicated effectively thought out. Well done!
Year 3 DT- Taste testing
Year 3 had a very exciting afternoon taste testing different sandwiches.They all had the opportunity to try 4 different sandwiches which they then logged the ingredients for and thought about what they could add to their lunch to make it a healthy meal.
Year 3 RE- Palm Sunday
Year 3 have been looking at the story of Palm Sunday. They worked in groups to put the story in order and then use the visuals to create their own descriptive sentences.