Upper School (KS2)

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.…

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!