The boys and girls in Year 3 have been pretending to be the stone age boy. They each wore a blindfold and entered a dark cave full of mysterious noises. The children took it in turns to tell their partner how they felt in the cave and they recorded their ideas. The children will use this to inspire
The first session for the Year 6 tennis team practice took place today with the children excited and raring to go. During the hour, there was a quick warm up with some ‘boys v girls’ dodge ball (using the sponge tennis balls) before moving onto a variety of activities which supported forehand an
Fractions and decimals are hard enough, but throw a Tarsia puzzle into the mix and they become even more difficult. Year 6 have been working extremely hard on fractions, decimals and percentages and their equivalents. Here, they are trying to solve a puzzle by matching up the relevant pieces. It cer
Year 6 have started to play hockey during their P.E. lessons. They have been dribbling the ball, making sure that they used the correct side of the stick, and passing and stopping the ball. It is important to keep the ball under control, but when the relays started some of them forgot this and had t
A New Year at Angel Court and a new project for the residents and children to enjoy. This week was introductions week. We will be working with Neil, a woodwork craftsman. He showed us some of his lovely creations, tea light holders, mosaics, driftwood sculptures and some wooden toys. The children pa
Year 2 are currently learning about Africa and after locating the continent on a world map they had the opportunity to look at images of places and people in Kenya and Uganda. They were very inquisitive and came up with lots of questions about what they could see. They worked as a class to answer so
The children in Year 2 have been learning about division. To find out about remainders, they had lots of fun playing a game called grab and divide! The children had to grab a handful of counters and check to see if they were equally divisible by 2, 3, 4 and 5. If they were, they scored a point and i
Nobody was expecting the fantastic surprise we all got this morning – SNOW! As soon as the first few flakes began to gracefully fall from the sky, the excitement built until the children saw that a thin blanket was lying on our school grounds. The big question from the children inevitably was �
This week the children are beginning to learn how to make paint ready for cave painting. In class we discussed what kind of materials would have been used in the Stone Age, what kind of tools may be needed to release pigments and then how the paintbrushes themselves might be constructed. Outside a f
The children have been using different media to create self portraits this week. They looked at a variety of portraits by different artists and talked about the ones that they liked. They then had a go at making their own portrait using paints, loose materials and pens. The children then made
