Paleolithic art
Our overall topic this half term is based on our history topic - from the stone age to the iron age.
The children begun this topic with the stone age, looking at the paleolithic period and how early humans came to be in Britain. We learned that the paleolithic lasted a long, long, LONG time!…
Middle School's First Week Back!
Middle school have had an incredibly busy and exciting first week back after the summer.
All of the children have done so well settling back in and getting straight into their work. Our lovely new year 3's have got stuck right in and are fitting in to middle school life wonderfully - with the…
Investigating Solids and Liquids
Our Middle School topic for science this half term is states of matter.
The children enjoyed their first lesson investigating solids and liquids.
We got our hands dirty testing out different weird and wonderful materials to see if we could figure out what the features of a solid and a…
Exciting Writing
The children of Upper School have begun the new year with some ‘pre-assessments’ to show Mrs Hurley and Miss Langley the skills that they have already embedded. This will inform our future planning for the class, making sure that we teach the children exactly what they need next in their learning.…
Pizza Time!
This morning, Year 6s made their own pizza with Mrs Billington. They looked fantastic! They then had special brownies and chocolate sauce as their final treat. To keep cool on this exceptionally hot day, they kept cool under the marquee roof. Many thanks to the Friends for the toppings and to Mrs…
Summer Disco 2022
What a brilliant time we had at our end of term disco on Thursday night! Thank you to our amazing team of Friends who paid for the children’s entertainer Taz and the treats.
Just take a look at these photos to see how much fun we had, Taz was so funny, the children is faces show it all…
Greek Day
This Tuesday, we got the wonderful chance to have our lovely year 5s join us for the day! Luckily, the day that they joined us was our 'Ancient Greek' day to match our topic of ancient civilisations. We began the day with an Ancient Greek maths challenge, following clues and discovering who…
Musical Performance
For the last few weeks, Middle school had been working hard on practicing songs for our concert. We were invited to join with upper school to show the parents some of the fantastic music that our children participate in within school. Each child joined in with singing and with ukuleles to put on a…
Disco!
Children in middle school all tremendously enjoyed their wonderful disco on Thursday night. It was wonderful to see so many children dressed up and looking fancy and fantastic to enjoy the wonderful entertainer that came for them. As with last year, we had an amazing show and the children had a…
School Disco
It’s always a pleasure to be entertained by Taz at the school disco! He kept everyone entertained, dancing and laughing for the whole hour! He even got Mrs Humphries up to the front and sent her off with a ‘bang’!
KS2 Musical Concert
What a fantastic afternoon we had today when Middle School and Upper School came together to perform a musical concert for the parents!
The children have all worked hard to learn several songs and to play instrumental accompaniments on glockenspiels and ukuleles. The audience were also treated…
Author Visit -Andrew Michael Hurley
We had a visit from an award winning author this morning (and also husband of Mrs Hurley)!
It was a real treat to meet Andrew Michael Hurley who has written the award winning novel, The Loney and more recently, Starve Acre which has been turned into a BBC Film.
Mr Hurley talked to the class…