Blog by Bryn Thornton

Children have continued their investigation into plants this week by dissecting a flowers and separating the parts inside that we found. Children built on their previous knowledge from last week of plant parts used in pollination and plant reproduction. 
Many children even began using big words…

In PE this week, children took what they learned about balancing points from last week and put this into practice with a partner. Children had to place their trust into their own bodies - and their partners - to create great shapes with their bodies. We learned how far we could lean and stretch to…

We have been focusing on the rainforest in Geography - looking this week at the climate we find there. To help us with this, we all put ourselves forward as weather presenters!
Each pair of children was given a city or town in a rainforest region. 
They had to investigate what the weather is and…

This week in English middle school have focused on our SPaG (Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar) and have been looking at different word classes. To help us use our different word classes in sentences, we went outside on a word hunt. 
Children searched the playground for any nouns they could find…

The children were so excited to welcome back the Library Van to school today! They were all able to have a look and choose a book to take with them. We discussed what made us choose our books as well as what our favourite books are and why we enjoy them. I am glad to have a class that loves…

Middle school's geography this week began with revising our geographical knowledge. Children have used an atlas to locate different countries, continents, oceans, mountain ranges and cities. They have had to get used to using the atlas and finding the correct map for the correct information.
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In PE this week, Middle school have been exploring balancing points and moving in different ways.

Children have found that moving using different balancing points can be easier and harder depending on how you position your body. We have certainly had some interesting balances and movements!

Continuing on with our forces topic, the children began investigating magnets. We learned about what a magnet is, how it works and how it attracts objects. 
We investigated objects around us by first predicting whether we thought the object would be attracted to the magnet or not. Once we had…

On Monday we were so lucky to have our current year 2s come up to middle school to spend a day as year 3s! Our current year 3's were wonderful buddies and helped show the year 2s where everything was and what we do in middle school. 
We started off the morning with some maths - the year 2s…

On Monday, children were introduced to forces. They learned that gravity pulled objects to the Earth. Children learned that two objects rubbing together will create friction. A type of friction the children learned about was air resistance, this was how the air passed over a falling or moving…

Children continued to enjoy our wild challenges. 
The most recent challenge was to find a mini wild habitat and observe it. 
Children found many different mini habitiats. Children did fantastically at remembering their science topic on living things and could apply this to what they…

In PSHE, middle school discussed some of the ways that we could look after ourselves. We understood that one of the most important ways to look after ourselves at the moment is to keep our hands clean.
We watched a video to learn about why it was important to wash our hands as microbes can be…