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Year R have begun practising and developing their gross motor skills within their art lessons. The children will now be taking part in weekly Write Dance and art activities aimed to strengthen muscle groups and improve the children’s agility.

Within our first Write Dance session, we…

As part of their ‘All About Me’ project, Year R have been painting self-portraits. A great opportunity for the children to explore their own faces through observation of their mirror image and through touch. They initially used paint as a background, matching skin, hair and eye colours. Once dry,…

Mandarin Trip

On 29^th September, some children from each of the Year 6 classes went on a Mandarin trip at Simon Langton Boys School. As soon as we arrived, we were excited! First, we met the school’s Mandarin teacher, who took us in the big drama studio, where we met another school. The…

Over the last few weeks,Year 3 have been reading the book The Tunnel. We used this as a stimulus in our art lessons. The children began by thinking of their own story. They first had to decide what creature would be in their story, what the creature would go through in order to get to another…

So after a busy day in the forest the children have settled down to smores by the fire.

We began the day playing team building games and then went onto an SOS call out. The children had to practice their newly taught first aid skills when they came across a ‘plane crash’ in the wood. They…

After an excited and early start, Year 5 set off for their Bushcraft adventure at Penshurst Place this morning. We were greeted by our camp leaders and led to our camp. After learning some of the basics we got straight on with our first activity, building fires in our tribes. This was important as…

Welcome to the woods Year 1. Your first trip. 

Luckily we missed the very stormy weather last week and went during a calmer time to Covert Woods to explore. Some tree surgeons were at work at our usual spot but we found a different area to explore. This session was all about using the…

Mark-making inspired by ‘Billy and the Beast’. 

This term, Year one pupils have been reading the book ‘Billy and the Beast’, by author and illustrator Nadia Shireen. Within art, we looked at Nadia Shireen’s illustrations and as a class discussed how she used her marks and lines to…

First Art blog of the year! What have year 5 been up to in their Art lessons?

Pupils in Year 5 have been learning about the artist’s colour wheel.

The modern colour-wheel is based on Sir Isaac Newton’s experimentation with light. While Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge…

We were lucky enough to be fantastically entertained by our Year 6 classes in their productions of Bugsy Malone last week. Here are a few photos of them in the dress rehearsal last Tuesday.

To complete our unit on Forces, this week the children were tasked with protecting an egg from cracking when dropped from height. The children considered how they could maximise air resistance to slow the fall, also thinking about how gravity was affecting the egg. There were an array of designs…

Throughout the academic year, pupils in Year R have been working hard to develop and strengthen their gross and fine motor skills. Our journey began in September with the children making large whole-body movements through play, exploring activities and in Write Dance lessons. Children gradually…