Year 6 enjoyed learning lots of circle skills this morning including how to: draw circles with a pair of compasses, calculate the area of a circle, calculate the circumference of a circle and calculate the surface area of a cylinder. Continue reading

Year 6 enjoyed discussing the arguments for against developing new hotels on this Spanish beach this morning in literacy. They hot-seated: local residents, tourists, eco warriors, buisness owners and the mayor to help compare their opinions before writing down a balanced argument of their final verdict. Clare Declan Dylan c Elivia Jennifer John Matthew Continue reading

Year 1 enjoyed acting out a journey to France on an aeroplane this morning in literacy. Continue reading

Year 5 learnt how to program a simple Etch-a-Sketch game using http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/editor/ this afternoon and then enjoyed using it to draw their own geometric pictures. Here's Jade's picture of Robinwood that she drew with her program: Continue reading

Reception enjoyed learning how to enter commands into the Bee-Bot this morning to make it move forwards and turn so that it could travel to different places on a farm yard mat. Continue reading

Year 5 enjoyed taking part in a debating class at Bowlee Community Primary School yesterday. Continue reading

Year 1 and 2 enjoyed using the SMART Notebook app yesterday afternoon to create slides showing different types of technology that can be found outside of school. Continue reading

Year 1 and 2 enjoyed making their own fruit salads yesterday afternoon. They had to carefully use cutting skills to prepare the fruits before mixing them together in a big bowl. Continue reading

Year 4 enjoyed watching the videos on www.parkfieldict.co.uk/calculations yesterday to teach them how to do different types of maths calculations and then playing on some iPad games to develop these skills themselves. Continue reading

Reception have been enjoying watching some baby chicks hatch from the eggs in their classroom today. Continue reading

Year 3 enjoyed learning how to use the Tiny Tap app this afternoon in ICT to create their own games to test each other on science vocabulary about their plants topic. Continue reading

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Year 1 have been writing their own word problems that involve addition and subtraction calculations: Download Bella's Word Problems Download Ella J's Word Problems Download Erica's Word Problems Download Evie's Word Problems Download Nicole's Word Problems Download Olivia's Word Problems Continue reading

A set of eggs arrived in reception this morning and were put in an incubator to keep them warm. I wonder what's going to hatch from them? Continue reading

Year 5 enjoyed using Comic Life this afternoon to create some posters about how to stay safe online, including the need to: 'Zip it', 'Block it' and 'Flag it'. Download Ava and Todd's Poster Download Daisy's and Malise's Poster Download Ella's Poster Download Emma and Max's Poster Download Gualter and Blake's Poster Download Jack and Grace's Poster Download James M and Olivia's Poster Download James W and Lois' Poster Download Lewis and Lauren's Poster Download Madison and Oliver H's Poster Download Sam and Oliver's Poster Continue reading

Year 2 enjoyed doing some maths revision on My Maths this morning. Continue reading

Year 3 enjoyed learning how to build 3D shapes out of cubes this morning - tetracubes built using four cubes and pentacubes built using five cubes. They investigated the different combinations in which the cubes could be arranged and how many faces were visible each time. Continue reading

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Here's a slideshow of photos of Year 5's residential to Robinwood in Todmorden. Over three days the children took part in a range of outdoor and adventurous activities and they all: had fun; worked together as a team; tried to do everything. The class were a credit to Parkfield with both their behaviour and their ability to support each other to complete every challenge! Click here to watch the slideshow on a mobile device. Click here to look at all 631 photos! Continue reading

Everyone's wide awake and ready for their last morning of activities! Continue reading

After a brilliant night last night, the children had another FABULOUS day at Robinwood today. The stars they chose were: James W for encouraging others who were nervous; Isobel for helping everyone in her team complete activities; Jade for conquering all of her fears - especially the trapeze. We've got three more activities in the morning and we expect to back at school between 2:45 and 3:00 tomorrow. Continue reading

The children have just played lots of funny team games, including: building a castle out of Lego, doing a dance-off and wrapping each other up in toilet paper to transform themselves into mummies. Each of the activity groups picked a 'star of the day', which were: Cameron - Because he was helpful and encouraged the rest of the team. Oliver P - An amazing leader, a good friend and encouraged his team. James M - For taking part in nearly all the activities even though he has a broken arm. Also, here are some words that the children chose to... Continue reading

Everyone's had a FANTASTIC afternoon doing: raft building, canoeing, climbing, night line and a knight's quest. We've just finished our tea and are now going to play some team games... Continue reading

We've all arrived safely and the children are enjoying their first activity - making their beds! Continue reading

Year 3 enjoyed using the Pages app this afternoon to create sets of instructions on how to take photographs with a digital camera: Download Aidan's Instructions Download Aron and Elizabeth's Instructions Download Charlie and Emily's Instructions Download Dominic and Charlotte's Instructions Download Imani and Jamie's Instructions Download Jamie G and James P's Instructions Download Jessica and Lewis' Instructions Download Joshua's instructions Download Mia and Samuel's Instructions Download Milan and Connor's Instructions Download Millie C and Harvey's Instructions Download Millie H and Aimee's Instructions Download Nicole and Connor L's Instructions Download Poppy and Olivia's Instructions Download Tyler and Megan's Instructions Continue reading