Upper School (KS2)

The class have been learning the skills of hockey for the last 5 weeks. They have made huge progress and have begun to play small hockey games now where they have shown their skills of dribbling, tackling and shooting the ball into the goal. Well done Year 5/6!

Over the past couple of English sessions, the Upper School children have been preparing a descriptive narrative through reading, role play and exploring vocabulary. 
We read a chapter of Street Child and chose scenes to turn into freeze frames (see the gallery). When the freeze frames were ‘woken…

What a privilege it was to be a part of the Harvest Festival at St Peter’s today. The church was beautifully decorated and full of families who had brought along their gifts for the food bank. Archdeacon David led an uplifting service with the children from Upper School class-Abigail, Lilly,…

Today the children learnt what a gear system is and how a simple gear system works on a bike or inside a clock. As part of the lesson, the class made their own gears using templates, card, split pins and a lot of hard work! After lots of careful cutting, sticking and placing of the gears in the…

Today the children in Upper School tested different materials to see if they dissolved in cold water. They learnt the words soluble and insoluble to describe their observations. They were given sand, cocoa, flour, salt, sugar, coffee, gravy granules and rice to experiment with.
Some of the…

We were so excited to have a visit from Matthew Thomas this morning who came from the Let’s Go Sing Team to introduce the Upper School class to the pieces we will be singing at the LGS concert next March. He got us all enthusiastic and warmed up with 4 new songs including The Scuttled Sloop which…

Today, the Upper School children thought about journeys and through a silent discussion where they walked around the classroom and added their ideas to our question posters, the children were able to think carefully about times when they had been on a journey. They thought about where they went,…

In our first Science of the year, Upper School were given a number of different materials to test for flexibility, hardness, transparency, permeability and magnetism. They worked together fairly and effectively to fill in a table of results to show the differences in the properties of the…

From ‘Sweet Pong’ to hopper races…and water fights to our finale Piñata, Year 6’s Celebration Day was incredible fun!! 

‘We didn't realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun…’

A wonderful time was had by all on our visit to the woods at Humblescough Farm. The children enjoyed working in teams to make waterproof dens, cooked S’Mores on the fire, made Japanese art, played hide and seek, designed clay models and learnt how to use flint and steel to make fires! 
It stayed…

The class had a very productive morning learning about how to provide first aid when they are at home or out and about with their friends. 
 

They learnt about burns, head bumps, choking wounds, bleeding and breaks and what to do if they have to deal with someone who is unconscious. 
 

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Pictures from Day 3 of our visit to Borwick Hall with Year 5/6. Climbing Activities.