This week we’ve had great fun learning about the Trojan war and the Trojan horse in our topic lessons, where children wrote fantastic diary entries imaging their lives as Spartan soldiers. In our Maths lessons we’ve been learning all about Angles and using protractors...
Upper School News
Upper School
Year 5 Weekly Roundup
This week we have had a varied and fun week. We loved learning about Theseus and the Minotaur in our topic and English lessons, composing poetry inspired by Wilfred Owen’s ‘Dulce et Decorum est’ on Remembrance day and investigating some tricky fractions in...
Year 3 Weekly Roundup
This week Year 3 have been looking at features of Instruction Texts and learning about imperative (bossy) verbs. The children followed instructions to make a pirate hat. In Maths we have been learning about Fractions. The children have been understanding how to find ...
Year 5 and 6 Cycling Competition 2020
Year 5 and 6 were lucky enough to take part in Cycling Club Hackney’s school cycling competition this week. The challenge was to complete 250m - the circumference of the velodrome in the quickest time possible on a stationary bike. This proved to be a really exciting...
Year 4’s Bonfire Night Work
This week, we've been learning about Bonfire Night and the Gunpowder Plot. We've been creating some digital media inspired by these events. The children learnt about fireworks safety and then created firework safety posters using PicCollage. They thought about...
Democratic Time – Bird Feeders
In one of the Key Stage 2 bubbles, children have chosen to create bird feeders and place them on the trellises of the Year 6 balcony. As we head into autumn, it's important to ensure the wild birds have access to food, so the children doing their bit means a lot to...
Year 6 Have Fun with Microorganisms
The Year 6 science topic is ‘Living Things’ so they have been having fun with microorganisms. After learning which microorganisms are harmful and which are helpful and carrying out an investigation on the best conditions to grow mould, it was time to have fun with...
Year 4 Visit our Local Garden Centre
Earlier this week, our Year 4 class paid a visit to our local garden centre, N1. The staff there were brilliant and were kind to offer our children a little plant to take back to school to look after. Here's a slideshow of their afternoon...
Year 6 Create Ancient Greek Pots
To begin our topic on Ancient Greece, the children researched the use of and decoration for the pots and vases that were used. They then designed their own - depicting scenes from Greek myths, famous battles or Olympic sports - and then created their pieces from...
Year 5 Making Great Progress!
This week we have been working hard on our writing skills. We have been writing instructions for how to capture the Greek mythical beasts that we designed last week in our workshop - this has been really creative and fun. We’ve also worked really hard in our maths...