Upper School (KS2)

Today the children completed lots of learning all about how scientists classify (group) animals. We started off by looking at a classification system and then broke this down into classifying vertebrate and invertebrate organisms. The children were challenged to identify what characteristics each…

Today in Maths, Upper School used the coloured cubes to explore what volume meant and how we can work out the volume of cubes and cuboids. First we counted cubes and discussed that it was similar to finding area but in 3D! Next, we made cubes and cuboids and found that we didn’t need to count…

This week is Children’s Mental Health Week and each day Upper School are having a focus on different aspects of our mental health. Today was Move It Monday so we spent time together at different times of the day, dancing to music and playing Just Dance on the big screen. Just a few minutes of…

After inventing their own Lost Thing and producing a poster to advertise it, the children in Upper School wrote some brilliant persuasive letters to ask if they could take the ‘Lost Thing’ home and look after it. Here are some examples of their fantastic, imaginative…

In Science this week, Upper School learnt about irreversible changes of matter. Firstly, we discussed what reversible and irreversible meant. We related this to materials that we have already investigated such as water and chocolate. Next we discussed what makes something an irreversible change.…

Today the children in Upper School investigated the melting point of different types to chocolate to see which would be best at not melting too quickly at a very hot and sweaty birthday party! 
They planned and prepared their tests with dark, milk and white chocolate pieces. Each piece went into…

This week in our PE lessons, the Upper School children have been putting together a longer and more detailed gymnastic sequence using large apparatus. The elements of this sequence included several ways of travelling and performing counter and counter tension balances. As well as looking out for…

Our new book is The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan. We have come across his work before when we studied The Arrival last term. The children have been discussing the characters in this unusual picture book and, using a variety of figurative language and adventurous vocabulary, they have been writing…

Upper School began their new topic this week which is looking at properties of materials. We began by thinking about the properties of solids, liquids and gases. To do this, the class were given three balloons. One filled with ice, one with water and one with air. We observed and felt each…

Upper School enjoyed some Christmas games to practise a range of German vocabulary from across this half term. We enjoyed trying to roll a Christmas Tree and decorating with various weather-themed decorations from blusters of der Wind for tinsel and neblig baubles of fog to die Sonne (the sun) at…

Some more of the Upper School’s hand designed and sewn stuffed toys…

In Science this week, the children furthered their learning about light by finding out about colour and why we see different colours. We learnt about reflected and absorbed colours from light hitting objects. The children experimented with coloured filters to see what happened to the colours of…