This week we have been exploring our new topic Prehistoric Britain. We became archaeologists and student ancient artefacts. We have also used our arts and craft skills to create art work inspired by Stone henge. Here are some pictures of our learning.
Year 4 Maple have settled in brilliantly! Our class text for our English lessons this half term is The BFG By Roald Dahl so we started the school Year off with some fun BFG activities. We created dream catchers, drew pictures of the BFG and we also looked at some Read more
A huge welcome back to everybody. We’ve had a busy week getting to know each other and Mrs Graham has been really impressed with how well we have all settled back into school. We have started learning about The Great Fire of London and the children have all showed fantastic Read more
Year 3 Birch have had so much fun for our first week back. We have made woolly mammoths, read stories, wrote about our hopes and dreams, talked about what is important to us and revised over what we learnt in Year 2.
During Art week we learnt about Andy Goldsworthy, he used lots of natural materials to create sculptures and pieces of art. We recreated a sculpture with paint and chalk. We really enjoyed it, we hope you like our artwork too.
The whole school took part in an ‘Art Week’ last week. Year 2 studied the artist David Hockney. We found out lots of information about the artist and his creations and created an artist study in our sketchbooks. We then created our own Hockney inspired Art using acrylic paints.
In Year 6 during Art Week, children thoroughly enjoyed creating their own artist study of Vincent van Gogh. We learned that he was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter and artist; we learned all about his life, his artwork and how he became one of the founders of Impressionism. Year 6 used Read more
In Year 5 during Art Week, children thoroughly enjoyed creating their own artist study of Claude Monet. We learned that he was a French artist and learned all about his life, his artwork and how he became one of the founders of Impressionism. Year 5 used their artistic skills and Read more
During Art week, Year 4 researched the artist ‘ William Morris.’ First they went on a hunt outside to find facts that were around the play ground about William Morris. Next, they used the facts they had learnt to create an artist research page. We then practised drawing flowers and Read more
This week we have been celebrating Art Week. We have been looking at the technique pointillism and studying the artist Henri Edmond Cross. We looked at different pieces of art and chose our favourite one to recreate using paint and cotton buds to create a mood board. We then studied Read more