23
Feb
Art Sessions with our New Artist in Residence in Year 5.
In our art lesson this week, we were learning about depth. We used different pencils and practised shading different shapes....
Art & Design Technology
23
Feb
Exploring the Colour Yellow in the Preschool Baby Room
This week we have been exploring the colour yellow. We’ve looked at different objects and animals that are yellow, such as chicks. We’re decorating our chicks with different materials such as feathers, tissue paper, glitter and paint. We’re practising making strokes, shaking glitter and being...
23
Feb
Exploring Farm Animals, Based on the Story ‘What the Ladybird Heard!’ in the Nursery
In Nursery, we started reading our new core text "What the Ladybird Heard" by Julia Donaldson. We learned new vocabulary about farm animals and we made ladybirds with our playdough!...
23
Feb
Learning about Colours in the Preschool Two Year Old Room
Our new topic is 'Colours'. We made a beautiful craft rainbow. We then sat down with rainbows and sang the rainbow song together as a class....
02
Feb
Year 6 trip to the William Morris Gallery
Year 6 went on a school trip to the William Morris Gallery. At the gallery, we learnt about William Morris’s life and work. We then were able to create our own prints in the same style....
02
Feb
Year 5 Heart of Glass exhibition
On Thursday, the Year 5’s visited an exhibition which featured different pieces of art made from glass. We also took part in a workshop that explored how artwork links to sustainability, identity and wellbeing....
02
Feb
Orla Keily wallpaper designs in Year 2
In our Art lesson this week, we have been learning how to create repeated patterns. We learnt about a designer named Orla Keily who designs wallpapers using repeated patterns. We used different mediums to recreate some of her famous patterns....
02
Feb
Building our fine motor skills by making the Gruffalo in Reception
In Reception we have started our new core text ' The gruffalo'- A class favourite! We have been moulding, twisting and pinching the playdoh to create different Characters from the story....
12
Jan
Whale paintings based on ‘The Snail and the Whale’ in Year 1 Reading.
In Year 1, we read the story of ‘The snail and the Whale’ for the first time. We thought about questions like ‘What would you have done if you were the snail?’ and ‘How will the story end?’ After this, we took part in a...
18
Dec
Threading beads to make Christmas decorations in Nursery
In Nursery we learned about Christmas celebrations. We read the book “Dear Santa”, we visited Santa’s grotto and created Christmas tree’s decorations by threading beads into pipe cleaners. We had a lot of fun!...