Year Four have shown themselves as super authors this week, when writing their adventure stories for our Book Week writing competition. They have been focussing on using ambitious adjectives for description, a range of fronted adverbials to give variety to their sentences and using a wider range of punctuation accurately.
This week in Year Five we have been continuing to learn about the Anglo-Saxons. Our focus during the lesson was to consider how Pagan beliefs were overcome with a wave of Christianity in Anglo-Saxon society. We noted key changes on a timeline where we closely considered how changes in time were represented.
Year Two have continued their learning about pottery and Clarice Cliff by experimenting with clay. Later in the week, they will use the skills they have learnt to make their own pot.
This week the children in Reception have enjoyed so many new books and have really developed their love of reading. In this picture they are doing a book tasting! Trying a book they have never looked at before, choosing their favourite picture that captures the essence of the story and recording the title. Well done…
Year One have been studying Jan Griffier this week as part of their learning in Art linked to their History topic. They’ve considered his different paintings and style and focussed in on his painting of the Great Fire of London. His painting is well known as it shows us what London was like of the…
The children have learnt all they will ever need to know about Ancient Egypt! We did an Ancient Egyptian dance for the Pharaohs, handled real Amulets (3,000 years old!) that would have been given to newborn Egyptian babies and tried an Egyptian Breakfast! 🍞 We went back into the classroom to have our Egyptian Breakfast.…
Year Four were showing off their musical talents this week when learning to play the ukulele. They were showing amazing concentration to play the correct chords to the songs. What musical superstars!
This week, we’ve been creating concept maps within our computing lesson which answer the question – ‘Why did the Anglo-Saxons head to Britain?’. The children presented lots of wonderful points from changes in the climate to support farming to population growth. The children have been learning about the Anglo-Saxons in their topic lessons. …
Year Two have been to Gladstone Pottery Museum. They painted Art Deco plates in the style of Clarice Cliff and had a tour of the factory, learning many facts about Stoke-on-Trent’s ceramic history.
This week we have been experimenting with a range of art techniques. We have been printing heart patterns for Valentine’s Day with cardboard tubes and using our observational skills to draw a bouquet of flowers using patterns.