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Over the last few weeks, Middle School have been busy getting to grips with place value of numbers up to 10,000.

We are continually using various models, resources and visuals to learn about how the value of digits change depending on their place in a number.

We are expert ‘Zero Hero’…

Middle School have well and truly travelled into the past this week! 
 

As part of our ‘Stone Age’ topic, we have explored cave art dated back to the Stone Age. We have learnt about some of the techniques used, thought about the colours they had available and discussed why certain images…

Today the children in Upper School learnt about how day and night occur on the Earth. It is such a difficult concept to get around your head (especially that the Earth is spinning at 1000 miles an hour) that they had A LOT of questions before we could go onto completing our demonstrations using…

Middle School have enjoyed exploring more of  ‘Stig of the Dump’ by Clive King, with a particular focus this week on ADJECTIVES and NOUNS…

First, we unpicked adjectives in the story before thought showering our own to describe what Barney would have seen in the chalk pit. We drew annotated…

The children in Upper School are studying Earth in Space this term and part of our topic is to look at space exploration in Art and Design. We have observed and discussed pictures from the past of what people thought the future would be like and what space travel could look like. Some pictures…

Over the past three weeks, at the start of all our computing sessions, Upper School have been learning how to be safe online. We have learnt good strategies to deal with cyber-bullying; identified secure websites to use for our work; and understood what information we should never share when…

I am absolutely loving having Upper School once a week for their German lesson! 
 

Our first two lessons together have flown so quickly! Here are some of the things we have been exploring:

We learnt to sing a special song for someone’s birthday…
 

‘Zum Geburtstag viel Gluck…

Zum…

What a super time we had outside!

To make the most out of the beautiful weather, Middle School were given the option of doing their Dance PE lesson outside…of course they agreed!

After discussing rules and spacing, we practised our travelling techniques (speed, direction, height etc) and our…

This week in RE we explored various questions relating to Harvest:

What does the Harvest Festival mean to you?

How do people of faith say thank you to God for the harvest?

Middle School remembered lots of our learning from Lower School! I was very impressed. A number of the children are…

Today we started to explore our thoughts about who made the world. We discussed what people of faith believe about God as creator of the world.
 

At the very beginning of the Bible, in the book of Genesis, there is a story about how God created the world and the order in which he created…

We have been playing lots of games and taking part in activities to get to know one another, we have looked at the things that make us different and the things that make us the same. 

In our class we choose to be one big family who work together to make each other feel happy, safe and part of a…

The children did a brilliant job of role playing a scene from our novel today! Each group performed as characters from the book and tried to create the sense of confusion/fear/surprise in the scene. We then used the role play work to help us write a list of progressive verbs and abstract nouns…