Upper School (KS2)

The new year means a new novel to enjoy and study in Upper School and this time we are reading Michael Morpurgo’s brilliant book, Kaspar, Prince of Cats. Today the children explored the character of Johnny Trott and the world that he lives in. They used role play and thought tapping to infer…

This half term, we are exploring portraits and what they portray. 
 

We analysed a portrait of Henry VIII and discussed how it portrayed power, status and character. We then created our own versions to portray contrasting messages…

Over the next few weeks, Upper School will be exploring ‘Kaspar - Prince of Cats’ by Michael Morpurgo. So far, we have compared alternative book covers, clarified vocabulary, practised active listening skills (we like doing this in Upper School! Doodling with intention!) and made many…

This week, Upper School have started their new topic…The Tudors! Their first challenge was to use secondary resources to find possible answers for their crossword clues. They learnt lots of new vocabulary and were able to recall meanings later on too! 
 

We were very excited in Upper School to accept the challenge proposed by Reverend Paul to decorate one of St Peter's Church windowsills for the Christmas services. We went down to Church and looked at the space we had, measuring it so that we knew what we had to work with and then we went to…

Today was our final lesson in our Creative Games series of learning. Over the past few weeks, we have practised dribbling, passing and throwing with basketballs, footballs and rugby balls in a series of different games - including games with attackers and defenders and the need to outwit your…

Upper School have continued to explore the book, ‘Otto: The Autobiography of a Teddy Bear’ and have used it as inspiration for their own stories they have started writing (if children access these from home, please make sure that they continue to save their work regularly: there is no expectation…

This week in PE, Upper School have continued to practise sending and receiving a rugby ball using a swing motion from their hip…aiming for the recipient’s chest. We have found it most unusual being able to travel forward but the rugby ball can only be passed backwards! 
 

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The children really enjoyed their 'find it Friday' treasure hunt to finish off maths week. Children teamed up across all year groups to solve a series of hidden maths problems, questions and puzzles. We all had great fun!

Today’s Dance lesson focused on team work through a game called ‘Clumps’ and then working in pairs to create a duet dance sequence using the theme of heroes and villains. The children worked so hard using different shapes and movements today. They used the music to move in time and made sure they…

Today Upper School investigated where in the Bible you can find the story of the birth of Jesus. They looked at all four Gospels and discovered it’s only written about in the Gospel of Matthew and Luke! Next we read the different versions and made notes about each story. One half of the class read…

WOW! What a fun morning outside in the fresh Autumn air! 
 

After being placed into their little mixed teams, everyone scoured the bushes, the trees, the fences, the football nets for the puzzles. After solving the puzzle or problem, the children needed to use their code breaker to turn…