29
Jun
Year 1’s Okra Flower Printing at Dalston Eastern Curve Garden
This week, Year 1 enjoyed printing flowers with okra at Dalston Eastern Curve Garden....
Sustainability
29
Jun
Year 6 Science & Sustainability Week Art: Peter Thorpe
In Art this week, Year 6 have been working on their science and sustainability piece inspired by the artist Peter Thorpe. Children explored the artist's use of colour, mark making techniques and composition to create their own space artwork using soft pastels....
28
Jun
Learning about George Washington Carver in Year 2
For Science and Sustainability Week, Year 2 learned about George Washington Carver, a famous scientist who taught farmers to use crop rotation—changing the crops they grow each year—to help keep the soil healthy. He was the first Black student at the University of Iowa and invented over...
22
Jun
Year 2’s Science and Sustainability Week Art
As part of Science and Sustainability Week, Year 2 explored the fascinating world of seed and plant adaptations and turned their discoveries into works of art. Building on our recent work in Art with clay, we created clay pendants using rolling pins and cookie cutters,...
15
Jun
Year 1’s Leafy Learning at Dalston Eastern Curve Garden!
Year 1 had an exciting time at Dalston Eastern Curve Garden again this week, learning about different leaves and their names. They made observational drawings of leaves and also enjoyed making 'fossils' using clay with leaves. They measured the plants and had lots of fun!...
08
Jun
Science & Sustainability Club: Renewable and Unrenewable Energy
In Science and Sustainability Club this week, we began our sustainability project. We are going to be learning about sustainable ways to create renewable energy. We started by learning about unsustainable energy and creating complete and incomplete circuits....
11
May
Year 5 ClimateEd Workshop
This week in our climate workshop, we worked in groups and created a role play about how we can change our eating habits to reduce CO2 emissions....
27
Apr
Year 4’s Amazing Earth Day Art!
For Earth Day, Year 4 used printed paper from around the school to create amazing flowers and under water creatures. Firstly, we painted the paper the colours we wanted. Then, we cut our paper into the shapes we wanted and finally, we stuck the paper...
27
Apr
Year 5’s Earth Day Posters
On Tuesday, we celebrated World Earth Day. We learned about the importance of taking care of the environment and created posters with interesting facts and information, sharing how we can take care of our world....
27
Apr
Year 6’s Earth Day Deforestation Debate
To celebrate Earth Day, Year 6 discussed deforestation and whether we believe it should be allowed to continue. In groups, we focused on building a strong rebuttal to defend our points of view. We then explored both posing and opposing views before partaking in a...