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Last week we had a whole school Entry Point for our water unit. Children and teachers participated in a ‘walk a mile with water’ activity, which taught us to appreciate the hard work children and adults around the world have to do in order to get water in their houses. The children also learned about the water cycle and they made their own hands-free hand washing devices. Lastly, the children in MP2 did an experiment, to find out what happens...

  This week the children have been doing some wonderful research into how different plants and animals show the 7 signs of life. They also taught me a lot about different types of eggs and presented their findings wonderfully in Slideshow and Powerpoint presentations. We have also been making clocks and learning how to tell the time accurately, as well as using our clocks to solve problems with the passage of time. Something that I think is particularly tricky! In English the children...

As we are waiting for Uganda’s lockdown restrictions to be lifted, we transferred our learning online. Although we do not get to see each other physically, this week we had daily group lessons on Hangout, and each child has had a chance to meet their class teacher individually. Our children wrote letters to each other, in which they practiced using conjunctions, adverbs, and paragraphs. For our IPC entry point, the children made bird feeders – we are now waiting for...

Our MP2 children showed an enormous amount of resilience and adaptability last week when we moved our production up by a few days. They performed ‘Go For Gold’ three times in the space of two days, teaching children, parents, and teachers about the history of the Olympics. It was a spectacular show which will live in our memories for a long time!           ...

We finished our IPC unit – ‘It’s Shocking’ last week and the children invented a toy that use electricity. They first designed the toy before using a variety of materials to construct it. ...