During our RE lessons this half term, we are focusing on fights and giving sand the story of Christmas. We have particularly focused on one part of the Christmas story where baby Jesus is born and lies in the manager. We spoke about the importance of knowing the true meaning Read more
We have all enjoyed reading ‘Room on the Broom’ this week. Reception have been very busy making potions to help the witch, acting out the story and creating their own characters.
Reception have been talking about how we can keep ourselves safe if we are visiting bonfires or fireworks. We have then been making our own firework patterns.
Year 3 have been doing some fabulous learning on the Stone Age this half term. They really enjoyed this Art lesson when they collected natural materials from outside and used them creatively to create artwork. They then created a textured piece of cardboard to act as a cave wall.
Today, we used forest-mud mixed with water and paintbrushes to create pictures of our families, as this half-term our topic has been ‘All About Me’. We loved gathering the mud, adding water and using the brushes to make our artwork. We enjoyed exploring the forest, playing games and climbing the Read more
During our Art topic this half term the children have been looking at Beatriz Milhazes work. We were inspired by some of her pieces and decided to make our own using different skills we have learnt during this unit.
This half term, Year 4 explored the vibrant world of Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes. We studied her bold, colourful artwork and discussed how she uses shape, pattern, and repetition to create movement and rhythm in her designs. Inspired by her style, we created our own collage artworks using brightly coloured Read more
In our Art lessons, we have been learning about the artist Romare Bearden. We explored a variety of his artistic styles and then created our own picture of a guitar, inspired by his connection to jazz music. Afterwards, we made an artist page all about Romare Bearden, including interesting facts Read more
During our recent art lessons, Year 1 have been using the primary colours to create secondary colours and using them to create pieces of art work and printing with them. The children have produced some wonderful pieces of art work!
Today the children have been using charcoal and other prehistoric media to create their own animal drawings which our ancestors may have drawn. We had to try drawing in the dark as we know that caves didn’t have much light. We enjoyed getting alittle messy!