Julie Rivers

Henry Moore inspired Art Year 6

by | 10 Oct 2025 | Art & Design, Swans

The Swans have been experimenting with adding contour lines to their work to create a sense of  form , focusing on how they can create a sense of weightiness and gravity. They used a potato to draw contour lines on, placed it on a piece of white paper, observed the shadow that formed and then […]

Henry Moore study – Year 6

by | 9 Sep 2025 | Art & Design, Swans

The children have been learning about the artist Henry Moore. We are focusing our art work this term on his WW2 Shelter Drawings. This week, the children practised some of the techniques he used in preparation for their final piece.

Published writing – The Swans

by | 9 Sep 2025 | Swans

The Swans have worked hard to write, edit and publish their story chapter about WW2. They enjoyed adding the illustrations and ‘creative bits’ to their work!

History (Swans)- Learning about Evacuation in WW2

by | 9 Sep 2025 | History, News, Swans

The Swans have been learning about life as an evacuee. They went into role as a child who had been evacuated from the city to the countryside and shared their experience in an interview. We found out that not all evacuees had a good time!    

The Swans Get Ready for their new WW2 Topic!

by | 9 Sep 2025 | History, News, Swans

As part of our Immersion Day, we made WW2 airplanes – German and British. The children worked really hard to create these from a plastic bottle and modroc – it wasn’t as easy as it may look!  

The Swans have been learning about blood!

by | 5 May 2025 | News, Science, Swans

The children in Year 6 have been learning about the function of blood and it’s composition. They made models to represent the different components.

Heart Dissection Year 6

by | 5 May 2025 | Curriculum, News, Science, Swans

The Swans have been learning about the function of the heart. They were extremely lucky to receive a dissection lesson from Mrs Harvey who is a trained high school Science teacher. Every single child took part and this really helped embed their learning about  the different parts of this vital organ!  

Benin (Year 6)

by | 4 Apr 2025 | History, News, Swans

Year 6 have been looking at images of Benin to deduce why Benin might be a significant society, worthy of study. They learnt that: This was a civilization of cities and towns, powerful kings and a large empire which traded over long distances. Craftsmen were skilful in bronze and ivory. They had a religious belief […]

Icebergs in Watercolour

by | 3 Mar 2025 | Art & Design, News, Swans

In Year 6, we have been learning different watercolour techniques. We then tried to use some of the techniques in our iceberg paintings.

Using shade to create a sense of form

by | 3 Mar 2025 | Art & Design, News, Swans

In Year 6, the children have been looking at the artists Aurelie Bouquet and David McEown and their paintings of icebergs. They used shading techniques to try and give a sense of form to their work.

Exploring Light

by | 3 Mar 2025 | News, Science, Swans

In Science, the children in Year 6 have been learning that light travels in straight lines. They had to draw scientific diagrams to show their understanding of this and had great fun using the torches to aid their understanding.

The Transatlantic Slave Trade

by | 1 Jan 2025 | History

In History, we have been learning about the Transatlantic Slave Triangle. The children role played a British, An American and an African Slave trader. They were given various discussion points during the activity.