School Work

Carbon Printing Golden Fish!

As part of our printing work this term Maple class have created these amazing paintings based on The Goldfish by Paul Klee. Children used carbon paper to print fish. Throughout the activity children used their sketchbooks to experiment and explore the skills needed to create their piece of art. They loved lifting the carbon paper … Read more

Instructions

The children across Pine and Cedar classes finished their English units last week looking at instruction writing. In class, we read the book ‘Instructions’ by Neil Gaiman – a fantasy story made up of sentences that are largely command (or instruction) sentences. The children were tasked with creating maps for their own fantasy lands as … Read more

Autumn Term in Year 6

Year 6 had a very busy first term, with lots of visitors coming in to see us, as well as some fun lessons, trips, clubs and matches. In the autumn term, Maths lessons focused on revising place value and the four mathematical operations, before moving on to some new topics, such as algebra. There’s always … Read more

Huffing and Puffing in Discover & Do!

We have had a fabulous time exploring The Three Little Pigs in Group activities and our whole class time in the 2 weeks after we returned from the holiday break. Many of our classroom areas had enhancements to extend the children’s learning during Discover & Do. For example, the addition of some pigs and wolves … Read more

Year 5 Still Life Drawing

Our current Art topic is Objects and their Meaning, where we have been looking at a variety of different artists’ compositions, and discussing the objects they have used, and what they might mean. We have also spent time thinking about our own personal opinions of these pieces of art, which has led on to today’s … Read more

Year One Feed the Birds!

Next weekend is the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch, so in Year One we made some delicious treats for the birds to eat, ready to hang in our gardens or on trees. We used lard and bird seed on pine cones. If you want to take part please see the RSPB website for details. https://www.rspb.org.uk/

A busy Autumn Term comes to an end!

The children have been enjoying learning in lots of different ways- in adult directed time and Discover and Do. The children enjoyed joining in with Children in Need activities. They also learnt about the important role charities make to communities and those in need. Adult directed time saw the children investigating different shapes they could … Read more