Year 7 – “Au Café” This term, Year 7’s French topic has been “Au Café – manger et boire” and the children have been putting together sophisticated dialogues in French that they would use in a café. To make the experience a little more authentic, the children had to cook their own pizzas, describe and…
Year 6 were challenged to use all the skills they have learnt this year to design and create their own night light. They have been using all the machinery in the DT lab including: a fretsaw, drill, sander, plastic moulder. They had to create their own electrical circuit they then had to do some soldering…
On Tuesday we took two maths teams to compete in the Littlegarth Maths Challenge. It was a fierce field comprising 16 other local prep schools, which was nearly double the number of entrants since it was last run in 2019. Our Year 5 team comprised Hannah, Huck, Oscar A and Oscar B and our Year…
Land pupils planned and organised an incredibly fun day to raise money for St Helena’s hospice. St Helena’s Hospice is a charity that helps people with an incurable illness and every pound donated will be used to make their lives just that more bearable and exciting. Pupils from Land came dressed in red and there…
Sonic Sound Years 5 and 6 had a visit from Mia and Alex from the Cambridge Science Centre. They came to give us a workshop on Sonic Sound. They taught us how sound works, how it travels and how our ears work. This was an amazing opportunity to learn about sound with examples and lots…
Have you ever wondered when the first piano was invented, or been curious about the origins of the sewing machine? Well, Year 6 at Holmwood House certainly have and, this week, will be sharing with each other what they have found out about these and a wide range of other inventions. For our Global Studies…
Making banana pianos and designing their own eco-themed game using Scratch were just some of the challenges put to a group of Year 6 children, who took part in a fantastic STEAM collaborative event. They put their design, research and teamwork skills to the test and they really enjoyed hosting other Year 6 children from Skippers Hill and Elmhurst.
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…
These Photographs show us the results of Year 6s careful attention to the detail of the glazing process which we explained earlier in term as requiring 3 layers, in some cases 4 layers.
Year 6 made 3D globes from paper, adding maps of the continents as well as the Equator, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn and the Greenwich Meridian. It was a lot harder than we thought it would be!
