Blog by Bryn Thornton

Middle school have been learning about shapes in maths. We had a practical lesson on Thursday where we spent time guessing the properties of a secret shape. This encouraged children to use key vocabulary such as vertices, sides, right-angles, acute, obtuse, parallel, adjacent to help guess each…

Middle school has tried some Yoga in the sun this Friday.
Yoga is great exercise that helps stretch your body, build your muscles, helps your balance and helps blood flow to the brain to help with learning.
We really enjoyed all wobbling on one leg and stretching our bodies out!

The children have been learning different stitches to use in their DT project. They have had a try at the running stitch, the backstich, the overstitch and some even tried the tricky blanket stitch! 
We needed to get an idea of which stitches would be best for our projects - a passport cover. 
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The children have absolutely loved practising and singing the 'Let's go sing' songs this week. They have particularly enjoyed 'the scuttled sloop' - a pirate song. They have nailed the actions! Well done middle school!

During RE, the children considered the beauty of the world around them and linked this to the creation story. They explored the playground and outdoor areas for things that they found particularly interesting or pretty and wrote about them. 
Children then wrote their own prayer to thank God for…

Middle school enjoyed the sunshine in their maths lesson by going out and practising their bus stop method. The children drew cards from a number pack for either two-digit problems, three-digit problems or even four-digit problems! They then worked these problems out on the playground or on the…

Middle school found a unique opportinity to learn some more about bees and their importance when we found a tired bumblebee on the playground. We carefully picked her up and gave her some sugar water to drink. This was a fantastic time for the children to learn about how bees help the environment…

After some practise keeping a rhythm and listening to different notes, middle school had a try at creating some ascending and decending scales together on the chilme bars. Once we had done this, we practised playing 'twinkle twinkle little star' together - which went quite well! Using our skills…

Middle school have started a design project to create a passport holder. After being given their brief they began some research and planning for their product. They had the chance to explore current products on the market and look at the shapes, materials and prices that they could use. They also…

Children enjoyed creating easter cards on Wednesday. They all tried to create a purple flower or butterfly in the centre of their card using layers of paper. There are so many talented and creative children in middle school that we end up with such a beautiful array of crafts by the…

Middle school had a fab morning searching for easter carrots.They were so good at finding them that they all ended up with pockets full! 
The children were thrilled that they could exchange their carrots for 'bunny change' and get an easter egg!

As part of our topic for the half-term, the children took part in a 'stone age day'. These activities started when children walked into the classroom to find animal skins on the floor and antlers, skulls and other stone age items. After some exploration, we started off with fire-lighting in the…