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Year 5 have completed their Moon Buggy toys for children aged 9-10 years old.

Product specification were as follows:

• It must move using an elastic band ‘pull back’ mechanism
• Have 4 wheel and 2 axels
• The dimensions must not exceed an A4 piece of paper
• Be strong and robust to…

Year 6 chairs are here! Order a full size version now!

Throughout this project, Year 6 have: learnt about strong shapes and forces; explored materials, techniques, joins and structures; made initial designs inspired by influential designers; made prototypes and modified designs as appropriate;…

Welcome to our Term 2 Forest school. During the first session we learned about bats. They read facts and found hidden bats in the area. We looked at a bat box, played the bat game, learned about echolocation and lots of children enjoyed making their own bats from cardboard. 

In session 2 we…

This term we got a new log splitter to create better fire wood. You can see elara using it in the profile picture of this blog. It's great fun (although we might have to feed the children a little more food so they have more weight to push the lever down with their foot haha) . We played games and…

This week, Year one will be completing their DT Super Hero Moving Pictures!

Within the project the children: considered who can be a super hero and they have designed and drawn their own; explored and made slider and lever mechanisms; designed and made their own backgrounds using geometric…

The Year three topic this term is Ancient Egypt. Within Design Technology, pupils designed and made necklaces inspired by Ancient Egyptian art and jewellery. This was a DT textiles project and the main feature on each necklace is a rectangular shaped piece of weaving. Pupils also explored making…

We have appointed Year 6 Art Leaders. This is a new role that will evolve throughout the year but the aim is to give children at Bridge ownership and ‘a voice’; an opportunity to be actively involved with planning and leading art projects; to act as coaches, advocates and ambassadors for the Arts…

The first session was all about hedgehogs - we played a hedgehog game, learned some facts, created hedgehogs with leaves, made mud hedgehog and built houses for the animals. 

The song, if you want to sing it at home, goes like this (to the tune of 'I'm a little teacup'):

I'm a little…

This term, Year R have been exploring colour and using inspiration from the abstract paintings by Russian artist, Wassily Kandinsky.

The children learnt about primary colours; how to mix secondary colours; how colours make them feel and whether they are warm or cool; how to use paintbrushes and…

Before beginning to construct their final chairs, Year 6 were privileged to be visited by an architecture lecturer! Robert Nice, one of our parents, works at UCA in Canterbury teaching architecture; he generously gave up his time to come into school and chat with pupils about their chair designs…

A big thank you to Creative Folkestone for running an Art workshop for Birch class this week. The children worked with two local artists, Emily and Naomi, who delivered the workshop: Portraiture.

The children began the morning by looking at and discussing images of a range of self-portraits by…

This morning, Holly Class went to the Folkestone Book Festival as their prize for being the class in Upper Key Stage Two that read the most last term! The author speaking was Catherine Johnson (notable books include 'Race to the Frozen North' and 'Freedom'), and children had the opportunity to…