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 – 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 […]