Middle School (MS)

One of our PE topics this half term is balancing in gymnastics. 
We begun this week by exploring points of balance and how to make our balances as varied and interesting as possible! 

The children worked with a partner to create a sequence of balances with two points, three points and then one…

Middle School have decided to work together to create a lovely whole-class display of our faces! 
We started this off my using mirrors to look at our own reflections and trying to accurately copy our facial features. We sketched them lightly in pencil before using paint to add wonderful bright…

We have started this year by looking at Place Value in our maths lessons. The children are already off to a wonderful start and are showing off their knowledge about place value with base 10 and part whole models.
We have shown fantastic team work in pairs and small groups! 
Off to a flying…

Please enjoy this video of the children throughout the year!

Middle school's last week of the school year has been filled with creativity this year! 
On Monday, the children were set the task of writing, scripting, filming and editing their own movie from start to finish. The children worked hard with their i-pads, using all of their knowledge from the…

This week, we had another very exciting visit from our Faith Friends, this time from the Methodist Church. 
We discussed their main values and beliefs and compared them to how how the Church of England shows their faith and worship. There were lots of interesting points discussed, including ones…

Great fun was had at the end of year disco! Everyone was up and dancing! DJ Taz made us laugh and astounded us with his fabulous magic too! Here are some pictures of the children busting some moves on the dance floor…

We absolutely loved our whole school trip to the Wild Boar Park! It brought elements of our Science, Geography and PSHE learning alive in front of our very eyes! 

We got the opportunity to get up close to some fascinating critters and reptiles and enjoyed exploring the farm animals - from…

Middle School have made some excellent progress on their Lake District mountain models in art this week. 
After initially modelling them last week with paper mache, we began to paint them this week.

How great do they look?!

On Monday we loved welcoming the year 2s into middle school ready to be our new year 3s! The current year 3 were super helpful with showing them what we do in middle school and supporting them.
We also got to welcome our newest friend, Gracie!

We did maths, English, PE and geography.

This week we have been exploring data handling and statistics in our maths lessons.

We kicked off Monday by reminding ourselves how to create a tally chart. This would be useful information to use later to turn into other data handling charts and graphs. 
We decided to go outside and count…

As part of our geography topic the Lake District we learned about how tourism has positive and negative impacts in some areas. We explored why people would want to visit the Lake District and all of the positive factors. We also explored the negatives.

Once we had our facts, children split into…