What a fantastic time we had on our art days! Holly class were given Bancroft and the challenge was to create buildings in the style of Freidrich Hundertwasser. We started by experimenting with pattern and learning about complimentary colours. Then, with just three colours, we were able to mix paint on the paper to create … Read more
What an interesting day we all had at The Shuttleworth Collection! We started the day looking around the hangars at the huge collection of aeroplanes, which included a scale replica of the Wright Brothers record making plane, a de Havilland Comet and the original Bleriot XI from 1909. There was so much to see and … Read more
Thank you to everyone who brought in a remote controlled toy for our computing lesson last week. We had a great afternoon trying out all the amazing toys. There were talking and shooting robots, a voice activated dog, a wind up robot and all kinds of remote controlled vehicles – we even had a car … Read more
Great Explorers assembly by Holly class.
What an array of different books, interesting characters and amazing costumes! It was great to hear about the children’s favourite books today and why they enjoyed reading them so much. We made a shortlist of authors and then all voted for our favourite – Roald Dahl came out top! Then we voted for our favourite … Read more
We started this half term in D&T by making our stick puppets, following our designs and adapting them where necessary. Continuing on the puppet theme, in computing, we used Puppet Pals on the iPads to create stories by recording voices to go with different characters. In art, we are continuing our pattern and colour work … Read more
Here are just some of the exciting things we have been learning about in Holly class this week. We have been learning all about Christopher Columbus in History and this week we were looking at the food and the people he met when he landed in San Salvador. There was a selection of fruit for … Read more
Holly class have started the year with some exciting new topics. In Design and Technology, we are looking at puppets and moving parts. We started by looking at different kinds of puppets and then went on to make our own finger puppets. Everyone enjoyed putting characters to their puppets. Then we used our facts from … Read more
Today Holly and Hazel class recreated the Great Fire of London.
Holly class went on a trip to Mill Green Museum to extend our learning about the Great Fire of London. Here are just a few ‘Big Writes’ recounting our day. Yesterday Holly class went to Mill Green Museum. It was cold. First I went to make bread. I liked making the bread because it was … Read more
