Blog Author: Louise Orhan

In art this week, Year 5 and 6 have been replicating the artwork of Steven Brown’s famous McCoo paintings. We started by sketching a highland cow following a step by step guide. Once we were confident with our sketches, we then redrew them onto dark card with a pencil. We then added brightly…

In DT, the children in Year 1 and 2 were looking at the theme of wheels and axles to create their own moving vehicles. They looked at a variety of toy vehicles to see how they moved and created their own design using those wheels and axles. They worked collaboratively, looking at how to make a…

In geography this half term, year 1 and 2 have used the book Me on the Map as a starting point to look at the world around them. We started off by creating a plan of their bedroom, then after a walk around the school, the children created a key to identify the different areas around the building.…

Today to celebrate World Book Day we loved showing off our book characters, we shared why we had chosen them and designed a new book cover or a bookmark. We then ended the day with a book share in the hall. We with different children and shared our favourite books or chose a book to read from Mrs…

In year 1 and 2 we have been learning about algorithms and how everything we do uses a simple set of instructions to work. We then used an app on the IPADs called Tynker Junior to complete simple problems where we had to put in instructions so our character could collect all the coins. As the…

In class 1 we have been using lots of equipment to help us in our maths lessons. We have been adding and subtracting within 20 using objects such as teddies, vehicles and counters, tens frames and number lines. We do this to help us work out our answer and then we write it down on our…

We had a fantastic maths lesson on comparing numbers with the help of Blockzilla. We rolled our dice 2 times to get our two numbers, wrote them on our board and then built the number using Numicon or blocks. We then had to decide which symbol to use - greater than, less than or equal to. We…

We had a fantastic PE lesson this morning learning all about different rolls and jumps we can use in gymnastics. We learnt how to do tuck, straddle and split jumps as well as pencil and egg rolls. Once we had had lots of practice in our groups, we then moved onto the equipment, showing off what we…

After our clay Mayan calendar stones dried out, we were able to paint them. We chose between gold, bronze or copper paint to make them look ancient and precious and they turned out beautifully.

As our music lessons continue to be a huge success, we decided to keep going by Zoom. So Mrs O’Connell sets up at home and we join her via Mrs Orhan’s laptop. We have been learning a new song for Christmas called Mincepies, which has 4 parts and is called a round. We are also learning Rudolph the…

As part of our Art work, we have made our own Mayan Calendar Stones using different techniques. We learnt about how to shape our clay, coiling and carving a pattern. All our designs are very different but look fantastic.

Over this half term, we have been linking our PE lessons to our Topic on The Mayans. We have learnt different moves linked to architecture, agriculture, gods of nature and script. The children then worked in groups to create a performance using some of the movements they had learnt. The groups…