Babies Happy St. Patrick’s day. Babies enjoyed our St. Patrick’s themed tuff tray today using malleable material to strengthen their hands. We have also enjoyed looking for signs of spring in the garden. Bluebells This week we have enjoyed creating some tassels to dance with for our Comic relief activities. We have also enjoyed using…
Dear Parents It has been a real, genuine and thoroughly positive pleasure to have the children back in school this week. I had forgotten the joy that the sound of children playing creates! They have been superb in terms of reintegration to the school day and have clearly loved seeing their friends again and running…
Hurrah – it’s fantastic to be able to actually get ‘hands on’ in the lab. Year 8 have been looking into the reactivity series this week and are really enjoying being back in the lab.
In Year 5 we are learning about the rainforests of the world and the history of chocolate We then used our persuasive writing skills and are creating advertising campaigns for our own chocolate bars. We have started designing and making our new chocolate bars with a range of ingredients and even designing packaging too.
What another busy week! We have had lots of fun with some science experiments: we have done some balloon races, the skittles experiment and our personal favourite, the exploding volcano. We have also been practising our writing and decorating some beautiful Mother’s Day cards.
Golden Awards Golden Awards are made weekly to individuals in each class based on the Golden Rules. The child receives a Golden Award badge to wear for the week. The presentations are made weekly in the Pre-Prep assembly. The following children received a Golden Award this week. Reception Proud Clouds Nehemiah O, Sebastian W Year…
The older members of the Eco-Committee presented an assembly to Phase 3 and 4 today about becoming an Eco School. In the autumn term, all the members of the committee in Pre-Prep and Prep helped to carry out an environmental review of the school to identify the good things we already do for the environment…
The children in Year 5 had been curious about how angles worked in the real world. So they have been investigating angle types and how these are used in engineering. Bringing their maths into a real world setting.
The excitement of being back in the Art Room and evidence of spring beginning to emerge all over the school site, has really sparked some fantastic creations amongst the children this week. They have produced some spectacular spring pieces.
Year 3 looked at the artwork of Vasily Kandinsky, particularly the pieces where he expresses his emotions through abstract art. He used colour and shape to respond to feelings and music. The children listened to some music, painting what they saw, felt and heard.
