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This week we had a surprise visitor, it was Zog the dragon! He found him in our classroom with a copy of his school report from Madam Dragon. 
 

We read the story and began doing different English activities …

Our art topic for this half term is gestural drawings with charcoal. 

Children looked at artist Laura McKendry, who used charcoal to create texture in her drawings of dogs. 

We explored the different things we could do with charcoal to create textures including scribbling, smudging and…

Our new topic in geography this half term is earthquakes and volcanoes. 

The children kicked off the topic by learning what a volcano was. 
We then used https://www.volcanoesandearthquakes.com/ to look at all of the volcanoes and earthquakes happening in the world at the moment - as well as…

Our science topic for this half term is rocks and fossils. We began our topic by exploring the different types of rocks and learning a little about how they were formed. 
We initially sorted different rock types into 'natural' and 'manmade'.
After this, we investigated some real rocks and looked…

I hope you’re all having a great half term break, we have some really interesting learning happening next half term, have a look at these videos and interactive games and start learning about The Great Fire of London …

Watch this video  

Play the game on this website … …

As a maths activity this week in EYFS creating patterns all the children have had the opportunity to print with Duplo blocks to create patterns on pumpkins. As part of raising awareness about recycling, as it is recycling week this week, we reused packing paper that had come in parcel to print…

After weeks of designing, planning, cutting, measuring, colouring and sticking - middle school have finally completed their ongoing DT project of our cars. 

Each car has a wooden chassis and a set of speedy wheels on an axel. 

Every body was custom designed to be as aerodynamic and…

This week, middle school have been learning about poems - with a focus on Limericks. 

The children studied different kinds of poems and learned about the language used when working with poetry. We looked at a variety of limericks and learned how to write a Limerick for ourselves.

Children…

This week the children have had fun pretending to be hairdressers as they gave the cardboard rolls haircuts, legs, skirts  and trousers as part of a PSHE and fine motor skills activity.

We used photos of children showing different emotions to spark conversation and as the children were busy…

Upper School has been reading The Arrival by Shaun Tan over the past week. It is a fascinating graphic novel which tells the story of a man’s journey from his family to a new country and new life.
Today the children explored the scene when he arrives at the immigration office and the difficulties…

On October 6th, Upper School had an incredibly fun day at Hangar 42 Spitfire Centre. We learnt so much from the experts and the day was filled with opportunities to explore and find out new things. The topics covered were Codes and Ciphers, Aviation, Evacuees and the experiences of those involved…

This week in music, the children have been using the charanga apps to create their own beats using percussion. This ties in with our learning in music this half term - which has been focused on rhythm, beat and pulse in songs. Whilst much of what we have already done has been played with real…