Blog by Cheryl Langley

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…

Like most years, our first Maths topic of the year is Place Value. We are exploring various ways of representing numbers to 1000 to really get to grips with the ‘onesness’ of ones, the ‘tensness’ of the tens and the ‘hundredness’ of hundreds. We have also explored numbers which include a zero…and…

Our new history topic is ‘The Stone Age’ and we started with a KWL grid to find out what the children already know and what they would like to know. 
 

We have left the ‘What have we learnt’ column for later…and now the children are very eager to find out…

What strengths, skills and interests do we have?

This is our first question to explore this year…and it has been such an enjoyable one to start with! 
 

We created mini graffiti squares to represent a snapshot of who we are. We thought about things we love, we are good at and things we…

Our first Science topic of the year is ‘States of Matter’ and we started by discussing and identifying the different states: solid, liquid and gas. 
 

Through discussion, we agreed that some things were clearly a liquid, solid or gas but sometimes it is tricky to tell as they might look,…

As part of our English topic, Upper School explored a range of technical words and phrases linked to finance, crime and the legal system, so they felt more comfortable applying these words in their writing. We played technical language bingo (children selected words at random from our list and…

Linked to our English topic - ‘The Three Little Pigs’ - we created artist’s impressions of related scenes (from the crime scene to court room).

Super job, Upper School!