Upper School (KS2)

Today Upper School were learning to use an overarm bowl in our cricket skills lesson. They did brilliantly with this and demonstrated the technique by bowling to their partner through a pair of cones. We also played some cricket style games to practice catching and fielding. Well done Year…

The children got to experience how big the planets and the solar system is today when we used toilet roll sheets and fruits to represent the relative sizes and distances of the solar system. It ended up that we had to unravel the toilet roll out of the classroom and down the corridor. Neptune was…

Upper School have begun to explore our first novel of the year-The Unforgotten Coat by Frank Cottrell Boyce. We have spent time making predictions using evidence from the class display and also did some grammar work today where they used their evidence to write sentences that included subordinate…

We had a fantastic visit from the Ogden Trust team yesterday afternoon! Mhairi and her colleagues came to work with Year 5/6 on some ‘Team Challenges’ which concluded our PE topic for this half term. 
The class enjoyed working in large and small groups to solve puzzles and complete tasks set.…

We were so excited this morning when Mrs Wright (Leo’s mum) brought in their duckling incubator. They have been looking after five eggs for the past few weeks and now three have hatched! One also hatched whilst we were in school! It was fascinating to watch the babies and see the new life…

For our Evolution topic this week, the class were learning about adaptation. To explore this theme, we carried out a Cepaea snail survey around the grounds of the school. Cepaea snails can be found in most parts of the UK and there are several different varieties to be found according to the…

As part of our English topic, Upper School explored a range of technical words and phrases linked to finance, crime and the legal system, so they felt more comfortable applying these words in their writing. We played technical language bingo (children selected words at random from our list and…

Linked to our English topic - ‘The Three Little Pigs’ - we created artist’s impressions of related scenes (from the crime scene to court room).

Super job, Upper School!

As part of our ‘Three Little Pigs’ English topic, we have been exploring reports and how quotes are created and included in an article. To help the children generate relevant quotes, they had the opportunities to recreate scenes from and after an incident involving The Three Pigs. They used their…

Upper School did a fantastic job at exploring financial risk through discussions. We also discussed ways that they can make money and how they can save money too. 
 

As part of Year 6’s revision, we explored the parts of a circle (circumference, radius and diameter). To bring this to life, Year 6 also learnt how to draw circles using a protractor. After exploring various techniques, they were then ready to measure their circles. By setting their protractor…

One of our topics in PE this half term is Outdoor and Adventurous Activities which includes problem solving and team work. In our first session, the children were given challenges such as getting a hoop all the way around the group without the circle being broken and working together to stay on a…