Blog by Tag: Art & Design

As part 8A's Our Planet theme this half term, 8A have been learning about Sculptures as part of their My Creativity work. 

Each week, we have focused on a different artist and this week it was Barbara Hepworth. In previous weeks we have learnt about Marc Quinn who liked to make sculptures of…

The Year of the Tiger in Sycamore 

Chinese New Year in Sycamore class, we looked at where china is, the population and what it is like in China. We discussed that there are different languages spoken in different parts of China. 

We then went on to look at Chinese New Year, we…

We are ready for Christmas in 8A. The countdown is certainly on! 
 

Yesteday we joined in with the Be Internet Legends Google assembly. This was an assembly streamed via YouTube with lots of interactive questions. We even got a shoutout! Mrs Crouch, Mrs England and Mrs Taylor were so impressed…

Today we had a class discussion about fireworks. We talked about keeping safe while enjoying bonfire night, and following the fire work code. Which reminds us to look after our pets, stand well back, never go near to a firework . We had lots of good ideas on keep safe. 

We made our own…

WOW! It's only our first week back after half term and what a busy week we've had.

This week we have been to All Seasons Leisure Centre for our P.E session. This half term we are learning basketball skills. We thoroughly enjoyed our session and had lots of fun playing games, such as 'Monster…

Today 11G found out lots of new information about Diwali.
We looked at power points and had fun using the internet to help us find the answers to Miss Robertson question sheet.  We looked at rangoli patterns and made some of our own…..great fun. 

Elephants are an important symbol in…

Victoria Hough is an artist who specialises in working with groups of children to create exciting pieces of art. We invited her into Astley Park School to help us create a masterpiece to incorporate our new school values of Kindness, Respect, Honesty, Positivity and Teamwork. Victoria worked with…

My Communication 

We have continued looking at being a good friend in 9G. We spoke about what a compliment was. It was nice to hear some of the pupils complimenting each other. 

We have used the class iPads today, looking at days of the week. The class worked in small groups and used…

11G  have be busy this week.

We have been looking at things that We can do .  These ranged from making a cup of tea for our family, to playing with family and friends. We found out that we could do lots of things on our own. Doing things for someone else or for yourselve makes you feel…

Last week was a very arty week in 9R as we looked at the seasons and in particular Autumn and all of the beautiful Autumnal colours that we are beginning to see on the trees and bushes around school. 
 

We made some really lovely stained glass backgrounds using coloured paper of various hues…

This week in 10G we have well and truly embraced the autumnal weather. We read a story about a lovely group of animal friends, called ‘Don’t hog the hedge’. This story taught us all about friendship and sharing, as the animals in the story had to share a hedge to make sure they were all safe in…

What a fantastic first week in 10G. We have been undertaking lots of fun activities to settle back into the school routine and get to know our new teachers. 
We were very excited to get our 1-1 iPads and we had lots of fun exploring the different apps and personalising the Home Screen.

We made…