During French week we have all had lots of fun and enjoyed learning about France. We have been busy saying the register in French, learning our numbers in French and simple French greetings. We have been busy making French flags… We have also learnt about famous landmarks in France and Read more…
This week has been French and Art week at St Luke’s. In art, we looked at the artist Monet. We worked on Art techniques such as mixing colours and creating texture using tissue, newspaper and different brush strokes before creating a background for our final piece. We then used charcoal Read more…
To link in with our metals topic, we have been writing explanation texts for iRobots. We began by watching an award winning short film about a robot dog and discussed things such as its movements, how we understood its emotions and its relationship with its owner. We then wrote an Read more…
During French and art week we have been learning about primary colours. We went on a primary colour hunt around the playground and worked in pairs to find them. We wrote down each object next to the primary colour and took turns writing them down. After that we looked at Read more…
This week we are focusing on the French artist Monet. We experimented with colours (and learnt the French names for these), changing them to create lighter and darker colours in green and blue. As Monet used a lot of greens and blues in his pictures, we decided to use Read more…
Elm class have been looking at creating different shades of blue today using only blue, white and black. We then explored how we could use paint in different ways to try and create the sea ready for our beach painting at the end of the week.
This afternoon, Reception have been learning about bees. They have been learning about the life cycle of bees and finding out some interesting facts! We have then made eco friendly bees out of recycled materials.
Thank you to all the parents who came to our shared learning and Lunch. We really enjoyed having you and we hope you learnt something new. Here are some pictures of the day.
Today we created shells for Hermit crabs. We listened to a story about a Hermit crab and created a success criteria thinking about what would make a successful home. We said that our shells would need to be beautiful,crusty, strong, sturdy, spikey and smooth. Once we had created our shells Read more…
Here are a selection of Cedar’s fantastic pieces of artwork for the covers of their curriculum books.