Year 4H: Gallery
WOW Church Summer Presentation to the Diocese, by Mrs Brandwood
Date: 12th Jul 2024 @ 4:00pm
Our 2 WOW Church members visited St Chad's Church in Middleton to delivered a presentation, alongside our group members from St John's Thornham and Milnrow Parish Primary School, to over 40 diocese representatives. The children explained and showed the diocese the various projects we have worked on this year, set up an environmental challenge for the parishioners to complete and then sung our song, 'Rich Diversity'. Each child represented their school brilliantly and the Dean of Rochdale was so impressed with the way the children conducted themselves during the presentation. The diocese is taking on board the children’s suggestions of a Plastic Policy in every church and we look forward to next year's group where we hope to again make a difference to the environment of our churches in Rochdale.
KS2 Sports Day - June 2024, by Miss Hulse
Date: 26th Jun 2024 @ 8:24am
KS2 had a fantastic day at sports day yesterday, the children had a great afternoon joining in with all the activities in the sun!
Year 4 - Rochdale Schools Linking Book Hunt! - June 2024, by Miss Hulse
Date: 25th Jun 2024 @ 12:37pm
We had a fantastic time taking part in the Rochdale Schools Linking Book Hunt! We went to visit Balderstone Library, where the children reflected on their Linking journey and worked together to make recommendations about which books best represent kindness, home, meeting new people, working together and making the world a better place.
WOW Church Meeting 17.4.24, by Mrs Brandwood
Date: 18th Apr 2024 @ 9:18am
Our two WOW (Watch Our World) church representives visited St John's Thornham Church of England Primary School this afternoon for our next WOW meeting. This meeting focused on the local environment and we had a fantastic opportunity to have a visit from a Hedgehog Hospital. Here, the children learnt about the impact humas are having on hedgehogs and how we can better look after our environment for our local wildlife. The children found out a range of facts about hedgehogs and created a 'hedgehog house' (a hibernacula) to support hedgehogs in the area.
Author visit, by Mrs Bradley
Date: 28th Mar 2024 @ 12:21pm
Following on from our wonderful world book day celebrations, we had a real author visit our school. Sean performed an assembly to all the children in which he read one of his own books and then he carried out a workshop with each class to help them become authors themselves. We are so impressed with the writing and illustrations produced by the children.
KS2 - Stations of the Cross - March 2024, by Miss Hulse
Date: 27th Mar 2024 @ 4:57pm
KS2 took part in the Stations of the Cross service today. It was a beautiful service and the children took time to reflect upon Jesus last journey.
Year 4 - Tatton Park, by Miss Hulse
Date: 27th Mar 2024 @ 10:03am
Year 4 had an amazing visit Tatton Park for Anglo Saxon Day. The children leant so much about the Anglo Saxons and were fantastically well behaved!
Year 4 cornet concert - March 2024, by Miss Hulse
Date: 27th Mar 2024 @ 9:57am
Year 4 were absolutely amazing at their cornet concert. We are extremely proud of all of them..
Year 4 - Chicks - March 2024, by Miss Hulse
Date: 27th Mar 2024 @ 8:46am
The Year 4 children had a lovely time meeting our Easter chiks yesterday, the children were very calm and caring!
KS2 Eggs-ibition - March 2024, by Miss Hulse
Date: 27th Mar 2024 @ 8:35am
The children from KS2 did a fantastic job yesterday bringing in their decorated eggs for our Eggs-ibition!
World Book Day, by Mr Wood
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 2:18pm
We all had great fun dressing up as book characters on Thursday 7th March. The day got off to a great start with an assembly where everybody showed their costumes off! We were delighted to find that, thanks to the children’s kind donations, we raised over £247 for Book Aid International. This money will help to pay for books in less economically developed countries. Click the link below to have a look at the pictures of all the children in their fantastic costumes - as well as the staff!
St Peter's Pebbles Playground Assembly, by Mrs Brandwood
Date: 1st Mar 2024 @ 2:56pm
St Peter's Playground Pebbles lead a fantastic whole school assembly on Tuesday.
The Pebbles explained how they could support children at playtime and lunchtime who are feeling lonely or who are finding it difficult to join in a game. They explained how they will model and use our Christian Values to help everyone have fun when playing outside on our playground.
In front of the whole school, the Pebbles made their special promise:
A friend to all who need it - for we believe that,
"...if one falls down, his friend can help him up..."
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10.
The group then went onto explain the exciting new games they will be leading each lunchtime and introduce some of our new playground equipment.
Well done to our Pebbles! You showed great leadership, teamwork, bravery and friendship as you delivered your assembly. Everyone at St Peter's is very excitied to get outside and play at break and lunchtime!
St Peter's WOW Church Welcomes 'Praise Along' to record a fantastic collective worship song!, by Mrs Brandwood
Date: 1st Mar 2024 @ 2:42pm
On Tuesday, St Peter's enjoyed hosting our Spring Term WOW Church Synod Group meeting. This meeting was special as we were delighted to welcome Kelly and her team from ‘Praise Along’ to produce an environmentally based collective worship song. 10 children from St Peter’s were joined by children from St John’s Thornham and Milnrow Parish to sing a beautiful song called, ‘Rich Diversity’. This was a wonderful opportunity for our children and they had a fantastic time singing, performing and recording the song. It was amazing to hear the collective voices of our group sing out about such an important topic with great enthusiasm!
Thanks again to Kelly and her Team from ‘Praise Along’ for this opportunity and for members of our diocese for attending and showing their support. We are looking forward to hearing our song when it is published later this year – watch this space!
Our WOW Church members would also like to share the prayer we said at the beginning of our meeting to show our gratitude for our wonderful world:
Dear God,
We praise you for the beauty of creation, its richness and variety.
The earth is yours, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it.
Grant us your grace that we may exercise wise stewardship of this Earth; tread lightly upon it and cherish its resources so that in years to come everyone may enjoy its riches.
Please be with us today as we create this song to help spread the word of how wonderful and diverse your creation is.
Help us to restore and care for this beautiful earth you blessed us with.
Amen
WOW Church Synod, by Mrs Brandwood
Date: 9th Jan 2024 @ 3:44pm
Today, Elisia and Hassan represented our school at our half-termly WOW Church meeting held at Milnrow Parish CE School. Here, we discussed the results from our plastic survey sent out to the churches and parishes in Rochdale and came up with an action plan of how we plan to support our churches to become more environmentally friendly places. We also discussed an exciting opportunity to create our own environmentally friendly collective worship song which we are all looking forward to recording at our next meeting!
The Poppy Appeal, by Miss Mulkeen
Date: 16th Nov 2023 @ 1:12pm
4J visits Orsdall Hall, by Mr Jolly
Date: 15th Jun 2023 @ 4:19pm
The day was centred around rich vs poor Tudor life.
We all started in the hall where a banquet was being served and the children acted out different roles.
We split into two groups: one with Lady Catherine, a rich lady living at the home, and one with Martha, a servant.
Lady Catherine taught the children about the house owner’s life – he was a sheriff and a knight and showed us around his bedroom with his bed costing £20 (worth 60 horses). The children then made a nose gaze, only afforded by the rich.
Martha showed the children the ropes in the kitchen, how to make a spice mix and how they collected water. The also took them on a tour of the gardens.
We came back together at the end to learn some Tudor dancing.
4J visit Hopwood - Linking Network, by Mr Jolly
Date: 22nd May 2023 @ 8:42am
On Friday 19th May, 4J visited Hopwood Primary for their second linking day. In the morning, they listened to "Somebody's swallowed Stanley" to settle them in. Afterwards, they made a friendship coat of arms. Then they got to opportunity to play outside and experience what Hopwod playtimes are like. Some children preferred their gym to their own climbing equipment! Later on, the children got to work together and create their own together towns that needed to include all of things that would allow them to work and live alongside each other.
Hopwood and 4J Linking, by Mr Jolly
Date: 22nd Mar 2023 @ 2:26pm
Year 4 had a fantastic day with Hopwood. When they arrived, we played some of our favourite introduction, getting to know you, games. Then we split into Sunflowers and Sheds. Each group completed two activities: a ceramic workshop, where they made a piece of art to represent something about them and a music workshop where they created a song.
Below are the lyrics to the two songs. There is also a recording of their perofmrances attached.
THE ADVENTURE by TheSheds
Playing football I feel free
Playing cricket I’m out of breath
Swimming makes me nervous
Swimming makes me scared
Going on an adventure
Going on an adventure
Going on an adventure
I’m excited and I’m happy
And I’m happy, and I’m happy
I’m happy, tired and safe at School
I’m comfortable at my Nanna’s
I’m joyful & playful at the park
In the country I’m relaxed
HOLDING UP THE WORLD by The Sunflowers
She’s powerful and brave
Holding on to the world
Holding up good feelings
Holding her family
Hold on to your dreams
Hold on to your breath
Holding up the world, waving your flag
Holding up the world, waving your flag
Holding onto home
Holding good emotions
Thoughts lift as she dreamed
Never letting go of memories
Erik the Viking visits 4J, by Mr Jolly
Date: 6th Mar 2023 @ 8:46am
Today, we had a visit from Erik Erikson. He told us all about Viking lie and how they were always fighting with the Anglo-Saxons. He told us how Vikings got their names, what they used to wear and he showed us a lot of their weapons and artefacts that they had in their homes. We learnt so much and it was a fun day.
World Book Day 2023, by Mr Wood
Date: 2nd Mar 2023 @ 12:04pm
KS2 Christmas Production, by Miss Hulse
Date: 12th Dec 2022 @ 3:43pm
KS2 performed a fantastic production of Silent Night.
Silent Night is a delightful children's nativity set in 19th century Austria, where the villagers of Oberndorf are busy preparing for their Christmas Eve pageant. Amidst the hustle and bustle, they realise that naughty mice have destroyed the church organ. How will they organise music for their special celebrations at such short notice?
Discover through this beautifully adapted story how a poem written by a parish priest resulted in the well-loved carol Silent Night.
Carol Concert, by Miss Hulse
Date: 12th Dec 2022 @ 3:40pm
We had a beautiful carol concert this morning, with all the children singing a mixture of traditional carols. This reminded us of the true meaning of Christmas.
Manchester United Player Led Competition, by Miss Kyte
Date: 5th Dec 2022 @ 1:59pm
Last week, seven Year Five and Six pupils were chosen to represent St Peters at a football tournament held by Manchester United Academy. The tournament was player led meaning that the team had to manage themselves in terms of formation, substitutions and game strategy. The tournament also had a World Cup theme and the country we were chosen to represent was Brazil. The boys played a range of teams and all of our players were fantastic. Their determination, competitiveness and sportsmanship throughout the competitition was impeccable. Well done boys!
4J's Class Assembly, by Mr Jolly
Date: 24th Nov 2022 @ 10:26am
4J's Class Assembly was all about their Linking Network with Hopwood Community. It explored the idea of indetify and friendship amongst different cultures and generations with the message that you should love your neighbour.
