Year: 2020

3 December 2020

These last two weeks the Upper School pupils have enjoyed experimenting with clay, learning to roll it , attach and shape it, to create faces that display different hairstyles, characteristics, and expressions. They then painted their creations in acrylic paints and finished them off with PVA glue to add a bit of shine. The pupils are all looking…

27 November 2020

“It was a challenging day, but the feeling when you accomplish it (making a puppet) is amazing!”  Year 5 Dolphin Pupil.   Song Bird Last Friday was an extraordinary day for the Upper School!  Pupils were treated to a Google Meet call with master marionette maker, Tony Sinnett- one of only 3 Marionette craftsmen in the UK. ( https://companyofmarionettes.com ) …

27 November 2020

Year 5 have had a tremendous time investigating which materials are soluble. We tried dissolving salt, sand and glitter in separate beakers then filtered the mixtures to see which materials were collected by the filter paper. We noted the sand and glitter were not soluble since they were collected in the filter paper but the…

27 November 2020

The Year 1 Pearls have been learning about recycling with some help from Michael Recycle and Litterbug Doug! Feeling inspired, the Pearls had a go at making their own recycled paper using a mould and deckle. After ripping up sheets of old scrap paper and soaking them in hot water, the children really enjoyed putting…

27 November 2020

Year 4 Emeralds started their scientific studies about capacity with a cold and wet investigation outdoors. After careful measurements, discussion and estimation of capacity amounts, they predicted the number of trips required to fill a classroom tray with water using their allocated vessels. Working in partners, they impressed their teacher with super duper teamwork and…

19 November 2020

In the Upper School we have been working on portraits this term, focusing on learning the different features and their position in relation to other features on the face. We started with an abstract portrait to build confidence, encouraging the children to draw without a rubber- a wrong mark can always be changed into something wonderful! We then looked at the work of the artist Julian Opie…

19 November 2020

Roll up your sleeves Mix bits of solid food with saliva Close the mouth Munch it all up Add stomach acid Pour into small intestine Squeeze the nutrients into the body Push the remains into the large intestine Expel the waste

19 November 2020

Year 2 Sapphires completed a droplets investigation in Science to find out how absorbent different materials were. We made a hypothesis, completed the investigation and drew conclusions. The winner was the blue hand towel – so definitely choose this to wipe up any spills from your water bottles at lunch time – it is much…

12 November 2020

On Wednesday, the Year 3 Rubies spent time reflecting on Remembrance Day, considering the many millions of lives that have been lost to war and discord. We wanted to create something that would act as a reminder, in the days and weeks to come, of how much we have to be thankful for as well…

12 November 2020

The children have also been learning about Remembrance Day and why we wear poppies. 1SS cleverly used potato stamps to create these beautiful poppy paintings!