This week we have been inspired by Damien Hirst’s skull art works and other examples of decorated skulls in different cultures. We traced over an image of a skull and then decorated it using pastels and patterns of our choice. They look amazing: Once we had finished we walked Read more…
For our new art topic, we are looking at ‘Human form’. Our first lesson was human alphabet. We have been creating letters with our body. We worked with a partner or in a 3 to create the different letters.
This week has been Hour of Code, we went on Space Monkey and had to give instructions to the monkey so he could get the banana’s. https://www.codemonkey.com/hour-of-code/space-adventure/
For our new Design and technology unit we are learning all about healthy eating. This week we looked at hidden sugars in drinks. We had to guess how many teaspoons of sugar were in Coke, Diet Coke, a Smoothie and Strawberry water. We were really surprised that there are 9 Read more…
This week we have been talking about bullying, what it means and what to do if you feel you are being bullied. We watched an assembly explaining what bullying is and we made a pledge to stop bullying. On a hand we wrote 5 people we feel we could speak Read more…
As part of our history unit ‘Movers and Shakers’ and Black History month, we have been learning about Rosa Parks. We have learned about the impact she has had. She was arrested when she refused to give up her seat for a white passenger on a bus.
We have been working hard to design our Christmas cards. We know it is early but on Wednesday 20th October the Christmas card designs will be sent home. These designs can then be made into cards, gift labels, mugs, wrapping paper, or books. You will have up until the 1st Read more…
We used a paper plate to recreate our own designs of Clarice Cliffs ‘Circle Tree’ plate, we used bright colours to paint circles and finishing by using black paint and a straw to blow a tree design.
In history, we have been leaving about Christopher Columbus. We had to ‘explore’ the playground to find out facts about his life. We had to search for pictures of his ship to help answer questions. We worked really well together to find all of the answers.
This morning we went outside to collect leaves during our forest school lesson. We then used these leaves to create an owl picture. Our new story for English is ‘The owl who was afraid of the dark’ so for our first English lesson we had an experience day where we Read more…