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We have been busy making our brains bigger this week doing lots of different maths activities. The Reception children have been looking at numbers to 20 and beyond. They have been using tens frames to make a full ten and then more to understand numbers beyond ten. They have also been playing bingo…

Each day in Upper School, we watch Newsround to keep up to date with what is going on in the UK and the rest of the world. There is always an interesting mix of current affairs, sport and nature stories shown and this week we have been following the reports of the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral and…

PE back on the field in the sunny weather this week!

It’s been a wonderful start to the summer term ...

Middle school found a unique opportinity to learn some more about bees and their importance when we found a tired bumblebee on the playground. We carefully picked her up and gave her some sugar water to drink. This was a fantastic time for the children to learn about how bees help the environment…

After some practise keeping a rhythm and listening to different notes, middle school had a try at creating some ascending and decending scales together on the chilme bars. Once we had done this, we practised playing 'twinkle twinkle little star' together - which went quite well! Using our skills…

Middle school have started a design project to create a passport holder. After being given their brief they began some research and planning for their product. They had the chance to explore current products on the market and look at the shapes, materials and prices that they could use. They also…

In our RE lesson today, we thought about what Jesus meant by ‘building strong foundations for our lives’. 
The children were split into groups and given the task of building a bridge. Some of the groups were given clay to help them and some groups only had sellotape. 
The children with clay made…

The Year 5/6 children began a new topic in Science this week-Animals and their Habitats. We began by thinking about the classification of animals. 
The class really enjoying grouping and naming the pictures of animals first and then going a step further to classifying them into vertebrates and…

Children enjoyed creating easter cards on Wednesday. They all tried to create a purple flower or butterfly in the centre of their card using layers of paper. There are so many talented and creative children in middle school that we end up with such a beautiful array of crafts by the…

Middle school had a fab morning searching for easter carrots.They were so good at finding them that they all ended up with pockets full! 
The children were thrilled that they could exchange their carrots for 'bunny change' and get an easter egg!

As part of our topic for the half-term, the children took part in a 'stone age day'. These activities started when children walked into the classroom to find animal skins on the floor and antlers, skulls and other stone age items. After some exploration, we started off with fire-lighting in the…