It was with great sadness that we had to cancel the long-standing traditional outing to Frinton beach for the entire Pre-Prep. However, the Pre-Prep staff, forever resilient and resourceful, worked very hard to arrange a “staycation” which included: inflatables, pony rides, goat feeding and petting, a tonne of sand and an ice cream van! They…
Year 3’s class reading book is ‘Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone’ and this week they had lots of Harry Potter themed fun learning. We went to the Spinney to explore for sticks to create their own broomsticks and without realising it used scaling maths skills and creative English skills to describe the places they…
Year 2s Scented Garden Our project this term is the scented garden. For the last two weeks we have been working on a mixed media piece aimed at creating texture and relief in the picture from different types of recycled paper: old abandoned sketchbooks, newspaper twists and scrap paper. The children needed to draw on…
What will happen to our shadows? Year 3 have been investigating light, shadows and transparency this term and have been using their reasoning skills to predict what will happen to their shadows!
Igniting Wonder – 3LT can’t wait to see what delicious vegetables their seeds will grow into. Year 1 launched their bean growing challenge and Year 3 pupils sowed a variety of seeds that Mrs Bradbury acquired from The Big Grow, a collaboration between Innocent drinks and the social enterprise ‘Grow It Yourself’ promoting growing food…
Year 3 have had a great time celebrating St George’s Day! They enjoyed writing about the story of St George and the Dragon and making their own knight’s helmet. They then had great fun performing a scene from the story and participating in a jousting spectacular!
This week the Year 3 considered the enlargement of flowers by Georgia O’Keefe. Using a viewfinder placed onto a chosen position of a photograph of a flower, the children drew an enlargement of that small area in oil pastel. They considered the position and the size as well as the boldness of colour which can…
Year 3 are looking at persuasive language. They started the lesson seeing if they could convince Mrs Bell to let them have 5 minutes extra break time. They gave a very good argument!
The excitement of being back in the Art Room and evidence of spring beginning to emerge all over the school site, has really sparked some fantastic creations amongst the children this week. They have produced some spectacular spring pieces.
Year 3 looked at the artwork of Vasily Kandinsky, particularly the pieces where he expresses his emotions through abstract art. He used colour and shape to respond to feelings and music. The children listened to some music, painting what they saw, felt and heard.
