Upper School (KS2)

At this week’s curling session, the children in Upper School were shown how to slide and then release the curling stone down the rink and onto the scoring target. Everyone seemed so much more confident with the skill of sliding along the ice and made good progress towards being able to play a…

Today in our Science lesson, the class were introduced to the concepts of gravity and they particularly enjoyed the awe and wonder of Earth in space when we discussed and watched videos about the sizes of planets and stars. After this, the children focused on measuring gravitational pull using…

What a wonderful afternoon we had at the Flower Bowl learning the very tricky skills of curling. The children were shown how to brush the ice to make the curling stones move faster and then they learnt how to send the curling stone down the curling rink. It is so much trickier than it looks on the…

Some of our Upper School pupils took part in the lessons and carols service at St Peter’s Church this morning. They came to the front and each read parts of the story of the nativity. Abigail told us about Mary and Joseph’s long journey to Bethlehem and only being able to find a stable to stay in.…

Upper School class had a visit from Mhairi, STEM ambassador from the Ogden Trust, who ran two workshops. The one in the morning reinforced our current learning about electricity with practical activities involving making series circuits using circuit diagrams, testing voltage and to extend the…

As part of the Upper School homework activities this term, the children were asked to design and make an advent calendar which could be shared with the class or with their family. Several of these have been brought into school now and they are fantastic! Such a lot of time and effort has gone into…

Today the children Upper School continued their learning about the Banana Trade having read Juliana’s Bananas. They were introduced to the idea of fair trade and spent time thinking about how much money members of the supply chain should be paid for their part in the trade of bananas. We had a…

What a fantastic PE lesson we had with Logan from PNE! We learnt how to play invasion ball games by improving our throwing and catching skills; he taught us different techniques for attack and defence; we learnt about using space and keeping moving to win a goal. 

Upper School have been learning about 3D shapes in our Maths lessons and today we explored how to make a 3D shape using a net. The children enjoyed cutting out, scoring and folding to create a range of shapes including octahedrons and tetrahedrons which were very tricky to put together! 

Today Upper School explored and recapped their learning from Middle School about how to make a simple circuit. They chose equipment by themselves and investigated how to make a bulb and a motor work. There was lots of discussion and diagnostics when some of the circuits didn’t appear to work. Some…

This week, the children have been reading the last few chapters of Street Child by Bertie Doherty. We have particularly explored comprehension of the vocabulary and inference of a character’s behaviour. We have also worked on how to make realistic predictions about what might happen next in the…

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!