Blog by Jo Hurley

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…

A wonderful time was had by all on our visit to the woods at Humblescough Farm. The children enjoyed working in teams to make waterproof dens, cooked S’Mores on the fire, made Japanese art, played hide and seek, designed clay models and learnt how to use flint and steel to make fires! 
It stayed…

The class had a very productive morning learning about how to provide first aid when they are at home or out and about with their friends. 
 

They learnt about burns, head bumps, choking wounds, bleeding and breaks and what to do if they have to deal with someone who is unconscious. 
 

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Pictures from Day 3 of our visit to Borwick Hall with Year 5/6. Climbing Activities. 
 

Pictures from day 2 at Borwick Hall with Year 5/6. We completed a morning of team challenges and an afternoon of canoeing. 
 

Pictures from our very successful Outdoor and Adventurous Activities visit to Borwick Hall. 
Day 1- Monday 9th June, A walk up Arnside Knott  

The children in Upper School will be visiting the Houses of Parliament on Tuesday 1st April therefore we decided we needed to learn about what happens there and how UK parliament works. We spent a lesson getting to know the background of our Parliamentary process and what the House of Commons and…