St John Fisher Roman Catholic Primary School, Rochdale

News Stories

• 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.
• PuppetPals
  Welcome back to our first Computing lesson Year 4. The children have been busy playing, preparing and planning for their animation unit using PuppetPals. Great work Year 4.
• Year 4 Celebrate the Birthday of Our Lady
  Year 4 have enjoyed their afternoon learning about Our Lady and linking beliefs with traditions. The children worked hard to write their prayers before offering them to Mary in the prayer garden. They then made a lily for Mary's birthday.
• Year 4 Artificial Intelligence
  Year 4 were intrigued today to learn about Artificial Intelligence (ai) The children learnt that ai is teaching computers how to think. Today they used the Seeing ai app.
• Year 4 Games and Quizzes
  Year 4 have had a lovely Computing afternoon. Playing board games and quizzes. These types of games help the children by increasing brain function, encouraging team work and math skills. Well done Year 4.
• Year 1 Computing
  Year 1 had a fast paced lesson in Computing this morning. Their challenge was to cover as much of the curriculum as they could in an allotted time. Art, Math, D&T, Music and History apps were used by the children. Such Fun! Well done Year 1
• Year 3 Laptops
  Our amazing Year 3 have today been on the laptops. So much learning has taken place including, highlighting, shift key, usernames and passwords, font size, spellcheck and grammar and punctuation mistakes!
• 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
• Year 1 - The lifecycle of a frog
  Year 1 have loved watching frogspawn turn into frogs. Yesterday some of the frogs were returned to the pond the frogspawn came from.
• Saint John Fisher Feast Day
  The children in Year 4 have celebrated Saint John Fisher. They have learned information about his life, they created their own portrait of St John Fisher and they attended a whole school mass to celebrate his life.