A busy Friday morning in Year 5

To complete our week’s learning on money, Year 5 were tasked with working out how much some of their favourite meals and snacks cost. They used the Tesco website to ‘shop’ for the ingredients. Lots of mathematical skills were required including rounding and estimation. After break we made the most of the warmer weather by […]

Lost property

Collect today please.

Matt Groening

Matt Groening is the creator of the most famous family in the world… The Simpsons. After having a go at drawing some of his best loved characters (Bart and Homer), we had a go at drawing another famous family using his simple, fun style… The Tudors!

Pets at Home Year 2 Science

In Science we have been learning about what all animals (including humans) need to survive. We became “Pets at Home” experts by using their website to carry out some research into what we would need to provide different animals in order to keep them alive. Please see our experts below for some advice!

Cartes postales de Londres

In Year 6, we have been writing postcards from London to our [fictional] friends and family in France …

Breaking news!

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Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain by Year 2

Over the last two weeks Year 2 have been retelling the story of “Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain” as part of their weather topic. In Art they created Kenyan sunsets using warm watercolours blended together. As part of their sketching topic they learnt to draw an acacia tree. I hope you enjoy the finished […]

Volcano artwork in the style of Margaret Godfrey

We have been using Art to explore and learn about the structure and formation of volcanoes. Margaret Godfrey uses collage and mixed media to create striking images of erupting volcanoes and we have done the same. We sketched a cross-section, showing the magma chamber, throat and vents, then layered over tissue paper to create texture […]

Year 6: Calligraphy & Sketching

Year 6 have had a go at using calligraphy pens and inks to produce artwork based on the themes in Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet.

A brilliant time at Clip ‘n’ Climb

Year 3 were quite literally climbing the walls at Sutcliffe Park today. As we are coming to the end of our Mountains topic we thought that we should try out climbing for ourselves. Every child took to it like a duck to water (or should that be a mountain goat to a mountain?) and, after […]