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We love maths! Our Year 1 and 2 children have been learning doubles and near doubles and then applying their knowledge to help them solve addition and subtraction problems. 
 

In these photos (taken over a few days) you can see the children playing different games. The first two games asked…

Our Reception children have been improving their fine motor skills and developing their understanding of patterns. They have been talking about shapes and colours and created their own repeating patterns. 
 

We learnt all about the Hindu festival of lights called Diwali. We read a beautiful book called One Diwali Day by Dev Kothari and illustrated by Aditi Anand which created lots of questions and discussion. Our year 1 and 2 children then wrote facts and created fact files whilst our Reception…

Upper School have been learning about 3D shapes in our Maths lessons and today we explored how to make a 3D shape using a net. The children enjoyed cutting out, scoring and folding to create a range of shapes including octahedrons and tetrahedrons which were very tricky to put together! 

Today Upper School explored and recapped their learning from Middle School about how to make a simple circuit. They chose equipment by themselves and investigated how to make a bulb and a motor work. There was lots of discussion and diagnostics when some of the circuits didn’t appear to work. Some…

This week, the children have been reading the last few chapters of Street Child by Bertie Doherty. We have particularly explored comprehension of the vocabulary and inference of a character’s behaviour. We have also worked on how to make realistic predictions about what might happen next in the…

In our geography lessons we have been learning about our local area. After lots of different learning finding out where in the world we live, looking at aerial photos and doing activities the children have drawn a map of our local area.

The class have been learning the skills of hockey for the last 5 weeks. They have made huge progress and have begun to play small hockey games now where they have shown their skills of dribbling, tackling and shooting the ball into the goal. Well done Year 5/6!

Over the past couple of English sessions, the Upper School children have been preparing a descriptive narrative through reading, role play and exploring vocabulary. 
We read a chapter of Street Child and chose scenes to turn into freeze frames (see the gallery). When the freeze frames were ‘woken…

What a privilege it was to be a part of the Harvest Festival at St Peter’s today. The church was beautifully decorated and full of families who had brought along their gifts for the food bank. Archdeacon David led an uplifting service with the children from Upper School class-Abigail, Lilly,…

Today the children learnt what a gear system is and how a simple gear system works on a bike or inside a clock. As part of the lesson, the class made their own gears using templates, card, split pins and a lot of hard work! After lots of careful cutting, sticking and placing of the gears in the…

Today the children in Upper School tested different materials to see if they dissolved in cold water. They learnt the words soluble and insoluble to describe their observations. They were given sand, cocoa, flour, salt, sugar, coffee, gravy granules and rice to experiment with.
Some of the…