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Middle School have enjoyed exploring more of  ‘Stig of the Dump’ by Clive King, with a particular focus this week on ADJECTIVES and NOUNS…

First, we unpicked adjectives in the story before thought showering our own to describe what Barney would have seen in the chalk pit. We drew annotated…

The children in Upper School are studying Earth in Space this term and part of our topic is to look at space exploration in Art and Design. We have observed and discussed pictures from the past of what people thought the future would be like and what space travel could look like. Some pictures…

Over the past three weeks, at the start of all our computing sessions, Upper School have been learning how to be safe online. We have learnt good strategies to deal with cyber-bullying; identified secure websites to use for our work; and understood what information we should never share when…

I am absolutely loving having Upper School once a week for their German lesson! 
 

Our first two lessons together have flown so quickly! Here are some of the things we have been exploring:

We learnt to sing a special song for someone’s birthday…
 

‘Zum Geburtstag viel Gluck…

Zum…

What a super time we had outside!

To make the most out of the beautiful weather, Middle School were given the option of doing their Dance PE lesson outside…of course they agreed!

After discussing rules and spacing, we practised our travelling techniques (speed, direction, height etc) and our…

This week in RE we explored various questions relating to Harvest:

What does the Harvest Festival mean to you?

How do people of faith say thank you to God for the harvest?

Middle School remembered lots of our learning from Lower School! I was very impressed. A number of the children are…

Today we started to explore our thoughts about who made the world. We discussed what people of faith believe about God as creator of the world.
 

At the very beginning of the Bible, in the book of Genesis, there is a story about how God created the world and the order in which he created…

We have been playing lots of games and taking part in activities to get to know one another, we have looked at the things that make us different and the things that make us the same. 

In our class we choose to be one big family who work together to make each other feel happy, safe and part of a…

The children did a brilliant job of role playing a scene from our novel today! Each group performed as characters from the book and tried to create the sense of confusion/fear/surprise in the scene. We then used the role play work to help us write a list of progressive verbs and abstract nouns…

Today Upper School were learning to use an overarm bowl in our cricket skills lesson. They did brilliantly with this and demonstrated the technique by bowling to their partner through a pair of cones. We also played some cricket style games to practice catching and fielding. Well done Year…

In Middle School, we are learning to develop active listening strategies through various different ways and across multiple areas of our learning. 

As part of our PSHE topic - exploring identity, interests and strengths - are learning to build confidence to stand in front of our class to share…

What a start to our PE learning! One of our PE topics is ‘Rock’n’Roll’: a dance linked to our science and history topics (Stone Age/ Solids, Liquids and Gases / Rocks and minerals).

The children have been learning to navigate and use the hall space safely and creativity, listen to commands and…