Roman Day
At the end of last half term, we finished up our Romans topic with a full Roman day! We were also lucky enough to have year 2 join us.
To begin with, the children had a maths lesson to recognise Roman numerals. The children did very well and noticing the patterns with Roman numerals and could…
Symbols on a map
Our geography lessons this term are focused around maps, understanding the symbols, grid references and how to read maps.
In our first lesson, we explored Ordinance Survey maps. Children searched for as many symbols as they could find on their maps and copied them down. Once we had found our…
Mastering multiplication
In our maths lessons, we have been looking at multiplication and division. We have done lots of focused work on odds and evens, understanding which numbers are divisible by two and which are not. We have been working hard to understand the relationship between multiplication and division, where…
Investigating plants
Our new topic this half term is how plants reproduce.
To begin, we looked at the different parts of a plant. This included lots of parts we had seen before in lower school but also some new ones. We looked more closely at what was inside the flowering part of a plant and learned the names for…
How does electricity travel?
Middle school’s science topic this half term is electricity! Last week, we investigated which appliances use electricity and where they source their electricity. Some items used batteries and others used mains. This week, we investigated how electricity travelled. We learned about how electricity…
Middle School’s Incredible Fire Morning
Thank you so much to Claire for joining us for the morning to bring our Stone Age exploration to life! We learnt about how they would have lit fires, particularly towards the end of the Stone Age with the discovery of metal. We learnt how they would have kept fires going and how they would have…
Middle School - learning previous and next multiples of ten
Middle School have been exploring more place value language to help them understand the concept of rounding. We have been learning the previous and next multiples of ten and celebrating any marvellous mistakes made!
Stig of the Dump
Middle School absolutely loved watched the Stig of the Dump series and were brilliant at comparing the characters and events to the story we have read. They were completely spell-bounded by the ending and overcome with emotions. Such a wonderful story now part of Middle School’s learning journey,…
Middle School’s Jar of Kindness
As part of our PSHE topic on respect, we took part in Anti-Bullying Week (11th Nov - 15th Nov).
Middle School were given challenges throughout the week:
Listen out for someone using kind words…
Look out for someone using kind actions…
Middle School also discussed ways we could explore…
Middle School - Comparing Numbers
We have continued to deepen our understanding of place value by comparing numbers.
We had some phone calls with Tiny Turtle, who thought that the starting digit was the only thing you needed to use to compare.
He thought 923 was greater than 1324. After lots of reasoning and super…