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Upper School have begun a set of dance lessons with the theme of ‘The Highway Man’ by Alfred Noyes. They have studied the poem and watched animated versions of it to inspire the dances that they come up with. Today the children used four elements of dance - different ways of travelling, turns,…

As part of the PE curriculum, children participate in outdoor activities - this half term's outdoor activities include trust games and activities that promote teamwork. 
This week, children began with some teamwork. In groups, children had to use their bodies to create words (which also links to…

This week we have started our new topic in art - looking at typography. 
We began the topic by looking at how we could create letters without using a pen or pencil! Children got creative using the objects from the classroom and from outside to create the letters from their names.

We had to…

Today the Upper School finished their Joan Miro project by completing their Miro style sculptures. We think they look great and show very similar ideas and colours to the original Miro Sculptures. (If you get the chance to go to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, some of his sculptures are displayed…

Our Reception group have been busy creating lots of interesting things with big boxes and writing about them this week. We have had secret doors, magic doors, fairy castles, dinosaur lands, cars and so many more! We loved listening to the stories you made up as you played children!

As part of our topic ‘Explorers’ and as part of our English learning reading stories by the same author we have been reading the marvellous books by the artist and author Simon Bartram. We have been enjoying Dougal’s Deep-Sea Diary, Bob The Man on The Moon, Bob and his Best Ever Friend Ever and…

Our EYFS children have been busy designing and creating junk models and wowing us with their skills and creativity. 

Well done, children, your labels telling us what your models are, are fantastic too!

This week in our RE lesson we discussed the miracle Jesus performed when he turned water into wine (John 2:1-11) at the wedding in Cana. The children decided that the miracles Jesus performed show us that Jesus was special and that it made his friends, his disciples, realise how special he…

Middle school have been enjoying using the gymnastics equipment in their PE lessons this term. 
We have been focusing on using our bodies for balancing and travelling. 
Children had to create a routine using different pieces of equipment - including rolling, jumping and balancing. 

On our…

We had a very exciting (and very tasty) DT lesson this week!

To finish off our healthy sandwich project, we had to finally create our sandwiches to test them out. 
The first thing we took care of was making sure our hands were washed thoroughly and that our tables were disinfected. We…

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......!