This week we have been looking at the artist ‘ Raewyn Harris.’ Raewyn is famous for creating Koru art. The Koru is a spiral shaped plant. To people of New Zealand, the Koru represents the unfolding of new life or renewal. First we looked at and discussed Raewyn’s art work. Next we experimented with different designs inspired by her work. Then we learnt how to blend colours with oil pastels. Our final pieces look amazing!
This week we have been learning all about Pablo Picasso! We looked at his style and then watched a video on how someone else did a picture that was similar to one of his. We decided we would do one like Picasso using Primary colours. We now know that the Primary colours are Red, Blue and Yellow. We used pencil to draw out the face, which was designed as if there were 2 different faces Read more
This week we have started our new English topic about butterflies. We have been learning new vocabulary and we came up with different actions to help us to remember these words. Can you guess which action matches each word – unique, proboscis, camouflage, insect, fascinating, metamorphosis, antenna, seasons. To help with the structure of the non chronological report we have been looking at the ‘shapes’. We had to use the shapes put a non chronological Read more
Thank you to Nancy’s mum for coming into school to read us a story. We love reading ‘A Squash and a Squeeze’ and it was even better listening to you read it to us! Thank you!
Just an update of the revised routine for Year 1 Willows. There will also be a letter to go out to explain this. Mondays – Spellings go out Tuesdays – P.E. Thursdays – P.E., hand homework in (Starting on 16th January), including the Maths Passport homework Friday – Spelling test and hand in spelling book. Reading is going to be changing but there will be a letter in due course to explain this. Read more
If you go down to the woods today, you might get a big surprise! Willows definitely got a lovely surprise when they went down to the woods. We received a very special email from Little Red Riding Hood… So we went down and had a look around… As you can see, we were all very excited to see lots of magical things in our wooded area. We talked about how to stay Read more
Year 4 had an exciting opportunity yesterday when a visitor came from Touchstones to inspire us with our learning this half term. We had the chance to learn about the Romans from an expert. The children asked lots of fantastic questions and were very knowledgeable by the end of the session. We can now use all this information to help us during this half term with our topic on ‘The Romans’.
Today, year 4 had a very exciting lesson! A visitor from touchstones came to speak to us all about the Romans. We looked at and discussed Roman artifacts, worked as group to try and build a straight road and learnt lots of interesting facts about the Romans.
Well this weeks been a super busy week, parties, a visit from Father Christmas, Christmas dinners, making calendars, Christmas cards: so busy in fact, Mrs Graham didn’t take a lot of photographs 🙈 Here’s just a few: From everyone in Year 2 we’d like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas 🎄🎄🎄
We have been very busy this half term completing lots of different activities during our Wednesday dinner time club. First we have been interviewing children about Purple Mash and the use of ICT in school. We were really pleased to hear that lots of children love using Purple Mash and like to use the computers in other lessons as well. For this half terms challenge we created a PowerPoint for Coding week we then Read more