The last session for this half term saw Year six enjoying natural den building in the woods. Trying to make a shelter waterproof can be very tricky without tarps. They used leafy foliage to create layers to protect from the wind and rain. Meanwhile in music, they have been learning to sing the song
In music this half term, Year Two have been focusing on composition. The children began composing with body percussion. They used their body parts to create sounds and then sequenced them to make a rhythm. Once the children were happy with their rhythm they then began composing on the glockenspiel
This half term, Year One have enjoyed creating music using body percussion. They have explored different ways to make sounds using their body parts, stamping and clapping being the most popular. They sequenced sounds to compose a rhythm with their partner and then performed their composition to the
In class the children have been learning about the Holi Festival of Colour, today’s exploration activity encouraged them to really observe the nuances of colour in the natural world. They set off in teams, each with a collecting bag containing a selection of paint colour cards, the challenge, to see
A quick challenge encourages the children to act more intuitively. No time to over think it. Using anything you find, transform a Christmas tree into a native British animal. Some weird and wonderful beasts appeared. The children soon realised the key to this is putting in the main characteristics o
In Music this half term, the children have been learning about how to develop beat within music, listening to different beats and styles of music and then composing some basic rhythmic patterns using different pieces of equipment. We put these together with some sounds created by ourselves, like cla
Children in Year 4 spent a challenging morning in our Forest School trying all sorts of different activities. As we’ve all been taking part in the RSPB Big School Birdwatch Miss Rowe thought the children may like to try their hand at nest building, bird style. That means one-handed! The children cou
Reception children continued to use their map reading skills today to plot out sounds that they heard on the listening walk. They are becoming much more familiar with the layout of the grounds and the landmarks that help them orientate themselves. Principle 1: Forest School is a long-term process of
Reception children have been making music Forest School style. In class they worked with Mrs Holt to create musical beats using objects around them. Thinking about the different sounds that can be created, tapping with a metal stick is very different from a wooden one but also different types of woo
This term, Year Six have been studying World War Two. As part of this, in PE lessons, the children have been learning different types of dances that came about during wartime. They have enjoyed practising the Jive to the song Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley – a song that they have also been lear
