On Tuesday, we were visited by guests who brought an indoor Planetarium with them. This was a dome-like tent that we were able to sit inside to explore space.

Some highlights included the projection of different solar systems onto the roof of the dome and the revolving skyline, revealing star constellations in different parts of the world.

Back in the classroom, the children have been engaging with activities that have involved careful thought and an eye for language skills. In English, the children have studied a wide range of poetry types and this week they were challenged to write a poem using personification. With carefully chosen vocabulary, adverbs which imply consciousness and an eye to the structure they used, each pupil produced the most stunning poem, bringing the moon, the rain, the sea or fire to sparkling, vivid life.

Whilst in humanities lessons, the children have been learning about the role of codebreakers at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. Once presented with their own line of code, the children were tasked with using language structure to decipher the message on their page. This was much tougher than it first appeared, and we gained a better understanding of the efforts of great mathematicians during wartime.