Blog by Tag: Personal Development

As part of our Year 4 Swimming lessons, the children have been how to swim in pyjamas.  Not only did the children have a fab time, they also learnt some important water safety messages and lifesaving skills. 

In Year 5 this afternoon, we looked at how we should cite websites in our work.

We learnt about plagiarism, sources and bibliographies.  

Well done Year 5!

Year 3 started December off with a bang where they joined other schools from Ellesmere Port to Sing the Christmas story. Just for the record we sang our own song fantastically to everyone.

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Our school disco 30.11.2022

We went orienteering in Year 1 for our geography lesson. 

Our School Council went out with Mr Orme to deliver our harvest donation parcels to local residents in our school neighbourhood.  We are so proud of the children of Brookside for being such compassionate citizens in our community.

Well done Y6.

Today we went to Lymm and discovered that the world around us can be quite a dangerous place. We looked at many different environments (shops, roads, trains, farms, canals, cyberspace etc) and how to minimise the risks and dangers we might face on a daily basis.

We all had lots…

This morning, Year 5 had Martin from URENCO visit us. Martin gave the class a separating materials workshop.

Pupils took part in various activities. Pupils were comparing different substances and seeing how they themselves could separate materials using centrifugal force.

The class…

Children in Year 4 have been developing their knowledge and skills in order to be able to complete a safe and accurate search.  The children have looked at trusted search engines as well as strategies to improve search results. 

Kaci from Year 6 says’ “I’m reading Bad Girls by Jacqueline Wilson at the moment.  I’ve read lots of books written by her and my favourite is “The Butterfly Club”.  I love reading about girl adventure stories but also about mysterious creatures.  When I read, I like to learn about new words and…