In our geography lessons we have been learning about our local area. After lots of different learning finding out where in the world we live, looking at aerial photos and doing activities the children have drawn a map of our local area.

The class have been learning the skills of hockey for the last 5 weeks. They have made huge progress and have begun to play small hockey games now where they have shown their skills of dribbling, tackling and shooting the ball into the goal. Well done Year 5/6!

Over the past couple of English sessions, the Upper School children have been preparing a descriptive narrative through reading, role play and exploring vocabulary. 
We read a chapter of Street Child and chose scenes to turn into freeze frames (see the gallery). When the freeze frames were ‘woken…

What a privilege it was to be a part of the Harvest Festival at St Peter’s today. The church was beautifully decorated and full of families who had brought along their gifts for the food bank. Archdeacon David led an uplifting service with the children from Upper School class-Abigail, Lilly,…

Today the children learnt what a gear system is and how a simple gear system works on a bike or inside a clock. As part of the lesson, the class made their own gears using templates, card, split pins and a lot of hard work! After lots of careful cutting, sticking and placing of the gears in the…

Today the children in Upper School tested different materials to see if they dissolved in cold water. They learnt the words soluble and insoluble to describe their observations. They were given sand, cocoa, flour, salt, sugar, coffee, gravy granules and rice to experiment with.
Some of the…

Exciting Day in Science Class!

Today in our middle school Science class, our budding scientists took a deep dive into the fascinating world of living things! 

Students learnt about the complexities of classifying living organisms into various groups. The classroom was alive with…

Phonics plays a big part in how we teach the children to read and write. When we are teaching the children the sounds that letters make we need them to say pure sounds (t not tuh) so that they don’t say any extra sounds when they come to blend them together to read the word. Take a look at this…

We were so excited to have a visit from Matthew Thomas this morning who came from the Let’s Go Sing Team to introduce the Upper School class to the pieces we will be singing at the LGS concert next March. He got us all enthusiastic and warmed up with 4 new songs including The Scuttled Sloop which…

Today, the Upper School children thought about journeys and through a silent discussion where they walked around the classroom and added their ideas to our question posters, the children were able to think carefully about times when they had been on a journey. They thought about where they went,…

We have had a wonderful start to middle school maths last week! The children have been exploring place value and learning how we can use our equipment and draw representations. There have been some brilliantly creative ideas and ways of solving and working out problems. This week, we’ll use our…

Following our morning walk spotting signs of approaching autumn, we discussed some of the animals we notice more, out in nature during the autumn. The children had lots of ideas and cleverly knew that hedgehogs are nocturnal so we shouldn’t see them out in the day. We learnt how animals store food…