Nursery Christmas Stay and Play

21st December 2023Hayley Tampin

The children loved welcoming their grown ups into nursery today for some festive fun! We decorated wreath photo frames and some collage stockings. The children have prepared their own reindeer dust, ready to sprinkle on Christmas Eve to make sure Santa and his reindeer find them!

We even enjoyed a festive sing-along of some of our favourite Christmas songs! What a great time we all had!

 

Nursery AM

Nursery PM

1 Red love the Northern Lights!

8th December 2023L Chisholm

This week we have been learning about the Northern Lights and the amazing patterns they create across the sky.  We have created some beautiful Northern Light pictures using pastels and the ‘blending’ technique.  We then decided that we would use the computers to create the same picture and compared the two.  We enjoyed using the computers but the majority thought that the pastels looked better.  What do you think?

Inukshuk Art in Year 1

1st December 2023L Chisholm

We have been looking at the Inuits and their way of life in our Learning Means The World Theme of ‘Come Fly With Me: Arctic Circle.  We have been looking at how they expressed various art forms and we have discovered that they used rocks and stones to make markers in the area.  These markers then became symbols and ways of celebration.  We created our own Inukshuk art.  We have also looked at their art of dance and music and we have learnt some amazing origional Inuit dances and have been learning how to play the drums, which is a big part of any Inuit celebration.

1 Blue are brrrriliant!

21st November 2023L Chisholm

In our ‘Learning Means The World’ theme ‘Come Fly With Me: Arctic’ we have been researching animals that live there and how they survive.  We have looked at the Inuit people and have created a collage of their clothing using the correct materials that have the qualities that that piece of clothing needs eg waterproof.  We also created a ‘Slider’ which was a moving picture and we made this by completing a design and technology task. I’m sure you’ll agree that our work is brrrrilliant!

 

Year 2 Media workshop

19th November 2023L Martin

Year 2 were so incredibility lucky to have an amazing afternoon with Mark Bryant from Media Partnership.  He spoke to the children about his experiences  working within the media industry, and all of the different roles there are.  He also demonstrated some of the equipment the company uses for filming, and then explained how Green Screen works.

As you’ll see from the photographs, the children had an amazing experience linking real life to their current Learning Means The World theme- Inter-Nation Media Station.

Art appreciation in 2 Blue!

19th November 2023L Martin

As part of our Learning Means the World theme, Zero to Hero, 2 Blue carried out an artist study on Christy Brown.

The children looked at his fabulous paintings and discussed their opinions before learning that Christy Brown actually painted these using a paint brush he held between his toes!

After overcoming their shock and amazement, the children tried it for themselves with great success!

 

Exploring the Arctic with 1 Red

17th November 2023L Chisholm

This week we have been looking at the various animals and people that live in the Arctic.  We have looked at the Inuit people and their customs regarding their food and clothing.  We have used our design and technology skills to create a split pin Arctic Wolf and our art skills to create a collage of an Inuit’s coat.  We looked at the materials and their properties to see which material would be best in the harsh cold weather of the Arctic.