Year 5 had an amazing day out at Manchester Art Gallery today. We are extremely lucky to have been chosen to take part in this project. Today was one of the workshop days, which build up to a performance at the Bridgewater Hall. Year 5 are working with musicians from Read more…
Maple have been busy designing and making their own mountain ranges. Excellent teamwork and a super effort to produce some amazing work. Ask the children at home if they know some of the mountain ranges of the world and which continents they are in!
This week we are reading Stickman. To start off our week we spent the afternoon outside looking for sticks that would make perfect stickmen, we found lots of different shapes and sizes! We then used our sticks to make our own stick people on the ground, some were big, Read more…
This week we have be learning what primary colours are and how to make secondary colours. First, we created a colour wheel making our own secondary colours by mixing . We then used our knowledge of colours and took inspiration from Andy Warhol, to create a piece of art split Read more…
For RE today we looked at Islamic art and how it is used to decorate everything from clothing to mosques. We then went outside to write some special words that are important to us. We used colourful chalk to write our important word then used patterns to decorate it. We Read more…
Wow! What amazing patterns the children have created this afternoon! As part of our RE topic this half term (Who is a Muslim and what do they believe?), we have been learning about Islamic Art. The children studied some examples of Islamic art and discussed how the shapes were arranged Read more…
Wow, What a lovely week we have had! This week we were reading ‘What the Ladybird Heard’ and did lots of activities surrounding the story. We painted rocks to make them look like ladybirds, made farms and maps and did some Maths sorting activities in the classroom. In the story Read more…
As part of creating an information booklet on food chains and webs of the Arctic regions, Year 6 looked at how artists use accurate guidelines and proportions when sketching. They looked at how to use simple shapes to help guide them to sketching an accurate outline, as well as Read more…
In our topic we are looking at seasons and how things change over each season. We used different colours to represent what a tree might look like during each season. We used red/pink for the blossom on a tree in Spring. We used green for a Summer tree. We used Read more…
This afternoon in Reception we have been learning about Bonfire Night. We have learnt about Guy Fawkes and we have discussed how we celebrate Bonfire Night. We have also been talking about how we can keep safe at bonfires and with fireworks. Lots of us are very excited to be Read more…
