Last half term, children in lower school made a video and wrote letters to Vernon Coaker, our local MP, about the devastating effects of plastic pollution. On Friday, they were very excited to receive letters from the House of Commons in London in response. What a fantastic outcome after all that hard work and passion! Continue reading

A fun afternoon in Lower School preparing healthy pizzas. We tried to include as many nutrient groups as possible! Continue reading

This week, children in lower school carried out a fair test experiment to investigate which liquids cause the most damage to our teeth. Take a look at our pictures to see what we discovered! Continue reading

Lower School have been learning all about plastic pollution over the past couple of weeks. We have been considering the many ways in which we can make a difference and help find solutions to the problem. On Friday, we took part in the Great Plastic Pick Up and removed plastic litter from the local community! Continue reading

Badgers spent their final day at Duke’s Barn putting their team work skills to good practice. We enjoyed exploring the ropes course, reaching the top of the climbing wall and facing our fears on the zip line! Continue reading

Badgers had a fantastic time canoeing at Duke’s Barn! Races, battleships, raft building, water fights and our best titanic poses followed by hot chocolate and biscuits on the lake side - what a morning! Continue reading

Class 3 decided to make the most of the lovely weather and 'Drop Everything And Read' in the sunshine today! Fingers crossed for more sunny weather next week... Continue reading

Class 3 started the day by combining their teamwork skills with their geographical knowledge, in a race to see which team could draw, label and define different features of a river the fastest! Continue reading

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Today, Lower School were visited by an archaeologist! We learnt how archaeologists find artefacts and how they work out which time period they come from. It was fascinating to think about how a few objects can begin to tell stories from the past. To top it all off, we even had the chance to hold real Roman pottery, coins and even poo! What a way to end our topic! Continue reading

Our Porchester Parliament members felt very privileged this morning during their visit to meet the Mayor in the council chambers. We learnt lots about what is involved in being a Mayor and we debated the topic of litter and recycling. We've come away with lots of ideas about how we can make an impact in our local community and further afield - watch this space... Continue reading

Class 3 enjoyed a game of sentence starter roulette to help them learn how to use fronted adverbials! Continue reading

Class 3 spent the afternoon working collaboratively to investigate how changing the distance between a light source and an object affects the size of a shadow... Continue reading

Miss Mintey's maths group were very excited this morning about the launch of Times Tables Rock Stars! I wonder who will be our first rock hero?! Continue reading

Class 3 'doing their thing' for Children in Need 2017! Continue reading

Year 3 have been persevering with column subtraction recently. Luckily they're getting so good at it that they've even been able to correct all of Miss Mintey's marvellous mistakes! Take a look at Belle's reasoning... Continue reading

What an amazing effort Class 3 have made for World Science Day! We definitely have some future scientists in the making... Continue reading

What a fantastic half term we've had exploring the Stone Age! Class 3 have been very busy digging for evidence, researching animals of the Stone Age, designing our very own cave paintings, producing rock databases, building Stonehenge out of biscuits, as well as creating sunset silhouette art work. With a little help from Ug, Om and The Stone Age Boy, we've also written some fabulous setting descriptions, instructions on how to catch a prehistoric beast and diary entries sharing how much we hate wearing stone trousers! We finished our topic by reflecting on everything we've learnt and working collaboratively to produce a whole class Stone Age fact file. Continue reading