Following on from their workshop with author, Billy Bob Buttons, 5W enjoyed a writing session at Darwen Vale. Their high school teacher was exceptionally impressed with their skills and knowledge and truly felt that there are some future authors within Avondale! #Year5 #Literacy #English

Year 5 have enjoyed an extremely exciting writing workshop at Darwen Vale today with the acclaimed author Billy Bob Buttons. #Year5 #Literacy #English

Last week the Year 5/6 football team completed the league at the Soccerdome. Overall, we won 10 out of 11 games and finished 2nd in the league. We showed great team work and played some great football - well done to all. #Year5 #Year6 #Sports

5W are engrossed in their new novel 'A Christmas Carol'. The vocabulary is challenging but extremely rewarding once they unpick it! #Year5 #English #Literacy

5C have been placing key time periods on a timeline. #Year5 #History

5W have been studying the life and works of a Japanese artist named 'Hokusai'! He famously printed scenes of earthquakes, tsunamis and Mount Fuji. The children have created their own volcano prints using paint on canvas. Check them out! #Geography #Year5 #Art

Following a fantastic summer our children have embraced the Avondale Adventure and shown aspects of this throughout a variety of learning in Geography. Lessons have included learning about where they live in relation to their local area in 2N and 2F before thinking about it within the UK and Europe in Yr 4. 5W and 5C have researched and produce some fantastic work around natural disasters with 5W delivering a humorous, inspiring and informative assembly to the whole scho

Chris Lowe from the FA came into school to do some training for the football club for girls. The girls gained some knowledge of how the game is played linked to our school values. Thanks to Chris for giving up his time. #Sports #Year4 #Year5

Absolutely fantastic football played last night. The team ‘smashed it’ against both St Edwards’ and St Joseph’s, with 15-2 and a 10-1 wins. Mr Clegg was super proud and said ‘This is the best I have seen them play so far this season and some of the goals were tremendous’. Well done to all team members. #Sports #Year5 #Year6

We were extremely fortunate to be able to take 10 Yr 5/6 pupils to the Blackburn match on Tuesday night. We took part in a CPR workshop, waved flags on the pitch and three of our lucky pupils even got to walk out onto the pitch holding one of the players hands. We all had a fantastic night and were superb role models for Avondale. #Sports #Year5

Year 5 children have had their first session today from 'Debt Aware - money skills for life'. They have been learning about the difference between wants and needs and have learnt some super ways of how to save money in the home! They even had a go at setting a budget. This week they will be bringing home an activity to share with parents about their learning. #Year5 #PSHCE #Maths

Year 5 have done a fabulous job of researching famous volcanoes, making PowerPoint presentations and posters and presenting this information back to their classmates. #Year5 #Geography

Year 5 have loved making crystals this week. #Year5 #Science

5C loved their Science Investigation Day at Darwen Vale. A particular highlight was being able to use bunsen burners. #Year5 #Science

Despite Year 5's trip to Spaceport being sadly cancelled, Mr Clegg and Miss Wormald managed to bring 'rockets' to Avondale in the form of ice lollies on the yard! We are still in the process of trying to organise a last minute alternative trip. #Year5

The Year 5/6 Tennis pupils enjoyed their training session on the courts at Darwen Tennis Club on a very sunny Wednesday evening. The improvement in skills was great to see. #Year5 #Sports

5W have enjoyed a Science day at Darwen Vale today. They have visited the Science Labs and participated in a range of experiments including using bunsen burners! #Year5 #Science

Year 5 have been making chocolate in DT. We evaluated existing chocolate, tasted a variety of chocolates and looked at advertising campaigns. We then designed our own delicious bars, made the packaging in ICT and then made our own bars. Which one would you buy? #Year5 #DT #Computing

Year 5 have been estimating and measuring lots of different angles in Maths. They have been learning the names of acute, obtuse, reflex and right angles and using protractors to measure them. #Year5 #Maths

Great teamwork from 2 of our digital leaders who are entering a robotics competition. The robotic design competition is aimed at helping schoolchildren up and down the country to hone their scientific thinking and develop their talent in engineering. The competition is based on an augmented reality (AR) online game platform developed in exclusive partnership by educational publishers Twinkl and the EPSRC UK Robotics & Autonomous Systems Network (UK-RAS Network). #Year5 #Compu