Our blogs
Our final half term in year 3, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 13th Jun 2021 @ 10:28pm
The sun has been shining and I hope you have all had a lovely break. I'm looking forward to finding out all about your half term fun. There are lots of great things planned for our topics this half term and I can't wait to get started.
Please remember to bring to school:
Pencil cases
Water Bottles
PE Kits
Sun hat
Swimming, by Mr Pearson
Date: 13th Jun 2021 @ 8:20am
Don't forget to pack your swimming gear for our trip to the swimming pool tomorrow morning Monday 14th June.
Remember to be in school for 8.30.
Arts Week Friday, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 31st May 2021 @ 7:53am
The final day. We have loved arts Week and learnt lots of new skills. Here are our final toucan prints.
We also made fantastic mask wearing self portraits, when you take off the mask it reveals all our awesome characteristics and our wonderful smiles. They are all amazing the children did a fantastic job.
Arts week day 5, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 28th May 2021 @ 7:53pm
Today we enjoyed painting our rainbows and creating a wanted poster for a sidekick!
Hope you all have a lovely, lovely holiday and enjoy the snshine?
(Thank you so much for the birthday wishes and gifts too,I am very spoilt.The children made some lovely cards too, all very much appreciated ??)
See you all have in June, keep safe and above all have fun ?
Final Superheroes pictures, by Mr Pearson
Date: 28th May 2021 @ 3:52pm
The final water colour superheroes.
Frday Finale, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 28th May 2021 @ 1:59pm
Wow, what a week. We have been so busy inside and out making fabulous creations. Take a look at our displays, creations and the fun we have had!
Arts Week Day 4 and 5, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 28th May 2021 @ 1:48pm
The Koalas have had another couple of busy days. Yesterday children finished their pastel and ink wor, some did some sewing and we used words and symbols to creare graffitti style art .
Today we have painted our clay pots , created super heroes , videoed us singing and finished our time capsule books
Arts Week Thursday, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 27th May 2021 @ 6:05pm
Today we were printing. Earlier in the week we focused on the work of Henri Rousseau- the tiger in the jungle.
We have thought a lot about our outdoor environment and nature during lockdowns with many of us enjoying our country walks. In class we have been learning about the importance of the rainforest so we linked these 2 ideas together to create our own, multi coloured prints.
I only have a 1 photos I’m afraid as my hands have been covered in printing ink most of the day! Final pieces will be photographed tomorrow when they are dry.
This afternoon we took a bit of time out to enjoy some reading in the sunshine, tennis and finished off with a ice pop.
On Monday we make our own art shirts, take a look, can you find inspirational messages or try and spot a rainbow or 2!
Arts Week Wednesday, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 27th May 2021 @ 5:55pm
Here are our final canvases. They look amazing, the children selected the design they wanted and used rainbow colours.
We also made a group fluid art painting.
Arts week day 4, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 27th May 2021 @ 3:59pm
Today we have been thinking about what life has been like during covid. We are making a time capsule of our art work and our ideas so it will be interesting to open in a few years and remember what our lives were like!
We also finished off our superhero capes and transformed into superheroes!
This afternoon we made a self portrait with a face mask, which opened to show what we think we are like, this will go in our time capsule too.
Thursday Art, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 27th May 2021 @ 3:32pm
This week we have focused on two artists, Norman Adams a British artist who used a lot of water colour to paint rainbows and today we have looked at Gaudi and visited Barcelona!
We looked at the tiles and mosaics that enhance the buildings in Barcelona and we have had a go at tiling the toadstools that live in the garden and then making Gaudi style minibeasts using egg shells. Plus lots of other fun too, take another sneaky peek x x x
Wednesday Art, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 26th May 2021 @ 4:13pm
Here is alittle bit more of what we are up to.....
Arts week 3, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 26th May 2021 @ 3:40pm
Today we designed our own Superhero, we thought about what it meant, what powers they would have.
Then we designed a cape and made it using fabric paints, next the mask and then the wris5 band.Tomorrow we transform!!
Digi art fun this afternoon in the style of Mondrian?
Arts Week Day 3, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 26th May 2021 @ 1:49pm
Another wonderful day of Art in Year 2.
This morning the children's morning task was to draw a heart and write words in and around it to depict what thoughts it eveoked in them. We then went on to look at some Covid window art by looking at a window of Hope in Rochester. We used this as a stimulus and created a page of hearts ready to put onto acetate sheets to make our own window. The children traced round their shapes using permanent markers and then added colour and some patterns. They are now on display on our classroom windows. Whilst this was going on we made a start with our rainbow weaving and sewing birds of hope.
This afternoon the children have used pixel art in computing, have done French and then some more art with a visiting teacher.
Arts Week Day 2, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 25th May 2021 @ 7:21pm
Today started with an activity they asked to do as their morning starter. As the children came in Sing, the song we started to learn yesterday was playing. The children got out their art books and began to use symbols to show what they could hear and feel,using a technique from ealier in the year when they had Mrs May for Art.
Work then continued making clay pots, completing weaving boards and finishing work based on Claire Baxter's Rainbow of Hope. Whilst all of this was giing on the children used fabric pens to decorate their arts week t shirts.
After play we watched an online art lesson to learn how to use dip pens and ink to draw. We used the ink and pens to have a go at creating different types of lines and shapes. Next we looked at the book The Boy the Mole the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy. As we looked at the pictures we discussed the techniques he had used. We then looked at his work Hope in readiness to create our own Hope pictures in his style.
We finished the morning by singing Sing and listening to the story A Child's Garden - a story of hope by Michael Foreman.
After luch some of us began to draw what we thought a covid germ might look like whilst groups of children worked with Mrs Richards to use pastels and ink to create their own Hope pieces in the style of Charlie Mackesy.
Our last activity was to begin filling in our covid booklets to put in our time capsule.
We spent some time makung a list of everything we have done so far this week. We were amazed by how much we have done and the new skills we are learning.
Arts Week Tuesday, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 25th May 2021 @ 6:26pm
Today we have been preparing for our printing day on Thursday and using acrylic paint to create a rainbow themed canvas. Here are a few photos. We will post our final creations later in the week.
Art week, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 25th May 2021 @ 4:37pm
We are reading the book, 'When the World Made a Rainbow.' From this book we are doing all of our art work. We are making and creating rainbows. Take a little sneak peek so far.....
Arts week day 2, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 25th May 2021 @ 3:24pm
Today we have been painting rainbows but we had to mix some colours using red, yellow and blue.Then we had to paint our rainbows in shades, making them darker or lighter.This afternoon we designed our windows of hope - they look amazingly!
A big thank you to Robin who came in today to help us make our windmills for our planter at the front of school. We loved drilling , hammering and sawing.
Rainbow trees, by Mr Pearson
Date: 25th May 2021 @ 10:36am
We have been using pointillism style to draw our rainbows.
Royal Mail Hero stamp design competition, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 24th May 2021 @ 9:41pm
All competition entries ready to post off.
Can you see who the hero is?
P.E., by Mrs Catterall
Date: 24th May 2021 @ 9:10pm
Although it’s Arts week the children still wanted their P.E. Lesson. Who can blame them -starting the day with physical exercise -perfect.
hop, skip and jump
balancing a bean bag on your head
throwing a bean bag into buckets.
skipping ropes.
Class compliment, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 24th May 2021 @ 9:04pm
We had a lovely afternoon despite the rain. We played games inside, built Lego models and some children opted for making fairy cakes and chocolate cornflake cakes which they shared with everyone at the end of the day. Well done Elephants, fingers crossed we can earn some more stars and have an outdoor afternoon before the end of the year. Keep shining brightly and I know we will.
Arts Week Day 1, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 24th May 2021 @ 7:24pm
It has been a wonderful opening day to Ats Week. The children started by creating a stamp for The Royal Mail Covid Hero competition. There are some amazing entries. Next job was to design a template using the word HOPE to put on the front of their Arts Week T shirts tomorrow. Work also began on the sky background for our rainbow weaving.
This afternoon we looked at a piece of art called Rainbow of Hope by the artist Claire Baxter and the children then worked hard to work in her style to create their own Rainbows of Hope.
To tie in with our theme hope and the Big Ask we have started to learn the song written by Garry Barlow for the Queen's Diamond Jubiilee, Sing. Look out for a video performance later in the week.
Keep your eye on Twitter tomorrow for action shots as they happen.
Arts week , day 1, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 24th May 2021 @ 4:21pm
A great start to Arts week, we designed our own pattern to print onto our T-shirts, they look brilliant!This afternoon we used clay to make a rainbow, harder than we thought! We are going to let them dry out and then mix the colours to paint them .
