Middle School (MS)

Middle school have explored internet safety as part of their computing lessons this week. 
Children have considered what is safe to post online and who we should share information with. Children also considered how we can tell if something online is real or not! Everyone signed a 'safer internet'…

The children had a FANTASTIC afternoon out at Humblescough farm on Thursday this week!
We were treated to a lovely fire and some hilarious songs whilst we munched on some biscuits and roasted marshmallows. After that, the children were set free to explore the woods and participate in a multitude…

Continuing our science topic of states of matter, children explored how matter can go from one state to another. 

We concentrated on water and how it can turn from a liquid into a solid through freezing. We watched time-lapse videos of ice forming and discussed how we think it happens. 

We…

Middle school's DT project this half term has been 'a slingshot car'.
We have explored the history of cars and how their appearance has changed over time. We have looked at how a car pieces together with a chassis, axel and wheels. Finally, we were ready to start creating our own!

Children had…

The children were very excited to have our special guest from 'Let's Go Sing' come in and show us some songs! Children were overjoyed to hear that they could participate in let's go sing again this year and were very eager to get started with the songs.
Middle school and upper school both did…

In our PE topic this half term, we have been focusing on bouncing and catching. This accompanies our other PE topic for this half-term of dodgeball, where precise throwing and catching are imperative!

This week middle school have showed off everything they have learned in the last two weeks of the Place Value unit through some different activities.

Children got into teams to earn points through a series of indoor and outdoor events. 

Inside, children represented numbers as base 10 and as…

Our overall topic this half term is based on our history topic - from the stone age to the iron age.

The children begun this topic with the stone age, looking at the paleolithic period and how early humans came to be in Britain. We learned that the paleolithic lasted a long, long, LONG time!…

Middle school have had an incredibly busy and exciting first week back after the summer. 
All of the children have done so well settling back in and getting straight into their work. Our lovely new year 3's have got stuck right in and are fitting in to middle school life wonderfully - with the…

Our Middle School topic for science this half term is states of matter. 

The children enjoyed their first lesson investigating solids and liquids. 

We got our hands dirty testing out different weird and wonderful materials to see if we could figure out what the features of a solid and a…

This Tuesday, we got the wonderful chance to have our lovely year 5s join us for the day! Luckily, the day that they joined us was our 'Ancient Greek' day to match our topic of ancient civilisations. We began the day with an Ancient Greek maths challenge, following clues and discovering who…

For the last few weeks, Middle school had been working hard on practicing songs for our concert. We were invited to join with upper school to show the parents some of the fantastic music that our children participate in within school. Each child joined in with singing and with ukuleles to put on a…