Middle School (MS)

After a lot of asking, Ms Thornton finally brought in her pets for middle school to meet. Although, they are quite unusual! On Thursday, two of Ms Thornton's pet rats came into middle school to meet the children. 

The day began with remembering our science from throughout the year - we worked…

Last Monday, middle school were able to attend an exciting careers fair. Children got to speak to different people from jobs in the STEM field to understand the range of jobs they could possibly one day do! There were people talking about renewable energies and electricity. There were others…

Middle School have been finishing off their maths this year with some data handling. We have reminded ourselves about tally charts and pictograms, but spend some time looking at bar charts and learning how to create and read them. Now it was time to make one ourselves!

We started with a tally…

This week, we had the fantastic opportunity to attend 'Let's Learn Moor 2024'. 
The children participated in many fun and educational activities to learn more about how we manage the moorlands in Lancashire. To start the day, we met with the police. They showed us some of their equipment and…

Middle School's topic in science this half term will revolve around sound. This week, we learned that sounds come from vibrations and that something needs to vibrate in order for a sound to be made. We investigated in and around the school to find places where there were sounds and looked to see…

Our art topic this half term is focusing on improving our drawing skills. To start this off, we began looking at breaking down what we see into geometric shapes - rectangles, ovals and triangles. Children have tried copying classroom objects that they could see, firstly drawing them as geometric…

Our new topic in PE this half term is dance, where we are focusing on our theme - the plague!
Children did some dramatic dancing and movement focusing on how the plague would affect people. Children got into pairs to create four separate freeze frames to demonstrate the symptoms of the plague. We…

To finish up our PE topic of outdoor teamwork games, we played a variety of games that would really put our teams to the test! Our favourite was hula hut. This involved groups working together to collect hoops and build them into a spherical structure. We worked out there were different methods to…

We were very lucky to have a visitor come into ks2 on Friday morning. Steve came to talk to us about maths and how we use it in our daily lives and jobs. He told us about his job in marketing and his hobbies and we worked out some of the ways he uses maths. Children had lots of interesting and…

As part of our investigation into adaptation, we decided this week to explore how animals cope in extreme environments. We wanted to know which animals would be adapted better to the cold. Our investigation led us to have three tubs of water.

one tub was left on the side - this represented bare…

In our English, we have been thinking about texts and writing for a purpose. Our first purpose is to entertain with a story. Our second purpose was to build fear and suspense as our stories were horror! To help us with that, we worked together to analyse a horror description. Children worked in…

We are very lucky duckies this week as Ben and Leo brought in some ducklings! Some of them were already hatched, whereas some were in the middle of hatching before our eyes! We loved asking questions about them and learning about how the incubator kept the eggs warm. Plus, they were very, very…