Blog by Penny Kemp

Keith Haring also made sculptures, after looking at these the children turned their favourite sketch of a dancing figure into a clay sculpture!

Progressing from the skills they learnt whilst making their Christmas tree decorations the children learnt how to make a pinch pot to create slip with…

As part of our art project of learning how to work with clay we have made some tree decorations to take home.

Miss Haynes explained how we use different tools and the children experimented to achieve different effects. 

Once they have dried the children will paint them, add a ribbon and take…

We have been studying pop art made by Keith Haring during the 1980s and had great fun listening and dancing  to 1980s hip hop music that inspired Haring.

Linking to the science learning in our topic Fighting Fit we looked at the nhs website Change4life and noticed that the artwork on there is…

Year 5 and 6 children have been reading the powerful story called ‘The Boy At the Back Of The Class’. Today in Worship linking to our theme of compassion the children taught us about Syria and the troubles that the people who live there face.

The children helped us understand why many people…

Beware there are two baddies on the loose!

We have been reading the story ‘Send for a Suoerhero’ by Michael Rosen. Year One and Two have created some wanted posters to try and help catch the two baddies, Flash and Vacuum. Reception have been practicing their phonics learning with help from the…

We have been thinking scientifically about our bodies. We have investigated how our bodies grow and develop as well as learning about what they need to be healthy.

We have had a fun couple of weeks, have a look at these two galleries of photos to see all the learning and fun we’ve been having ...

Happy birthday William, we are pleased you had a lovely birthday weekend.

Our topic this term has been Explorers. We have been exploring our school grounds and using maps to explore as part of our geography learning. We have studied famous explorers in the past and became particularly interested in Christopher Columbus and Neil Armstrong so decided to delve deeper into…

Happy 5th Birthday Evelyn, we hope you enjoy your special day!

Year 1 we will be playing these games in school but you can also play them at home. Year 2 children you can play them too, challenge yourselves and time how fast you can answer the questions. 

Click on these links and play the games ...

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Lots of addition and subtraction skills being learnt in Year 1 and 2.