Blog by Tag: Writing

Yesterday, 5JS were extremely lucky to visit Simon Langton Girls school for a day of biodiversity activities. We begun the day by going on a bug hunt using identification sheets to identify what we had caught. We used nets and a sweeping technique through the grass. We found lots of centipedes, a…

Year One were very excited to welcome the Rt Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkin (the Bishop of Dover and the Bishop in Canterbury) into school. Rose was invited by the palace to be part of the coronation ceremony and presented The Queen Consort's Rod. Year One interviewed Rose about her previous experience…

Story-telling. Art, writing and drama project.

Year two love a cross-curricular project! In term 5, we delivered a story-telling project combining art, writing and drama. The over-arching topic for the term was Indonesia and both art lessons and writing lessons used the country and its…

The Bridge Times Edition 6 has arrived and it is bigger than ever! Thank you again to our reporters for their continued, informative contributions!

Welcome to the fifth edition of The Bridge Times. This week the reporters are looking ahead to The Bridge Proms as well as looking back at the impact of The Dogs Trust workshops. We hope you enjoy reading the articles.

Edition IV of the Bridge Times includes excitement about Saturday's coronation of King Charles, a special interview with one of our members of staff and some sporting success. Thank you again to our four year 5 reporters!

The staff and children of Year 3 arrived this morning to see Paddington had visited the year group...and had caused havoc across both classrooms! After further investigation, it seemed he had been intrigued by our learning about the famous fury creature, and wanted to pay us a visit. However, his…

We hope you enjoy the third edition of The Bridge Times, including an interview with the chair of the PTA and some exciting sports news.

We are delighted to announce that Edition II of the Bridge Times has arrived. Please click on the link below to find out what has been happening in school recently!

Last term, Year 5 were studying the story of Beowulf within their English lessons. Drawing upon their descriptions of the monster in their writing, pupils designed and constructed Grendel’s severed head from clay.

Beware, these sculptures are grotesque and incredibly scary!

We began the…

We are delighted to see that four Year 5 children have resurrected the school newspaper - The Bridge Times. You can see the first edition below, we hope it will be the first of many!

In English today, we had an Experience Day looking at the Stone Age medium of cave art. We explored the meaning behind lots of different examples and discussed why and how these illustrations would have been created. Following that, we divided into 'Stone Age Tribes' and devised a backstory for…