Middle School (MS)

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…

Last Friday, the children were treated to an artsy afternoon with Mrs Allen! They got to use mixed media to create a piece based upon the Lake District. This included doing bubble painting, soft and oil pastels, watercolours and collage. They had some fantastic results.

As you will know,…

As part of our ongoing topic of the lake district, the children have been looking at some of William Wordsworth's poems. 

The children had to learn one of his poems off by heart in a small group - they were then to recite this poem to the rest of the class!

You can watch their recital down…

This week middle school have had a bit of a different PE experience! They have had a try at archery in order to prepare for the archery event at the upcoming sports afternoon. 

Children all learned very quickly and did well at the activity!

As part of our overall topic this term, the Lake District, children have been exploring artists who were inspired by the region. 

We began the lesson by watching some aerial footage of different places in the Lakes and were given 5 minutes to experiment with our new medium of watercolours.…

Our topic in science this half term is light and dark. 

Last week, we identified light sources and learned what light and dark are. 

This week, we began to investigate reflections and why surfaces were reflective. We moved into the darkest room in the school and experimented with different…

Our first maths topic this year has been measuring mass - the children have revised how to read a scale and had moved onto measuring real objects in the classroom.

Children estimated the weight of the objects beforehand and then read their scales to write in the accurate measure.

Middle school have been participating in '30 days wild' from the Wildlife Trust - alongside this we were sent some wildflowers to plant at school!

Luckily, we already have a wonderful designated wild meadow area next to the drive. This was a perfect place to put our flowers!

Wildflowers…

As part of Viking day, children learned to play the Viking game of Kubb.

We split into teams with the aim of knocking over the 'king' piece! This game showcases many things we have looked at in our PE lessons including underarm throwing and throwing with aim and accuracy. 

Children also…