As part of our share-a-story World Book Day (WBD) theme, Year 6 decided to build on some of their previous writing…ghost stories. We have produced a two-part guide on how to be a monster. The guides are inspired by a WBD author masterclass, where an author suggested taking Read more…
For Arts week, Year 6 looked at the 7th day…the day God rested. To help with this, we created images of peaceful settings such as waterfalls, beaches and Space, and used these to inspire our own guided meditations, which included the use of imperative verbs and symbolism. We wrote Read more…
This afternoon, in Reception, we have been going on treasure hunts! Miss Robinson had found a treasure map so she took her friends with her to find treasure. It was very exciting and we found some gold coins. After we had found Miss Robinson’s treasure we all went on our Read more…
This week we have started our new topic ‘Gods and Mortals’. In our lessons over this half term we will be learning lots about Ancient Greece. In our first lesson we learnt about Ancient Greek vases and how to paint them and sunset backgrounds using watercolours.
It is Art Week this week in school and we have been very busy painting some lovely artwork to go on display in the hall. We used different shades of blue to create the sky background and we used cotton buds to create the patterns on the stars.
Year 6 have looked at what makes up our blood, how are blood groups different and how scientist investigate blood. First of all, we looked at how we could be blood donars. We calculated how we inherit our blood type, who we could donate blood to, and who could Read more…
This week we have been using all the knowledge we have gained throughout our topic ‘Scrumdidlyumptious’. We worked as a group to design our own new healthy snack bar. This included giving it a name, deciding on ingredients, designing the packaging, creating a slogan, pricing including profit, creating and performing Read more…
We have really enjoyed our ‘Wriggle & crawl’ topic this half term. To finish our topic we made our own Minibeasts but then they escaped into Kaden’s garden to be in their natural habitat.
Year 6 studied and evaluated different pieces of abstract art. We learnt that there were no real set rules to abstract art and that we had lots of freedom when creating our own pieces. We looked at brushstrokes and techniques used in famous pieces, as well as how artists Read more…
This week we have been invited to Mr Fox’s woodland tea party. We decided to make woodland crowns to wear on the day. We gathered natural materials from outside and carefully arranged them to make a crown.