The children in Y5 used their new textiles skills to produce a scene from the story Beowulf. After drawing and painting on a piece of fabric, they added sewing, layering, quilting and stuck on objects to include texture. The results were brilliant!
Creative Curriculum
Year 2 – Creative Writing
Creative Writing – The Witch Children looked at how to interpret an image today and wrote a creative piece of writing based on an image entitled the Witch. Children focused on sentence openers, adjectives to describe nouns, using a comma to separate items in a list, and capital letters and full stops to demarcate sentences.… Continue Reading
Compass work in forest school
Year 1 have been learning about the four points of the compass. Today in forest school they used compasses to find which way was north, south, east and west. Continue Reading
Forest School -Year 1
Today Year 1 had a great time in forest school. The children had all previously designed a rain catcher and today they followed those designs and made the rain gauge. The children attached a measure to their bottles and then decorated their rain gauges with natural objects so they blended into the environment. All the children… Continue Reading
Year 2 – Writing
In Year 2 today, children worked hard on their retell of Miranda’s Beach Day, as they continue to read stories with familiar settings. They’ve already read The Whales’ Song and Little Turtle and the Songs of the Sea. For today’s lesson, children also added images to their writing and concentrated on imagery that reflected their… Continue Reading
Year 2 – Art and Design
Year 2 have been working on their printing skills in art and design over the last few weeks and the end results look incredible! Children used various materials to link their art and design to our topic and created their own stencils using card and string to create some truly creative and original designs. Continue Reading
Rainbow Challenges in Year 1
This week the children were set 6 challenges to complete over the week. R.E. – The children have been learning about Judaism and enjoyed listening to the story about how God promised Abraham that his family would number as many as the stars. The children then complete their own collage of stars. Science – the… Continue Reading
We are archaeologists!
Last week in year 3 we discovered some Stone Age artefacts in our forest school. We conducted an archaeological dig and recovered several interesting objects. We examined them carefully in order to understand their purpose. Continue Reading
Year 2 – Landscape Patterns
Art and Design Landscape Patterns In our art and design lessons, children have been developing a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line and shape. Children have then used these ideas to explore landscape scenes that linked to our R.E. lesson on beginnings, where children read about the story… Continue Reading
Rainbow Challenges
This week Year One were set as series of challenges covering a variety of subjects. R.E. – The children were asked to complete a collage expressing how they think God loves the world and the people in it. Maths – The children practiced counting numbers up to 20 by counting pasta into a bag. The… Continue Reading
