Class of 2020-2027 - Year 4

Last week, we were very pleased to welcome a local Fashion Designer to our Fashion and Textiles after-school club. Dulcima is a sustainable fashion designer and creator who works from her studio in Barham village; she is also a musician.

Our small Year 4 club is being led by one of our Year 6…

Year 4 enjoyed a fantastic, and windy, day at Richborough Roman fort yesterday. They had the opportunity to tour the Museum whilst completing a challenge, handle objects in the Handling Room and be given a private tour of the site but the incredibly knowledgeable Tony and Amanda who shared some…

Year 4 have had an action packed term in Forest School. We started off with whittling, remembering how to use tools safely. William created a butter knife, Ziva a mushroom and we had lots of creative designs. Avid made a bow and arrow, as did Michael later on in the weeks, improving on his first…

Welcome back to the woods Year 4. 

We had a member from Forestry England join our session (they give us permission to use the woodlands). She brought a tawny owl feather with her and 2 different types of deer antlers and told us a little bit about the forest and the animals. 

We listened to…

Year 4 are delighted to share with you our cross-curricular project inspired by the life and work of Faith Ringgold, an African American female artist and author.

Our current display in the Year 4 corridor is of our own ‘story-quilts, a title used by Faith to describe her own particular form of…

A big thank you to Creative Folkestone for running an Art workshop for Hazel class last week. The children worked with two local artists, Emily and Tania, who delivered the workshop: Character making, storytelling and performance.

The children began the morning by discussing storytelling…

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…

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…

Last Friday, Year 4 Bridge children and their parents took part in The Christmas Light Parade through Canterbury. The parade started near the Westgate Gardens and made its way (past the many onlookers) through Canterbury city centre. We finished in the Cathedral Precincts where we were greeted by…

On Monday 23^rd and Tuesday 24^th September 2024, Hazel and Birch classes visited Creed Outdoor Learning Centre in Teynham for our Experience day linked to our new writing topic on persuasive leaflets.

During their visit, the children took part in five different activities throughout the day…

Welcome to a brilliant bunch of talented artists at our new art club after school today. Inspired by the artist, author and illustrator  Eric Carle, today we used Autumn leaves to make mixed media, collage insects and mini beasts. Such a lovely group of children to spend an hour with. Well done…

This term in History, Beech Class has been learning about the history of Bridge School from when the school opened. We were very lucky to have visits from Mr Fawke, Miss Allison and Miss Andrews who told us about when they came to the school as pupils. We were very excited to find out that when…