Blog by Cally Smith

Throughout the term, Year 1 pupils have been working towards the completion of their Storm Whale collages, inspired by Benji Davies' book, The Storm Whale. Pupils have created a background, midground and foreground for their artwork. Their backgrounds depict a stormy sea using oil pastels and…

To practise their gross motor skills this week, Year R pupils have been swimming through an imaginary sea!

To begin, we had a gentle swim in the tranquil sea. We practised our front stroke, back stroke and breast stroke to ‘Sitting on the Dock of the Bay’. Very relaxing. When the imaginary…

Year R pupils have been practising their gross motor skills again this week and giving the school windows a quick wash at the same time! Inspired by our desire for sparkling windows, the children have been making zigzags, circles, up, down and crossing motions using both sides of their bodies.

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In DT last term, Year 1 made moving Christmas cards. During their morning work with class teachers, pupils worked independently to explore and practise making  simple mechanisms - levers and sliders - that enable parts of their cards to move! A lever pivots around a split pin and can partially…

Before Christmas, Year one watched a performance of The Storm Whale and The Storm Whale in Winter at The Marlowe Theatre. This term, they are reading the book The Storm Whale as part of their class project.

Throughout the term in art, pupils will be creating collage pictures inspired by…

Year R pupils have been practising their gross motor skills this week. Inspired by happiness and bubbles, we concentrated on making large round shapes using both arms.

Starting in the classroom, we practised a short dance which involved creating imaginary bubbles (circular movements with…

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

Merry Christmas Everyone!

After a brilliant term learning Christmas music on the guitars and ukulele’s, on wed 14th December, year 6 travelled to Simon Langton Girls Grammar school where they performed ‘Merry Christmas Everyone’ with talented musicians from SLGGS. (Some of them ex-bridge…

The long awaited Year 6 chairs are here! The children finished making them on the penultimate day of term 2 – all day DT!

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

As part of our history work on The Great Fire of London, the children were set a Design and Technology challenge to rebuild London after the fire. They were given various materials and had to choose which to use and how best to join them together. Working in small groups, they designed their…

We are really proud of 10 wonderful artists who have achieved their Discovery Arts Award. A group of pupils from Year 5 and 6 have been attending a weekly art club with Mrs Smith and Mrs Tomsett. Taking inspiration from ‘twisted fairy tales’, the group have explored a range of media and techniques…

At Bridge, we are very proud of our pupils’ high quality art, music, dance and performing arts. We have a strong Arts team comprising of Mr Miles and Mrs Brooks (Music), Mrs Andrews (dance), Mrs Smith and Mrs Tomsett (Art and DT). The whole school has been working towards the Artsmark Gold award…