Mental Health Week-Move It Monday!

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This week is Children’s Mental Health Week and each day Upper School are having a focus on different aspects of our mental health. Today was Move It Monday so we spent time together at different times of the day, dancing to music and playing Just Dance on the big screen. Just a few minutes of…

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The Lost Thing - Persuasive Letters

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After inventing their own Lost Thing and producing a poster to advertise it, the children in Upper School wrote some brilliant persuasive letters to ask if they could take the ‘Lost Thing’ home and look after it. Here are some examples of their fantastic, imaginative…

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Science-Irreversible Changes of Materials

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In Science this week, Upper School learnt about irreversible changes of matter. Firstly, we discussed what reversible and irreversible meant. We related this to materials that we have already investigated such as water and chocolate. Next we discussed what makes something an irreversible change.…

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Science-Changing States of Matter

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Today the children in Upper School investigated the melting point of different types to chocolate to see which would be best at not melting too quickly at a very hot and sweaty birthday party! 
They planned and prepared their tests with dark, milk and white chocolate pieces. Each piece went into…

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5 Currant Buns

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Our Reception children have been building on their number skills and knowledge of numbers to 5. Over the past two weeks they have been counting one more, one less as well as joining in with Year 1 & 2’s maths talk every day!

Take a look at these photos where they were singing and acting out the…

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Doubles

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This week in maths we are having lots of fun learning about doubles, near doubles and putting all our skills and knowledge into practice! 
 

 

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PE-Partnered Gymnastic Sequences

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This week in our PE lessons, the Upper School children have been putting together a longer and more detailed gymnastic sequence using large apparatus. The elements of this sequence included several ways of travelling and performing counter and counter tension balances. As well as looking out for…

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How does electricity travel?

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Middle school’s science topic this half term is electricity! Last week, we investigated which appliances use electricity and where they source their electricity. Some items used batteries and others used mains. This week, we investigated how electricity travelled. We learned about how electricity…

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English-The Lost Thing descriptive writing

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Our new book is The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan. We have come across his work before when we studied The Arrival last term. The children have been discussing the characters in this unusual picture book and, using a variety of figurative language and adventurous vocabulary, they have been writing…

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Snow writing

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Practicing our letter formation in the snow!

 

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Science-States of Matter

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Upper School began their new topic this week which is looking at properties of materials. We began by thinking about the properties of solids, liquids and gases. To do this, the class were given three balloons. One filled with ice, one with water and one with air. We observed and felt each…

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Stories Jesus Heard When He Was A Child

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We have started this term thinking about stories from the Old Testament, learning that these are the stories would have heard as he was growing up. 
 

The children learnt about the story of Moses when he was put in a basket and pushed out into the River Nile by his mother. This was a great act…

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