In Art, Year Two have been learning all about mark making. To begin, the children learned that mark making can be lines, dots or patterns used in a piece of artwork. Also, it can be used to make something look darker or to show how something feels. Year Two learned about a famous artist called Vince
This week, Reception have been very busy learning all about recycling. They began by reading ‘Somebody swallowed Stanley’ and discussing why it is important to keep our rubbish out of the ocean. We looked at different materials and discussed what we could recycle and what we could not. The children
This term in Year 4, we have been learning all about Ancient Greek myths in English. The children have read and listened to lots of different Greek myths including Perseus and Medusa, Theseus and the Minotaur and Jason and the Golden Fleece. The children have enjoyed learning all about the different
Year Two have been learning about statistics in Maths. First, they learnt about tally marks and how they can be used to help count up objects. They practised reading different tally marks and making them themselves. Then they were ready to put their knowledge into practise and make tally charts to c
This week, Year 5 have began to look at Islamic art during their art lessons. We have looked at examples of Islamic art to identify the three main components: floral motifs, geometric patterns and calligraphy. Then, the children were given different examples of Islamic art to choose from and were as
In Computing, Year 1 have started their new topic all about programming Bee-Bots. The children began by investigating what the different buttons could do. They were able to identify and use the forwards, backwards, right turn and left turn buttons. It was very tricky to remember that we needed to pr
The children have had a fun Friday morning. We have re-introduced the Maths game, 4 in a line which was also played during our Year 3 Maths workshop. It required the children to not only used their multiplication knowledge but they also had to think about their tactics of what multiplication calcula
Year 6 have today completed their SATs and have had an afternoon of cakes, ice-cream and fun to celebrate! The children have worked extremely hard, not only this wee, but in the build up to their tests, and have shown great determination to do the best that they can. the news and social media have b
The first task of the morning was to check if the wild flower seeds we sowed are starting to sprout. Difficult at this stage to see which are flowers and which are weeds, but nothing goes to waste as we’ll pick the weeds out and give them to the hens. The children were excited to see how quickly t
This week in Nursery our topic has been ‘under the sea’. They started this topic by receiving a bucket full of items linked to the seaside, such as suncream, a spade, a swimming costume, sunglasses, a sun hat, a fan and many more items. The children took it in turns to pick out an item at a time
