In Art, Year Two have been learning all about Henri Matisse. They learned that Henri Matisse was a famous artist, who was born in France. When he first became an artist, he liked to paint but, after he had had an operation, he started to create collages. He called this ‘painting with scissors’. The
This week, Year 4 and Reception came together to share their love of reading. The children buddied up, found a cosy place to sit and shared some stories. The Year 4 children loved reading to the Reception children and some of the Reception children enjoyed reading to the Year 4 children too! They sh
This week we have continued our topic learning under the theme “Marvellous Me”. We learnt all about harvest and talked about foods that are healthy for us. We all had fun digging up the vegetable patch in our garden, peeling and grating the vegetables to make out own vegetable soup and having a
In Year 3, the boys and girls have been developing their printing skills during our Art topic. The children began by learning how to roll the ink and explored the patterns created using different textures. Once the children were confident using the ink and roller, they used their skills to create a
Year 2 begin to learn more about tools and construction within their Forest School sessions. First sorting the hammers into different types, then we looked at what each type might be used for. We also talked about what you could use if you didn’t have a hammer and how could you improvise. The childr
In our Forest School this week children from Reception and Nursery looked for materials that would be good for making paintbrushes. They found all sorts of hairy, fluffy, furry and leafy materials. Some of the more dexterous wound these items around and attached them to sticks, others picked plants
Art has been so much fun for the last two weeks. The children learnt about the primary colours – red, blue and yellow and then experimented with different styles of printing. Firstly they printed with a range of objects such as Lego, cups and sponges. We noticed that sometimes the colours merg
The the Year 3 Tennis Club is now in its third week of training. With an eye on the Gateshead tournament scheduled for the summer term, the squad has started working hard to learn the two main shots required to hit the ball over the net – forehand and backhand. The children have been learning that
In Reception, we have been learning about the senses as part of our Marvelous Me topic. Mr Potato Head helped the children to remember that we have five senses. Over the week we have used our senses to find out about the world in a variety of ways. We have learnt the difference between sweet b
This week our RE focus has been on Christianity and the Miracles of Jesus. We looked at some of the traditional miracles like calming the sea and healing the sick and then looked at what made these miracles. We then looked at the events surrounding the Hudson River plane accident and whether thi
