Blog by Jo Hurley

Today’s lesson was all about finding out what water resistance does to boats of different shapes and how buoyancy is different between salt water and fresh water. 
The Upper School children investigated these things by making different shaped tin foil boats to race across a tray of water. They…

Upper School have a new Reading Corner in the classroom and we hope it will inspire the children to enjoy books even more than they already do! There is nothing better than to take a moment to dive into a novel or information book -and as our poster says:

‘Today a reader, tomorrow a…

This afternoon the children of Upper School Class continued their learning about why Christians celebrate the Eucharist by visiting our church-St Peter’s where Rev Paul met us. We looked at the altar and the sacred Holy Communion articles. The children learnt some of the words spoken during the…

The Upper School children have continued their study of Joan Miro with a lesson on ‘automatic’ drawing. The surrealist movement were very interested in creating art through the subconscious and Miro explored this himself by allowing his mind to be emptied and drawing whatever his pen or brush…

Great improvements have been made in our gymnastics lessons over the past couple of weeks so that the Upper School children are now able to work and communicate competently with a partner to produce and perform short acrobatic sequences. Today they learnt about counter-balances and how to trust…

Upper School are taking their gymnastics skills learnt last term onto a range of high and low apparatus over the next few weeks. Today we explored the new apparatus and began to work in pairs and threes to put together balances, jumps and rolls in short sequences. We focused on using strong arms…

Over the last 5 weeks, Upper school have been investigating packaging and designing their own boxes to keep memories or treasure in. Today they completed their design task by decorating the boxes and gluing the nets together. Here are their final designs…haven’t they done well?!

This week Upper School were part of the audience for the performance of the pantomime, Aladdin. They had a great time shouting at the ‘baddy’ and joining in with all the fun. 
Thanks to The Friends of Inskip for organising the ice cream and popcorn which the children all enjoyed during the show. 
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Today we got designing and creating our mood boards for our treasure boxes/memory boxes. We had to think about what shape of box we wanted, the decoration on the outside and what the net for the 3D shape would look like. We looked for inspiration using the Swiggle search engine, looked again at…

In Gymnastics today the Friday group learnt the skills of forward and backwards rolls. They then put together short sequences of jumps and rolls. Next week they will be exploring how to use large apparatus to perform balances and rolls. 
 

Well done to our Upper School Councillors, Kial and Thomas who helped to organise and run today’s Children In Need charity event. The children ran, scooted or cycled around the school field to raise lots of money at play time today. We will let you know how much was raised next week. Thanks! 
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This half term we have split Upper School into two groups for PE. While one group goes outside and learns hockey skills with Corey or Pete, the other group does gymnastics in the hall with Mrs Hurley. Today the group learnt different gymnastic rolls and put a short sequence together using the…