Blog by Bryn Thornton

Middle school had their rainforest day this week! Children brought in their cuddly toys and donated £1each to put towards the rainforest trust. 
We worked together on a rainforest themed escape room, then we created some wonderful descriptive writing pieces.

finally, we created a group…

This week, middle school have been learning about networks. We created our own networks, as well as understanding how computers send messages.

Children have completed their gymnastics routines with their groups this week. The children have practiced really hard and have performed a wonderful routine using balances, rolls and jumps.
 

Well done to our middle school team who played football at Garstang Academy on Wednesday evening. We worked amazingly as a team! Well done team!

Middle school have been looking at word problems that use addition and subtraction. Children were paired up and given challenges to solve together, including shape problems, word problems and abstract thinking problems.

As part of our topic on the rainforest, we looked at some art by Henri Rousseau, who painted lots of vibrant and detailed pictures of the jungle. We aimed to use this to inspire some of our own work.

each child was given a snippet of the famous ‘tiger in a tropical storm’ painting, where they…

For our science topic, we are investigating the question ‘How do plants grow?’ 
Before this week, we had finished preparing our knowledge, we had planned our investigation and we had assured that we would be making this a fair test. Now we were ready to find out for ourselves.

five pots were…

As part of our topic for the rainforest, Middle school are preparing to write letters to companies to persuade them to stop using unsustainable palm oil in their products. We have researched and learned a lot about how palm oil production leads to the destruction of the rainforests in Indonesia.…

Middle school children were very excited to take part in let’s go sing again this year! For some children, it was their very first experience! We learned four new songs alongside some sign language to accompany one of the songs.

We can’t wait to learn more and sing more…

Our topic in DT this half term is mindful moments timer. 

The children have been tasked with creating a timer to help when having quiet, mindful time to yourself. This week, we started by exploring what mindfulness is. 

Children were introduced to mindful colouring. We experimented with…

Our PSHE topic this half term is what makes a good friend.

For our first lesson, the children thought about the values that they look for in a friend. They used their whiteboards to draw a picture of their friend and they wrote characteristics they would like their friend to have.
Some things…

Our topic in geography this half term is the rainforest. Children put their geography knowledge to the test and identified and named countries with rainforests!

Children did really well working in pairs and using an atlas!

Super job everyone!