St John Fisher Roman Catholic Primary School, Rochdale

News Stories

• Year 5 Mount Everest
  Year 5 have used the video-based storytelling tool Plotagon to tell their audience all about Mount Everest. Using such facts as Mount Everest is 60 million Years old and the youngest climber was only 13 years old! Well done Year 5.
• Computing Animation Unit
  Very proud of our Year 5 today. Exploring and planning for their animation unit this term. Today the children have learnt that the word animation means ‘to give life to’. By the end of this term Year 5 will create their own animated cartoon.
• Moment of Reflection in Year 5
  Almost ready for Year 6!!! Year 5 had a moment of reflection today as they wrote and read Prayers of Intention for their new class #SJFY5prayer
• Minecraft Design
  Year 5 have been designing their very own Minecraft Characters today. They did very well!
• Pyonkee and Ancient Greece
  Year 5 are using the coding app Pyonkee. They have used Pyonkee to paint an Ancient Greek artefact and turn this into a sprite. Lastly they have coded their sprite.
• Year 5 Computing
  Year 5 are pictured here using Kodu to enhance their code learning.
• Year 5 Fencing
  Year 5 had a wonderful afternoon taking part in the sport of fencing. Fencing is an exciting, fast paced sport. Year 5 learned the rules of fencing and thoroughly enjoyed their time.
• Year 5 Kahoots!
  Year 5 have been playing Kahoots today. Kahoots are fun and engaging learning in the form of a quiz.
• Year 5 Hit the Button
  Year 5 have been practicing their times tables using the wonderful Hit the Button.
• Year 5 Computing - Databases
  Year 5 children investigating paper and computerised databases. The children have been learning that databases are made up of records and fields and have started to discover how to search a computerised database.