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Digital Imagery

Digital Imagery

The children in Year one have been learning about Digital Imagery in Computing. The children were asked to create their own photo story. The children planned their story and set up their scenes referring to their planning sheet. When they were happy with the scene...

Inherited Characteristics

Inherited Characteristics

The Swans have been learning about inherited characteristics. They thought about what the children of different Mr Men and Little Miss characters would look like if they were to produce offspring. They had so much fun! [gallery...

Cloud Forest Terrariums

Cloud Forest Terrariums

The children in Kingfishers Class became Geographers. The children continued focusing on What is life like in the Jungle? Today the children thought about the question - Can we identify the locations and features of cloud forests? Today the children found out about a...

Seed Packets – Instructions

Seed Packets – Instructions

In English this half term,  the children have been focusing on instructions, thinking about how to plant a seed. The children were introduced to imperative (or bossy) verbs and that instructions should be short, clear and in the correct order. The children composed...

The Class Spider Sculpture

The Class Spider Sculpture

The children became ‘artists’ and thought about the question - Can we plan and create a sculpture as a class? The children were introduced to the artist Louise Bourgeois and the Maman sculpture made from bronze. The children were asked to give adjectives to describe...

Prayer and Worship

Prayer and Worship

The children have been learning about Christianity - Prayer and Worship. The children thought about the question - Why do Christians pray to God and worship him? They listened to the story of Jesus teaching his disciples to pray and learned the Lords Prayer,...

Stop Motion Animation

Stop Motion Animation

The Swans have been using the 'Stop Motion Animation' app to create their first short animation. They learnt about onion skinning; the importance of keeping the camera still and the need for very small changes in their model. It was such fun! [gallery...

Flower Sculpture

Flower Sculpture

Thie children in Kingfishers Class became ‘artists’ and thought about the question - Can we make a 3D sculpture? The children recapped over the artist Andy Goldsworthy and his work. The children were asked to create a 3D sculpture made from natural materials like Andy...

Great Biscuit Bake Off

Great Biscuit Bake Off

In the Owls class last week, for our DT project, we held a Great Biscuit Bake Off. First the children learnt to follow a basic biscuit recipe, practising skills such as creaming and sieving. The next day, we all tried adding our own extra ingredients to the basic...

100 Days of School Celebration

100 Days of School Celebration

Kingfishers Class had great fun celebrating 100 days at school! To celebrate our 100 days of school, Mandy the school cook baked us a lovely cake! Thank you Mandy, it was delicious! The children had lots of challenges to complete in 100 seconds - Writing their name,...

Snail Patterns

Snail Patterns

The Year One children became ‘artists’ and thought about the question - Can we create a pattern from clay? The children watched a presentation about insects, spiders and snails. The children discussed how many legs each creature had. They discussed the snail had one...

Bean Planting

Bean Planting

This half term, the children in Kingfishers Class will be focusing on Plants in Science - Do all plants look the same? The children thought about the question - Can we find out what a plant is? The children thought about how they could answer their enquiry question....

Year 6 Photographers

Year 6 Photographers

The Swans have busy working alongside a photographer and art practitioner. The aim of the workshop was to encourage children to connect with their environment in a practical and creative way and to question and examine their surroundings. This type of learning aids...

We’re Going on a Dinosaur Hunt

We’re Going on a Dinosaur Hunt

This half term the Year One children have been creating their own book - We’re Going On A Dinosaur Hunt. The children created story maps and photographed their own scenes to help them recall their ideas. The children have written their own stories. The Reception...

Fabulous French

In Owls, our French topic is 'Chez Moi', which means My Home. We have been working on our pronunciation and our listening. In the last lesson, we did a paired activity. One person would read a description while the other person had to work out which set of pictures...

Children’s Games

Children’s Games

In Art, we studied the picture 'Children's Games' by Pieter Bruegel. We decided to create our own photo collage version of the picture including the modern games that we play. The children came up with all the ideas, created the scenes and took the photos too. Here...

Dinosaur Land Art

Dinosaur Land Art

The children became ‘artists’ and thought about the question - Can we create natural 3D landscape pictures of dinosaurs, using found objects? The children found out about the artist Andy Goldsworthy and focused on his working methods and approaches and created a...

Pablo Picasso Inspired Art

Pablo Picasso Inspired Art

In art we have been painting using different tones. We have used Pablo Picasso’s painting ‘Guernica’ as as inspiration for our work. He used lots of symbolism as opposed to realism. We tried to link our work to our topic on The Transatlantic slave trade and created...

Play Dough Dinosaurs

Play Dough Dinosaurs

The children became ‘artists’ and thought about the question - Can we explore playdough and its properties to create a dinosaur? The children listened to instructions and explored the play dough. The children were asked to create their own dinosaur sculpture. The...

Steam Power in Action!

Steam Power in Action!

As part of their Scientist study on George Stevenson, the children in Woodpeckers class have been learning about steam power.  We learned about how steam is different to smoke because smoke is from something burning, and steam is from liquid boiling. The children were...

Thomas Clarkson Campaign

Thomas Clarkson Campaign

The Swans have been learning about Thomas Clarkson and his campaign to abolish the Transatlantic Slave trade. They used their history skills and discussed why his chest was an important part of the campaign. They then created a role play based on the meetings Clarkson...

Palaeontologists in Kingfishers

Palaeontologists in Kingfishers

The children became Palaeontologists. The children thought about what they would need to help them - hammer, brush, bag and spade. The children got their bags ready and got busy trying to find the fossils. The children were very careful and said it was going to take a...

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