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In English this week, the children have been learning about writing to persuade. To go alongside our topic of Vikings we have been learning about the nine realms in Norse mythology. The children had the challenge of being given one of the realms with their partner and having to sell a holiday to…

Year 5 have been lucky enough to have a set of PSHE lessons delivered to them by Corey, our sports coach. Over the past few weeks they have been learning about healthy eating and today they learnt about staying hydrated. The lessons are always fun and very active! The children have enjoyed filling…

The Year 6s visited Lower School this afternoon to support the children with their reading skills. They listened to them read their home reading books, wrote in their reading records and then spent time practising writing together. Enjoy looking at the very cute photos! 
Mrs Hurley

The children in middle school had a very special RE lesson this week - we visited the church!

This was to go alongside our topic of exploring the church and the meanings behind it. We have already virtually explored some fantastic churches around the world, but it was time to visit our…

Having learnt about when the first locomotives were invented and the names of some of the famous engineers and trains, today the class found out about the first passenger trains. They learnt that Locomotion 1 built by George Stephenson took 450 people 25 miles at an average speed of 15mph on a…

This week, Lower School have been enjoying ‘Stuck’ by Oliver Jeffers.

We have created our own kites, asked questions about the story using question words, retold the story so far to our friends, used drama to represent the various things that went up into the tree, drawn incredible…

Play-Doh has landed in Lower School! 
 

After choosing their very own colour pot, Lower School created new little Class Dojo monsters! They accessorised with the little eyes, hands, feet before rolling phonics dice to name them!
 

‘Fl-oy-ch’ or ‘Tr-ow-ng’…we loved the silly little…

Upper School have been investigating manga drawing and anime in our art lessons. This week, the children tried out their own ideas for a manga character using inspiration from other manga drawings. The results are fantastic! See the gallery for some of the pictures they completed.

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Today the Year 6s completed their last SATs test! It has been a long week and the children have all worked their socks off towards the tests and throughout this week. They richly deserved the celebration cakes that some of our parents made and brought into school. Thank you to Bethan, Abi and…

Children have been experimenting with frame structures in their DT project.

To begin with, children were given modelling clay and cocktail sticks to try and create some basic 3D shapes. They began with triangular prisms, cubes, tetrahedrons and square based pyramids. Eventually, children began…

Middle school took part in a challenge that used their science and their DT knowledge - they had to protect an egg from an 8 foot drop!

They were told to plan out as a team what they would do to protect their egg and then they were given materials and tape to create something.

Children used…

Today, Upper School focused on improving their running techniques. They began by running between one section of the track and then working with a team to come up with their own teaching points for how to run efficiently and quickly. They then shared these ideas with the rest of the class and…