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Our Reception and Year 1 children have been looking closely at capital and lower case letters using geoboards.

What better way to practise our adding more and taking away skills than doing it with delicious looking pretend cakes?

The children in Lower School have been using the cakes this week to practise number skills, sorting skills and using money.

In Upper School we have been learning about the war between the Greeks and the Trojans. This was a bitter war lasting more than ten years started when Helen (married to Menelaus, a Greek King) fled to Troy with Paris (a Trojan Prince). The battle that followed is said to have involved a thousand…

Continuing from our work on the Lake District National Park, we researched some other national parks in the UK to compare them.
We split into groups of 3 and researched a different National Park each:

- The Peak District
- The Yorkshire Dales
- The Cairngorms
- Snowdonia
- The Norfolk…

The children have been able to bring their designs to life in their DT lessons.
They have measured, sewed and stitched in their first attempt to create their passport holders. 
We had to use the stitching we had learned previously to attach and seal different parts of felt.
We can't wait until…

Middle school have learned about 3D shapes this week. 
They begun by learning the properties of 3D shapes and some of their names. 
We learned that 3D shapes have edges, vertices and faces.

We then had a try at creating some shapes from a net.
The children enjoyed cutting out the shapes…

Middle school have been investigating plants in their science lessons.
A few weeks earlier, we set up some different investigations to figure out what plants need to grow well.

Our first investigation was to see whether plants need light. We grew one plant in the window and one in the…

Over the past half term, the children have been carrying out a project on Flowers in our Art lessons. 
Today saw the conclusion of our wire sculpture work which has now been added to our paper flowers display and the children continued their project by going into the school grounds to observe and…

We have been so busy in class making our brains bigger! 

Each year group in Lower School tends to be learning a different topic in maths from the other (it’s just the way it works) but we do whole class activities where we make our maths brains work every day as a group before we split off into…

This morning the Reception children performed 'Dingle Dangle Scarecrow With A Flippy Floppy Hat' to us. They were wonderful and brilliant because they enjoyed it.  they did the actions perfectly, they danced, they joined in with the music and they actually sang. 

We were the audience and…

As part of our study of Ancient Greece, Upper School have been learning about Greek Gods and Goddesses. We have found out many interesting facts about them and what they had control over. Zeus was King of the Gods and lived on Mount Olympus. One of his daughters was called Athena. She was…

The children have been using the Lake District as their case study for Geography. 
We spent our last lesson considering the human geography aspect of tourism in the lake district and how it affects the area and the people who live there. 
We learned some facts about tourists in the lake district…