This week, Reception have been celebrating the festival of Chinese New Year and have taken part in a lot of exciting activities throughout the week. We began by reading the story ‘Lanterns and Fireworks’ which tells the story of Chinese New Year. We learnt that fireworks are let off to scare a
This week, the children have been investigating shade and colour combinations. Earlier in the week, the children were introduced to an artist called John Dyer, who they will be basing their final piece on. The children have also been investigating how to change the shade of a colour using white an
Over the next two weeks, we are developing and perfecting our sewing skills by designing and creating our hand puppets. The children began by researching different types of puppets, watching videos and demonstrations of hand, rod, shadow and string/marionette puppets. We have this week created our
In Art this term, the children explored the vast array of colours they are able to make from the 3 primary colours and learned about secondary and tertiary colours in order to create their own colour wheels. The boys and girls also identified how adding white and black can change the tint of a colou
All this term, children across school have been learning about British birds in their Forest School sessions, this is linked to the RSPB Big School Birdwatch. The children have become very good at recognising the different types, where they might expect to see them and how to tell some of the diff
Year 6 have been exploring different styles of portraits in the last couple of weeks. The children have learnt about how Picasso used a Cubist style, that was abstract and produced as if from different angles and using geometric shapes. They have contrasted this with Realism and the concept of wheth
Everyone was very excited to go on their very first trip in Year One. The children have been learning all about Christian churches. They have learnt what happens in a church and features of a church both inside and outside. Today, we all walked down to St. Ninian’s church in Low Fell. We enjoyed
For the past two weeks, the children have been planning for and writing a newspaper article in English. As part of our sentence stackers, the children have been looking at and learning about broken speech. After learning about the rules regarding punctuation and the position of the reporting claus
The children and residents started putting last weeks garden plan into action today by potting up some seeds. First they went into the garden to collect some shale to put in the bottom of the pots for drainage. They then decorated their pots. We are testing out a new soil mix so it will be interest
Year One have been so excited to use laptops this term. It all started with the children learning the different parts of a laptop computer and a desktop computer – screen, keyboard, trackpad/mouse. Then the children were taught how to log onto a laptop computer, and then onto Purple Mash. Next, we
