Upper School (KS2)

Christmas crafts have been started to make the school look festive for this Saturday's Christmas Fair. All the children in Upper School have been making stars for the corridor and classroom, as well as metres and metres of paper chains for the corridor!

Today we got designing and creating our mood boards for our treasure boxes/memory boxes. We had to think about what shape of box we wanted, the decoration on the outside and what the net for the 3D shape would look like. We looked for inspiration using the Swiggle search engine, looked again at…

In PSHE, we have been considering the phrase 'Finders keepers, losers weepers'. The idea that a person who finds something that is lost is entitled to keep it is not a new one. It has appeared in many laws throughout the centuries. It was thought to first appear back in ancient Rome, where a law…

In Gymnastics today the Friday group learnt the skills of forward and backwards rolls. They then put together short sequences of jumps and rolls. Next week they will be exploring how to use large apparatus to perform balances and rolls. 
 

Well done to our Upper School Councillors, Kial and Thomas who helped to organise and run today’s Children In Need charity event. The children ran, scooted or cycled around the school field to raise lots of money at play time today. We will let you know how much was raised next week. Thanks! 
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This half term we have split Upper School into two groups for PE. While one group goes outside and learns hockey skills with Corey or Pete, the other group does gymnastics in the hall with Mrs Hurley. Today the group learnt different gymnastic rolls and put a short sequence together using the…

Upper School had visitors from BSYM today who took the place of Helen to teach the children about Jesus the Messiah. Unfortunately, Helen wasn’t able to be with us today however Sue and Julie did a great job of standing in for her and we learnt lots of new vocabulary about the prophecy of Jesus’…

As part of PSHE, we have been learning about money, specifically how people are paid and the kinds of deductions that are made to salaries. Using the example payslip, Year 5 and 6  have explored the terms used such as 'gross' and 'net'. They been learning about income tax, council tax and National…

This term, we welcome back Corey from Fleetwood who will be teaching the children PE skills. We look forward to playing the games and learning the skills he will be teaching us over the coming half term. Today we played attack and defence games and showed him all the useful skills we learnt last…

Today the children began a new topic in Science-Electricity. We had lots of discussion first about the uses of electricity and the dangers it poses. Next we investigated the vocabulary of voltage in circuits. The class explored what happens to a bulb in a circuit when more cells (batteries) are…

Barvember 2021 is here!

Barvember is organised by White Rose Maths, a scheme we use in Upper School, to encourage pupils to use the bar model to assist in mathematical understanding and reasoning. Using this method, children can visualise and then solve maths problems.

Each day in November,…

Upper School have now completed their course on Vector drawing. During their lessons, they have learnt layering, shading, how to copy images, rotate  and manipulate images.  The results are fantastic!