Month: January 2020

With mid-year tests and Common Entrance mocks looming, all of the Seniors are developing or putting into practice their revision skills. For the children in Year 6, these tests are as much about providing them with experience of sitting papers under more formal conditions as they are about anything else. It would be remiss of…

Reception completed their first ever school trip this week. Despite the weather, we had a wonderful time taking the train to Hastings to visit the library.  We bought our train tickets from Maggie at Robertsbridge station, who kindly showed us around the ticket office before we got on the train. Once we arrived at Hastings…

CAMERA! ACTION! The Year 8 topic is Planet Earth and our animators have been using inanimate objects and ‘clay’ [Plasticine] to create short movies. With steady hands and the patience of a saint, they have animated their pieces using the app ‘Stop Motion Studio’.  The work of Dexter B, Mary KB and Lucas Maule can…

Year 4 had a wonderful day at Dungeness Power Station on Monday.  It was a horrible wet day which made it even more atmospheric! When we arrived we had to go through strict security and Mr Newman and I even had to show our passports to prove who we were!  We then got kitted up…

All the EYFS department joined together with their amazing dragons for our Woodland march. The weather was very kind and the sun shone down as the children created the longest dragon we have ever seen! They all re-enacted the story of ‘The Great Race’, with the children being different animals and ‘splashing’ across the river…

As the demands of the language have increased for all pupils as the term has progressed, so have their efforts in trying to meet those demands. This started in Year 4 when rudimentary phrases were encountered within the cultural and historical backdrop of Minimus – the mouse who lived at Vindolanda on Hadrian’s Wall.  Topics…

If you have not visited Bexhill Museum yet, it is well worth a trip.  Year 3 enjoyed a fascinating morning discovering more about Ancient Egypt.  The curator, Julian, is an expert on this topic.  After his interesting introduction with artefacts to see close up, there were three activities: designing a mask, decoding hieroglyphs dressed as…

In the Michaelmas term, CADT proved to be a tough topic with a serious message – to begin to understand the design process. From using isometric drawing and axonometric elevations, pupils were able to access new technical drawing skills.  They were asked to think of a purpose for their container and to draw their designs…

Bede’s Galactic Challenge, Saturday 18th January David, Umi, Henry, Isabelle, Sofia, Honor and I arrived at Bede’s after a long bus journey and we sat down in a hall with about fifteen other schools. We were separated into groups and told that we would be representing futuristic space tourism companies. Our aim was to design…

Well what a week it has been in Reception. We started the week with a crime scene. Someone had pushed all our Humpties off the wall that we had built!  We all wrote down our ideas of who it may have been and it was wonderful hearing all the children’s ideas. This was part of…