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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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

We completed our second and third 'Random Acts of Wildness' at school, too. 
These included, firstly, looking for shapes, pictures and stories in clouds. The children came up with some fantastic ideas and images (as well as some very strange ones)! 
The third challenge was to search for creepy…

Middle School has decided to participate in The Wildlife Trust's '30 Days Wild' challenge. 
This means that children will have lots of lovely outdoorsy activities to complete that will help bring them closer to the nature and wildlife around them.
Although the challenge starts on the 1st June,…