Monthly Archives: January 2018

Today was Year 3’s class assembly. The children did a fantastic job so a big well done to them all! The video below is one the children made especially for our reading assembly. Then the slideshow below captures some of the assembly in pictures.Take a look! assembly 2018 final from Beal Vale on Vimeo.   … Continue reading »

Here are some more of our poem videos.

Here are some more of our poem videos.

Here are some more of our poem videos.

We have been writing poems using similes and metaphors. We then used the iPads to turn our poems into videos.

As part of our Harry Potter topic we made our own 3D Harry Potter maze games.  We had to decide on the point of the game; choose items to collect and avoid; design and make the maze; find pictures off the internet and import them into our game and write up some rules.  Have a … Continue reading »

During last term’s Harry Potter topic, we imagined what we would see if we looked in the Mirror of Erised ( the mirror from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone that shows you your heart’s desire.)  We then used our paper folding skills to make pop-ups that we could put our writing and drawings on.  Our … Continue reading »

Max Wild has beaten hundreds of entrants to win the top prize in the Snowman Art Competition. ” We are incredibly impressed by your drawing of The Snowman; you show great flair and talent,” said Rachel Whibley, Director at Carrot Productions.

In Year 3 we have been learning about Cyberbullying.  The children identified ways this could happen and ways to stop this type of bullying during a class discussion and made posters.

Last week in Science the children learned about different rocks, their properties and why they are used for a certain purpose. Whilst some children were using books and Ipads to research rocks others carried out an investigation to test different rocks for their hardness. We then made links with Friedrich Mohs a geologist who devised … Continue reading »

As part of our new Science topic about Rocks and Soils, our task was to compare and group together different kinds of rocks on the basis of their appearance and simple physical properties. First the children were given chocolate samples to treat as ‘chocolate rocks’ to apply their descriptions and observations of chocolate to rocks. E.g Is … Continue reading »

This afternoon Year 5 walked up to Crompton House to watch a performance of their dance show, Dancing Through the Decades.  We had a great time watching all the dances and thought the girls did brilliantly.  We want to wish them good luck for their performance to a bigger audience this evening, we know you’ll … Continue reading »

Year 5 have designed and painted their own Greek pots as part of our Ancient Greece topic.  Here are the pots we made.