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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…

Having the chance to spend more time in the Pre-Prep has been a wonderful addition to my job since the beginning of the term and it has meant the variety of things that I encounter each day has certainly increased! I have been able to get into all the classrooms regularly to see what is…

Bonne Année!  Years 1 and 2 started the new year by enjoying a taste of a traditional Epiphany cake from France: une Galette des Rois (à la pomme) rather than with the traditional frangipane filling inside the filo pastry tart.  As is the custom, the youngest child sits underneath the table and calls out a…

On Thursday 9th November, Year 8 were given a presentation by Elevate Education called ‘Memory Mnemonics’. Our presenter taught us many useful techniques and gave us advice in order to help us to revise for the upcoming exams. The three key messages of the talk were remembering information through attention, storage and retrieval. When we are revising,…

What do you do with an old Christmas card?  The only thing to do is to reuse it.  Our Saturday Eco Art Warriors relished the idea of making something new out of something used.  Here are the jewellery boxes they made.  Or at the very least, somewhere to house a pencil sharpener? Tracey Konyu