Blog by Cheryl Langley

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…

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…

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…

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…