Christmas Crafts in Year Five
This week in Year Five, we’ve stepped into Christmas as we created seasonal calendars for our friends and family.
Mosaics in Year Four
The children have used a combination of their history knowledge, art skills and understanding of area in maths to design and create these wonderful mosaics. After designing their Roman themed creations, they worked out the area of each colour then arranged the ‘tesserae’ to produce their final piece of work, which they will be taking…
DT in Year Three – Sewing Bees
Year Three investigated different sewing techniques such as running, back and blanket stitches. They then evaluated which stitch would be the most suitable for their project. Lots of sewing bees in the making! Well done!
Disco Fun in Early Years
Nursery and Reception had the best time at their Christmas disco! They danced until their legs ached! 🥳
Puppets in Year One
Year One came to school dressed as toys and spent their day creating their own toy puppet! They had to test puppets, consider different joining techniques and design their own puppet and then make and evaluate their own work! They worked really hard and have all created a finger puppet to take home to play…
A Christmas Story in EYFS
The children in Reception and Nursery have been busy practising their performance of the Christmas Story this half term, they have been retelling the story using actions and learning lots of new songs to tell the story. They were all amazing at performing in front of their audiences last week and made us very proud…
Year Five Non-chronological report
This week, we have been preparing a non-chronological report to summarise our learning on the Ancient Greek Olympics. Here are some snaps of the children completing a retrieval chocolate bar exercise to bring together all of their wonderful facts. Perhaps ask your child to share their most interesting fact at home!
Christmas artwork in Reception
This week, Reception have been focusing on careful brushstrokes to create the branches on their Christmas trees. We have also talked about and experimented with colour mixing to create a variety of shades of green for the leaves. We think that they are going to look amazing!
Peter Blake in Year One
We’ve started to learn about the pop artist Peter Blake who creates bright, vibrant paintings and paintings that show the beauty of different places 🖼️ The children have learned about his work, studied it closely and talked about what they like and dislike as well as considering how they were created 🤔 They’ll be creating…
Incy Wincy Investigation in Reception
Reception have been investigating which materials would protect Incy Wincy from the rain. They tested paper, tissue, grease proof paper, tin foil and plastic. They discovered that the paper and tissue were no good as the water soaked straight through and although the greaseproof was good initially, it eventually soaked in too. They liked the…