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Natural Disasters Presentations

Year 6 spent two weeks of their Geography lessons researching and creating a presentations on a variety of Natural Disasters. They worked in pairs using the school iPads to research and design their own keynote presentations which they later presented in class to their peers. The Year 6’s learnt many…

Year 6 Eco-systems

Year 6 have been studying how animals and humans impact the environment in both positive and negative ways. They have also looked at what an ecosystem is and created their own ‘mini flora ecosystems’. They spent a lesson building an ecosystem in a bottle, planting cress and wild flower seeds….

Year 6 Celebrate Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year was celebrated by Year 6 in many ways, the prefects started off the week by delivering an assembly to the juniors all about the story of the zodiacs. On Tuesday they started off the day learning to use the Ancient Chinese Method of Multiplication. This was a…

Lineout Lifts in Rugby!

Year’s 9 and 10 spent their games lesson this week learning how to lineout lift in rugby. All boys learnt how to throw, lift or be lifted as shown in these photos! It took some organising, but everyone did a great job!

Chinese New Year In The Early Years

The Early Years have had a wonderful week finding out all about the Chinese New Year of the tiger. Throughout the week there have been creative and musical experiences that took everyone on a journey to China. On Monday afternoon, there was a Chinese themed role play area full of…

Spectacular Kew Gardens Trip

On Wednesday 26th January, Year 3 travelled by minibus all the way to Kew Gardens to learn about pollination and plants! While we were there, the children attended a workshop where they learnt all about pollination and looked at pollinators at work. We also saw some plants from different countries…

Early Year Chinese Dance Workshop

Reception and Kindergarten had a wonderful time exploring different types of Chinese dance in their recent workshop. They danced with fans and parasols, became a long red snake and even traditional Chinese dragons.

Onager Making!

Continuing with their research on the Romans, Year 4 learnt about the Roman Catapult Onager. They even got a chance to make their own miniature version and test it out against their classmates in the playground! The Onager was a war machine used in the past, especially in the Roman…

Fortune Cookie Making!

This week, Year 4 tried their hand at a spot of baking! As part of our celebrations for Chinese New Year, Year 4 baked their own Fortune Cookies. The children loved having the chance to learn how fortune cookies are made and all of the children agreed that they were…

Roman Raps

Roman Raps

Last week, Year Four created some fantastic Roman Raps about the Roman Gods and Goddesses. The children researched the Gods and Goddesses to find out some key facts and then wrote their raps in groups. They had a fantastic lesson and learned lots about the Gods and Goddesses!