Having spent a couple of days learning about William Shakespeare, today we explored the opening to his tragedy – Macbeth. We began our morning imagining we were on a bleak […] […]
Danes, Enrichment, PSHE, Puddlebridge Danes Class
Today, Years Five and Six had an extended PSHE session in order to complete their First Aid training. They learnt lots of important knowledge and life skills in order to […] […]
Danes, Enrichment, PSHE Danes Class
Today, Year Six visited the Hazard Alley Safety Centre in Milton Keynes. Our morning was spent learning important messages about drugs and alcohol. During this session, the children learnt what […] […]
Danes, Physical Education Danes Class
Year Six very very lucky to enjoy a session led by Chris of Fit Kidz. They got to grips with how a rowing machine works and practised their technique. They […] […]
Danes, Design and Technology Danes Class
In Design and Technology, we have been developing our skills working with textiles. Our challenge was to design and make an attractive cushion that would also be durable. Before we […] […]
We have been enjoying Zana Fraillon’s beautiful ‘Wisp: A Story of Hope’ in our English learning. Her use of vocabulary and metaphors along with Grahame Baker-Smith’s breathtaking illustrations tell the […] […]
Art and Design, Danes, Drawing, History Danes Class
Our art learning this half-term has enriched our historical learning about the Mayans. We began our learning journey with the learning question ‘What is perspective?’. We looked at a variety […] […]
Danes, Design and Technology, Enrichment Danes Class
Today, Danes Class enjoyed participating in the 2025 GoConstruct K’nex challenge. This is an engineering challenge involving around 180 schools across Hertfordshire and surrounding areas. Led by our local STEM […] […]
Last half-term in Danes Class, our music learning was based on Adele’s cover of ‘Make You Feel My Love’ by Bob Dylan. We learnt the instrumental section on both recorder […] […]
Art and Design, Danes Danes Class
In Danes, we have been learning about Peter Thorpe. We looked at many of his rocket paintings, observing the use of colour in the background and foreground before having a […] […]
Recently, we have been developing our geometric reasoning in maths. We began by looking at properties of polygons and investigating quadrilaterals. Learning about diagonals helped us to deepen our understanding […] […]
Danes, Puddlebridge, Science Danes Class
In science, Years Five and Six are learning about the Earth in space. We have enjoyed becoming experts on our Solar System and the planets within it. We worked in […] […]
Danes, Enrichment, Geography, Puddlebridge Danes Class
Danes and Puddlebridge classes enjoyed an exciting day at the Natural History Museum to enrich our geographical learning. We began the day exploring different areas of the museum before heading […] […]
Danes, Physical Education Danes Class
For our PE learning last half-term, we learnt and performed a dance inspired by the Blitz during World War Two. The dance begins with families waving off their young children […] […]
Danes, Design and Technology, History Danes Class
As part of our learning in design and technology, we have worked in groups to design and make a Second World War Shelter. We learnt how to construct a jinx […] […]
Danes, Design and Technology, History Danes Class
Our first DT topic of the year went brilliantly. We used our prior scientific knowledge of circuits to help construct our own war planes that actually flew. We made a […] […]
Danes, Enrichment, Physical Education Danes Class
Year Six had a wonderful time on their recent trip to Marchants Hill PGL Centre in Surrey. Please enjoy the video to share some of the highlights of their trip. […]
Danes, Enrichment, PSHE, Puddlebridge Danes Class
Today, we had a special visit from three magistrates. They taught all of us in Years Five and Six about how the judicial system works and what job magistrates play […] […]
Danes, Enrichment, History Danes Class
What a brilliant day we’ve had! To enrich our historical learning, we decided to become evacuees for the day. Our special day began with finding the classroom looking rather different; […] […]
Danes, Special Events Danes Class
Today we went to church for our service of Remembrance. Danes and Puddlebridge classes were dressed as evacuees as part of their learning about the Second World War. It was […] […]
In our English learning this week, we have been looking at the effect personification can have in poetry. After watching a virtual reality video in an underground station during an […] […]
In science, we have been learning about air resistance. We had so much fun setting up our own PPPOP investigations using paper helicopters. Some of us tried varying the size […] […]
Art and Design, Danes Danes Class
To begin our learning in art this year, we have sketched Second World War planes. We started our learning journey looking at photographs of a variety of planes and drew […] […]
Danes, Enrichment, Physical Education Danes Class
Thursday 24th October 7:00pm Wow! Standup paddle boarding was so much fun, the lake was so cold and the children got so wet! Everyone ended up in the lake and […] […]
Danes, Enrichment, Physical Education, Puddlebridge Danes Class
Despite the rain, we were delighted that 21 children from Years 5 and 6 were able to represent our school today at the Stevenage Sporting Future Teams Cross Country competition. […] […]
Danes, Enrichment, History, Puddlebridge Danes Class
Puddlebridge and Danes classes had a wonderful day at Duxford Imperial War Museum. The visit supported our learning about World War Two and The Battle of Britain. We started our […] […]
In science, we are learning about forces. We began by exploring what we already knew and were able to name forces such as gravity, friction and air resistance. After discussing […] […]
In music, we are enjoying Livin’ on a Prayer by Bon Jovi – a rock song that was released in 1986. We will also be listening to other classic rock […] […]
Danes, Enrichment, Puddlebridge Aston Updates
What another great show! So much talent in our school and it was wonderful to see all of the children performing together and having fun! Well done to each and […] […]
Danes, Enrichment, Special Events Danes Class
Today, Year Six enjoyed ‘ringing the changes’ during a visit to St.Mary’s Church. Mr Falder taught us all about the bells and how to ring them. We were amazed to […] […]
In science, Years Five and Six have been learning about micro-organisms. We have learnt that microbes can be bacteria, viruses or fungi and that some are helpful whilst others are […] […]
Today, Year Six visited the Hazard Alley Safety Centre in Milton Keynes. Our morning was spent learning important messages about drugs and alcohol. During this session, the children learnt what […] […]
In maths, we have been exploring circles. We began by revising the vocabulary associated with circles – radius, diameter and circumference. We then practised our measuring skills by measuring circles […] […]
Art and Design, Danes Danes Class
In art, we have been producing our own masterpieces inspired by the work of Wassily Kandinsky. First, we learnt about his life and how his work developed and changed over […] […]
Danes, Geography, Uncategorised Danes Class
As part of our geographical learning, we enjoyed a walk to the River Beane. This gave us an opportunity to observe, discuss and embed many aspects of our learning about […] […]
Today in science, we began our learning about the circulatory system. We learnt about the heart and what it does. Many of us chose to draw our own diagrams – […] […]
Danes, Design and Technology Danes Class
Today, Danes Class enjoyed participating in the 2024 GoConstruct K’nex challenge. This is an engineering challenge involving around 180 schools across Hertfordshire and surrounding areas. Led by our local STEM […] […]
Danes, English, Enrichment Danes Class
To celebrate World Book Day this year, each class read The Invisible by Tom Percival. The book centres around very important themes, including poverty, gratitude, invisibility, community, empathy and hope. […] […]
Danes, Design and Technology, Geography, Puddlebridge, Uncategorised Danes Class
What a fantastic day Years Four, Five and Six had visiting Tower Bridge! This visit supported our learning in Geography and DT. In Geography, our focus is Rivers so it […] […]
Danes, Physical Education Danes Class
Year Six really enjoyed their rowing session – despite it being very hard work! During the session, they learnt how to improve their rowing technique whilst competing in various fun […] […]
In maths, we have been developing our geometric reasoning. First, we revised some of the language associated with two dimensional shapes before moving on to explore some of the properties […] […]
As part of our learning in geography about North America, we worked in pairs to carry out our own enquiry about different North American capital cities. We made a class […] […]
Danes, English, Uncategorised Danes Class
In English, we have enjoyed reading the touching story of the life of palaeontologist Mary Anning. We read two books: Stone Girl, Bone Girl and The Fossil Girl. This unit […] […]
Danes, Design and Technology Danes Class
What an exciting start we have had to the term! On our very first day back after the Christmas break, we enjoyed a DT day. We began by learning about […] […]
Art and Design, Danes Danes Class
In art, we have been practising our observational drawing skills by drawing poppies of Remembrance. This built upon our previous learning about how to create texture and depth in our […] […]
Danes, Religious Education, Special Events Danes Class
On Friday 10th November the whole school walked up to the church to take part in a remembrance service. Pupils from Year 6 read prayers and some of them performed […] […]
In English, we have written leaflets to provide essential information to anyone wanting to explore mountainous terrain. First, we needed to become experts ourselves; we did lots of reading from […] […]
Art and Design, Danes, Printing Danes Class
To link with our learning about Roman Britain, we have been looking at mosaics in Art. We learnt about how mosaics were used to decorated the floors in Roman villas […] […]
In science this week, we explored electrical resistance. Our learning question was ‘Does the length of the wire affect the brightness of the bulb?’ Most of us thought that the […] […]
This week, our learning in English has been focussed around Michael Rosen’s poetry collection called ‘On the Move’. We have been inspired by reading many of the poems which are […] […]
Danes, Enrichment, History, Puddlebridge, Religious Education Danes Class
On Wednesday 4th October, Danes and Puddlebridge classes spent the day in St. Albans. Our morning was spent visiting Verulamium Museum to support our learning about Roman Britain. During our […] […]
This Thursday is National Poetry Day and the theme this year is Refuge. Today, we talked about migration and some of the reasons why people might migrate. We choose the […] […]
In Science, we are learning about electrical circuits. We have enjoyed our beginning this learning sequence by building circuits using different components (batteries, bulbs, motors and buzzers) and representing these […] […]
In English, we are looking at Roman Myths. We will be developing our writing skills including experimenting with figurative language, varying sentence structure and how to use a range of […] […]
Danes, Enrichment, Puddlebridge, Uncategorised Aston Updates
What another great show! So much talent in our school and it was wonderful to see all of the children performing together and having fun! Well done to each and […] […]
Danes, Enrichment, Puddlebridge Danes Class
What a fantastic day we had! After thinking that we may not even be able to go yesterday when our coach broke down, we were very grateful to travel in […] […]
Danes, Enrichment, PSHE, Puddlebridge Danes Class
Today, Years Five and Six had an extended PSHE session in order to complete their First Aid training. They learnt lots of important knowledge and life skills in order to […] […]
Today, we used a range of strategies to understand Shakespearian language. Once we were familiar with the extract from Act 1 Scene 3, we prepared a reading of the extract. In this […] […]
Computing, Danes, Uncategorised Danes Class
We have been learning how to create quizzes in Purple Mash using 2quiz. We began by creating a simple picture-based quiz for young children. Purple Mash offers different question types, […] […]
Today, we have begun to explore the wonders of the Fibonacci sequence. We discovered lots of patterns within the sequence. It really was wonderful to hear so much excited ‘maths […] […]
Danes, Design and Technology Danes Class
This week, we have made our own pencil cases. We learnt how to use a sewing machine last year when we made cushions so we were able to refine our […] […]
Please scan the QR code to listen to Danes Class playing their recorders. […]
This term in history, we have been learning about the Transatlantic Slave Trade and about Thomas Clarkson who devoted his life to campaigning to abolish the trading of enslaved human […] […]
We are enjoying our maths learning based upon the book ‘The Number Devil – A Mathematical Adventure’. In this book, we meet twelve-year-old Robert and the Number Devil who brings […] […]
Danes, Design and Technology Danes Class
In DT, we have been making bread. We began by sampling some different breads from around the world. We compared their taste, their texture and their appearance. Some of our […] […]
This term in PSHE, we are considering our short-term and long-term goals and the step we can take to achieve these. We began by looking at different qualities and strengths […] […]
Danes Danes Class
We are so very, very proud of everyone in Year Six; last week, they completed their SATs assessments with such determination and enthusiasm. Despite some tough papers, they stayed positive […] […]
Danes, Puddlebridge, Science Danes Class
We have now completed our sequence of science lessons about the properties and changes of materials. We have learnt about reversible and irreversible changes – we were amazed to discover […] […]
Danes, Design and Technology, Uncategorised Danes Class
We enjoyed our challenge to design and make a Moon Buggy or Mars Rover. First, we needed to research these vehicles to learn about their features and functions. Next, we […] […]
We throughly enjoyed writing our own non-chronological reports about the imaginary planet, Pandora. These were inspired by the book ‘Planetarium’ by Raman Prinja. We published these in our own class […] […]
This half term, we have enjoyed reading The Watertower and Boy in the Tower. We have looked at how the authors create a sense of mystery and build suspense. When […] […]
Danes, Enrichment, Science, Uncategorised Danes Class
On Thursday 2nd February, we visited Bayfordbury Observatory to support our learning about Earth in Space. First, we enjoyed a presentation all about our universe and beyond. We learnt so […] […]
Art and Design, Danes Danes Class
In art, we will be looking at the work of artist Peter Thorpe whose life-long love of space exploration has inspired much of his work. We will be learning about […] […]
Danes, Design and Technology, History Danes Class
Having learnt about forces in science last half term, we were able to apply our understanding of levers in design and technology as we worked in groups to design and […] […]
Art and Design, Danes, History, Uncategorised Danes Class
In art, we have been developing our drawing skills. First, we experimented with different grades of pencil before focussing on how texture, shade and tone. After that, we looked at […] […]
Danes, Enrichment Aston Updates
PGL Video Marchant's Hill 2022 […]
Danes, Enrichment, Physical Education, Puddlebridge Danes Class
PLEASE NOTE: We have just looked at the posts on a phone and realised that some of the photos are better viewed on a computer Thursday 20th October – 10:00pm […] […]
Danes, Enrichment, History, Puddlebridge, Uncategorised Danes Class
On Friday 7th October, Puddlebridge and Danes classes visited the British Museum to support and enrich their learning in History. We had a fantastic day and were so very proud […] […]
Danes, Uncategorised Danes Class
This term in history, we will be learning all about the Ancient Egyptian Civilization. Our learning will help us to answer questions such as ‘How can we discover what ancient […] […]
Danes, Enrichment, Music, Puddlebridge, Uncategorised Danes Class
What a show! So much talent in our small school and wonderful to have everyone performing together again. Well done to the whole cast. […]
Art and Design, Danes, Uncategorised Danes Class
In art, we have been looking at the work of Wassily Kandinsky. We created our own pieces of abstract art inspired by his work. We were able to apply our […] […]
Danes, Enrichment, Uncategorised Danes Class
Danes, Puddlebridge, Science Danes Class
In science, Years Five and Six have been learning about micro-organisms. We have learnt that microbes can be bacteria, viruses or fungi and that some are helpful whilst others are […] […]
Danes, Enrichment, Uncategorised Danes Class
Year Six had a fantastic day at Redbourn County Showground. They learnt lots about farming, food production and the countryside. Highlights of the day included a tractor ride and a […] […]
Danes Danes Class
Today, we enjoyed taking part in the STEM K’nex Challenge. We had to design and make a bridge to span a river which could lift, slide or move to allow […] […]
Danes, Design and Technology, Uncategorised Danes Class
In Design and Technology, we have been developing our skills working with textiles. Our challenge was to design and make an attractive cushion that would also be durable. Before we […] […]
Danes Danes Class
This half term in history, we will be learning about the Mayan empire. Some of our learning questions will include: What was life like at the height of the Mayan […] […]
Danes, Enrichment, Geography, Puddlebridge, Science Puddlebridge
Puddlebridge and Danes classes had a fantastic day out at the Natural History Museum to support our ‘Extreme Earth’ topic. We started the day by exploring the Volcanoes and Earthquakes […] […]
Danes Danes Class
Our learning in English will support our scientific learning as we will read ‘Stone Girl Bone Girl’ and ‘The Fossil Girl’ -both of which tell the story of palaeontologist Mary […] […]
In science this term, we will be exploring how scientists believe life on earth has evolved over millions of years. We will learn about the importance of the fossil record […] […]
Danes, Geography, Uncategorised Danes Class
In geography this term, we will be learning about geological forces from deep within the Earth. We will find out about volcanoes, earthquakes and other natural disasters. As part of […] […]
Danes Danes Class
Danes class began their Maths week with some outdoor learning. First, they practised their estimation skills by searching for natural materials of given lengths. After that they applied their understand […] […]
Danes, Uncategorised Danes Class
We enjoyed designing and making our own Second World War planes. We had lots of ideas about how the wings and tail should look having visited Duxford Imperial War Museum […] […]
Danes, Enrichment, Puddlebridge Danes Class
Puddlebridge and Danes class had a wonderful day at Duxford RAF Museum. The visit supported our learning about World War Two and The Battle of Britain. We started our day […] […]
Danes Danes Class
In science this half term, Years Five and Six will be learning about electrical circuits. This will include: drawing circuit diagrams using recognised symbols; constructing simple circuits; investigating how bulbs […] […]
Danes, Uncategorised Danes Class
In English, we are studying ‘Goodnight Mister Tim’ by Michelle Magorian. Set in the Second World War, young Willie Beech is evacuated to the countryside. He is taken in by […] […]
We love being challenged in maths! To begin our maths learning in Danes, we are enjoying ‘A Week of Inspirational Maths’ which includes learning all about the importance of understanding […] […]