The children made a colourful fruit salad using strawberries, raspberries, and grapes. They carefully washed and cut the fruit into small pieces. Once the fruit salad was ready, the children enjoyed eating it together, proudly tasting the healthy snack they had prepared themselves.
The children explored colour and texture as they used sponges to paint over large pre‑drawn tractor outlines. They eagerly dabbed, pressed, and swept the sponges across the paper, choosing bright, bold colours to fill the different parts of the tractor. As they worked, they experimented with how the sponge changed the effect of the paint, noticing the patterns it created and how the colours blended together. The activity encouraged creativity, control, and enjoyment as the children brought the big tractors to life with vibrant, eye‑catching designs.
This week Year 1 had a fabulous RE lesson, which was all about Our Wonderful World.
First, we listened and sang along to Louis Armstrong – ‘A Wonderful World’.
Then, we learned about The Seven Natural Wonders of the World and we were amazed by their breathtaking beauty.
We talked about how lucky we are to live in such a beautiful world and how important it is to take care of it.
Finally, we discussed all the ways to help keep our planet safe, like recycling, saving water and protecting nature.
What a busy Tuesday afternoon!
Miss Blakeston’s class all came prepared with an array of fabulous easter decorations ready for a craft afternoon. They all displayed their creativity as they set to work … kindness and teamwork were also shown, helping each other out and sharing their own resources with their friends.
All of the children were so proud of their creations!
F2 have been over the moon this week that their little tiny eggs have FINALLY HATCHED! We have welcomed into the world four beautiful baby chicks, all different colours and all with very different personalities!
It has been amazing to watch these babies hatch and to care for them as they have grown. Today we got to all have a hold for the first time, learning how to hold, look after and take care of these little tiny delicate creatures! We have learnt a lot about chickens the past few weeks and the life-cycle of egg to chick! We have had deep discussions about how to look after all living things in the world and how animals and insects are so important and need us to be gentle and kind. We have loved the warm and fluffy cuddles this afternoon and I know we will all be very sad to see them go when it’s time to go back to their farm…
This term Year 1 have been using their laptop skills to enable them to digitally paint.
They have used a variety of tools (shape, line, fill, undo, colours) create their own digital painting in the style of an artist.
The artists we have taken inspiration from are:-
Piet Mondrian
Henri Matisse
Wassily Kandinsky
George Seurat
All of the children have produced the most amazing work, take a look…
We have loved celebrating Lunar New Year. The children were fascinated to discover that this year is the Year of the Horse, and we explored how families around the world celebrate this special festival.
We watched videos of dragon dancing and loved the way the dancers moved together. The children also looked closely at traditional clothes, noticing the that they often wear the colour red!
A highlight of the day was trying some traditional foods. The children were very excited to taste noodles, prawn crackers, and to finish with a fortune cookie. They enjoyed comparing the textures and talking about the different flavours and reading the special message inside the cookie.
It has been a fab day celebrating other cultures!
This term our Jigsaw piece has been ‘Dreams and Goals‘.
We have been thinking about what skills enable us to achieve our goals, how we can help ourselves to achieve success and finding out what our individual learning strengths are.
First, we each chose an individual achievable challenge:-
Next, we took part in a group challenge to make a dream bird.
Finally, we thought about the skills that were needed to achieve both these challenges.
During our individual challenge, we printed out instructions/words, watched a video, read and repeated … and practised, practised, practised!
The children were excited to perform to each other the following week.
Then the children all participated in a group challenge to make a dream bird.
The children were all able to work well in a group to create an end product. They communicated well and used each others skills, teamwork, problem solving and praise were displayed. They were able to explain some of the ways they worked well in their group to create the end product and could express how they felt to be working as part of their group, using words such as successful, proud, achievement and happy.
Just look at their amazing dream bird creations!
Year 6 are in the process of preparing to be chocolatiers this week to create a produce (truffles) with a purpose (a gift) for a person of their choosing.
This week we took part in a focused practical activity and observed the process of how to make the truffles using a simple recipe. With a little assistance and guidance from Miss Stewart, some children weighed, snapped, crumbled and added the necessary ingredients to create a batch of delicious truffles, which were shared and devoured before being evaluated.
Our next step is to be the chocolatier and independently create and design our own truffles so watch this space…
In HUB 2 this week, we demonstrated our creative flair and decorated some homemade shortbread biscuits with a range of Christmas themes alongside some of our own personal interest.
We persevered, focused and carefully concentrated on the task to ensure that our designs were delectable masterpieces.
And voila…from Christmas Trees, Christmas Stars and Snowflakes to Sonic, Batman, Spiderman and the Joker, we certainly enjoyed the task before devouring and sharing our fine creations with our loved ones.
Merry Christmas everyone!