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Year 6 made the most of the outdoor space on offer at the Prep School this week as they embarked on their first Bushcraft session with Mr Thurston. Their main focus was on shelter building skills, where they learnt about the all-important interlocking ‘Y shape’ of the support struts, and set to work building a…

Lockdown restrictions have challenged our ways of teaching and learning, particularly on those projects that involve more than one ‘bubble’ working in collaboration with each other. To mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on our usual team projects, Year 6 and Year 9 have been using ‘Teams’ to work together this term. 12 Year 9 students…

Mr Parkin’s Year 6 Science group have been learning all about light in their lessons this term. They have worked on planning and conducting their own experiments to see how light travels in straight lines and exploring refraction. The children worked really hard to plan these investigations using materials from home. They did a great…

In Drama, Year 6 have been exploring Shakespeare’s comedy, ‘Twelfth Night’. In particular, they have been examining the characters of Viola, Olivia and Malvolio. They worked on the script, focusing on how to make Shakespearean language sound natural and expressive, and using the language as a tool for communicating the characters. In the pictures below,…

Year 6 have enjoyed a fascinating series of Science lessons this term, learning about evolution, endangered species and extinction. The class jumped straight in and looked at examples of the ways in which different species have adapted through natural selection, to make them better suited to their environment. They learnt how this process is part…

As part of their studies into the circulatory system, some of our Year 6 scientists have been making ‘blood soup’! To make the concoction they first had to rummage around in their kitchen cupboards at home to find items to represent the different elements that make up blood.  The ideal recipe uses orange squash to…

Year 6’s new Geography topic on Earthquakes and Volcanoes is off to a fantastic start. The children were tasked with devising their own way to depict the main four layers of the Earth’s structure, the crust, mantle, outer core and inner core. They could use whichever medium they liked and the creativity the pupils displayed…

COVID-19 has forced us all to adapt to new ways of working and whilst we may all be present in school, our year group bubbles are challenging us to be more creative in our approach to learning. Our usual opportunities for Prep School pupils to work with students at the Senior School have been put…

Year 6 were excited to start their People and Leadership Skills (PALS) sessions this week, with Headmaster Mr McKernan. The initiative has always been very popular with the pupils and this year’s cohort were keen to get started. This week, the children started their session by discussing the way we see, think and observe things…

The Year 6 Class of 2020 have had a truly unique last year of Prep School. No one would have envisaged how the last part of the academic year was going to be, but amidst the uncertainty and disruption, the St Edward’s community has demonstrated great strength, adaptability and unity. Current Year 6 pupils have…