National Poetry Day
To celebrate National Poetry Day 2019, Y4 read a range of topical news stories. We learned about a fox who got inside; a polar research ship; the school climate strikes; and a project enabling more children to go to school…
Poetry Day 2019
Year 3 celebrated this year’s Poetry Day in a number of engaging ways. We first identified and looked at the poetry books that we have in our class library, with a number of children proud to share their published poems…
Give one get one
Year 5 using the Kagan strategy; Give One Get One to record key information about about the Sikh religion.
Circus Art
This week we have been exploring how to use oil pastels. We followed two easy steps to create our clown faces: 1. Build the pastels from light colours to dark colours. 2. Then use the lightest colour to smooth and…
Proportional Faces – Frida Khalo Artist of the Term
Today, we practised drawing perfectly proportioned faces in preparation for some self-portrait work we will be doing next week. We learned that the eyes are approximately halfway down the head shape and then the tip of the nose and lips…
Dinosaur Dig 🦕🦖
To launch our new IPC topic, Footprints From The Past, Years 3 and 4 became palaeontologists for the day. We put on our safety goggles, grabbed our magnifying glasses and got to work excavating dinosaurs. We are so excited about…
Kagan greetings
In Reception today we practised our greetings. We danced around the classroom and when the music was paused we gave our friends a greeting. As a class we decided to use: Hello High five Good morning or Good Afternoon A…
Roald Dahl ABC
To celebrate Roald Dahl day we read Roald Dahl ABC. A is for . . . Anteater B is for . . . Books C is for . . . Crocodile D is for . . .Delicious! We were learning…
Keyboards
Today we had our first keyboard lesson with Mrs Owen. We were super excited! The lesson started with some action songs. We then learned the correct sitting position and which part of our hand to use on the keys. We…