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Mark-making inspired by ‘Billy and the Beast’. 

This term, Year one pupils have been reading the book ‘Billy and the Beast’, by author and illustrator Nadia Shireen. Within art, we looked at Nadia Shireen’s illustrations and as a class discussed how she used her marks and lines to describe…

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…

Year R have begun practising and developing their gross motor skills within their art lessons. The children will now be taking part in weekly Write Dance (style) and art activities aimed to strengthen muscle groups and improve the children’s agility.

 Within our first Write Dance session, we…

In Year 1 we thoroughly enjoyed an interesting day learning about a few aspects of Japanese culture.  We started by learning some interesting facts about Japan: did you know the tallest mountain in Japan is mount Fuji and the longest river is called Shinano? During the day we learnt to write our…

Our History topic this term has been exploring the life and work of Florence Nightingale and learning about why she was significant. To round off our learning, the children made lamps and Crimean soldiers’ hats. They then immersed themselves in role playing being soldiers from the Crimean War  and…

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…

The last Year R art lesson of the term – storytelling. Using baskets of plastic animals and a ‘luck dip’ bag of playmobil characters for inspiration, Year R created their own stories on rolls of paper with wax crayons.

This activity encourages the children to use their amazing imaginations; it…

My favourite end of year lesson! Year 3 pupils have been responding to and interpreting different types of music through their artwork. After a class discussion about colour and how they evoke certain emotions, we briefly looked at the work of Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky who himself worked…

Welcome to the Forest School summer term. 

Year 3 children have been very busy exploring and learning new skills: 

We set up some experiments linked to their science topics - exploring how plants suck up water - we listened to trees with a stethoscope and waited for two white ox-eye daisies…

Welcome to the summer Forest School Term. 

The Year 2 children have been incredibly busy outdoors exploring and learning new skills: 

You have hopefully already read about our trip to Covert woods in a separate blog. 

We learned about Woodland birds, made binoculars and birdfeeders . The…

Welcome to the summer fun in Forest School. This Term the Reception children have been fantastic and they have learned and explored the following: 

Passing the squeeze in a circle game - sitting very quietly and waiting for their turn. 

Exploring the slack line for balancing

Comparing the…