Middle School (MS)

In our German, we have been looking at colours and animals.
This week, we have put the two together by exploring the work of famous German artist, Franz Marc. 

The children created their own images inspired by his images, showing animals painted using geometric shape and unique colour. The…

To accompany our topic this half term of ancient Greece we decided to look at the Olympics. In our PE lesson, we developed previous knowledge on throwing by trying out three events from the Olympics - javelin, shotput and discus.

Children learned the throwing method for each discipline before…

Our art topic this half term is exploring sculpture with a focus on Greek architecture.
To start off - we explored how to make 2D shapes 3D by bending, folding and balancing.

Children used strong card from old boxes, drew various sized shapes and cut them out. They then explored different ways…

To finish our computing topic of 'stop motion animation' We have made an animation using a series of photographs. The children used i pads to take a series of photographs to make an animal toy or classroom object appear as if it was moving. This can be difficult as it needs to move only a slight…

This week, middle school rounded off their 'How has Inskip changed over time?' topic with some geography fieldwork out in the village. This involved the children walking through the village and spotting human and physical features they could see. 
We worked out which human features were older…

For our DT topic, children have been tasked with designing their own biscuits and biscuit brand. This week, we made our own shortbread biscuits to put the method of making them to the test. Children followed instructions to measure out, mix and roll their own biscuits. 
Baking allowed children to…

In our geography this half term, we have been investigating has Inskip changed over time? 
In order to investigate this, we looked at maps from the past, from 1876 up until 1960. We compared the old maps to modern maps to see what has changed in our village. 

This week we were surprised by some fantastic snow on Tuesday. We managed to get outside before it all melted away and had great morning of making snowmen and playing in the winter wonderland!

This week, we had our first chance since September to have a try on the ukuleles. Middle school were brilliant listeners and picked lots up very quickly. We began by introducing the musical terminology needed with string instruments, then learning to hold them correctly. 
We learned our first…

To start off answering our geography question for the half term how has Inskip changed over time, we first began by looking at what we already know. Children used geographical resources to find out:

- what continent we were on and what others are there?

- What country are we in? And which…

The children have created some lovely drawings based on their favourite animal from the Chester zoo trip.

The focus was to copy the shape and form of the animal accurately and create a portrait.

Take a look at some of the amazing drawings below!

Middle School had an amazing trip this Tuesday to Chester zoo!

We saw so many wonderful animals and learned so much about how different classifications of animals actually look! 
The day began with a walk through the dark and mysterious bat cave, where we saw some huge and some tiny bats. We…