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Our new book is The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan. We have come across his work before when we studied The Arrival last term. The children have been discussing the characters in this unusual picture book and, using a variety of figurative language and adventurous vocabulary, they have been writing…

Practicing our letter formation in the snow!

Upper School began their new topic this week which is looking at properties of materials. We began by thinking about the properties of solids, liquids and gases. To do this, the class were given three balloons. One filled with ice, one with water and one with air. We observed and felt each…

We have started this term thinking about stories from the Old Testament, learning that these are the stories would have heard as he was growing up. 
 

The children learnt about the story of Moses when he was put in a basket and pushed out into the River Nile by his mother. This was a great act…

We have had a very special day today, a delicious Christmas dinner cooked by Mrs Billington, our Lower School Christmas party and then a visit from Father Christmas with presents for all the children in his sack! 
 

Merry Christmas to all our fantastic families in Lower School, thank you for all your support this term!

Here are the children’s beautiful collages Christmas Tree cards they have made for their families this year. Take a look at the previous blog post to see how the children created their…

We have been learning lots of art skills by painting and printing. In preparation for making Christmas tree collages the children firstly learnt how to create a ‘wash’ using paint, painting over wax drawings of snowflakes to create a background winter scene. 
 

Then the children printed with a…

Congratulations to all our fantastic children who performed in our Christmas nativity story this year! We are so proud of all of you.

Here are some photographs of Lower School children …

We have been busy learning how to read and spell our ‘tricky’ words and make sentences up with them in!

Upper School enjoyed some Christmas games to practise a range of German vocabulary from across this half term. We enjoyed trying to roll a Christmas Tree and decorating with various weather-themed decorations from blusters of der Wind for tinsel and neblig baubles of fog to die Sonne (the sun) at…

Thank you so much to Claire for joining us for the morning to bring our Stone Age exploration to life! We learnt about how they would have lit fires, particularly towards the end of the Stone Age with the discovery of metal. We learnt how they would have kept fires going and how they would have…