February 2021

Feb 2021
Form 3 have continued their hearing and sound Science project during remote learning and have used objects from home to create a 2D or 3D anatomical model, painting or drawing of the ear. The children could decide whether this represented the whole ear or focused on a certain part, such as the eardrum or ossicles. The children found out that sound waves are gathered by the outer ear and sent down the ear canal to the eardrum. The sound waves cause the eardrum to vibrate, which sets the three tiny bones in the middle ear into motion. The motion of the bones causes the fluid in the
RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch 2021
Feb 2021
The annual RSPB's 'Big Garden Birdwatch' returned on 29 to 31 January 2021. Children across the school were encouraged to take part and they found out how to spot the best birds in their garden with a handy RSPB birdwatch guide and recording sheet. 2021 marks the 42nd RSPB 'Big Garden Birdwatch', which saw keen birdwatchers across the UK join the largest garden wildlife citizen science project by spending one hour tracking the birds they saw in their gardens. During that time, across the UK hundreds of thousands of people volunteered their time. Last year, over 500,000 birds were counted
Feb 2021
Pupils across the school have been marking Children’s Mental Health Week with the theme ‘Express Yourself’. Children’s Mental Health Week was created to highlight how important children and young people’s mental health is. Throughout the week, teachers have discussed with the children healthy ways of expressing themselves and reinforcing how self-expression can help boost feelings of well-being. On 3 February the school ran a ‘Dress to Express Yourself' day where children could dress in a colourful way to express how they are feeling or wear their clothes inside out to show how what we see
Feb 2021
Twenty four hundred years ago, Plato, one of history’s most famous thinkers, said life is like being chained up in a cave forced to watch shadows flitting across a stonewall. In Form 6’s Thursday Afternoon Philosophy sessions, they unscrambled the symbolism behind the philosopher’s words in his ‘Allegory of the Cave’, and created their own cave models. Plato was from a wealthy family and was alive from 427BC to 354 BC. He was a student of Socrates, who was a great teacher and philosopher. Socrates didn't write any philosophical work himself, but he is a frequent character in Plato's