Middle School (MS)

The children were so excited to welcome back the Library Van to school today! They were all able to have a look and choose a book to take with them. We discussed what made us choose our books as well as what our favourite books are and why we enjoy them. I am glad to have a class that loves…

Middle school's geography this week began with revising our geographical knowledge. Children have used an atlas to locate different countries, continents, oceans, mountain ranges and cities. They have had to get used to using the atlas and finding the correct map for the correct information.
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In PE this week, Middle school have been exploring balancing points and moving in different ways.

Children have found that moving using different balancing points can be easier and harder depending on how you position your body. We have certainly had some interesting balances and movements!

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. 
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Continuing on with our forces topic, the children began investigating magnets. We learned about what a magnet is, how it works and how it attracts objects. 
We investigated objects around us by first predicting whether we thought the object would be attracted to the magnet or not. Once we had…

On Monday we were so lucky to have our current year 2s come up to middle school to spend a day as year 3s! Our current year 3's were wonderful buddies and helped show the year 2s where everything was and what we do in middle school. 
We started off the morning with some maths - the year 2s…

On Monday, children were introduced to forces. They learned that gravity pulled objects to the Earth. Children learned that two objects rubbing together will create friction. A type of friction the children learned about was air resistance, this was how the air passed over a falling or moving…

Children continued to enjoy our wild challenges. 
The most recent challenge was to find a mini wild habitat and observe it. 
Children found many different mini habitiats. Children did fantastically at remembering their science topic on living things and could apply this to what they…

In PSHE, middle school discussed some of the ways that we could look after ourselves. We understood that one of the most important ways to look after ourselves at the moment is to keep our hands clean.
We watched a video to learn about why it was important to wash our hands as microbes can be…

Continuing on with our Roman topic, this week the children explored mosaics in their art. Using small colourful pieces of paper, children stuck them down to create an image. 
We were inspired by some of the pictures that were found in ancient Roman homes throughout Italy, but especially Pompeii…

In maths this week, children have been learning about data handling. We have explored tally charts, bar charts, tables and pictograms. However, to be able to create our data handling charts and tables we required some data in the first place!
We decided to head outside to participate in a bird…