Middle IV recently spent 3 days at The Robinwood Activity Centre just outside Todmorden.
Robinwood provided our children with the chance to have fun whilst learning new skills as individuals and working together in teams. The children enjoyed a varied programme including canoeing, archery, bouldering, climbing and abseiling. The highly qualified instructors were very helpful and considerate, gently encouraging all those who were a little nervous.
The nerves soon disappeared as their confidence shone, allowing them to realise that they could achieve anything with the right amount of help and encouragement.
MIV had a fantastic time at Robinwood due to the highly qualified friendly staff, and thoroughly organised activities.

Middle IV have baked and decorated their own biscuits.
‘They tasted delicious,’ said one child.

On March 5th, Middle IV experienced an exciting and informative morning at Yorkshire Water’s Education Centre in Headingley, Leeds. They enjoyed a presentation, activities and a short tour of the waterworks.

As part of their work on gases, Mr O’Rourke’s Middle IV Science class undertook an experiment to try and prove that warm air rises.

The photographs show them using hair dryers to fill the hot air balloon. The children, with the help of Mr O’Rourke and Mr Kirkham, managed to launch the balloon from the entrance hall all the way up to the ceiling.

Children from Year 5 have been celebrating the French Festival of the Kings (La Fete des Rois) in their first French lesson of the New Year.  On January 6th, French families traditionally share a crown-shaped cake in which is hidden a bean.  The person who discovers the bean in their slice of cake (usually rigged so that it is the youngest member of the family!) becomes king or queen for the day and is able to issue orders!

On Thursday 15th November 2007 Middle IV visited Bradford Industrial Museum, and, as always, it was an exciting and rewarding experience.

The morning was spent in Moorside Board School, with the children experiencing life in a classroom as it would have been around 1885.  Real Victorian children would then have gone on to work for about eight hours in the nearby woollen mill.  Our children were able to see some of the machines that would have been in use in those days, and could imagine how hot, noisy, dusty and dangerous it must have been.

In the warm sunshine of a beautiful autumn day, the trip ended with a look around the workers’ back to back cottages and the more luxurious home of the mill owner.

In our D.T. lessons we are learning about musical instruments. I have made a percussion instrument.

I brought this instrument into school to show the class. It is called a spike fiddle.

Congratulations to four Middle IV boys who have reached the semi-finals of the Eurotalk Junior Language competition. On 27th September, they will battle it out against the other 26 Yorkshire regional semi-finalists in Knaresborough. The first language to which they were introduced in the competition was Polish. Now they are busy playing computer games in Mandarin Chinese in the hope of winning places in the London final of the competition.

On Friday 29th June the girls in Middle IV attended The Mad Hatter’s Luncheon Party at The Girls’ Grammar School, Bradford. They enjoyed activities including story telling, dance, cookery, sport and D.T and a good time was had by all.

Middle IV visited Crossley Heath on Monday 2nd July for a morning of fun with languages. The children enjoyed a mixture of language sessions covering French, Spanish and German and there was time left for a little street dancing in between!