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Over the last couple of Art lessons, Upper School have been preparing a space themed piece using a printed background using their own hand made print plate and then adding space themed details with a different media such as chalk, charcoal, pastels and pens. The gallery shows the process the…

Middle School have been busy creating drawings in the style of Cave Art. After discussing how important animals were during the Stone Age times and how they featured within Cave Art, we had thought about which animals would be featured now for people to enjoy in 5000 years. Using the examples,…

The children really enjoyed watching and reading the next section of our book, The Arrival, when the main character gets off the ship and is taken into a registration building like the one on Ellis Island in New York. They role played the scene with one child being the immigration officer and one…

A massive thank you to all the parents who baked or bought cakes for our very special MacMillan Cancer Support cake sale. The children in Year 5/6 had great fun getting it all ready and then bought lots of yummy treats at the end of the school day. We had such a lot of cakes provided that there…

We have had ‘the best day ever’ today at Blackpool Zoo! We have been learning about animals in science and hit and cold places in geography so went out on a visit to get some first hand knowledge and experiences. 
 

Take a look at these photographs of our day…

Today in English, the class began looking at chapter 2 of The Arrival. We discussed the story so far and the symbolism of the illustrations. Using the people on the ship picture, we created a freeze frame and then each character was ‘woken up’ in the picture to tell us who they were, where they…

This week in English, Middle School have been thinking about the purpose of adverts and how they are successful at grabbing attention. 

In our story - ‘Stig of the Dump’ by Clive King - Barney and Stig are being very resourceful with items and tools…so we worked on creating adverts to sell…

Our learning journey has continued in Science as we explored gases this week. 
 

First of all, the children had to predict which of the bottles of liquid would have the most ‘fizz’. They ordered them from least to most and then listened carefully to detect the differences in ‘fizz’ as the…

This week in Dance, Middle School took inspiration from various pieces of Cave Art to create sequences and stills. To begin with, they used travel, height, shape, speed and movements to represent painting, hunting, being hunted…

After carefully listening to a piece of music, we discussed a…

This week, Middle School have continued their learning journey in Maths by deepening their understanding of place value. We have focused on partitioning and how this can be done in flexible, multiple ways. We have used various models, visuals and concrete resources to help with our understanding. 
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Middle School have painted portraits of themselves this week! See if you can guess who is who…(I did a very good job at guessing which we agreed was due to their attention to detail and the fact I know them so well!!)

Well done, Middle School!
 

The day has finally come when we can use our new and improved running track again! 
Year 6 were given the privilege of the first try on the rubber tarmac this morning with Year 5 following on close behind. The class were very impressed with how fast the path made them run and they can’t wait to…