Upper School (KS2)

In our Science lesson this afternoon, the children completed an investigation to observe what happens to shadows throughout the afternoon. The children set up rounders posts in the playground and whenever the sun came out, they were able to see the shadow it created. The children measured the…

Today the children in Upper School were introduced to a new graphic novel, The Arrival by Shaun Tan that we will be studying for the next few weeks. I did this through a display with items that the children discovered and discussed. We focused the learning through use of modal verbs in our…

The Upper School children have been using a range of materials to create some space images in their sketch books. These have included, pastels, pencils, colouring pencils, chalks, felt tips, paper and water colours. The class have really enjoyed using a viewfinder to help them observe carefully…

Today the children in Upper School learnt about how day and night occur on the Earth. It is such a difficult concept to get around your head (especially that the Earth is spinning at 1000 miles an hour) that they had A LOT of questions before we could go onto completing our demonstrations using…

The children in Upper School are studying Earth in Space this term and part of our topic is to look at space exploration in Art and Design. We have observed and discussed pictures from the past of what people thought the future would be like and what space travel could look like. Some pictures…

Over the past three weeks, at the start of all our computing sessions, Upper School have been learning how to be safe online. We have learnt good strategies to deal with cyber-bullying; identified secure websites to use for our work; and understood what information we should never share when…

I am absolutely loving having Upper School once a week for their German lesson! 
 

Our first two lessons together have flown so quickly! Here are some of the things we have been exploring:

We learnt to sing a special song for someone’s birthday…
 

‘Zum Geburtstag viel Gluck…

Zum…

The children did a brilliant job of role playing a scene from our novel today! Each group performed as characters from the book and tried to create the sense of confusion/fear/surprise in the scene. We then used the role play work to help us write a list of progressive verbs and abstract nouns…

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.…