In Gardening club this week, due to the bad weather, we stayed indoors and designed our plan for the Autumn and Winter months so that we have an indoor activity prepared for the future. Some people designed some minibeast hotels, some people designed bird houses...
Our topic book is 'Handa's Surprise', so we decided to explore Handa's village. We used puppets to retell the story and fed the animals leaves from the trees and different fruits from the story....
This week we are welcoming Autumn. We’re exploring our sensory tray which has lots of Autumn themed colours and textures, how exciting!...
In Writing we will be learning to write traditional tales. Our writing has been based on Anansi The Spider. Our focus was on time connectives and commas. We also used different materials to portray Anansi in a drawing....
Early Years learnt about many famous black female musicians and created artwork inspired by famous black ‘music makers’ such as Edita Jones....
Year 1 learnt about Bessie Coleman. They created sky artwork using a range of collage materials. They explained why Bessie was an inspiration for being the first black female pilot....
Year 2 learnt about the life of Mary Seacole. They generated biographies exploring her inspirational achievements as a wartime nurse. They also created artwork inspired by Sheperd Fairey who created the famous campaign poster of President Obama....
Year 3 learnt about the life of Althea Mcnish. They created artwork inspired by her works using wax patterns and paint....
Year 4 explored the life of Maya Angelou. They explored her poetry and wrote biographies detailing her life and achievements. They also created beautiful night sky artworks....
Year 5 explored the life of campaigner Olive Morris and generated biographies detailing her life achievements and why she was such an inspirational Black woman. They also generated ‘Black Lives Matter’ campaign posters....