Art Inspired by Our Friends in Ghana

On Thursday, Year 2 created the first part of their Kente Cloth design by looking at traditional patterns. At the same time we skyped our school in Ghana. Some of the children were wearing Kente Cloth dresses and the teacher sent us a picture to inspire our artwork. They told us about the history of […]

Skyping Ghana

On Friday afternoon we had an enjoyable Skype with our partner class in Kumasi, Ghana. We showed them our Anansi artwork and acted out the story of Anansi and the Hot Pot Beans.

Skyping with Ghana

This afternoon in Year 2 we spoke to our friends in Ghana. Today it was their turn to present some work to us. First of all they told us some characteristics about themselves, then they showed us their animal collages and at the end they sang us a song. It was all so wonderful and […]

Hot Pot Beans Cooking in Year 2

Today we made Hot Pot Beans just like the ones in our Anansi the Spider story. After we had made them, we evaluated them. Over the next couple of weeks we will try to improve the recipe.

More Chats with Ghana in Year 2

This afternoon we shared our Alma Thomas mosaics as part of our Black History celebrations. Some children also read out their Louis Armstrong inspired poems. In return our link teacher, Ms Donkor, told us an Anansi tale and the children sang a song.

Year 2 Calling Children in Ghana

At St Margaret’s we have recently linked up with Bantama Resbyterian Primary School in Ghana. Yesterday Year 2 had a video call with the children in Grade 1. They introduced themselves and sang a song to each other. Keep watching the blog for an update of our partnership.

Calling all EYFS parents and carers! That’s you Reception class and Pre-school!

We will be holding an EYFS party on 1st November 7:30-9:30. Some of you may have been to one of these in the past and they have been a huge hit if we may say so ourselves! The night will involve mixer games to help all parents get to know one another. There will also […]

Window artwork

I’m a bit behind with sharing Year 3’s wonderful artwork. As well as writing poetry inspired by Jeannie Baker’s Window, we used collage to create a view that we would like to see from our window, were we one of the characters in the book. Interestingly, there wasn’t a car, lorry or building site to […]

Brazilian Art

Not everyone had the chance to see our fantastic International Day Art based on the pop art picture ‘Children of the World’ by Brazilian artist Romero Britto, so here is another chance. The children made brilliant use of pattern and colour and the results are fantastic.

International day 2019

What an amazing day! Thank you to everyone who helped make the day so special. The range and amount of food that was shared was incredible and it felt like a real celebration of our diverse school community.