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Today’s lesson was all about finding out what water resistance does to boats of different shapes and how buoyancy is different between salt water and fresh water. 
The Upper School children investigated these things by making different shaped tin foil boats to race across a tray of water. They…

To conclude our unit learning about flat file databases, we applied our knowledge to a real life situation. Using sky scanner.com, the children were finding flights to certain locations and finding the cheapest cost as well as the shortest route.  This could come in useful......!

We have been learning about China as part of our geography topic and began by looking at different objects and guessing which country they came from which prompted great discussion and learning. 
 

The children have been learning how to use an atlas, find land and oceans on globes and maps…

We had a lovely treat this week as the Upper School children came to share their writing with us. They had written letters to the children in Lower School explaining their RE learning to them and had also created some information posters about tigers to share with us. 
 

Thank you so much…

A busy learning week with new learning about China, capital letters and the numbers 6,7 and 8 (as well as all the many other  skills and knowledge we build on every week!)

Here are some snapshots into our week …

It's that time of year again to participate in the RSPB's garden birdwatch! 
Children enjoyed learning about the different kinds of birds that we might potentially see, plus those we probably wouldn't!
Although it was windy and cold, the children managed to spot lots of different birds within…

This week's science investigation into keeping our bodies fit and healthy involved looking closely at our breathing. 
Children learned about how we breathe and how we use our lungs to transport oxygen around our body and into our muscles. We learned that we needed more oxygen in our muscles when…

In our maths lessons we have rounded off our 3D shapes topic by looking at and constructing some nets. 
Children learned that the faces on 3D shapes comprise of 2D shapes that are folded together. 
We carefully cut around various shapes and tried our best to stick them together! It was much…

Upper School have a new Reading Corner in the classroom and we hope it will inspire the children to enjoy books even more than they already do! There is nothing better than to take a moment to dive into a novel or information book -and as our poster says:

‘Today a reader, tomorrow a…

Reception have had a busy week being builders after watching the houses being built in the field next to ours! They have been cooking and baking in the nature kitchen, learning phonics and maths, doing PE and lots of other activities! Here are a few snapshots of their week. 

What is a word processor and what do we use it for?

This is a question we discussed this week and began learning how to write digitally using a word processor. We also learnt about the the speed of emails!

The children studied a keyboard and started to learn where the keys are and what they…

To continue with our Design Technology theme of designing a healthy sandwich, today we sampled some of the most popular sandwich ingredients to consider their taste and texture. Children sampled a small amount of
- White bread
- Brown bread
- Chicken
- Ham
- Lettuce
- Cheese
We considered…