Well done Year 2 on an enjoyable class assembly on the value of Service. You conveyed a very important message about serving others with kindness. We thoroughly enjoyed the story of The Smartest Giant In Town.  Brilliant acting, speaking and singing! It was thoroughly entertaining!  Don’t forget to pass on that smile!

The whole school have been fundraising for our chosen National Charity, PKD. Year 6 came to school in their PE kits but with a kidney related twist, such as red, green or purple accessories. They took part in a health fitness video on the Thursday morning, as the fundraising this week has been educational - touching on health and science. As well as enjoying some health and fitness activities, we also enjoyed a kidney shaped biscuit and a milkshake!

Here is our class pet, Carlos. We have been learning about how to care, feed and keep Carlos happy in our classroom. We have looked at photos of him from when he was a baby and how he has changed. 

The Reception children have had a wonderful time exploring the topic 'People Who Help Us'. They had enjoyed dressing up as doctors, nurses and patients and pretending to be at hospital, as well creating their own storylines when playing with the emergency vehicles. The children have also had a visit from a midwife and the fire fighters came to show their fire engine. The children loved spraying the fire hose! 

Mrs Bishop thoroughly enjoyed seeing the children develop their skills over the three days and could not believe how far they challenged themselves! A group favourite activity was definitely Caving where they are enjoyed squeezing through the different tunnels and playing the games. Waterfall group also really impressed their group leader Tanya and were a credit to our school. 

On Wednesday 24th April, Year 5 went to Roundthorn Primary School to take part in the Linking Project. The children thoroughly enjoyed working with an Artist, creating junk journals, as well as playing dodgeball in PE. Finally, we particularly enjoyed Forest Schools because the children were tasked with roasting marshmallows on a fire and creating friendship bracelets using naturally sourced materials. Check out some of our experiences...

We had an amazing time at Robinwood! From escaping the perils of the piranha pool to making discoveries in the darkness of the dungeon, canoeing, raft building, zip wire, scaling the climbing wall, giant swing and archery.

This week Year 5 participated in the Oldham Schools Linking project at Roundthorn Primary School and met friends, old and new, from the school. Year 5 enjoyed not only meeting friends but also lighting fires and toasting marshmallows in forest school; making friendship bracelets; playing games in PE and gifting a handmade journal book to their new friend helped by a very talented local artist. We cannot wait to see our new friends at Roundthorn when we meet in May at Castleshaw for more team building and fun activities!

St Thomas' Leesfield and Roundthorn Academy Linking Project.  We invited Roundthorn into our school for the day and took part in a range of exciting workshops. We were involved in an Interfaith Workshop with Fr. Phil Sumner and Molana Akmal where we explored similarities and differences within different faiths.  We created lanterns of hope with our linked partners and showed Roundthorn our beautiful school.