Storm Whales collages - Year 1
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…
Year 1 ice fun December 2022
Cold but exciting times!
The Year 1 children got to experience an afternoon outside in the icy conditions - we spotted some exciting footprints in the snow and they guessed which animals they were from. We had squirrels and different birds visiting and the children left food for them to help…
Year One Christmas cards - DT
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…
Stormy seas - Year 1
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…
Forest School Year R
Welcome to Forest School Year R.
We have been welcomed by Autumn weather - sunshine, rain, frost and wind.
We walked around the Forest School area and learned the first rules:
Walking around the fire circle - our safe word is 'lollipop' to remind them to walk around in preparation for a…
Year 1 Forest School Autumn Term 1
Welcome back to Forest School Year 1.
We started off looking closely at what has changed/is growing in the Forest School area by using Queen silhouettes, focusing on a small area (and remembering the Queen).
This term the children explored conkers, learning the name 'Horse Chestnut tree',…
Year R - observational paintings of plants
Within Art this year, Year R have been practising their drawing and making skills; they have explored a broad range of art media and tools and have been developing their fine motor skills. Pupils have also been working on their observational skills.
It is important that young children begin to…
Observational Drawing of Playmobil - Year R
Last week, Year R practised their observational skills when drawing from Playmobil people. They were asked to look carefully at the object as they drew and to think about breaking their drawing into larger shapes as a starting point (circles, rectangles, triangles etc). They learnt about how to…
Year R insects
As part of the Year R ‘insect’ topic, pupils have been making their own small creatures from cardboard. Their starting point was an oval cardboard base with two holes. They decorated them with colour pencils and felt tip pens; cut out and attached paper wings; made extra holes with a hole punch…
Imaginary worlds - Year R
Inspired by the British sculptor Philip King, Year R pupils have been making their own mini sculptures using paper. I asked the children to imagine that were tiny and able to walk through their sculptures - imaginary worlds in miniature. This allowed the pupils to consider scale, form and space.…
Year R - Week 4 Art and music
Within our Reception Art and Music project this week, the children responded to four contrasting pieces of music.
To begin the lesson, pupils moved their bodies and danced to all four pieces of music. As a class, we discussed how the music made them feel and how their movements changed to…
Week 3 - Yr R Music and Art
It’s week 3 of our Music and Art project – Mrs Brookes led a music lesson using the children’s homemade instruments and drawing upon previous learning. To warm up, the children marched like dinosaurs and moved to a steady beat.
Pupils then tapped, shook and scraped their instruments; each of…
