Art & Design

Miss Rutherfords class had their first Forest School session for this year. In class we had a class discussion about what our school rules, Ready, Respectful and Safe, looks like in the Forest School. The children were confident in their knowledge, Ready is not just getting our bodies ready for the

Learning about fires is particularly important at this time of year. Year 2 children have been learning about the Great Fire of London, in class they created their own houses using cardboard boxes. They decorated the houses marking on the wooden frames that would have been part of the houses origina

In Reception this week, the children enjoyed the Halloween activities that were set up in the classroom and in our outdoor areas. Some of the activities included, making spiders out of playdough, printing with Halloween shapes in the painting area, making magic wands in the outdoor area and potions

Over the past three weeks, Year 6 have been learning a range of techniques to develop their sketching skills including hatching, blurring, reflections and showing movement. During this block of work, Year 6 have experimented with different gradings of pencils and have seen that the 6B pencil will na

Elizabeth Baker, the Story Teller from the charity Equal Arts, was in fine voice, regaling the adults and children with stories of Nature. Whilst she wove her wonderous tales the rest of us worked together to create more decorations for our performance piece. Using acrylic paint pens and small gems

This week in Reception has been a joy! We read the story of Oliver’s Vegetables, discussing which vegetables we like and dislike. The children enjoyed categorising foods into fruits and vegetables, enhancing their understanding in a fun way. The highlight was digging up and washing potatoes from

Year 1 got creative this week, Journey Sticks are a lovely way of encouraging the children to observe the changes in nature around them. They can be made at any time of the year and as well as helping the children to develop their fine motor skills give them a lovely memento of their Forest School s

Barter Town is in full swing now, we begin each session with a review about the previous week, a town meeting if you like. What went well, what needs prioritising, what issues can be worked through. This gives the children time to reflect and to ask other villagers for advice. It has been interestin

For Art, we have been mark making, pencil sketching and shading, and this week moved on to using different pencils and pastels. We started mark making and looking at ways you can shade, mark, pattern and draw with pencils.  This week we have been looking at landscapes using lines and pastel art and

We continue to take part in the Creative Storytelling sessions with the charity Equal Arts and our friends at Angel Court. This week we finished the collage, adding the printed adjectives in strips to represent the winds hair. Leaves were cut out and then curled and stuck into the winds flowing lock