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As part of the Canterbury Festival, Bridge and Patrixbourne CEP have been invited by Mark Saich to contribute to his Artists’ Open House event in October. We are very privileged to be working with Canterbury College's, Level 3, Year 2 Art and Design students to create 3D installations that will be…

To begin their first art project of the academic year, the children in Year 5 have been learning about the artist’s colour wheel, colour mixing and colour theory.

The modern colour-wheel is based on Sir Isaac Newton’s experimentation with light. While Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge…

On Friday, Year 5 visited Bridge Church as part of their RE learning around the question, 'What does it mean if God is loving and holy?' After an introduction about the history of the church by Rev. Estella, the children completed a carousel around the building, looking at various features and…

As part of the Canterbury Festival, Bridge and Patrixbourne CEP have been invited by Mark Saich to contribute to his Artists’ Open House event in October. We are very privileged to be working with Canterbury College's, Level 3, Year 2 Art and Design students to create 3D installations that will be…

Last week, Year R continued to practice and develop their gross motor skills within their art lessons by taking part in their weekly Write Dance activities. These sessions aim to strengthen muscle groups and improve the children’s agility.

The theme was The Sea. We warmed up with some swimming…

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…