In Art, Year 4 have been studying the artwork of LS Lowry. LS Lowry is one of Britain’s most famous artists from the 20th Century. He is well known for painting industrial scenes and matchstick characters. Lawrence Stephen Lowry was born in Stretford, Lancashire, in 1887. Lowry couldn’t get a place Read more…
Over the last week Reception have worked to produce individual masks with support from Laura at Cartwheel Arts. They thought about the ‘Wonder of Learning’ and added different symbols onto their masks. Today the children were photographed both with and without their masks and these will be added to the Read more…
As we come to the end of our ‘Growing and Changes’ half term, Reception enjoyed a day of mini beasts art and crafts. They have learnt so much about the different insects over the last few weeks and were so excited today when some of our caterpillars finally emerged out Read more…
Today, all of year 5 children took part in a workshop with the artists Fi and Jo from Cartwheel Arts preparing a flag bunting to be exhibited in Darnhill. Children included their trio of words that was printed out in different fonts and cut into strips. The words the children Read more…
We have loved our new unit in science, we observed leaves using lots of adjectives to describe and compare them.. We have really enjoyed the plant area in our continuous provision, it has been super fun gardening and getting messy! We were fascinated at all the different shaped and Read more…
In Geography we have been learning about Kenya and thinking about the weather in Kenya. We created some pieces of art to demonstrate what the weather is like in Kenya.
This term we have been learning about mosaics and designing some of our own to make. Whilst we are waiting on the materials to arrive, we decided to have a go at drawing the Roman Colosseum. I was really impressed with the children’s work. Here are just a few examples Read more…
In art, year 5 have designed and created their very own Ancient Egyptian cartouche. To start with, they learnt their name in hieroglyphics and designed them onto their planning page in preparation for their cartouche. Then the children kneaded a piece of clay until it was soft and easy to Read more…
Last week in art, children have drawn and produced some fantastic pieces of work. They studied different Egyptian pictures and chose their favourite to draw on real papyrus paper. Take a look at their excellent art work below
This week in History we got to meet a Roman Soldier (all be it via Google Meet). He told us all about the Roman Empire and how the Roman army helped this to happen. We got to see some of the weapons used in Roman times and found out about Read more…
The children have been enjoying lots of Easter crafts and activities; they have made chicks, Easter cards, chocolate nests and sequenced the story of Easter. Many children even won an Easter egg at our phonic and tricky word bingo!
This week we have had lots of fun in DT making our own puppets. We discussed the different vocabulary and worked very hard to design our own traditional tale character template. With help, we chose the stapling technique and we used all different materials and fabric to dress our characters. Read more…
This half term, we have been learning all about traditional art and craft work, particularly in the form of weaving. The children have explored using a range of media to weave with from paper and wool to rope, ribbon and wicker. Here is just some of the work we have Read more…
In Art we have been researching the artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo and looking at his paintings that he created based on seasons. We loved how he used fruit and vegetables in his portraits and the children did an amazing job recreating their own picture! We also enjoyed eating the fruit afterwards!