Nursery- Floating egg experiment
Today we did an experiment to see how many spoonfuls of salt, it would take to make our egg float. We had some very good estimations, some children drew the numeral for their estimation and some children made marks to represent the numeral. We had lots of fun taking turns to count the spoonfuls…
Runway Visitor Park
What an amazing trip to Runway Visitor Park at Manchester airport So much to see and do!
We loved watching the planes take off and land, especially the double decker plane,( A380) and getting to see Concorde. A hlghlight of the day was becoming a pilot and a flight engineer to imagine what it…
Year 4 - Tonal Paintings and Drawings
Year 4 has really #embraced our new art skill of adding tone and shade to our work. Some very impressive pieces created. Take a look at just a few that were ready to photograph.
Year 4 - Science
As part of our new science topic this term we will be looking at living things and their habitats. We kickstarted our learning by going on a worm hunt. With a worm house, we will be keeping the worms we found in our classroom this term and seeing how they react in their habitats. The children…
Keith Haring Art
Year 2 have enjoyed learning about the work of the artist and sculptor Keith Haring. They have explored examples of his work and produced some of their own figure drawings in his style.
Year 1 Geography - Exploring England
In Geography in this week we have begun looking at the four countries of the UK. We kicked off the topic with an afternoon all about England!
We looked at the different types of places we might find, flags, emblems and some traditional English foods. Year 1 certainly #enjoyed the fudge, but…
Outdoor Learning
What a great way to end the half term with an outdoor learning session! We had to imagine we were a space tourist, from Bob the Man on the Moon, and make a shelter to spend the night on the moon. We had to work as a team to design and build our shelter! We #enjoyed being outdoors and #embraced the…
Nursery- traditional tale celebration
This term we have been learning all about traditional tales, to celebrate this we came to nursery dressed as our favourite fairy tale character and brought the story along too. We had so much fun reading our stories and talking about the characters, we even made a mini stage and acted out some of…
Year 1 - Is it waterproof?
Year 1 have been carefully carrying out their experiment to find the best material for an underwater outfit! We needed to find out what happened when water was poured onto it. Did it get absorbed? Did it drip through into the bottle? Or did it sit on top?
After lots of testing, we found that…
Drawing figures
Today Year 2 worked on their drawing skills. Firstly we had a go at drawing humans. We then looked at the importance of 'structure' in art and watched some videos to help us draw figures, using shading to create different tones.