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Key Stage 3L ventured out into the community to visit the local shops and purchase an ice-cream as the weather was very warm.  The students had to locate the items, work out the cost and pay for everything at the tills.  As always the class were brilliant and represented the school wonderfully in…

What a lovely celebratory afternoon we had when our families joined us for afternoon tea. Students planned and made all the goodies and really enjoyed sampling their hard work - and even shared some with their parents. We just want to say a massive thank you to everyone involved. It was a…

In our English lesson, Key Stage 3L have been reading The Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo.  In this activity the students had imagine they were the character 'Bertie' from the story.  They had to imagine his thoughts and feelings about a situation that happened in the book and write a diary…

In Humanities KS4 have been learning about volcanoes. Over the last 4 weeks we made our own volcano. We then made our volcanoes explode using coke and mento mints.

Students from KS4 have been working on numbers in their numeral and word form. KS4W set up some different activities in the school hall to match up the numerals to the correct word.

Pupils from KS4 took their maths skills to the community, practicing using operations to calculate how much their purchase will cost and how much change should be received. They did a fantastic job! They also practiced community safety, identifying hazards and being able to identify and follow…

KS4C demonstrated the process of turning a liquid into a solid by making ice cream in science. 

Ks4w enjoyed learning all about how dandelions transform into white globes of exposed seeds called puffballs. They learnt that these seeds are easily dispersed with a light breeze. The children had to search for Dandelions  and puffballs and then blow them to see how far the seeds would…

We loved learning about the Coronation event and made our own crowns ready to role play being the King or Queen.  We then each experienced sitting on the throne before being crowned. After that we royally processed through the school, waving as we went. Once finished with the ceremony, we had a…

Ks4W enjoyed celebrating the coronation of King Charles III. They enjoyed making king cookies, Crowns and fine motor activities linked to the theme.

KS4C have enjoyed celebrating the Kings Coronation.

KS4 pupils have been practicing their money skills and independence by running and organising a departmental tuck shop each Friday.