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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…

After talking about seasons, autumn and plants the children created some autumn trees of their own. 
 

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…

We are a super team in Lower School!

All week the children have been investigating on our ‘curiosity table’. They have been learning about trees, how they grow, their seeds and the weather by studying conkers and acorns.
 

They’ve been looking closely at patterns and colours in the squashes, conkers, acorns and leaves outside.…

Our Reception are such GREAT learners we are having a lot of fun learning letter sounds and blending them together to read words. Over the past two weeks they have learnt s, a, t, p, i, n. Take a look at these photos to see what they’ve been doing …

In Year one and two we are working on place value and understanding number at the moment. Year one children are working with numbers to 20 counting forwards, backwards, counting on one more and counting one less. We weave this learning into different activities every day. Year two children have…

Over the last few weeks, Middle School have been busy getting to grips with place value of numbers up to 10,000.

We are continually using various models, resources and visuals to learn about how the value of digits change depending on their place in a number.

We are expert ‘Zero Hero’…

Middle School have well and truly travelled into the past this week! 
 

As part of our ‘Stone Age’ topic, we have explored cave art dated back to the Stone Age. We have learnt about some of the techniques used, thought about the colours they had available and discussed why certain images…

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…

Middle School have enjoyed exploring more of  ‘Stig of the Dump’ by Clive King, with a particular focus this week on ADJECTIVES and NOUNS…

First, we unpicked adjectives in the story before thought showering our own to describe what Barney would have seen in the chalk pit. We drew annotated…

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…