Art & Design
Cherry Blossom Trees
This week, Reception have been painting cherry blossom trees. We have been colour mixing to create different shades of pink for the blossom. Everyone worked really hard!
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Forest School fun
Ash moved their art learning outdoors, using the natural environment as inspiration while working with clay. The woodland setting, filled with leaves, trees, and varied textures, sparked creativity and encouraged curiosity throughout the activities. In the first session, pupils were introduced to clay and given time to explore how it Read more
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The Festival of Holi
This week in Reception we have been learning about the country India and the festival of Holi. The children enjoyed exploring where India is on a map and learning about Indian animals, food, famous landmarks and traditional clothing. As part of our creative activities, the children made Indian flags and Read more
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Clay in forest school
Year 2 Forest School Art: Exploring Clay During our recent Forest School sessions, Year 2 pupils took their art learning outdoors and explored working with clay in a natural environment. Being surrounded by trees, leaves, and natural textures provided the perfect inspiration for creative work while also supporting pupils’ curiosity Read more
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World book Day
📚✨ World Book Day in Maple Class! ✨📚 Maple Class had a fantastic time celebrating World Book Day and Careers week! We saw some amazing costumes including Tracey Beaker, the Hulk, Snow White, Cinderella and many more wonderful characters. It was brilliant to see everyone bring their favourite stories to Read more
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Careers Week
This week Reception have been exploring different careers. At the beginning of the week, parents and adults came into school for shared learning. Everyone explored and discussed different careers with their adults. They enjoyed being an artist and creating pieces of artwork, being a doctor and looking after their patients, Read more
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Art lesson
This week’s art learning involved 3D shapes and making one using a 2D net. The children used cutting, folding and building skills.
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Creating sculptures
To complete our sculpture focus during our art lesson, we worked together create a 3D sculpture. We created a gigantic spider. We worked together to fold and roll news paper and then attach pieces together to create the legs, arms and body of the spider.
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3D Spider
This half-term, Year 1 have been exploring the art skill of creating 3D forms using paper. During our recent lesson, the children worked collaboratively to design and build a large spider model inspired by Maman by Louise Bourgeois. We used a variety of techniques to turn newspaper and tape into Read more
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Random Act of Kindness
Reception have been discussing how we can show a random act of kindness. This afternoon, Reception decided to make cards and pictures of our nursery children. We hope they like them and they make them smile!