Year 6 Remembrance Poetry

This week Year 6 were looking closely at Remembrance Day and created their own beautiful Remembrance poems.

Phillis Wheatley – Year 5

In Year 5 we have been learning about the life and works of Phillis Wheatley. As a result, we have created some art and poetry based on her magnificent poetry. 

Stone Age Art in Year 3

This week we created a group painting in a prehistoric style. We created a positive handprint by covering our palm in rustic colours and leaning on our background.  We created a second image without adding more paint. We created a negative handprint by laying down our hand on the background and sponging around, on some […]

Year 5 & 6 Spanish Club

This week, children from Year 5 & Year 6 have started Spanish club after school. We learnt all about the ‘Day of the Dead’ festival and the artwork associated with it. The children created and coloured skull masks, made origami flowers and painted papel picado. 

Ancient Egypt in Year 5

Year 5 have been carrying on their Ancient Egyptian history topic this week learning all about mummification. They have been writing instructions on how to mummify within their English, but, they also got to put this into practice in their History lesson. We talked all about the preserving process, and used chemical reactions to try […]

Katherine Johnston – Year 3

As a year group we have talked about the importance of Black History Month and then we found out about Katherine Johnston. We worked in pairs to read the text and highlight the important information about her. We shared our ideas and talked about why she had made a difference in history. Some of our […]

Artists in Year 6

This week in art, pupils have been researching artists who will serve as inspiration for their final pieces. They searched facts and explored methods and techniques they wish to use. 

Harvest in Key Stage 2

Today, Key Stage 2 were lucky enough to attend a special Harvest service at St. Nicholas Church, just down the road from school! We sang two harvest songs (really well) called ‘Autumn Days’ and ‘Cauliflowers Fluffy’. Reverend Jae read a reading from the bible and we talked about the importance of helping people who need […]

Bessie Coleman – Year 4

This week in Year 4, we have learnt about Bessie Coleman. Bessie Coleman was born in 1896, and raised in Texas by an African American mother and a father of both African and Native American heritage. After hearing her brothers’ war time tales of women in France being allowed to fly airplanes, her interest in […]

Art Installations in Year 5

Our art topic this first half term has been about art installations. We were inspired by the Chinese installation artist Cai Guo-Qiang, who creates amazing installation pieces using gunpowder and stencils. We took inspiration from his work to create our own installation pieces, creating our own stencils and using different art medias to make our […]