Blog by Cheryl Langley

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!

As part of our ‘Three Little Pigs’ English topic, we have been exploring reports and how quotes are created and included in an article. To help the children generate relevant quotes, they had the opportunities to recreate scenes from and after an incident involving The Three Pigs. They used their…

Upper School did a fantastic job at exploring financial risk through discussions. We also discussed ways that they can make money and how they can save money too. 
 

As part of Year 6’s revision, we explored the parts of a circle (circumference, radius and diameter). To bring this to life, Year 6 also learnt how to draw circles using a protractor. After exploring various techniques, they were then ready to measure their circles. By setting their protractor…

What an incredible gallery of sculptures! Upper School loved setting up their final piece and choosing how they wanted it to be photographed….

We then enjoyed viewing all the captured gallery pictures on the big screen and sharing our thoughts on each piece. We were amazed by some of the…

Over the last few weeks, Upper School have worked brilliantly on their art sculptures - inspired by the art work of Joan Miro…

Using inspiration from Joan Miro’s drawings, paintings, ceramics and other sculptures, we began creating designs and prototypes for our very own sculptures.

We first considered where our sculpture would be stood so we had an idea of space and height. We then made some annotated drawing…