This week, Year 3 have been inspired by their topic on Stone Age and artists Hannah Hansen and Laura McKendry to create their own cave art. In true Stone Age style, they created their artwork on the walls, using earthy colours of charcoal and pastels. What do you think?
Year 6 explored the work of Gustav Klimt, focusing on his use of pattern, colour and decorative detail. They created their own artwork inspired by his style, incorporating bold shapes, gold tones, and intricate designs. Through this project, pupils developed their creativity and gained an understanding of how artists express ideas through texture and symbolism.
Year 5 have been working hard on scratch to program different sprites.
They were able to explain how selection directs the flow of a program
Look at some of their creations!
Year 5 explored sun safety today. They were able to explore different SPFs and predict which bead would turn purple the quickest.
They were able to see the effects of the sun and think about how they can stay safe.
Everyone was shocked how quickly the bead without any sun protection turned purple and how the factor 50 sun cream kept the other bead from turning purple at all!
The children in Nursery planted their own bean seeds. They watered them carefully and are looking forward to watching them grow over the coming weeks.
This week in year 4 we completed the maths school fair necklace investigation. We had to use systematic recording in order to find all the combinations of symmetrical necklaces you could make using four red and four yellow beads. The children used coloured counters and recorded their ideas as they progressed until they found all six solutions.
This week in science year 4 investigated how pitch varies in instruments and what causes this. We used shakers, rubber band guitars and glockenspiels in our science lesson to help us. We discovered that longer thicker objects have a low pitch and thinner short objects have a high pitch.
As part of their history learning, Year 1 have been finding out all about Pablo Fanque. Children have enjoyed learning about how he was born in Norwich and changed his name to Pablo Fanque when he joined the circus. He became the first black circus owner in the 1800s. The children were amazed that he could teach horses to dance and even ride 12 horses at once! We discovered that some children hadn’t been to a circus, so we made our own with stilts, tightropes, juggling and a big top!
In RHE this half term Year 2 have been learning about positive affirmations and how they can give themselves compliments. They thought carefully about all the positive things they could say to themselves and wrote them down to remember later on.
On Thursday, Year 3 kicked off their history Stone Age topic with an action-packed experience day. They spent the day working as historians, using different replica artefacts to help them learn about what life was like during the Stone Age and test different theories using the evidence we have. After meeting some Stone Age people, children travelled through a time portal in their classrooms to go back in time. They learnt all about jewellery and used clay to make their own. They worked as archeologists to dig for artefacts and had a go at cave drawings. They also learnt about different pre-historic animals, measured their footprints and dissected their poo to identify whether they were herbivores, carnivores or omnivores! In the afternoon, children also learnt about hunting and gathering and found their own sticks to make spears, needed for hunting animals for food. A fantastic day was had by all, the children learnt so much and there were some amazing costumes too!
