Some of our pupils participated in this week’s Music Assembly and a Form 5 pianist played her own composition to Main School. Miss Norford is delighted to have Russell House composers, who enjoy sharing their work with us.

Form 5 have been exploring how computer games are created using the coding programme Scratch. The children have been investigating how games work, looking at features such as inputs and outputs and discussing what makes an effective and enjoyable online game. Over the coming weeks, they will build on this understanding as they learn to code and create their own educational games.

In English, the children have continued developing their reading comprehension skills, with a particular focus on retrieval and inference. Using the text Our Feathered Friends, they have been practising how to find information within a text and use clues and evidence to work out meaning beyond what is directly stated.