As part of our STEM day we have been putting our engineer hats on and we have had to work as a team to combat problems. First we had to blow a balloon up and attach it to a star that was on some string and identify how each team could get their balloon to…
As part of Birch’s English lesson, we mixed coordinating conjunctions up with other words and the children had 4 baskets in the corners of the classroom. There children were ask to come up and identify coordinating conjunctions from the choices on the floor. The children worked independently as well as working in a team! Birch…
Today in Maths Birch was been busy bees! We worked through a PowerPoint with lots of demonstrations given by Mrs Kennedy. We developed our skills on addition and multiplying to help us get a total of a sum.
Beech class visited Tesco to try to find some Fairtrade items. We walked aisle upon aisle on the hunt for some items that have the Fairtrade symbol. Interestingly we found that Rainforest Alliance was on a lot of products. Their aim is similar to Fairtrade, which is to build for a more sustainable world in…
Well done to the great effort of everyone who took part in our World Book Day dress up last Thursday! It was great to see all of your favourite books brought in from home.
For our Topic lesson we developed our knowledge of what Fair Trade is. We used wrappers of chocolate, fruit and veg and we had to use atlases to identify the countries that they came from. We were told that produce could be either brought to Great Britain using planes, boats or wagons. We had to…
In English over the last couple of weeks we have been looking at different myths and legends. Today, we conducted some research, using different techniques, about the Loch Ness Monster. We recorded our findings on a poster and shared our facts with each other. Did you know the first story of Nessie dates back to…
Thankyou to those of you who have kindly donated to our new community project. We have made a start to organising our Croft Community Closet. We hope to have a pop up shop at our end of term Easter Event where you can browse our rails in person. Please keep your donations coming in. Thanks…
World book day in Rowan was amazing and everyone made lots of effort with their costumes and props. Reading opportunities were experienced, staff to pupils and peer to peer. Some lovely book markers were made and The Fantastic Mr Fox enjoyed relaxing in the reading area. Mrs Devlin read The Room on the Broom with…