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We have appointed Year 6 Art Leaders. This is a new role that will evolve throughout the year but the aim is to give children at Bridge ownership and ‘a voice’; an opportunity to be actively involved with planning and leading art projects; to act as coaches, advocates and ambassadors for the Arts…

The first session was all about hedgehogs - we played a hedgehog game, learned some facts, created hedgehogs with leaves, made mud hedgehog and built houses for the animals. 

The song, if you want to sing it at home, goes like this (to the tune of 'I'm a little teacup'):

I'm a little…

This term, Year R have been exploring colour and using inspiration from the abstract paintings by Russian artist, Wassily Kandinsky.

The children learnt about primary colours; how to mix secondary colours; how colours make them feel and whether they are warm or cool; how to use paintbrushes and…

Before beginning to construct their final chairs, Year 6 were privileged to be visited by an architecture lecturer! Robert Nice, one of our parents, works at UCA in Canterbury teaching architecture; he generously gave up his time to come into school and chat with pupils about their chair designs…

A big thank you to Creative Folkestone for running an Art workshop for Birch class this week. The children worked with two local artists, Emily and Naomi, who delivered the workshop: Portraiture.

The children began the morning by looking at and discussing images of a range of self-portraits by…

This morning, Holly Class went to the Folkestone Book Festival as their prize for being the class in Upper Key Stage Two that read the most last term! The author speaking was Catherine Johnson (notable books include 'Race to the Frozen North' and 'Freedom'), and children had the opportunity to…

Last Thursday, after a long but luxurious coach trip, we landed with a ‘Big Bang’ outside The Science Museum in London. We were so excited that even gravity couldn’t keep us down.

During the day, we achieved lots of Spacetastic activities, including looking around the space exhibition with…

Last Friday, Year 4 Bridge children and their parents took part in The Christmas Light Parade through Canterbury. The parade started near the Westgate Gardens and made its way (past the many onlookers) through Canterbury city centre. We finished in the Cathedral Precincts where we were greeted by…

Our focus this term is Design Technology. Our DT projects consist of four steps – explore, design, make and evaluate.

Year 6 are designing chairs (Action man sized) for John Lewis this term. To begin, the pupils explored strong shapes within structures. We looked at the work of architects and…

Year 5 have been given the challenge of designing and making toy Moon Buggies for children aged 9-10. The product specification is as follows:

• It must move using an elastic band ‘pull back’ mechanism
• Have 4 wheel and 2 axels
• The dimensions must not exceed an A4 piece of paper
• Be strong…

As part of the Canterbury Festival 2024, Bridge and Patrixbourne CEP worked with Canterbury College’s Level 3, Year 2, Art and Design students to create artwork for the woodland trail exhibition at Walderchain Wood's Artists’ Open House.

Thank you to everyone who visited and supported the…

In the lead up to Remembrance Sunday, Year 5 have been learning about the history of the poppy and its symbolism. The children learnt that there are different coloured poppies for different groups that we should remember for their part to play in keeping us safe during wartimes. The children then…