Blog by Bryn Thornton

We are looking at our times tables in middle school, which means learning new times tables for years 3 and revising some for year 4. We have all had a fantastic start with our 3s and 4s. Today we learned that we can use what knowledge we already have to help us fill in the rest of the times tables…

Our art topic for this half term is Ancient Egyptian Scrolls, inspired by our topic in history. Children have been looking at the colours and patterns often represented in ancient Egyptian art. They have been looking at how they can adapt this into a representation of themselves. Fantastic…

In our PE topic this half term we are looking at dance and the topic myths and legends. We begun with the myth of king Midas and his golden touch. Children imagined what it was like to be Midas and his daughter, Marigold, at different stages of the myth’s story. They translated these emotions and…

We had another wonderful visit from let’s go sing this week! The children in middle school loved joining in on the fun singing exercises and learning the new songs. They all did so well at learning and singing - we do have a talented lot!

To introduce our first history lesson of the year, we began with some historical inquiry skills. Being a historian is a lot like being a detective, you have to build a picture based on different clues. 
To start with, children were given various clues to a mystery. Each clue told a story by…

As part of our English for this half term, the children are beginning with looking at instructions. To begin, we identified the features of instructions by trying to follow some ourselves. The instructions we had were how to fold and make an origami crab. We did very well at following the…

This week in English we are beginning to look into writing instructions. Within instructions, children may need to use prepositions. To practice our prepositions, children moved around the room, writing their own sentences with prepositions. 

Middle school had their rainforest day this week! Children brought in their cuddly toys and donated £1each to put towards the rainforest trust. 
We worked together on a rainforest themed escape room, then we created some wonderful descriptive writing pieces.

finally, we created a group…

This week, middle school have been learning about networks. We created our own networks, as well as understanding how computers send messages.

Children have completed their gymnastics routines with their groups this week. The children have practiced really hard and have performed a wonderful routine using balances, rolls and jumps.
 

Well done to our middle school team who played football at Garstang Academy on Wednesday evening. We worked amazingly as a team! Well done team!

Middle school have been looking at word problems that use addition and subtraction. Children were paired up and given challenges to solve together, including shape problems, word problems and abstract thinking problems.