Upper School (KS2)

Over the last few weeks, Upper School have been immersed into innovating our focus text - ‘How to Live Forever’ by Colin Thompson. 
 

As part of the journey, Upper School got creative with their new pots of Play-doh (exciting times!!) to bring to life some of the characters or items from their…

Today in Science, the children learnt about gravity and what we measure the force of gravity in. They used newton meters to weigh objects in newtons and then compared that with the mass of the objects in grams or kilograms. The children noticed a pattern between newtons and grams. Jack said that…

Utilising the wonderful interactive learning tool -  ‘Blooket’ - we competed to see who could recall facts and memorise facts in the timed game based on knowledge of the Victorians.

We are looking forward to building on this knowledge of this half term as we explore the Victorian era…

For our daily DEAR time (Drop Everything And Read) we are working on improving our reading stamina. Each day we will increase the time we read independently without the need to get up and move and about. It is such a peaceful and purposeful part of our school day…particularly as we make sure we…

As part of our new PSHE topic: Safety First, Upper School explored different scenarios and discussed their choices, options and feelings surrounding the situation. 
 

Upper School took to the task of discussing and debating with respect and confidence. They asked questions and showed brilliant…

Upper School used the base ten resources to explore the different parts of written multiplication questions (2-digit numbers by 2-digit numbers). 
 

For Upper School’s second gymnastics lesson of Spring, they built on their sequences of balances and travelling from shape to shape from their first lesson. They used canon to vary the sequence and improved their balances (counter tension and counter balance) and ways of travel (sliding, jumping,…

Following on from our first Art lesson, we focused on sculptures created by Joan Miro. We observed, compared and discussed any colours and shapes that were similar to his drawings. We discovered that birds and eyes were a common theme of his work. 
 

We sorted photographs of his sculptures…

Upper School thoroughly enjoyed exploring pieces produced by our new artist of focus: Joan Miro. 
 

The children observed closely and discussed various pieces, making comparisons between them. The children listened to one another and shared their opinions brilliantly.
 

We enjoyed the…

The Upper School class have been learning about The Eucharist (Holy Communion) in our RE lessons this half term so today we walked down to church to learn a bit more from Rev Paul. He taught us about how special Communion is to Christians and we learnt about the symbols and artefacts used during…

Today the children explored the drama convention of Freeze Framing an event from our story, How to Live Forever. They were given a list of scenes from the book to choose from and then worked with a partner to freeze frame the scene like a photo. We had to believe they were the characters by the…

We just couldn’t resist getting outside into the snow this morning! Some of our children had never seen real snow before! We had great fun making snow people, rolling snow, sculpting snow and generally just throwing it around! Smiles all round. Enjoy the photos!