Year 4R: Gallery
Model teeth!, by Miss Robinson
Date: 3rd Feb 2025 @ 12:50pm
This term in science, we have been focusing on teeth and digestion. We have learnt about all the different types of teeth we have, their shapes and their functions. We then tried to create a model of a set of teeth. Who do you think did the best?
Recycling session with Rochdale Council, by Miss Healey
Date: 22nd Jan 2025 @ 11:25am
Today we had a fantastic visitor! Nigel Goulding from Rochdale Borough Council came in to speak to Year 5 all about recycling and what we can do for the planet! We had so much fun and learnt many things about our waste and what happens to it after we're done with it. We learnt all about the small steps we can take to make our Earth happy and healthy again :)
Year 4 River Walk (Geography fieldtrip), by Miss Hirst
Date: 21st Jan 2025 @ 4:47pm
This morning, year 4 went on a walk through Rochdale to explore the River Roch! Both 4H and 4R spent time looking at differences between a canal and a river and we looked at the speed of the water and the direction in which it flowed. We also looked at and spoke about the flood barriers/ defences and why they are important near the Riverside building. Despite a bit of rainy weather we all enjoyed the walk and here are some pictures of our visit.
KS2 Christmas Sing-a-Long, by Miss Hulse
Date: 17th Dec 2024 @ 10:39am
The children in KS2 delivered a wonderful Christmas nativity. The children told the nativity story through song and were all AMAZING!
Church Visit, by Miss Robinson
Date: 3rd Dec 2024 @ 12:04pm
Today, we had a lovely winters walk to St Chad's church for christmas service. We listened to the christmas story and discussed happiness and joy. We finished with some lovely prayers written by the children.
STEM Week, by Miss Robinson
Date: 2nd Dec 2024 @ 8:06am
This week, we had our STEM week. As a whole school, we were trying to help Santa deliver all the presents. Year 4's experiment was to make a christmas tree glow in the dark so he knew were to put the presents. Whilst it didnt quite work how we expected, we all had lots of fun making the trees! We discussed what might have gone wrong and how we could improve it next time.
Wellbeing Ambassadors, by Mrs Brandwood
Date: 29th Nov 2024 @ 2:31pm
Today, our new Wellbeing Ambassadors went to their initial training session at Littleborough Sports Centre to find out all about what it takes to be a Wellbeing Ambassador. We tried lots of different activities to support our Wellbeing and Mental Health with various teams from Rochdale such as Your Trust and The School Nursing Team. We also learnt about the 5 ways to wellbeing which are: 'BE ACTIVE', 'GIVE', 'CONNECT', 'TAKE NOTICE' and 'KEEP LEARNING'. The children represented our school brilliantly and are looking forward to starting their new roles in school after Christmas!
M6 Theatre, by Miss Robinson
Date: 20th Nov 2024 @ 4:34pm
Today, we visted the M6 theatre on our linking project. We met up with Hopwood Primary School and met our linking buddies. During the day, we watched a performance of a Tigers Tale, ate our lunch together and then did a drama workshop! We cannot wait to see our linking buddies again.
Creating our own games!, by Miss Robinson
Date: 14th Nov 2024 @ 3:48pm
Today, 4R and 4H joined together for a PE lesson. We were tasked with creating our own games in small groups which included a ball. We were so excited to show off our ideas.
Manchester Museum Trip, by Miss Robinson
Date: 8th Nov 2024 @ 8:10am
We visited Manchester Museum to do an Ancient Egyptian Workshop. In the workshop, we were tasked with finding the most important artefact in the museum out of 18,000! We looked at lots of different artefacts and used our curator skills to choose an artefacts based on its rareity, beauty, story and material. We also got to see a real mummified body and learn all about her life. We also got to walk around the museum and look at all the different exibits from fossils and dinosaurs to animals in the natural world. After a long day, there were lots of sleepy children on the coach!
4R - Class Collective Worship 2024, by Miss Robinson
Date: 26th Sep 2024 @ 4:15pm
Today, 4R did a fantastic job delivering their class collective worship all about the Holy Trinity. They had lovely clear voices when saying their lines and singing our songs. Well done 4R!
Live, Love and Grow Together Day - Year 4, by Miss Hulse
Date: 15th Jul 2024 @ 12:49pm
St Peter's 'Live, Love and Grow Together Day' took place on Friday 12th July and is was such a fantastic day for all the children. The children in Year 4 took part in some traditional games, such as snap and Dominos. They also carried out orienteering on the school grounds, finding all of the letters that would spell out happiness. Then in the afternoon, the children made some friendship bracelets, this was such a special and memorable day for the children.
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.
4C Linking Visit-June 2024, by Mrs Cavill
Date: 26th Jun 2024 @ 4:32pm
What a lovely visit to Balderstone Library we had on Tuesday. As part of our Linking Project final phase we completed a book hunt and spent some time refelecting on our linking journey. At teh end of the visit we were each given a bookmark that was impregnated with seeds.
Many thanks to Balderstone Libraray and the staff invloved with our visit.
Big Thank yu also to parent and governor Mrs Miah for walking with us to help keep us safe.
The children, as always were super well behaved. have alook at the photos
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!
