Jesus’ Special Friends
Following our learning last week where we talked and wrote about what it meant to be a good friend and who are our friends, this week we learnt about Jesus’ special friends.
We told the story ‘The Calling of the Disciples’ Luke 5: 1-11, Luke 5: 27-28 and the children retold the story through…
A healthy plate
We are focusing on keeping ourselves fit and healthy in our Science lessons - focusing this week on a balanced diet.
We looked at the different food groups and the eatwell plate, considering how much of each food we needed to incorporate into our meals to be healthy most of the time.
Children…
A timeline of Britain
This week we have spent some time in class learning about the chronology of how we came to be where we are in Britain.
Understanding the order of historical events that led us to where we are today is extremely important in contextualising many learning points across all subjects.
Children…
Outdoor mornings!
As we have had some lovely weather this week, middle school have spent several mornings having their maths and English outside.
In our English lesson we used the outside to find objects to write similes about. Here are some that we came up with:
'The grass is as muddy as a pig sty.' -…
PE -Gymnastics
Upper School are taking their gymnastics skills learnt last term onto a range of high and low apparatus over the next few weeks. Today we explored the new apparatus and began to work in pairs and threes to put together balances, jumps and rolls in short sequences. We focused on using strong arms…
How Does Music Make the World a Better Place?
In our music lessons this half term we are learning all about tempo and dynamics. We began by answering the question how does music make the world a better place and had a great discussion, here are some of their answers ...
” It makes me feel happy and wonderful inside” Nathaniel
” it’s…
Poetry Detectives
Our first English topic this half term is exploring poetry.
Children had to become poetry detectives throughout the week and explore lots about poems. Firstly, we looked at a variety of poem types and learned that poems have lines and stanzas. We also learned that poems didn't always have to…
Welcome back to Spring Term 2022
It has been lovely to see each other after our Christmas break and everyone has started the new term refreshed and ready to learn!
We have had a busy, fun-filled week (take a look at the photos below) where we have begun our topic for the term called ‘Explorers’. The Reception children have…
Where do we live?
Our new topic for the term is all about me, so in geography we are focusing on where we live.
Children began by using a variety of geographical tools to help them find out where we are located in the world!
We already knew some of the answers, but our atlas, globes and digital maps helped us to…
Lessons in First Aid
Upper School have begun to learn about first-aid as part of their PSHE lessons. During this half term, we will be learning about basic first-aid practises that we can use to help a casualty, as well as when to get help and what to do in an emergency. The areas we will cover include burns and…
Discovering Joan Miro
This half term we will be learning all about the Spanish artist Joan Miro. Today we started looking at the shapes and colours in Miro's paintings and then used vision frames to select a part of one of his artworks to recreate in pencil and felt tip pen.
Christmas Cards
All the children made a snowy scene for a Christmas card to send home to their families this year using lots of different skills to create it.
They had to follow instructions carefully at each stage and did so well! First they created the snowy backdrop with wax crayons. Then they each drew two…