Blog Author: Paul Worsnop

Class 12 using their knowledge of Sikhism in religious education, to make either a poster, Kahoot or a presentation. 

As part of Black History Month Class 8 discovered the inspiring story of Mary Seacole, a brave, caring nurse who helped soldiers during the Crimean War. 

We learnt about her life, achievements and the important difference she made to others. Inspired by the pop art style of Andy Warhol, we…

Class 6 loved Kings and Queens Day!

Class 4 have been getting ready for Remembrance Day by making poppies. 

We used paper plates and coloured strips of paper to make our own poppies.

This week, was our first lesson on dance. 

We learnt some clap, stamp actions, and children made their own routines together in groups.

Today we started looking at rocks. We learnt about the rock cycle using starburst as pretend sediments. 

We made our own lava! Then we identified different rocks using a key and tested their properties. 

We used magnifying glasses to look closely and a scratch test to test durability. 

Class 12 have been learning about what might be in their pencil case in French. 

They had a conversation today using the question “What is in your pencil case?“ they all did really well. 

Well done class 12.

Class 12 have been working on a world war 2 inspired landscape this half term. 

They have used charcoal sketching skills for the landscape, then used watercolours to paint poppies as a remembrance piece too. 

In Science over the past few weeks, we have been exploring our senses.

We explored our sense of smell by closing our eyes and smelling different things to try and identify what it was and if they liked or disliked the smell.

This week in RE class 12 have discussed how they can serve others like the Sikh Sewa.

They went onto discuss using their oracy skills whether some acts of service are selfish or selfless. 

This week in art class 12 have used water colour techniques to paint their poppies.

Class 9 did some Oracy in Maths this week. We focused on the listening strand, picking out key information to solve problems. We worked in pairs to solve one and two step addition and subtraction word problems. 

We firstly came up with an action to identify whether we needed to add or subtract…