Art- Lubaina Himid

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In today’s Art lesson, the children were given the challenge of describing an abstract piece of art for a partner to draw without looking. The class sat back to back to describe the painting called ‘Five’ by Lubaina Himid. They did so well with their descriptions and the children’s pictures looked…

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Science - soluble and insoluble materials

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The Upper School children investigated soluble and insoluble materials today by trying to dissolve several different solids into cold water such as sand, salt, flour, sugar, gravy granules and instant coffee. They made predictions about each one and worked in groups to test their ideas. The…

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Marvellous Maths!

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Over the last few weeks, Lower School have been working incredibly hard on a variety of mathematical skills...

Year 2 have been busy reading and writing numbers to 100, recognising numbers in different representations, learning about the place value of numbers up to 100 and how we can partition…

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Harvest Time!

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Over the last few weeks, we have been learning about Harvest and trying to answer the big question: How can we help those who don't have a good harvest? 

We started by discussing what Harvest means, then we have continued our learning by...enjoying the Harvest Church Service; exploring foods…

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Thank you, Gail!

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Lower School have been treated to a HOMEMADE...and incredibly awesome...STRETCHY BAND!!!

Thanks to the wonderful generosity and kindness of a talented local lady from our village - thank you so much Gail! :)

We absolutely loved exploring all of the different textures (although the pink…

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Art- Artist Studies

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Today, the class looked carefully at the oil painting, Gassed by John Singer Sargent. We discussed what was going on, the story behind the picture and the feelings of the soldiers. The children spent time reproducing the painting in pencil in their sketch pads, looking carefully at the shapes and…

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Stop the Destruction of the Rainforest!

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As part of our topic for the rainforest, Middle school are preparing to write letters to companies to persuade them to stop using unsustainable palm oil in their products. We have researched and learned a lot about how palm oil production leads to the destruction of the rainforests in Indonesia.…

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Let’s Go Sing

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Middle school children were very excited to take part in let’s go sing again this year! For some children, it was their very first experience! We learned four new songs alongside some sign language to accompany one of the songs.

We can’t wait to learn more and sing more…

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PE- Rugby Skills and Creative Games

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With the weather finally being kind, Upper School made it outside for their PE lesson! The children focused on the rugby backwards pass to start with and then moved onto playing some simple competitions involving making it across the playground to collect cones whilst passing the ball back between…

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Let’s Go Sing 2023- first rehearsal

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We were all so excited in Upper School and Middle School to take part in this year’s first Let’s Go Sing rehearsal with the brilliant, Rachel. She got us all singing our hearts out and doing all the actions! There are some fantastic songs like If I Was A Superhero and The Fox (which is not for the…

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RE- Life as a Journey

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Today in RE, the class thought about the journey of life and what we need to make our journeys fulfilling and flourishing. We watched Bishop Phillip talking about his own journey and the choices and difficulties he had on the way. After that, the children talked together about what they would put…

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A visit from The Jolly Postman!

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The Jolly Postman came to visit!!!

In Lower School, we have been enjoying ANOTHER story - 'The Jolly Postman' by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. Much like Sunny in the Meerkat Mail, the main character goes on a journey...and we have been enjoying meeting all of the different characters who The Jolly…

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