Curriculum
The Reception children have been exploring hardware in Computing. The children thought about the enquiry question – Can we explore and tinker with hardware to develop familiarity? The children explored the tinker tray of objects. The children were asked to match the everyday technology images to the objects. The children were encouraged to name each […]
Year six have been using charcoals to draw ‘Still Life’. We looked at the famous drawing by Ibere Camargo (Natureza-morta) and some children decided to create their pieces in this style – paying close attention to where the light and shadows fall on the objects.
The children in Year One have been learning about data handling in Computing. The children thought about the enquiry question – Can we represent data in different ways? The children were asked to sort and categories objects and to explain how items have been sorted and categories. The children watched a video clip and practised […]
Today we learnt how Britain became part of the Roman Empire, to help the children understand this, we acted it out! The children each took on a role; Emperor Claudius, Roman soldiers and Roman messengers, as well as, Boudica, Celt warriors and Celt villagers. The children had a fantastic time!
Year 6 have learning how to draw ‘Still Life’. They focused on proportion, space, line and shading. Some excellent pieces were created.
The children began exploring their new topic for this half term. The children received a letter from Farmer MacDonald asking for the children’s help. Farmer MacDonald had woken up to find his animals had disappeared. The children went for a hunt around the classroom looking for the missing animals. They found the missing animals and […]
The children in Year One have been learning about Digital Imagery in Computing. The children began by creating a new adventure of the ‘Naughty Bus at School’. The children created a story plan, them set up their scenes referring to their planning sheet. When they were happy with the scene they took the photograph. The […]
We began our new art unit of ‘Drawing’ this week! We learnt some techniques of how to sketch using shape and put these to the test in our natural environment! The children created some beautiful artwork.
KS2 had a lovely afternoon making Easter Bunnies – it’s amazing what you can do with a few egg boxes, old cereal packets and scrap pieces of card!
To kick Science Week off, the Year 6 children took part in an interactive lesson about space travel. They learnt lots of interesting things about space and what plans there are for the future with regards to landing on Mars and living on the moon.
On Tuesday 17th March, the Owls class went to Mountfitchet Castle, which is a recreated Norman castle and village. The trip followed on from last half term’s History topic on the Norman Invasion. The children enjoyed looking inside all the different buildings and interacting with the artefacts there. They enjoyed trying to find or remember […]
The children had their ‘Forest Fun’ session with Mrs Clark and Miss Jones. The children began with a materials scavenger hunt. They had to look for different objects made from different materials. Miss Jones reminded the children of the forest fun rules and spoke to the children about British Science Week and gave the children […]