Our blogs
Summer Fair, by Mr Pearson
Date: 28th Jun 2021 @ 9:08pm
The Year 6's delivered a mini Summer fair for the Y4's today. Everyone had a fantastic time.
Eco- Council Reminder, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 27th Jun 2021 @ 2:38pm
Remember to have your presentations ready if you would like to be considered for this role.
LPS+ badges, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 27th Jun 2021 @ 2:37pm
Just a little reminder for those of you who have been working towards your LPS+ badge for this half term (Gardening or World Consevation) to be collecting together your evidence and submitting it to the assignment in Google Classroom.
I'm looking forward to seeing it and us sharing it with the class.
Week beginning 21 st June, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 25th Jun 2021 @ 8:29pm
This week we enjoyed sports day on Monday, move up afternoon Tuesday fractions in Maths finding halves and quarters, English our new story about the queen’s hat, Geography , all about the UK.Can they remember the 4 capitals and countries?! Science, minibeats - phew- busy as always!
Thank you for chocolate donations and red items today , have a great weekend??
Sports Day photos, by Mr Pearson
Date: 22nd Jun 2021 @ 9:46am
Look in your childs tribes gallery at a range of photos from this years Sports Day.
Week beginning 14th June, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 18th Jun 2021 @ 1:16pm
This week we have been learning about fractions in maths, finding halves of shapes.In our jigsaw work we have been looking at life cycles, how they work and how things change. We looked at some photos of how I have changed over the years and the children can bring their own photos of when they were a baby so we can see how they have changed too.
In science we collected leaves and thought how we can sort them.
Welcome Back Koalas, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 17th Jun 2021 @ 12:52am
The children have made a wonderful start to their final term in Year 2.
They are enjoying working on a poem by Michael Rosen called Bathroom Fiddler and will be having a go very soon at writing their very own poems called Desk Fiddler.
In maths we have been looking at addition of 2 digit numbers and looking over other bits of learning from the past. We have started our new topic which is learning about India and made a start on our new unit of work in science all about animals, life cycles and habitats.
The children enjoyed using BBC Dance Mat in computing today which is a great , free site for learning to touch type.
Skeletons - what do they look like?, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 15th Jun 2021 @ 6:42am
We worked individually then in groups to create a drawing of what we thought our skeletons looked like. Then we sorted some given bones into a body outline before playing a race against time game to check our skeletons against a correct one and move the pieces as needed. We finished by naming some of the bones with their common names and their scientific names.
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.....
