Team Equality have been working incredibly hard to earn marbles towards their marble jar reward. After a democratic vote earlier this week, they decided they wanted to have extra time in the computing suite. The children opted to make animations and presentations in PowerPoint, play scratch, develop their skills on Tinkercad and spend time on Minecraft too. It was lovely to see how supportive they were of each other and they had lots of fun enjoying their reward. Well done, Team! Keep it up!

Head chef away?  Up steps Mr Hull and seamlessly takes over, ensuring all the sous chefs are kept in line and that the offerings maintain that Michelin standard - thankfully, he was more Rick Stein than Gordon Ramsey!

The blue plaster...well...someone foolishly set him loose with a tool - tin opener 1, Mr Hull 0.  

In a post-cooking interview with myself, Mr Hull stated: "The key is organisation, Paul.  A tidy, ordered kitchen is a happy kitchen.  Keep an eye on your staff, know your timings, and you can be sure that you'll bang out quality and nutritious food that the children will love at an affordable price."

What will he be upto next week?  Watch this space!

It has been another positive week in school and the certificates presented in today's Achievement Assembly were proof of this.

Well done to all of the recipients of today's awards and to all of the boys and girls who, despite the weather, have worked hard and made this week a positive experience for all. 

I just wanted to say how lovely it has been this half term to have the children playing so wonderfully together in our Wednesday games club. It has been a real pleasure to witness.

Every week the children can't wait to get in the new classroom and get the games cupboard open!

They have been playing with a whole range of board games from Headbanz, Frustration and Guess Who to Sink N Sand and Coin Drop. I've been beaten at Chess too!

A reminder that we have clubs here every night of the week and our pupil premium children are entitled to a free club every half term.

Finally if anyone has any board games in good condition they would like to donate we will always be willing to take them off your hands as some of ours are starting to look a little tired now.

Another wonderful week in TB...a week of extremes of weather...from rainy and windy to cold and crisp!  The children have been exceptional, showing loads of our YOU22 attributes!

Lower School have started their sessions this week with two challenges - Muddy Maths and a partner forager challenge.  With the Muddy Maths, children made a mud board onto which they practiced some of their math's key skills, like number bonds and column addition and subtraction (they also played some picture games). 

With the forager challenge, children paired up and explored different parts of the school grounds, collecting items that they found interesting - their partner then had to be inquisitive and try and figure out where the items might be from, before finding ones to match!

Following this, and after a hot chocky and story, we had our final rotation around our Ghanian themed challenges.  

Upper School have started their sessions by examining the HMS Beagle, before making a model of it!  Children used a range of tools and resources for this, and were encouraged to consider proportion when deciding on the sizes of certain parts i.e. how long is the main mast in relation to the hull or how do the size of the sails relate to eachother.  

Following this, some children finished their picture frames while others used the HMS Beagle as a focus for developing water-colour skills or explored rainforest animal-traps before trying to make their own (they identified components, trigger systems, attraction methods and required construction skills).