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Upper School have continue to explore portraits from a the Tudor times. This week, they have delved into the portraits painted of Sir Francis Drake - a Tudor explorer. They looked for clues in the portraits that would give the impression of personality, character, wealth, responsibility, role and…

Over the past few weeks we have been exploring the big question ‘What made Jesus Special?’.

We have been answering some key questions …

What does special mean?

Jesus was special. How and Why?

What made Jesus special?

We began by discussing friendship, reflecting on our own…

This week we have continued our science learning looking closely at plants. The children have compared different plants, looked closely and named a variety of fruit and vegetables. They’ve recapped their learning about trees and built upon their learning. 
 

Take a look at these photos to see…

Today the Upper School children imagined they were working for the British Film Industry! They had to come up with a way of making five different types of soil to be used in a new film. They had to work out what materials would work best to make a solution, some colloids and some suspensions. They…

As part of our look at scripts, middle school children have been learning and reading out scripts. 
However, this is more than just a performance on a stage... using their editing skills learned from geography last term, children are turning these scripts into short films which they are having a…

Middle school children enjoyed going up to upper school for our let's go sing practice. We learned the second half of our songs and did incredibly well for a first time hearing them!

In our science lessons this week we have been investigating conductors and insulators.
We came up with a hypothesis - we thought that metal objects would be conductors and non-metal objects would be insulators.
The children set about testing various items, both metal and non-metal, to see which…

We were so lucky to get some of the brilliant author and illustrator Rob Biddulph’s books last week. We love Rob’s picture books and have some favourites in our classroom already so, knowing his stories and loving his artwork already made it a special treat to have books signed by him! A big thank…

In Upper School, we have been focusing on our reading stamina (gradually increasing the duration of reading without distraction or before losing our concentration).

In class, we have a stopwatch which we glance at, the moment we find our concentration is going. Obviously some distractions…

This week as part of our science topic about plants we have been learning about garden plants, wild plants and trees. 
 

We looked outside, looked at photographs and watched videos about these plants and used our scientific enquiry skills to learn. 
 

Here is a snap shot of our…

Our Reception children went out in the snow before anyone else this morning to explore the wonders of nature. They looked for signs of wildlife and talked about how the weather affects and changes the world outside. 

Take a look at the things they found and the fun they had…

Today the children in Upper School had their second rehearsal with one of the team from Let’s Go Sing. They thoroughly enjoyed listening to and learning the last four songs for the concert in March and we will continue to practise these in music lessons over the coming weeks. The children can also…