Upper School (KS2)

This morning, the children all took part in making Easter biscuits using a gluten free and low sugar recipe that we came up with to fit nicely with our, ‘Eat Like a Champ’ Science topic. 
The children measured out their own ingredients using their maths skills and mixed, rolled and cut out their…

At the end of our topic on Victorian childhood, Upper School wrote diaries as if they were a Victorian child in Inskip. Our 'Decade corridor exhibition' was extremely useful in providing us with real events that happened to children in Inskip during the Victorian times. Several wrote about the…

This afternoon, Upper School children did a tasting activity to investigate different types of biscuits. 
They analysed the amount of fat, sugar and salt in each type of biscuit and then made judgments about the taste, healthiness and presentation. 
It was really interesting to look at the…

Today the children learnt about the sugar, fat and salt content in the foods we like to eat. 
We investigated food packaging and compared the grams per 100g. The children were quite surprised at the amount of fat in certain foods such as breakfast bars and the amount of sugar in sauces like…

Upper School are learning about healthy eating and healthy lifestyles this term in Science. Today we learnt about the differing amounts of kilojoules (calories) in our food. We found that fruit and vegetables had the least amount of KJs and carbohydrates/protein had the most. 
We learnt about…

In our computing lessons, we are learning how to programme a microcontroller connected to a laptop, via a USB. We have been programming components such as buzzers and lights with Crumble coding. It has been really rewarding to create programmes to create a sequence of lights and buzzes! (It’s been…

We are coming towards the end of our Highway Man  dance topic in PE and this week and the children in Upper School have been working in much bigger groups this time to produce a section of dance called a canon. 
One group worked on becoming the character, Bess, one group was the highway man and…

This afternoon, we had a visit from a rally car which will be taking part in the North West Stages Rally on the 19th March A total of 125 cars will be taking part over five stages. 

Further details about where to view the rally, as well as being able to view the cars from 6.30pm on Garstang…

During our special day, Upper School children paraded in their brilliant book costumes for the rest of school and watched the BBC Live Lesson which featured the author, Frank Cottrell-Boyce who we know from reading The Forgotten Coat. The children also spent time in Middle and Lower School with a…

Upper School have begun a set of dance lessons with the theme of ‘The Highway Man’ by Alfred Noyes. They have studied the poem and watched animated versions of it to inspire the dances that they come up with. Today the children used four elements of dance - different ways of travelling, turns,…

Today the Upper School finished their Joan Miro project by completing their Miro style sculptures. We think they look great and show very similar ideas and colours to the original Miro Sculptures. (If you get the chance to go to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, some of his sculptures are displayed…

Today’s lesson was all about finding out what water resistance does to boats of different shapes and how buoyancy is different between salt water and fresh water. 
The Upper School children investigated these things by making different shaped tin foil boats to race across a tray of water. They…