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.
This afternoon we carried on preparing for our woodland tea party and made crowns for us wear. We went outside and collected natural materials and then glued them onto our crown template. We can’t wait to wear them at the party next week!
The children have created some fantastic drawings of bees and butterflies today! The drawings on the left of our page are before we learnt any new drawing skills and the ones on the right are our final pieces.
Today in Willows we received a letter from Mr Fox, inviting us to a special woodland party, deep in the woods. We were so excited! We brainstormed things we needed to do to prepare for the party and got to work. We decided we needed to: Make masks to help Read more…
Year 6 have continued to demonstrate their impressive knowledge of the Circulatory system. The children have been able to recall many of the features of the system, even including some of the valves and vessels they have researched independently. . After recalling an amazing amount of information, the children were Read more…