UPPER KEY STAGE 2

This year, the children have celebrated being back to school full time for most of the year. Their resilience and determination is truly humbling and it has been a pleasure to welcome everyone to a degree of ‘normality’ this year.

Throughout the pandemic and lockdown, the way children had to learn changed considerably as we moved to a more hybrid approach to learning. There is no doubt that as a community, this was very challenging, but as a result, our learners have made considerable progress in their use of and understanding of technology to support their learning. As new technologies continue to change the world in which we live, they also provide many new and positive educational benefits. This year, we launched Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) in UKS2, an initiative where every pupil brings their own technological device to school to enhance their education in innovative and 21st century ways. The concept has been a phenomenal success and will grow next year with the introduction of hybrid learning from Year 3.

This new style of learning afforded us the opportunity to re-write our curriculum this year and we introduced several new themes across the phase.

As children returned to the classroom, BSME competitions also resumed. Three hopefuls were selected for this year’s BSME Art competition and they used a variety of media to portray the Doha skyline. Sarah Bennett

Head of Upper Key Stage 2