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…
On behalf of all the primary staff and children we would like to say a great big THANKYOU to each and everyone of you for your support and kind donations that will be delivered to the local food bank at the Annfield Plain community centre by the end of the week. …
During Science today in Rowan the children have been learning all about the skeleton and how our bones and parts of the body help us. Once we identified the different parts of the body and labelled them we then went onto to do an investigation. The investigation was to find out if our femur actually…
During our History lessons this term we are focusing on Anglo Saxons and during this afternoon Rowan, Hazel and Oak worked through a carousel of activities including preparing and making broth with fresh vegetables which the Saxons would eat to sustain their energy to work on the farms ploughing and growing the crops of the…
During Cookery in Enrichment on Friday afternoon the pupils followed a set of visual instructions to support them to collect all the ingredients and utensils they needed to make a cream of vegetable soup and chocolate chip cookies. The pupils adhered to health and hygiene in the kitchen and health and safety in the kitchen.…
Today in Birch everyone has thoroughly enjoyed participating in the Queen’s Royal Jubilee. We took part in activities from designing cakes, a quiz, a colouring competition, to making a Union Jack flag from recycled clothes and donating the rest of the clothes to Connect the clothing bank to compete in the competition to win funds…
During Comic Relief day in Birch the children participated in a range of fun activities in real super hero style. The pupils enjoyed being dressed up as their own super hero such as Iron man, PJ mask, Super Mario and Mrs Devlin is comic relief hero in her own style. Activities included designing your own…
During Science this afternoon the pupils in Birch have been investigating if using a range of everyday products such as salt, flour, oil, sugar, rice, lime juice and hot chocolate would dissolve or not when added to cold water. The pupils then transferred the results of the findings into a carroll diagram and discussed the…
During morning pastoral and Geography lesson in 9R the pupils had a morning of active learning and embedded sensory into their curriculum. During pastoral the group increased their personal fitness making use of the new outdoor gym area now the weather is getting warm and then had some fun on the scooters outside. The Geography…
During our English in 9R, pupils have been identifying verbs and doing actions to go with them following the Whizzbang Wizard story. Kayla said used a verb in a sentence independently ” The dog is fetching the ball”. The pupils are looking forward now to reading chapter three and finding out what happens! How many…