Middle School (MS)

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…

Children in middle school all tremendously enjoyed their wonderful disco on Thursday night. It was wonderful to see so many children dressed up and looking fancy and fantastic to enjoy the wonderful entertainer that came for them. As with last year, we had an amazing show and the children had a…

Middle school have had a very busy week this week! We have been completing our final assessments for this year, being able to show off all of the wonderful things that we have learned since September. Every single child has worked so hard with their revision activities during the mornings and with…

This week children from year 2 got a chance to join middle school for a taster day alongside our wonderful year 3s. 
We did plenty of brilliant activities throughout the day.

Our lovely year 2s were keen to show off their skills with maths and English. We used our maths knowledge in an 'escape…

To fit into our 'ancient civilisations' topic, children have been learning all about Ancient Egypt. We have focused on some primary sources including the pyramids, artefacts and hieroglyphs already. This week, children looked at secondary sources including books, posters, recreated images and…

Children have been working on a very exciting (and very messy) project this half-term!
We have been looking at the poem 'The Jabberwocky' By Lewis Carroll and considering what it is trying to portray to us. 
We have been using a fast, scribbling, expressive art style using monochrome colours to…

In their English lessons, children have been focusing on scripts. 
We have already looked at some famous plays by William Shakespeare, which helped us learn the features of a play script. 
Once we were sure that we could read out a script fluidly, we were ready to take on a proper performance...…

The children had a fantastic time this Friday visiting Clitheroe castle for their castle life event. 

We had the opportunity to cycle around some wonderful activities that taught us all about what life might have been like in a medieval castle. We got to experience the work that some of the…

This week, the children have been looking at decimals. 
They have been looking at how we can compare and order decimals, how they can add and subtract decimals and finally, how we can convert decimals to fractions. 
To try out our knowledge, we went on a hunt for different rocks with fractions,…

In some of our PE lessons this half term, we will be focusing on team work. 
We kicked off this week with some team games that promoted good communication and problem solving skills. 
These games included sorting ourselves into order on a bench, passing a hoop over the whole team in a line and…