Art & Design
Making marks
Year 4 looked at a range of different printing techniques to create a piece of collaborative art.
Art & Design
Mixing colours
In art this week we talked about how a colour can be lots of different shades and hues. The children collected lots of things that are green. We discussed the shades of green and how we can use yellow and blue to make these shades. The children then made some Read more
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Year 3 Birch – observational drawings
We loved looking at our beautiful flowers today and recreating the shapes from the petals and stems. There were some wonderful drawings and the children took their time to create these.
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The Good Samaritan
In forest school this week, we have been on a hunt around the forest. We found lots of pictures from the story, The Good Samaritan. The children discussed the different parts of the story and then they worked together to put the pictures in the correct order. Once they had Read more
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Shared Learning
Year 6 Sycamore welcomed parents and family into our shared learning this morning. We were able to discuss our latest geography topic, Local Fieldwork, as well as the persuasive letters we wrote as part of our English unit. The letters and fieldwork, a traffic survey we conducted outside of school, Read more
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Remembrance Day
Bluebells have been learning about Remembrance Day. We have been making our own Poppies using different materials and we have completed our two minute silence.
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Year 3 Birch – looking for textures in art
Year 3 have had such a fun afternoon looking for different textures to create rubbings from. We looked indoors and outdoors to find contrasting textures to use in our art work. We then came in and created a picture with the rubbings by tearing shapes out of them. They looked Read more
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Printing with paint
The children had fun this afternoon in art printing with paint. We looked at how we could use Lego bricks to create prints by painting and stamping the blocks. The children experiment with pattern, shape and colour. Some children challenged themselves to make their initials using the blocks.
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Year 3 Birch Cave Art
We loved our cave art lesson today! We got under our tables (like we were in a cave) and used paints to create positive and negative prints with our hands. We really enjoyed this and loved being in our “caves”.
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Oaks Shared Learning and lunch
This week we were very excited to have some parents and carers come and join us. The children showed off their writing that they have been doing about seasons. We then talked about the signs of autumn, winter, spring and summer. The children then worked with their parents to create Read more