Upper School (KS2)

Pictures from Day 3 of our visit to Borwick Hall with Year 5/6. Climbing Activities. 
 

Pictures from day 2 at Borwick Hall with Year 5/6. We completed a morning of team challenges and an afternoon of canoeing. 
 

Pictures from our very successful Outdoor and Adventurous Activities visit to Borwick Hall. 
Day 1- Monday 9th June, A walk up Arnside Knott  

The children in Upper School will be visiting the Houses of Parliament on Tuesday 1st April therefore we decided we needed to learn about what happens there and how UK parliament works. We spent a lesson getting to know the background of our Parliamentary process and what the House of Commons and…

Year 5/6 are continuing to improve their spellings using Rainbow Words and Spelling Frame. Each child has their own list of spellings to learn at home and at school every day. We have a weekly leaderboard on Spelling Frame and the class can earn certificates for working regularly to ‘uplevel’…

Today the children completed lots of learning all about how scientists classify (group) animals. We started off by looking at a classification system and then broke this down into classifying vertebrate and invertebrate organisms. The children were challenged to identify what characteristics each…

Today in Maths, Upper School used the coloured cubes to explore what volume meant and how we can work out the volume of cubes and cuboids. First we counted cubes and discussed that it was similar to finding area but in 3D! Next, we made cubes and cuboids and found that we didn’t need to count…

This week is Children’s Mental Health Week and each day Upper School are having a focus on different aspects of our mental health. Today was Move It Monday so we spent time together at different times of the day, dancing to music and playing Just Dance on the big screen. Just a few minutes of…

After inventing their own Lost Thing and producing a poster to advertise it, the children in Upper School wrote some brilliant persuasive letters to ask if they could take the ‘Lost Thing’ home and look after it. Here are some examples of their fantastic, imaginative…

In Science this week, Upper School learnt about irreversible changes of matter. Firstly, we discussed what reversible and irreversible meant. We related this to materials that we have already investigated such as water and chocolate. Next we discussed what makes something an irreversible change.…

Today the children in Upper School investigated the melting point of different types to chocolate to see which would be best at not melting too quickly at a very hot and sweaty birthday party! 
They planned and prepared their tests with dark, milk and white chocolate pieces. Each piece went into…

This week in our PE lessons, the Upper School children have been putting together a longer and more detailed gymnastic sequence using large apparatus. The elements of this sequence included several ways of travelling and performing counter and counter tension balances. As well as looking out for…