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Year 4 have started a new Humanities topic this term, ‘Rivers’. They have been talking about the fact that the water in rivers is flowing and thinking about the impact this has on the contents of the river. To illustrate the point, the pupils mixed sand, soil and stones together, poured them into a bottle…

Prep School pupils in Years 3-6 led us in a truly magical service, at the Candlelit Festival of Carols & Readings, held at St Mary’s Church this week. For the first time since 2019, the school community enjoyed the opportunity to gather in church together and celebrate the Christmas story. Through a combination of readings,…

Prep pupils have been working hard in their games lessons over the course of this term, to learn new techniques and tactics to employ during their Hockey and Rugby matches. They have played an extensive season of competitive fixtures against a range of local schools and performed fantastically. Over the last few weeks however, the…

In their English lessons, Year 4 have been reading the adventure story ‘The Firework-Maker’s Daughter’ by Philip Pullman. The class have been thoroughly enjoying the story and were excited to take the topic into their Drama lessons. The pupils relished the opportunity to step into the story and explore the characters in more depth. Working…

We are very lucky here at St Edward’s, to be able to offer whole-class instrument lessons. This term, it is the turn of our Year 4 pupils to pick up a violin and get playing! A notoriously tricky instrument to perfect, the children started slowly and began by familiarising themselves with the parts of the…

As part of their science topic on Human Impact, Year 4 visited Westonbirt Arboretum this week and enjoyed taking part in a number of activities related to Woodland Management for Wildlife. The activities included looking for evidence of living things that use trees for shelter or food, a game called “Shrinking Forest” where they learnt…

Kodu is a 3D game development environment that is designed to teach children basic programming principles. Children in Year 4 have started to create their own games in Kodu, including building the terrain for their virtual world, populating it with characters and then programming their behaviours. This project builds on skills that the children have…

On Tuesday afternoon, Year 4 took part in an electrifying practical Science lesson! The children were asked to investigate a variety of materials to ascertain which were conductors and which were insulators. The children familiarised themselves with the properties that would class a material as a conductor (materials that allow electricity to pass through them…

Children in Year 6 and Year 3 have been taking part in a very exciting Project this year. The ‘Erasmus + Profile Project‘, aims to facilitate learning financial literacy in EU schools. Run by the University of Gloucestershire, the project has partner schools in Italy, Croatia, and Hungary, with St Edward’s working with the project…

As part of their Science topic on Sound, Year 4 were set the challenge of making their very own musical instrument. It could be a string, percussion or wind instrument, and the children were asked to construct it using items they could find around the house like bottles, straws, boxes, tins and elastic bands! They…