Middle School (MS)

The children enjoyed a whole school party on Tuesdays, featuring pass the parcel, the 5p game and lots of fun and games outside!
Thank you to Mrs Hurley and Mrs Allen for preparing this!

In our DT sessions, we have been focusing on shapes to create structures. This week, we practiced creating 3D shapes from nets and moving them into shapes to emulate our castle designs.

Last week we were very excited to welcome lower school into our classroom for a ‘dragon day’!

We began by reading and looking at ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ and coming up with our own ideas for dragons.

Year 3s helped year 1 and 2 to use the computers and create a digital drawing of their…

Middle school have been enjoying learning the skill of archery in their PE lessons. They have learned about balance and posture to help hit the target with accuracy.

Last week, we had a wonderful trip to the Lakeland Wildlife Oasis. 
The focus of our trip was to consolidate our knowledge about biomes and climates as well as to remind ourselves about our rainforest topic from earlier in the year.

Our morning started by investigating some interesting objects…

At the end of the last half term, middle school combined their learning from geography, science and DT to create a diorama of a biome of their choice.

Children began by choosing one of the world biomes from ice, tundra, coniferous forest, deciduous forest, desert, rainforest or grassland.…

Our overall topic this half term is focusing on biomes and climates. In our art lessons, we have been looking at using mixed mediums to represent themes, so we decided to use two of our biomes to do this.

Children were inspired by the colours, shapes and textures of either the Tundra/Ice biome…

This week we had a fantastic afternoon hosting the small schools football tournament for its second year. Our middle school team did incredibly well and had lots of fun on such a sunny afternoon. The rest of the class came out to support them with claps, cheers and some fab banners.

Well done,…

This half term in our PE lessons we are fovusing on both~

• Outdoor Adventurous Activities- teamwork and problem solving
• Fielding and Batting - Rounders

We have made the best of the lovely weather and managed some rounders this week, with the children learning to put some of their…

Middle school have been focusing on myths and legends this half term, with an especial focus on the ancient Greeks, our topic. Children have combined lots of their skills to create these wonderful story books!

Firstly, children wrote their own story inspired by the Greek myths we read in class.…

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 creativity…

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…