It has been another busy week in Lower School. On Monday, it was wonderful to see so many parents at the Games Open Afternoon. Whilst the boys and some girls are learning the rules of rugby, the rest of the girls have been developing their evasion skills in netball.
In English, year 3 pupils have enjoyed exploring adventure stories and are now in the planning stage of creating our own. As the children are learning about Ancient Egypt in topic, their adventure story will be set in Egypt. If you want to test their knowledge, ask them why the River Nile was so important?
It has been an exciting week for year 4. First up was the trip to the Natural History Museum at Tring where the primary focus was art, specifically, sketching birds for future reference in art lessons. However the children also attended a thought provoking science workshop which tested their prior knowledge of skeletons and animal adaptation. Chase (pictured) is looking carefully at the skeleton of this animal to work out what it is.
Back at school, science didn’t feel like science when the children were melting chocolate as part of an investigation, and in topic the Anglo Saxons have been settling in various strange, yet familiarly named, parts of Britain. And finally, thank you to 4T for an excellent assembly on States of Matter. The first of many in the Apthorp Hall! We were also treated to an assembly all about Chinese New Year delivered by Tara and Devika.