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We have been having fun gathering knowledge for our stories set in the seaside this week. Each day we are choosing a different story from The Lighthouse Keeper’s set of stories and learning more about the main characters Mr and Mrs  Grinling, their cat Hamish and the lighthouse they look…

Following on from last week’s lesson when the Upper School children learnt about and made a pulley system, the children this week explored mechanical gears. We learnt about what they do and how they work. After that, they made their own gears using card cogs and split pins. 
Two groups of…

In some of our PE lessons this half term, we will be focusing on team work. 
We kicked off this week with some team games that promoted good communication and problem solving skills. 
These games included sorting ourselves into order on a bench, passing a hoop over the whole team in a line and…

Our science topic for this half term is going to be sound. 

We began the topic by asking 'what is sound?' 

We spent this lesson exploring different types of sound and different ways that sound can be made. We investigated how sound can be changed.

We learned that sound is vibrations and…

On Friday we got the wonderful opportunity to share all of the hard work we put in last half term with our Lauren Child inspired books. 
We met with Lower school on a beautiful sunny Friday afternoon, partnered up with a reception, year one or year two and read them our stories. Lower school…

In one of the stories we read this week, whilst we were collecting new vocabulary to use in our writing, we came across the word pomegranate. A lot of the children hadn’t heard of a pomegranate before so I bought one for them to try …

We have begun our new theme for the half term which is called Buckets and Spades. As part of our English learning we are going to write our own stories set at the seaside. So, this week we have been getting ideas by reading lots of different fiction and non-fiction books with a seaside theme. The…

We really enjoyed Middle School’s Lauren Child Inspired stories, well done Middle School, thank you for sharing them with us!

We had a magical experience on Tuesday when we released all our Painted Lady butterflies in our meadow area of the field. The children reached in and helped the butterflies out of the net and were lucky enough to get a really close look. Some of the butterflies sat on their hands or arms for a…

Year 5/6 have begun their five week Curling programme at The Flower Bowling today. We had a fantastic time learning how to move on the ice with the curling stones and how to score points in a game. 
It is a lot harder than the professionals make it look at the Olympics! 

Today Year 6 were delighted to receive their colourful ‘leavers’ hoodies’ which were kindly given by our generous Friends’ Committee. Each boy chose his own colour and they will be able to wear the hoodie each day until the end of term. 
They look…

Today the focus for our D&T lesson was to find out about mechanical systems-in particular, levers and pulleys. The Upper School children watched short videos about these systems and then had a go at making some themselves. Spencer, Eddie and Harry used the K’NEX to build a seesaw lever model…