Upper School (KS2)

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…

To conclude our unit learning about flat file databases, we applied our knowledge to a real life situation. Using sky scanner.com, the children were finding flights to certain locations and finding the cheapest cost as well as the shortest route.  This could come in useful......!

Upper School have a new Reading Corner in the classroom and we hope it will inspire the children to enjoy books even more than they already do! There is nothing better than to take a moment to dive into a novel or information book -and as our poster says:

‘Today a reader, tomorrow a…

This afternoon the children of Upper School Class continued their learning about why Christians celebrate the Eucharist by visiting our church-St Peter’s where Rev Paul met us. We looked at the altar and the sacred Holy Communion articles. The children learnt some of the words spoken during the…

In Upper School, we’ve been learning about how to record and search for information using a flat-file data base.  We began by making our own paper system and quickly realised how limiting this system is. 
Using one of our child-friendly data bases, we’ve been able to answer questions by posing…

The Upper School children have continued their study of Joan Miro with a lesson on ‘automatic’ drawing. The surrealist movement were very interested in creating art through the subconscious and Miro explored this himself by allowing his mind to be emptied and drawing whatever his pen or brush…

Great improvements have been made in our gymnastics lessons over the past couple of weeks so that the Upper School children are now able to work and communicate competently with a partner to produce and perform short acrobatic sequences. Today they learnt about counter-balances and how to trust…

Upper School are taking their gymnastics skills learnt last term onto a range of high and low apparatus over the next few weeks. Today we explored the new apparatus and began to work in pairs and threes to put together balances, jumps and rolls in short sequences. We focused on using strong arms…

Upper School have begun to learn about first-aid as part of their PSHE lessons. During this half term, we will be learning about basic first-aid practises that we can use to help a casualty, as well as when to get help and what to do in an emergency. The areas we will cover include burns and…