Science Week at The Olive Tree: Focus on Marine Biology and Marine Sciences
Each Spring, for one week The Olive Tree transforms into a hub of all things science. Science Week, an annual event at The Olive Tree, involves the whole school in a host of activities spanning four days. This year’s Science Week focused on Marine Biology and...
Year 3: Art Through Fashion Design
Inspired by the work of Vivienne Westwood, Julian Opie and Henry Moore, Year 3 have been designing clothes, modelling body shapes and drawing each other. We began by learning to draw body shapes using chalk on the playground. In the classroom, we used felt tip pen to...
English History Year 7: The Peasant´s Revolt
Recently, Year 7 re-enacted the Peasant´s Revolt. We began the lesson by looking at a real peasant´s motives for joining the march, identifying the long and short term causes, and then we discussed which was his greatest motivation and why. Last week the pupils wrote...
Let’s Be Dragonologists
Year 5 have been led into a fantastical world where dragons exist. I posed as a secret dragonologist sent on a mission to find a dragon that had been spotted in the area. The email that I “received” from Dr. Albert Drake, the head of The Secret and Ancient Society of...
