Curriculum
This half term in art, the Year One children have been working on the unit of work – Landscapes using different Media – The Farm. The children thought about the question – Can we create details using controlled painting and other materials and objects? Today the children painted their cut out pictures from lesson one. […]
This half term, in art, we have been looking at four different painters and their art styles; Claude Monet, Georges Seurat, Jackson Pollock and Georgia O’Keefe and asking the question ‘Are all paintings created in the same way? This week we focussed on using watercolours and creating a piece in the style of Georgia O’Keefe.
The children became historians. The children continued focusing on the question – Would you have rather been a farmer in Stratford St Mary in the past or now? The children recapped over last week’s learning thinking about how jobs on the farm have changed over time. The children thought about the enquiry question – Have […]
This half term the children have been learning how to play tennis. Each week the children have been building up their skills which have included catching, hand eye coordination and movement. This has enabled the children to put the skills altogether to play tennis. Well done Kingfishers.
The children became ‘artists’ and continued with the unit of work – Drawing: Marvellous Marks. The children thought about the question – Can we mark make using pencils to create a simple observational drawing? The children drew their self portraits using a mirror to observe their features. They were then given a halved picture of […]
In art, the children have been looking at the work of the multi-disciplinary artist Freyja Crow. They tried to create portraits and using a strong sense of line, then experimented with different styles of typography.
The children became ‘artists’ and continued with the unit of work – Drawing: Marvellous Marks. The children thought about the question – Can we explore making marks with chalk? The children were given time to feel the chalk and comment on what they noticed. Mrs Clark told the children they were going to mark make […]
On Wednesday 17th April, Years 3, 4 and 5 attended the Schools’ Farm and Country Show at Trinity Park in Ipswich. The children were able to take part in lots of different activities looking at all aspects of farming, growing and food production. First we looked at how willow is used to make cricket bats. […]
The children in Kingfishers Class 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 […]
The children helped to fill the planters with soil and planted the seed potatoes. Some of the children wrote a label for the potatoes that we are growing. The potatoes we are growing are called Shannon and Casablanca. We talked about how the potatoes grow underground in the dark and if we see a shoot […]
The children became ‘artists’ and thought about the question – Can we learn how to fold, curl and cut paper to achieve a desired effect? Today the children practised manipulating paper by making a paper snake. The children listened to Mrs Clark’s instructions and the children followed them. The children tried really hard! Well done […]
The children took part in a gymnastics lesson with Mrs Allum. The theme today was jungle animals! The warm up involved the children jogging round the hall and stopping when Mrs Allum gave them an instruction. They had different actions for branches, quicksand and monkey! The children then went on mats, in pairs. Mrs Allum […]