Going Camping!
We have been busy making our role play areas outdoors with a campsite.
The children made a car out of the tyres and crates to travel to their campsite and they were greeted by the campsite owners at the booking office when they arrived! The chose how many nights they wanted to stay for and…
Roman Murals
Middle school loves nothing more than a good, messy art lesson!
As part of our Romans topic for the half term, we took a look at some of the art they created. This week, we have focused on Frescos, a kind of mural that Romans used to decorate the walls of their villas.
Unfortunately, we didn't…
German Lessons
Children in Middle School and Upper School have all begun German lessons with myself - Ms Hennelly!
So far they have learned how to greet someone and how to say how they are feeling.
The children will participate in around 15 minutes on a Monday and a Tuesday and are really enjoying it so…
Wildflowers!
As part of our 'Random Acts of Wildness', the children were to find and identify a wildflower.
Luckily, we have the area of wildflowers growing at school, which gave us a perfect opportunity to get up close and ID the plants.
Identification is not only a great way to get out into nature and…
Exploring Mythology
Our topic this half term is the romans.
As part of this topic, we have started with a look at myths and legends. On Monday and Tuesday we explored the legend of Romulus and Remus who founded Rome. On Wednesday we explored myths from different cultures including Norse, Greek and Chinese.…
Design & Technology-Pop Up Books
The children in Upper School began a new project focusing on mechanisms today.
They have been set the challenge of producing a pop-up book for someone in Lower School to enjoy.
The aim is to try and use lots of different mechanisms in a simple picture story so first we need to learn how to…
Dissecting Flowers
We started our new Science topic this week- Lifecycles, Living Things and Humans.
We started off the topic by looking at the life cycle of plants and flowers. We looked particularly at the reproduction of plants through pollination.
The children got the opportunity to dissect flower heads…
English Role Play and Writing
This morning the children learnt to write news reports through inferring characters’ feeling from the story we are studying ‘The Lost Happy Endings’ by Carol Ann Duffy.
We used drama techniques such as hot seating a character and role playing reporter and interviewee conversations and making…
Japan 2021
In preparation for the Olympic Games starting in Tokyo on 23rd July, Upper School are learning about Japan. So far we have learnt that Japan is an archipelago but has four main islands, the largest of which is Honshu, which is where Tokyo is found. Japan is roughly 6000 miles away ,has a…