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This term we have been looking at plants and what they need to grow. After planting our own seeds for the garden areas around school, we thought that we would complete an experiment to find out which liquid would be the best to water the plants with:

Water, salt water, orange juice, cola,…

Our RE topic in year 4 at the moment is Hinduism.  

We linked DT and RE together by practising textiling techniques, and have learnt how to complete a cross sticth and a running stitch. 

We then created a Rangoli pattern using the techniques, which is used in the Hindu faith. 

Have a look…

Year 5 have been looking at the reproductive process in flowers.  They spent time dissecting lillies and tulips. They had to identify the different reproductive parts and describe their function.

Mrs Kerfoot, our Science link governor, came in to help.  She was very impressed by the children's…

Well done to Seth and Joshua.

You both have a super attitude to learning and have shown this is your lessons this week.

I am very proud of you both.

The children in our Reception class had a special visitor this week-Rosie the tortoise.

It was lovely to go into their classroom and hear all about Rosie and I was very impressed with their learning.

I love this photo of Seth and Rosie! 

I am sure Mrs O'Hanlon will be sharing lots more…

Our new school governor, Mrs Louise Docker, came to visit today and told Year 3 and Year 4 about her job working for the BBC.

The children were keen to find out more about her work, and she told them a few facts about her job. Mrs Docker asked the children to come up with ideas for a new game…

One of the musical skills in Year 5 is the ability to improvise their own music on the recorder.  

Today the children wrote notes on the musical stave for a partner and they had to play it back to them.  There were lots of interesting sounds!

Today Year 5 have been learning about the Hindu festival of Holi.  They researched the origins of the festival and read the story connected with it.

The festival of Holi is also known as the festival of colours.  It is tradition during the celebrations to throw powder paint at each…

In class this week, we have been looking closely at sculptures and we each used clay to creat our own hedgehog sculpture.

We have a Twitter account now.

We will be adding to this over the following weeks, and also adding this link on to our new look web site, which is coming soon.

Follow the link below.

https://twitter.com/Gillibrand_Sch

WWBBA: Mapping

S.C: I can record geographical information using a range of methods including sketch maps, plans, graphs and digital technologies.  

Our new topic in Geography this term is about the local area and Chorley (local, town centre, Rivington, Yarrow Valley etc). We will be looking…

WWBBA: Measures

S.C: I can measure and calculate the perimeter of a rectilinear figure, including  squares, in cm and m.

This week in maths we have had a focus on measures and perimeter. 

The children went onto the playground and with their partner they had to draw a rectilinear figure in…