This week, Year 6 have been taking part in a variety of art-based activities to prepare some artwork to be displayed at this year's Primary Advantage Art Exhibition. The theme of this year's exhibition is voice. This has been carefully considered in both projects completed...
It is Art Week! We have been creating contemporary sculptures, inspired by our focus artist Damien Hirst. Hirst is a British artist and one of the Young British Artists of the 1990s, well-known for his modern sculptures, and he is thought to be one of the...
This week, Year 4 had an exciting opportunity to visit Leaside Education Centre, where they took part in a workshop with the EcoActive trust. They took a closer look at plastics, what they were made of and what issues they cause. Additionally, the class went...
This week, Year 3 went to Miss Gedney's Supermarket! To help us understand giving change and working out how much change should be given, we worked with our partners and role-played a shop scenario. Partner A was the shopper and had £4 to spend, and...
During our Science lessons this week, the children have been looking at the different animal chains. They learnt about producers, consumers, predators and prey. They understood that a producer is the plant and a consumer would eat the plant. For example, a squirrel would eat...
This week, Year 1 have really been getting stuck into art week! We have been furthering our understanding of the discipline 'sculpture' and have been looking at a British Artist, Magdalene Odundo and her work. We have explored her pots and used adjectives to describe...
This week in Reception, our highlight was delving into Yinka Shonibare as an artist. He is a British Nigerian artist, who works with wax fabrics to make incredible costumes and statues. We were inspired by his work to make our own elaborate costumes. We carefully chose...
This week in Nursery, children started their art project inspired by the work of artist Chris Ofili. Nursery took inspiration from Chris' painting ‘Affrodizzia’ and created a mixed media artwork. Ofili was also heavily inspired by music, therefore the children listened to jazz music whilst...