Halloween in Reception

Reception have enjoyed lots of fun Halloween themed activities this week, including hammering nails into pumpkins, making bat pictures and creating potions! 

Fireworks in Year 1

The children in Year 1 used what they have learnt about different lines to create their own fireworks pictures. We used oil pastels and created vertical, horizontal, wavy, curvy and diagonal lines, as well as using cross hatching to add depth to our pictures.

Halloween in Nursery

Nursery children have been enjoying a variety of activities that are linked with Halloween this week.

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. 

EY/KS1 Harvest

Nursery, Reception, Years 1 and 2 went to church this week to celebrate Harvest. We sang songs we’ve been learning including Cauliflowers Fluffy and Big Red Combine Harvester. The children discussed how we can help others, say thanks to our community and make sure we ‘Don’t Just Stand There’ like scarecrows! Some of the children […]

Year 2 Fact Families

In our Maths this week, Year 2 have been learning about fact families and how numbers in calculations are related to each other. We worked in pairs to solve the calculation triangles, creating addition and subtraction calculations. We were able to create four calculations using three related numbers.

A Year 1 Spooky Skeleton

In forest school the children followed a plan to make a spooky skeleton.  They gathered sticks to represent each bone.  We talked about the job of a skeleton and named the bones feeling our own bones as we did e.g. collar bone. They did a great job! 

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 […]