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Date: 11th Dec 2023 @ 2:07pm
For our history topic this half term, Year 3 are studying our prehistoric past, all the way from the Stone Age to the Iron Age. As part of our WOW starter, we worked hard as copralite detectives to discover what humans ate in the past, drew amazing cave paintings under our tables and created superb hand prints to help decorate our caves. How interesting it was!
Date: 11th Dec 2023 @ 2:05pm
For curriculum week, all of Northmoor are looking at the book 'Mother Earth is Weeping' and discussing the different things we can do to save the planet. Year 3 have been writing amazing acrostic poems all about the environment, and have also planted hundreds of seeds and bulbs to help nature around our school. We can't wait to see all the pollinators our flowers will attract!
Date: 8th Dec 2023 @ 2:15pm
Year 2 have been making moon buggies as part of our Space topic. We designed our buggies, thought about what materials we would need and then created our masterpieces!
Date: 8th Dec 2023 @ 2:07pm
Date: 8th Dec 2023 @ 12:09pm
Year 3 received a very important letter from King Charles III! He asked us to build a new bridge fit for a royal, to cross the River Thames. Check out our superb structures. What excellent engineers we are!
Date: 8th Dec 2023 @ 11:55am
Year 3 came in to a nasty shock this morning - our classroom had been broken into by a deadly intruder! The classes searched for clues before discovering it was... The Enormous Crocodile! How awful he is!
Date: 24th Nov 2023 @ 10:26am
This week we have been reading the story 'Whatever Next' We have had lots of fun acting out the story and pretending to be baby bear. We found a rocket, space helmet, space boots and took off into the night sky - we even had a picnic on the moon!
We have also had lots of fun painting and making rockets with 2D shapes and using the playdough to create our own baby bears!
Date: 24th Nov 2023 @ 10:20am
We have been having lots of fun in our rocket role play this week! We dressed up as astronauts and pretended to go to the moon we even saw an alien!
Date: 24th Nov 2023 @ 9:06am
We had a visit from Katie from SJ Falconry. She brought 4 owls for us to learn about - Fluffy, JD, Midge and Twiglet.
We learnt lots of facts about owls such as that owls can’t move their eyes but can move their heads nearly all the way round. We all loved holding Twiglet.
Date: 24th Nov 2023 @ 8:32am
While learning about our new topic 'Night and Day' we learnt about nocturnal animals and they come out at night and go to sleep in the day. We enjoyed making and eating our very own hedgehog bread. We used the scales to carefully weigh all the different ingredients and practised our scissor skills when cutting the spikes.
Date: 23rd Nov 2023 @ 5:29pm
As part of our curriculum week we read the story 'Mother Earth Weeps' We thought about why the ice was melting and what we could do to help stop it. We thought about what it would be like going to the Arctic and had lots of fun acting out being explorers.
Date: 23rd Nov 2023 @ 5:11pm
As part of our topic - Me and My Family we went on a local area walk to look at all the different types of buildings and houses. We saw terraced houses, semi-detached houses and detached houses. We also saw the bakery, a mosque and got to meet the postman who was delivering some parcels.
Date: 23rd Nov 2023 @ 4:00pm
We learnt how to safely use the hammers and screwdrivers to build our car. We used our fine motor skills to connect the nuts onto the bolts.
Date: 23rd Nov 2023 @ 10:11am
Our DT lessons this half term have been all about Bread. We enjoyed tasting different types of bread such as; brioche, sourdough, white bread and bagels. We designed our own bread following a design brief. We then followed a recipe to create our own bread.
Date: 23rd Nov 2023 @ 10:08am
As part of anti-bullying week we wore odd socks to raise awareness. We donated £1 to the charity Children in Need.
Date: 23rd Nov 2023 @ 10:06am
We shared the book 'Mother Earth is Weeping.' We thought about the oceans and how our actions affect them. We looked at all the rubbish and pollution that affects the marine life. We acted out being the sea creatures and though how they would feel. We also thought how we could help solve the problem by putting rubbish in the bin and encouraging others to do the same.
Date: 23rd Nov 2023 @ 10:04am
We went on a local area walk around school to identify the different features. We discussed the different buildings and what they are used for.
Date: 14th Nov 2023 @ 11:21am
To start our science topic of electricity, we were given a bulb, wires and a power source and had to try and make the bulb light up. We had a brilliant time investigating what we needed to do to create a circuit.
Date: 14th Nov 2023 @ 10:41am
As part of our work on the text 'Last Stop on Market Street' we went on a local area walk to try to look at Oldham in a different way. We were very impressed with Tommyfield Market!
Date: 30th Oct 2023 @ 5:58pm
Year 4 visited the Shree Swaminarayan Mandir in Oldham as part of our R.E. Topic this half term. We asked lots of questions and this helped us to consolidate everything we had learnt in class.
Date: 17th Oct 2023 @ 10:32am
RE - Values - Humanism and Christianity
Date: 17th Oct 2023 @ 10:30am
In RE we have been looking at how values are different and the same in Humanism and Christianity.
Date: 17th Oct 2023 @ 10:26am
Year 4 have been busy this half term, designing and creating their Greek pots as part of the topic "Ancient Greece is the Word."
Outdoor Maths and Flexible Partitioning
Date: 9th Oct 2023 @ 2:28pm
Year 4 have been practising flexible partitioning (making numbers up in different ways).
We had lots of fun and it really helped our understanding.
A trip round the UK! Geography WOW starter
Date: 18th Sep 2023 @ 9:59pm
Year 3 have had a fantastic time on their WOW starter afternoon for their geography topic - Location, location, location. We loved learning about the 4 countries of the United Kingdom. We danced an Irish jig whilst visiting Northern Ireland, learnt to speak Welsh in Wales and created our own Loch Ness monster in Scotland. Finally, we finished in England with afternoon tea - just like the King!
