Blog by Tag: 8A

On Tuesday it was 1^st March, which meant that it was St David’s Day. In 8A we learnt about who St David was and why people in Wales like to celebrate on 1^st March. We found out that the people of Wales like to march in parades, sing and play music and dance too. Lots of people (especially…

8A are continuing to learn about Sculptures in their art work this half term (as part of our Spring theme Our Planet). 

This week we learnt that sculptures can be made of any sort of material, but that the most common ones are metal, stone and clay.

To link to the Our Planet theme, we…

This term our theme is “Our Planet”. In our My Community lessons we have been thinking about our local environment and some of us have been out in the local community litter picking. We have been shocked at the amount of litter we have found over the past few weeks in Chorley Town Centre and at…

As part 8A's Our Planet theme this half term, 8A have been learning about Sculptures as part of their My Creativity work. 

Each week, we have focused on a different artist and this week it was Barbara Hepworth. In previous weeks we have learnt about Marc Quinn who liked to make sculptures of…

Happy New Year everyone!

8A have had a fantastic start to the new year. We thought you might like to know all about our new theme, "Our Planet" and what we will be learning about this term. 

My Communication

In My Communication this half term, Mrs Crouch will be helping us to write some…

Wow we have had another fun filled day in 8A! This morning we were visited by some alpacas and then we enjoyed a festive games afternoon. We played a snowman beetle run, Christmas bingo, Christmas charades and pin the nose on Rudolph. We all took turns and had lots of fun. 

Tomorrow we have…

This morning 8A enjoyed breakfast with Santa. We enjoyed some of our favourite breakfast foods - Coco Pops, croissants, pain au chocolat or toast before our video call with the big man himself! Santa’s elves delivered our presents and Santa revealed the names of those of us who were on his good…

We are ready for Christmas in 8A. The countdown is certainly on! 
 

Yesteday we joined in with the Be Internet Legends Google assembly. This was an assembly streamed via YouTube with lots of interactive questions. We even got a shoutout! Mrs Crouch, Mrs England and Mrs Taylor were so impressed…

We've had a crazy busy few weeks in 8A these last few weeks.

Last week, Megan had the brilliant idea that we could all take part in a Secret Santa; everyone chose a name out of a hat and then they needed to buy their "secret" friend a present. Mrs Crouch suggested we could all go into town to…

8A had a brilliant time on the playground this afternoon. We hope it’s dry tomorrow for more fun in golden time! 

This term in My Communication we have been learning all about space as part of our Bright Sparks theme. In Autumn 1 we focussed on the Hidden Figures and NASA, and in Autumn 2 we have been focusing on finding out more about the planets. We have learnt that the planets in our solar system orbit the…

Today we are celebrating Diwali in school. 8A thought about what we had learnt last year about Diwali as part of our Year 7 “celebrations” theme. We could remember that Hindus celebrate Diwali and that they get presents at Diwali. Mrs Crouch reminded us that Diwali was the festival of light and we…