This week we have started on our new topic about the Stone Age. We have started reading the Stone Age boy and have started writing our own Stone Age adventure story. In the afternoons, we have been creating art work for the front of our Topic books. Here are some Read more…
This week, Year 5 have made an excellent start to their new topic ‘Stargazers’ by learning about the planets. We began by creating art work for the front covers of our books, then we learnt the names of the planets and the order from the sun. We created mnemonics to Read more…
This afternoon we have done a lovely art lesson where the children used colour to make season trees. They thought about what the trees would look like at each time of the year and created beautiful pictures to represent each season. I love the winter ones the best with Read more…
As part of our topic lessons, we have learnt about which animals and insects are friends of the garden and which are foe. We then designed and made our own garden bugs. We created the shape using newspaper, then added mod rock and left to harden, before painting and adding Read more…
This week in Year 3 Birch we have been finishing our half-term topic. At the beginning of this week we made our volcanoes out of coke bottles and paper mache with Mrs Murphy! Then today with Miss North, we have completed a science experiment to test different mixtures to see Read more…
This week we have been making and erupting volcanoes. We created a volcano using paper mache, painted them and investigated which mixture would create the best eruption. Here are some pictures of our week.
We have begun our Christmas festivities early this year! Oaks have been busy this morning listening to Jingle Bells whilst creating some very special Christmas cards! The children will bring their designs home tomorrow – if you would like to order a set of cards with your child’s design, please Read more…
Year 1 have been learning all about African art this week – as lots of the animals we have been learning about come from African! We looked at the colours and patterns that the Ndebele tribe use to decorate their rugs, baskets and walls. We then used pencil crayons to Read more…
This afternoon, Willows have been looking at traditional African patterns. We learnt about an African tribe in South Africa called the Ndebele Tribe. We decided to design a rug with traditional African patterns using oil pastels. Whilst we were designing our rugs, we listened to some traditional African music, which Read more…
We have been learning about the artist Andy Goldsworthy who creates art using stones, pebbles and rocks. We created mood boards so we could explore some of his work and then we created our own piece of art work using stones that we collected from around the school grounds. Have Read more…