Years 4, 5 and 6 had a very creative day today when drama group “Stan’s Cafe” came for a creative writing inspiration day. After first listening to professional Grand Prix commentators, children had opportunity to try it out for themselves;…
After exploring existing shelters and their features, we created a set of design criteria for our own emergency refugee shelter. We also had to consider where our refugee camp would be: Turkey or Poland. Next we had a go at…
As you will have seen earlier in the term, we have been learning about facial proportions and representing these using drawing. We took these skills and turned them into fantasy self-portraits inspired by Frida Kahlo. We used paint and…
This term, Year 5 have been working on songs about displaced people, and written their own lyrics in their Kagan teams. After learning to sing a traditional Native American piece, they then used the music from this to inspire their…
This term, Mrs Baker has once again worked her magic and Year 6 have achieved fantastic results! After learning to sing a traditional Native American piece, we then used the music from this to inspire our own lyrics. As we…
Year 6 are thinking about the idea of "self", and exploring self-portraits. First, we learned about proportion by drawing generic faces. We then took a more focussed approach using a scaled grid to test our observation skills. It was…
This week, Year 6 completed their storybooks with moving mechanisms! Each table worked as a team; creating pages individually then putting it all together to make their myths and legend storybook. All ready to share!
Year 6 were in festive spirits this week; the classroom Christmas tree arrived and so did our annual tradition of creating decorations for our hoop. This is year we combined our maths knowledge with our creative skills to produce festive…
As part of the topic, Myths and Legends, Year 6 have been exploring aboriginal art. In our sketchbooks, they researched the art form; making notes about colours, patterns and the meaning behind the Dreamtime imagery. We were creative in the…
As they are now midway through their immersion in the world of myths and legends, Year 5 and 6 had the opportunity to take part in a fully interactive workshop this week. After some extremely enjoyable warm-up activities, they went…