On Thursday 18 March two teams in Years 5 and 6 competed in the General Knowledge Quiz Club Semi-Finals. Quiz Club is a national inter-school competition and the heat was hosted live online by a professional Quizmaster. The show was very much like a television game show, with instant onscreen scoring making it thrilling entertainment, watched by…
Pupils in Phase 3 have returned to find some new additions to the library. We have some lovely new books on display about nature, which we received earlier this year as part of a box full of goodies from the Don Hanson Charitable Schools Programme (it also included seeds and resources to build a bug…
Some children in the prep school have been designing their own ‘Wanted‘ posters to practise physical description in Spanish. Ottilie’s dog Sprout, who I had the pleasure to meet online, is wanted for ‘barking and being too quick at eating her food’. However, the main objective of this task, of course, is that the children…
Year 4 have been investigating perimeter and area. They created shapes and pictures using a geo board and calculated the area or perimeter of their shapes. The children demonstrated super learning and some wonderful creativity.
In Global Studies lessons this week we have been making some Viking Bling! We were learning about the importance of jewellery to the Vikings and then created our own brooches.
The pupils in Year 5 are learning about the Vikings and this week made Viking helmets, swords and shields.
Quiz Club is a national inter-schools competition which aims to boost confidence, broaden knowledge and encourage great team work. All quizzes are being undertaken online, and parents will be able to watch the children compete live online. We are looking for pupils in Years 5 and 6 to take part in the General Knowledge Quiz which…
The very last cookery session of this term resembled Santa’s Christmas Kitchen as the Ho Ho Holmwood elves were busy creating colourful Christmas cake toppers out of fondant icing. They look amazing!
Year 6 completed a dissection where they got hands on with the parts of the circulatory and respiratory system. Pupils gave mixed reactions to the various parts of the systems and enjoyed (ish) feeling the textures of the various organs. They then watched how to dissect a heart, identifying the parts as they went and…
CHRISTMAS has landed! The Phase 3 Christmas party got all of the pupils in the Phase in the Christmas spirit. This was the first year that the party was held after school and the pupils loved the extended party atmosphere all the way up to bedtime. Each year group had a chance to visit three…
