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Last week we began looking at money in maths. This meant we could set up our shop! The pictures show some of the children who bought items from the shop using their coins, or who had to give change as the shopkeeper. 

Middle school have enjoyed making and learning their own gymnastic sequences using the apparatus in PE over the last few weeks. 
The children have been very creative in both their solo balances and group balances.
 

In English the children have been reading The Invention of Hugo Cabret.  We reached the very exciting part of the story where the automaton revealed it's secret message... and it was a picture of the moon from the 1902 film 'La Voyage Dans La Lune' or a journey to the moon. 

We decided to watch…

Upper School demonstrated respect and compassion towards one another this afternoon - commenting kindly on their teammate’s attempt and supporting each other. They showed they were trustworthy to count their own scores and to be honest about their success. 
 

Well done, Upper…

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…