Blog by Cheryl Langley

Middle School absolutely loved getting out the ukuleles. In our first lesson, we learnt the parts of the musical instrument, how to hold it, signals for our music lessons, the string names, how to tune a ukulele and how to strum in rhythm to a song!

Superstars! 

This week, Middle School have returned to number lines in order to get to grips with them a little more confidently and comfortably.

We started with a Tiny Turtle challenge, which needed everyone to discuss whether numberlines ALWAYS go up in 1’s, 10’s and 100’s…

Everyone agreed that there…

Middle School were treated to a fabulous Stone Age day this week! They learnt so much and it really helped to develop their historical detective skills.

We started the day getting to grips with chronology by exploring how INCREDIBLY LONG the Palaeolithic time lasted in comparison to 5000 years…

Well done to all of Autumn 1 sharers! We have enjoyed learning about your interests and skills! It has been wonderful to see the confidence and communication skills of those who have shared…as well as seeing the enthusiasm from their listeners and the question-askers.

Well done, Middle…

Middle School have been busy creating drawings in the style of Cave Art. After discussing how important animals were during the Stone Age times and how they featured within Cave Art, we had thought about which animals would be featured now for people to enjoy in 5000 years. Using the examples,…

This week in English, Middle School have been thinking about the purpose of adverts and how they are successful at grabbing attention. 

In our story - ‘Stig of the Dump’ by Clive King - Barney and Stig are being very resourceful with items and tools…so we worked on creating adverts to sell…

Our learning journey has continued in Science as we explored gases this week. 
 

First of all, the children had to predict which of the bottles of liquid would have the most ‘fizz’. They ordered them from least to most and then listened carefully to detect the differences in ‘fizz’ as the…

This week in Dance, Middle School took inspiration from various pieces of Cave Art to create sequences and stills. To begin with, they used travel, height, shape, speed and movements to represent painting, hunting, being hunted…

After carefully listening to a piece of music, we discussed a…

This week, Middle School have continued their learning journey in Maths by deepening their understanding of place value. We have focused on partitioning and how this can be done in flexible, multiple ways. We have used various models, visuals and concrete resources to help with our understanding. 
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Middle School have painted portraits of themselves this week! See if you can guess who is who…(I did a very good job at guessing which we agreed was due to their attention to detail and the fact I know them so well!!)

Well done, Middle School!
 

Over the last few weeks, Middle School have been busy getting to grips with place value of numbers up to 10,000.

We are continually using various models, resources and visuals to learn about how the value of digits change depending on their place in a number.

We are expert ‘Zero Hero’…

Middle School have well and truly travelled into the past this week! 
 

As part of our ‘Stone Age’ topic, we have explored cave art dated back to the Stone Age. We have learnt about some of the techniques used, thought about the colours they had available and discussed why certain images…