Blog by Jo Hurley

What a fantastic PE lesson we had with Logan from PNE! We learnt how to play invasion ball games by improving our throwing and catching skills; he taught us different techniques for attack and defence; we learnt about using space and keeping moving to win a goal. 

Upper School have been learning about 3D shapes in our Maths lessons and today we explored how to make a 3D shape using a net. The children enjoyed cutting out, scoring and folding to create a range of shapes including octahedrons and tetrahedrons which were very tricky to put together! 

Today Upper School explored and recapped their learning from Middle School about how to make a simple circuit. They chose equipment by themselves and investigated how to make a bulb and a motor work. There was lots of discussion and diagnostics when some of the circuits didn’t appear to work. Some…

This week, the children have been reading the last few chapters of Street Child by Bertie Doherty. We have particularly explored comprehension of the vocabulary and inference of a character’s behaviour. We have also worked on how to make realistic predictions about what might happen next in the…

The class have been learning the skills of hockey for the last 5 weeks. They have made huge progress and have begun to play small hockey games now where they have shown their skills of dribbling, tackling and shooting the ball into the goal. Well done Year 5/6!

Over the past couple of English sessions, the Upper School children have been preparing a descriptive narrative through reading, role play and exploring vocabulary. 
We read a chapter of Street Child and chose scenes to turn into freeze frames (see the gallery). When the freeze frames were ‘woken…

What a privilege it was to be a part of the Harvest Festival at St Peter’s today. The church was beautifully decorated and full of families who had brought along their gifts for the food bank. Archdeacon David led an uplifting service with the children from Upper School class-Abigail, Lilly,…

Today the children learnt what a gear system is and how a simple gear system works on a bike or inside a clock. As part of the lesson, the class made their own gears using templates, card, split pins and a lot of hard work! After lots of careful cutting, sticking and placing of the gears in the…

Today the children in Upper School tested different materials to see if they dissolved in cold water. They learnt the words soluble and insoluble to describe their observations. They were given sand, cocoa, flour, salt, sugar, coffee, gravy granules and rice to experiment with.
Some of the…

We were so excited to have a visit from Matthew Thomas this morning who came from the Let’s Go Sing Team to introduce the Upper School class to the pieces we will be singing at the LGS concert next March. He got us all enthusiastic and warmed up with 4 new songs including The Scuttled Sloop which…

Today, the Upper School children thought about journeys and through a silent discussion where they walked around the classroom and added their ideas to our question posters, the children were able to think carefully about times when they had been on a journey. They thought about where they went,…

In our first Science of the year, Upper School were given a number of different materials to test for flexibility, hardness, transparency, permeability and magnetism. They worked together fairly and effectively to fill in a table of results to show the differences in the properties of the…