Piet Mondrian

By Leonnie Carrick2nd February 2026

This week, the children had a wonderful time learning about the artist Piet Mondrian, famous for his artwork using primary colours, bold black lines, and simple shapes.

We began by exploring the primary colours red, blue, and yellow and the children experimented with colour mixing to see what new colours they could create. They loved discovering how colours can change when mixed together, showing great curiosity and creativity.

we even took our Mondrian inspiration outside and created our own pieces of art with chalk using the primary colours and shapes just like he did!

After looking closely at Mondrian’s style, the children created their own final piece inspired by him. They enjoyed arranging shapes, painting blocks of colour, and using lines to separate each section, just like how Mondrian did.

They look magnificent displayed around our classroom and art area!!!

 

A fabulous first day back!

By Mrs C SILVERWOOD6th January 2026

The children have all loved being back at school today.  We’ve started reading a new book, One Snowy Night, which is all about Percy the Park Keeper.  He looks after all the woodland animals in the park and helps to keep them warm in his hut.

We also talked about Winter and how most of the trees have absolutely no leaves on at all any more.  Some of the children drew some great winter trees.

And of course, we explored the ice in our outdoor area.  It was so cold!  Freddie said it was heavy.  And Roo said it was slippery too!

F1’s homemade ‘clay’

By Mrs C SILVERWOOD4th December 2025

This week our afternoon children have had fun measuring out different ingredients to make our own air-drying ‘clay’.  We used 2 cups of bicarbonate of soda, 1 cup of cornflower and 1.5 cups of water.

When we had mixed it up together, Mrs Silverwood heated it up on the hob.  She had to keep stirring it all the time until it turned into a ball of thick paste.

You will have to wait to see our fantastic decorations though, as it is a surprise for Christmas!  However, they are looking very pretty!

All things owls in F1

By Mrs C SILVERWOOD12th November 2025

Today, F1 have been painting owls.  We’ve started off by painting the shapes we wanted, then filling them in with lots of paint…

Whilst the paint has been wet, we have then made ‘zig-zag’ marks onto the owl’s tummies so that it looked a bit feathery…

Finally, we added glue and feathery wings, a beak and it’s talons…

Once the owls are dry, we are going to add yellowy-orange eyes.

Our owl painting has also inspired a bit of flying, as well as tree building (so that the owls can build their nests).  A great day in F1!

Pencil control in F1

By Mrs C SILVERWOOD7th November 2025

This morning we worked very hard on how to hold a pencil.  The children really concentrated.  We then put our mark making skills to the test and had a go at drawing Ravana, the ten headed demon, that we had read about in the story of Rama & Sita.  There were lots of circles to draw and each one needed a cross looking face on it!  Great work!

 

Forest School afternoon!

By Jodie Buss5th November 2025

This afternoon the children in HUB 1 had a lovely afternoon exploring the great outdoors and getting crafty in the cabin! Our favourite kind of afternoon spent exploring our senses and regulating in the great outdoors!

We love anything that’s messy and involves paint, so Mrs. Buss’s idea to explore some bonfire themed colours and mix using sticks was just up our street! A great sensory session for encouraging again those fine motor skills and encouraging self expression and creativity! The children loved being outside in our very autumnal forest garden and explored the variety of leaves looking at colour, size and what happens as they fall to the ground! We had a special treat at the end of the day with some yummy hot chocolates and marshmallows, a great opportunity to sit together in our forest school circle and encourage some social and communication opportunities!

Here are some fab photos of the children highly engaged and involved in our forest afternoon…

Day of the Dead day!

By Olivia Mead24th October 2025

Year 6 are enjoying their Day of the Dead WOW day!

This morning, the children are taking part in different activities: making pan de muertos (a traditional Mexican bread), and creating their very own water colour art with sugar skulls and all things Day of the Dead!

F1’s Autumn leaves

By Mrs C SILVERWOOD21st October 2025

Some of our children painted Autumn leaves but we hadn’t got any orange paint!

However, Mrs Silverwood showed them something very clever…

Roo said, “We mixed it. Red and yellow to orange.”

Good work Roo!