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To further our topic of shape and geometry, middle school children have been investigating triangles and their properties.

We have learned about the different types of triangle and we are able to classify them based on their features.

Children cut, sorted and stuck different triangles in…

The new PE topic for this half term is Athletics and today we focused on improving our throwing skills. The children worked on accuracy and distance in several group activities where they analysed each other’s skills. The children enjoyed challenging themselves by adding distances and making the…

The Reception children enjoyed a funny story called The King’s Pants this morning and have then been practising counting to 20 and recognising the numerals with a matching activity. Take a look at these photos to see they’re learning …

St George is the patron saint of England and it is believed that he was a soldier in the Roman army who died a martyr's death for his faith in 303 AD.  23rd April is believed to be the day that George died and so it is on this day each year we mark it as St George’s Day. 

In the Christian…

This week, Upper School have been learning to identify, estimate, calculate and measure angles. They have learnt how to measure angles using a protractor which took some practise. 
 

We also applied our knowledge of angles to position and direction - describing the journey of many…

We have begun our new topic of Vikings and Anglo Saxons in history this half term. We learned a little about who the Saxon people were and how they split England into seven kingdoms. Then we tried to solve a mystery...

Children were given several 'sources' or 'clues' to work out the mysterious…

Over the next few weeks, Upper School will be exploring a new exciting narrative genre: science fiction!

We have been exploring two animations about different robots (‘Light’ and ‘Bilbo’) and shared our observations, inferences and wonders about the two.

’Bibo’ was clearly the favourite of…

This week, Upper School have been thrown into a creative project that we discussed as being a ‘buy one get two free’ learning experience! Their project wonderfully combines Art, English and Science and they’ve worked their little socks off to produce incredible non-chronological reports on unique…

This week we have enjoyed looking closely at all kinds of different maps, paper maps and digital maps. We learnt what a map is and how it works.  
 

Vivian French, the author of many children’s books, very kindly sent us a copy of her book “Maps from Anna to Zane” as a present a little while…

We have been busy this week using our fabulous outdoor space for our maths learning. As you can see from these photos, in the different year groups we are learning to count to 20, learning to count in 10s, 2s and 5s as well as learning numbers to 100!

We are so happy to be back at school after the Easter holidays! We started the week reminding ourselves how to work in teams, being helpful, kind and resourceful in our learning. 
 

Take a look at these photos to see how we worked collaboratively and searched for things as apart of a scavenger…

This after half term, the Upper School children will be studying classification of animals and plants.

Today they began this topic by working with a partner to decide how to group a list of various animals for a new zoo. The children came up with all sorts of groups such as by…