Collective worship VE Day

We hope you have a good time with your family during the VE 75th centenary celebration. Please feel free to send in any photos of your day through Seesaw. A few times to remember tomorrow: 1100 – Two Minute Silence 1500 – Nation’s Toast to the Heroes of WW2 2100 – ‘We’ll Meet Again’ Singalong

CBBC Vote for me

The BBC does like a repeat and for those of you who missed it the first time round, all this week on CBBC is a documentary called Vote for Me, filmed in St Margaret’s Lee in the run up to the general election five years ago.

Gruesome Justice – Anglo-Saxon and Viking style

We spent this afternoon learning about Anglo-Saxon and Viking Laws and Justice. We found out that courts and trial by jury were used by the Anglo-Saxons, fines by both Vikings and Anglo-Saxons and that we are very glad that punishments have moved on from ordeals and being outlawed! We calculated how much we’d have to […]

Rule of Law

In collective worship this morning, we discussed the recent court decision that he prime minister was unlawful to close parliament for five weeks. We drew parallels to our school council being given £1000 to spend, five weeks to decide how to spend it but no discussion allowed! The children were reminded that the rule of […]

Year 6: Talk with Darby & Joan Club

Year 6 visited Kingswood Halls this afternoon to talk to members of the Darby & Joan Club. We asked them questions about growing up in the war and heard about stories and memories of the past.

A letter from the Tate

As you may know, we are taking part in a once-in-a-lifetime art project with the artist and Oscar-winning Director, Steve McQueen, which you can read about here – http://www.tateyear3project.org.uk We had our photograph taken this week and had a workshop with Claire, our photographer. Afterwards, some of the children had more questions about the project […]

Super Soil and Focused Photography

Year 3 aren’t going to let the weather get in the way of a Science investigation. With coats on and iPads in hand, we headed out to the Wildlife Area in order to have a close-up look at soil. We have established that the 4 components of soil are: air, water, organic matter and rocks. […]

The government responds …

Before Christmas, Y6 pupils wrote letters to various companies and the government to ask what they are doing to tackle the problem of plastic pollution. Over the past few weeks, the replies have been coming in. (Aldi, Waitrose, M&S, Tesco, Cadbury’s) It’s really good for the children to see their questions addressed and it’s also […]