Blog by Bryn Thornton

Middle school loved enjoying the snow on Friday morning! 
We started off practicing some handwriting in the snow, and then moved on to creating some snow men! 
 

In art this week the children were inspired by artists Hannah Rae and Alice Kettle, who both use fabrics to create their art pieces.

Children were channelling their emotions into their art and took fabric with vastly different textures, colours and densities to use and create a collage. The…

This year we had a unique and fantastic world book day... we were visited by an actual author! Shane Hegarty (author of 'The Shop of Impossible Ice Creams') came into school for a hilarious talk with the children.

Inspired by Shane's visit, middle school spent most of our morning creating our…

In our science lessons we have been exploring how plants reproduce - children learned that a flower was not just a flower, but instead it was made up of lots of smaller parts with lots of different functions.

Children labelled the parts of the flower on their diagrams before having a look at a…

We have begun to look at the Easter story again in our RE lessons, this time focusing on the question: Is Easter a time of sadness or joy? 

We questioned what these different emotions were and explored how our positive feelings were more than just 'happy' and our negative feelings were more…

Middle school have begun their new class topic of exploration, lending nicely into their geography topic of maps and mapreading.

We begun by investigating what maps were for and why we might need them.

We then investigated all of the different types of maps we can find - some were better for…

This week we had another very special guest visit us! 
Pagpa is a Buddhist monk at the Buddhist centre in Preson who came in to share what he does with the children. We learned about what Buddhists believe in and how they carry out their beliefs. The children in middle school had many interesting…

Today the children finished up their Roman topic in History with a Roman day. 
We began the morning with a 'Maths Mosaic' where children had to solve problems to find out how many squares of each colour to make - they then had to work out which colours went where on their pictures. This was made…

This week we were very lucky to receive a visit from Reverend Paul who shared with us about his time in Tanzania. 

The children loved asking questions about what brought him there and what it was like for him. We learned that he was called by God to Tanzania to visit the people and their…

Children have put down the ukuleles this week to try their hand at the glockenspiel!

We have been learning about musical notation and how to read and write music - glockenspiels are an excellent way to hear each note. 
This week, children wrote their own very short compositions. These were all…

We have rounded off our DT and Science topics this week by completing our torches.

Children created the housing for their torches using plastic bottles. They created a reflector using tin foil and they wired up a circuit with a switch to make their torches turn on and off. 

Finally, children…

Our latest mini-topic in German is the broken washing machine, which focuses on clothes! 

This week, the children found items of clothing in the washing basket and described them. 

Year threes can explain what piece of clothing it is and what colour it is.

Year fours can explain a piece…