Blog by Jo Hurley

The children have worked so hard over the past 6 weeks to design and create their own pop up books specifically for the Lower School children to enjoy. Firstly, we learn how to make a variety of mechanisms and then we planned and wrote a story that would work well with the different pop up…

Upper School and Middle School had a wonderful time dancing, taking part in hilarious challenges and watching some amazing magic at our end of term disco. Thanks to all the parents who helped out with putting the marquee up and providing sweets and drinks for all the children.

Upper School and Middle School had a wonderful time dancing, taking part in hilarious challenges and watching some amazing magic at our end of term disco. Thanks to all the parents who helped out with putting the marquee up and providing sweets and drinks for all the children.

The children of Upper and Lower School took part in a ‘virtual singing concert’ called Let’s Go Sing with hundreds of other schools from across the county this term. The video of their performances can be accessed using the website below.Our children are performing on the ‘A’ Schools video. 
I am…

The children of Upper and Lower School took part in a ‘virtual singing concert’ called Let’s Go Sing with hundreds of other schools from across the county this term. The video of their performances can be accessed using the website. Our children are performing on the ‘A’ Schools video. 
I am so…

In DT today, we investigated some more pop up mechanisms to help us with our own pop up book designs. The first one we tried was a lift the flap mechanism and the second was a rotator mechanism. The children got to try out using a pair of compasses to make the rotator flap which was really tricky…

We were blessed with good weather for our KS2 Sports afternoon and the children  were all so encouraging towards each other and great team players throughout their challenges. They took part in a whole range of activities with their teams and also played a game of football rounders with Pete…

The children in Upper School began a new project focusing on mechanisms today. 
They have been set the challenge of producing a pop-up book for someone in Lower School to enjoy. 

The aim is to try and use lots of different mechanisms in a simple picture story so first we need to learn how to…

We started our new Science topic this week- Lifecycles, Living Things and Humans. 
 

We started off the topic by looking at the life cycle of plants and flowers. We looked particularly at the reproduction of plants through pollination. 
The children got the opportunity to dissect flower heads…

This morning the children learnt to write news reports through inferring characters’ feeling from the story we are studying ‘The Lost Happy Endings’ by Carol Ann Duffy.

We used drama techniques such as hot seating a character and role playing reporter and interviewee conversations and making…

For the last 6 weeks, Upper School have been enjoying rehearsing four songs that were written by the Sing Together team. Instead of a live concert performance this year, this week we recorded videos of the four songs and have sent them to be collated into a concert video with 40 other local…

As you know, Lower School and Middle School are having a classroom swap over and while that all happens I have been teaching the children in the hall. The theme of our two days together is Superheroes and we began the day by exploring what a superhero is or can be. We read the wonderful story of…