Blog by Tag: Art & Design

Over Easter Willow Class held a competition to decorate an egg! 
We had five fantastic entries to try and win our Easter egg prize and were really impressed with your great fine motor skills decorating them. Our class staff were the judges and Miss Riley, Ms Carter, Miss Robinson, Mrs Jones, Mrs…

Last Monday, Mr Darbyshire led our assembly and we learned about the traditional Hindu festival ‘The Holi Festival’. Some of us got to have a turn using powder paint to create colour clouds. 

Back in Oak class we explored colour through lots of activities. Miss Cross did an Attention…

Last week 7G celebrated Holi festival. This is a Hindu festival where the coming of spring is celebrated through lots of colourful activities. 

7G chose red as their colour to come into school in. All the children had an item of clothing on that was red. 
With Mr Murphy in the morning they all…

On Monday, Willow class learnt about the Hindu spring festival Holi. We chose blue as our class colour and some children chose to wear this colour to school for the day. Willow class loved the idea of the paint throwing celebrations and made their own powder paint art following an attention autism…

Today 7R celebrated “History day” as we missed it last week due to our Calvert residential trip. We have had a fantastic day!

This morning, Mrs Crouch split us into research teams. Each team was given research questions to find out the answer to. The teams had to delegate roles to decide a…

Last Thursday was our first history day of the year and all primary phase classes learnt about the Victorians.

Willow class learnt all about what it was like to be a child in the Victorian era, looking at Victorian schools and workhouses for children. The children loved learning about all the…

7R have been learning about the artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo as part of our "Food, Glorious Food" topic. We learnt that he created portraits using images of fruits and vegetables. We made our own art in his style using 3D art (using real fruits and vegetables) and drawing. We enjoyed the activity…

This week, 7R have been learning about Sikhism. We started by learning about the 5Ks. We watched videos and interacted with props before making our own Kangha or designing a Kirpan. We talked about what the 5Ks represented for Sikhs. We then learnt all about the Gudwara. We learnt about the…

Welcome back and a Happy New Year!

7R have lots to look forward to this term. Our new theme is "Food, Glorious, Food". 

Communication, Language and Literacy

In our "Communication, Language and Literacy" lessons we will be exploring the book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald…

We have had lots of fun making Christmas decorations.

9G have been really busy on the run up to Christmas’s. We had a lovely time decorating our massive Christmas tree together. We also had a fun end of term trip to McDonald’s where we got to have a drink and chose either chips or ice cream. We have also been very creative and melted our own snow,…

In our art and creativity lessons we have been learning about Andy Warhol and his pop art. We decided to make our own Christmas pop art. We split our pages into four sections using a pencil and ruler and then chose a Christmas image to draw in each box. We painted each background a different…