Tag: Lower School
Lower School Challenge Days
Year 3 had an amazing Challenge Day; working together and developing their team building skills whilst enjoying and playing with each other. Down on Mary Datchelor the boys played ‘The floor is lava’ where they raced one another in a bid to move from one end of the field to the other, with only a…
Eco Week in Lower School
Before half term, boys all across the school engaged in Eco Week. They honed their knowledge and upskilled their actions in order to make their world, your world, our world a better place for all. In Lower School the children began the week by thinking about waste, identifying all of the locations of the various…
The Power of Reflection
The boys in Lower School know the ‘excellent learning’ skills well. They work to develop their thinking, communication, organisation and memory skills, whilst paying attention to the art of focusing, discovering, linking and creating. The umbrella of ‘enjoying’ and ‘playing’ is never far away, and all of these skills are wrapped up in the boys’…
Lower School learn about the ocean
The boys have begun a new topic of study this term with the focus being ‘Under the Sea’. There was much excitement as the boys got moving by playing ‘Captain’s Coming’, listening to their Captain’s demands as they scrubbed the decks and climbed the rigging. Using the Every second breath project as a stimulus, the…
Science and sewing in the Lower School
The boys are back for the summer term and have been enjoying playing in the sunshine with their friends and getting stuck into their learning. It’s been fabulous to see how many boys have been cycling to school and making good use of our new Lower School bike sheds. In DT, the boys have been…
Lower School explores the past
This week has seen the Lower School boys step back in time as both year groups enjoyed a WOW day exploring and learning about the Ancient Greeks and the Ancient Egyptians. In Year 3, the boys have been creating Death Masks and learning about their significance, as well as looking into the slightly gruesome process of…
