Year 6 Owls – The Piano

Since the start of the year, the children have been developing their narrative writing using the film ‘The Piano’ as the inspiration. After watching the short film by Aidan Gibbons, the children worked on improving their use of a range of different writing skills. Please enjoy reading their final written pieces. You may wish to…

Christmas comes to Frederick Bird

This week the school has been transformed as Christmas arrived at Frederick Bird. Classrooms have been decorated with lots of lights, lots of sparkle and even a little magic. Every single team across the school has really put the effort into making this happen for our children. You can see from the photos below just…

An Environmental Remaster

As we come to the end of another busy week we wanted to share with you some absolutely beautiful examples of how far our learning environment has come. Below are some photographs of classrooms from across school taken this week. The staff have been working hard for the children so that our classrooms and school…

School’s Gotta Dance

Year 5 and 6 dancers had the opportunity to perform at the ‘School’s Gotta Dance’ event at the Albany Theatre on Tuesday 22nd November. For some it was their first time on stage performing in front of a live audience! Despite how nervous they were, they were amazing and really put on a good show.…

Jeans for Genes Day

Jeans for Genes Day is all about raising money to help some of the most vulnerable people in the UK. As a school we enjoyed wearing our jeans and collecting money in the little pair of jeans last Friday! The children talked about their jeans and the colour of their outfits, as well as basing some…

Year 6 – Golden Age of Islam

Year 6 are currently studying the ‘Golden Age of Islam’. This is a period of time ranging from the civil war between the Umayyads and the Abbasids in 750ce, up until the sack of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258ce. We will be learning about the civil war, the Round City of Baghdad, the House…