Upper School (KS2)

On Tuesday afternoon, the Small Schools Football Tournament took place at our school with Treales and Weeton Schools attending. Eight children from Y5/6 were chosen to participate in the competition (Nathaniel, Joseph, Maddi, Alex W, William, Tom, Reuben and Ben) and they made us all very proud. 
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When our Small Schools Football Tournament was announced to Year 5/6 several weeks ago, some of the girls immediately came to ask if they could be the football cheer leaders. They used their break times from then on to choreograph and rehearse their cheer leaders’ dance which they performed…

This afternoon the class looked at and discussed a range of Easter themed art. They talked as a group about what they could see in each picture and then went deeper by discussing how each picture was telling us something about Jesus’s victory when he rose from the dead. Maddi and Liv talked…

Today, Upper School used blindfolds for their outdoor challenges. We split into two groups again with one group working with Emilia and one with Mrs Hurley. Mrs Hurley’s group had to work with a partner who wore a blindfold and led them around a tricky trail just using verbal instructions.…

After a recap about gestation periods of mammals and the growth of a human baby inside a mother, the Upper School class were introduced to the stages of human development after birth. We watched some animations of these developments, asked questions and had discussions about their own experiences.…

In today’s lesson the team challenges were Millipede and Cross The Swamp. 

Both activities involved the children working together to come up with a plan for how to overcome the challenges of moving across an area with limited resources and strict rules. 

In the game of Millipede, the…

The Upper School class began a new topic in PE today called Outdoor and Adventurous Activities. This scheme of work will allow the children to participate in lots of outdoor team work and trust games.
They began by working in two teams, in circles. The objective was to manoeuvre a hoop all the…

This afternoon, the children in Upper School completed their PE lesson inside due to the inclement weather. We decided to use the skills learnt so far in rugby for some games of benchball. The teams used a rugby ball and a ‘pocket pass’ which is an across the body pass used in rugby matches. There…

In our last session learning about forces, Upper School conducted an experiment to test different sized parachutes. They cut out tissue paper squares of differing lengths (14cm, 20cm, 30cm) and hung playdoh from them to represent the weight of a person. Each group then measured the length of time…

It’s been a very exciting afternoon at the curling rink where 6 children from Year 5/6 have taken part in an inter-schools competition. After playing 5 games against other local schools, they won 2, drew 1 and lost 2. A fantastic effort in a very difficult contest! In the end, our brilliant team…

The children were taught part of a dance routine today which they were quick to pick up and enjoyed learning. After rehearsing this, the class then worked in pairs to come up with their own moves to add to the dance and complete it. The children demonstrated their ideas to each other with a final…

Today the class explored air resistance and the force of surface friction by making balloon rockets out of different shaped balloons and using different types to string to make their balloon rockets move. They discovered that friction slows objects down and stops them; they discussed how smoother…