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Pacific Class Weekly News

Friday 26th April 2024

This week we became archaeologists, using evidence to conclude how King Tutankhamen died so young and acting out how his tomb was discovered. We then became herbologists, taking cuttings and trying to grow our own plants. 

Friday 19th April 2024

Welcome back to Pacific! We've had an amazing first week back. We had a wonderful morning at Leigh Library Gardens hanging our beautiful mobiles, playing sport, and visiting the library 🙂

We also began our Egyptian topic by using watercolour paints to create a stunning Egyptian sunset. 

Friday 15th March 2024

After all the excitement of World Book Day, we have fully embraced our space topic. Firstly we undertook physical and cognitive training to become LNSPS astronauts at NASA. We have also began designing our space themed mobile, based on the work of Alex Calder.

Friday 1st March 2024

This week we started dodgeball in PE, focusing on the rules and basic skills ready to build on these in the coming weeks. We also began to investigate Alex Calder, using his work to inspire our own sketches!

Friday 9th February 2024

This week we had a great day being and learning about Vikings! We learnt how to dance, sew, make runes and even made our own shields!

Friday 2nd February 2024

This week we were lucky enough so have some sixth formers from Westcliff High School for boys come in to join us for Science. As you can see we had a lot of fun!

Friday 26th January 2024

This week we used books and the internet to investigate the design of Viking longships. We also went out to Leigh North Street's very own pirate ship to investigate the impact of surface area on air resistance. 

Friday 8th December 2023

This week we have tracked Santa, written some French Christmas card and investigated the fire triangle!

Friday 1st December 2023

We have looked at chemical reactions in science in preparation for exploding our volcanoes and we got to play out in the snow! What an exciting way to start December! 

Friday 24th November 2023

This week we learnt about how to stay safe online and how to draw like LS Lowry. We also had a very special performance!

Friday 24th November 2023

We've been unleashing our inner sports star this week- first in PE where we have been practicing gymnastics, then to support Children in Need. The class managed to complete 2065 'bearpees' in 7 minutes!

Friday 3rd November 2023

This week we took part in the ROAR invention competition in association with Leigh Lions. The children designed, built, and advertised their innovative inventions!

Friday 20th October 2023

This week we learnt about solutions, using sugar and water to test if the temperature has an effect! We also loved outdoor learning with Mrs Brown, looking at and making our own map contours!

Friday 29th September 2023

This week we have been continuing our topic of place value by partitioning numbers to 1,000,000! In DT, we have had a very exciting lesson, where we made our own spring rolls! They smelt fantastic and I'm sure they will taste even better.

Friday 22nd September 2023

Pacific have had a week full of exploration and discovery this week! NatWest helped us plan and budget a party and we explored volcanos on the virtual reality headsets. We also conducted an experiment on thermal insulators.