Cross Curricular

Looking at the celebration of Chinese New Year

Yesterday, we took part in a dragon dance workshop and made moving horse using the colours of fire.

Festive Feasts – Chinese New Year

Last week, year 4 used clay to make Chinese food. This week, they painted these and created a Chinese New Year feast table. Creativity skills were put to the test and the children made lanterns and fans to add more detail to our table. 🧧🇨🇳🥡🥢🥠 The children then received their very own fortune from fortune cookies.

Chinese New Year Workshop 🧧

We were very lucky today to attend a Chinese New Year workshop where we practised a Chinese dance with fans and parasol ☂️ 🐉 🇨🇳

Art Final Piece

We have merged our art topic (festive feasts) and our R.E. topic (festivals and celebrations) to sculpt food out of clay to represent Chinese New Year. The children worked together to create a ‘feast’ on their tables and then showcased the skills learnt from this topic to create these foods. The children absolutely loved this. 🇨🇳🥠🥢

We will paint these next week once our clay has dried.

Greek Names

As part of our Ancient Greece unit, we had a go at writing our names in Ancient Greek script.

Stone Age Man (Archaeologist visit)

We have had an amazing afternoon! We had a visit from an archaeologist who brought lots of artefacts from the Stone Age. We looked at and held things that were thousands of years old. The children demonstrated a great attitude and an already super knowledge when answering questions.

Sustainable plastics

In Year 3 we were very lucky to have some trainee teacher teach us about sustainability and how we can reuse some plastics to prevent them damaging our environment if not recycled properly.

What a wonderful world

We created a new version of “What a Wonderful World”. We used different adjectives to describe the world around us. We then performed our new song in KS1 and KS2 assemblies.

Palaeolithic Cave Art

Within our history lesson, we looked at the first stage of the Stone Age. We have then applied what we know to our art lessons where we used different techniques to sketch with charcoal and create some cave art.

Kennings and a Cyclops!

Year 6 had some fun today writing a Kenning for the cyclops character from our class text – Odysseus. And … some wonderful sketches to accompany it too !

Computer technology to make music

We are learning how to use a software programme to compose music to suit a film soundtrack / scene.

Our new book… curiosity

This week we have been introduced to our new book ‘Curiosity: A story of a Mars Rover’ by Markus Motum. We have created our own curiosity journals so that we can add things as we learn about them!

Cleaning up!

We have started our new class book ‘The Secret Sky Garden’ and we were inspired to get outside and clean up our playground. We even braved the rain to do it!

A Speech To Save The Earth

With our whole school text, ‘Here We Are’ Year 6 had the task of writing a speech. We combined knowledge gained from our recent Geography topic to help us do just this. We have also been performing them for our class, working on our intonation and expression to gain and retain audience attention.

We have been developing our fine motor skills and mark making to make The Big Dipper constellation after looking at them in our new book.

Our amazing theatre sets

Take a peek at some of our amazing sets for Goodnight Mr Tom. Some of us made Little Weirwold (a fictional village) and some made London during the war.

Year 3 Winter Crafts

WHAT AN AMAZING TURN OUT! Thank you to all our Year 3 parents and carers for coming and helping finish off our DT mechanism cards.

Thank you!

Our amazing WW2 school trip.

We were blown away with how much the children already knew about WW2 and the impact on Liverpool. They loved seeing the museum and everything in it. Please ask your child about their trip at home.

Local Area Walk

1JR have had lots of fun this afternoon on our walk to our local park. We looked at what we could see when looking north, east, south and west. We also looked at how our environment has changed for winter.

WW2 propaganda for rationing

Today we have learnt why Britain rationed during WW2 and why it was so important. Firstly, we guessed how much food people were allowed. We have created rationing posters to convince others!

Creating databases in science

Today we have used data from our investigation to create a database on Google Sheets. We used the database to answer questions such as ‘Who jumped the highest?’ And ‘Who jumped higher than 1.9m’.

Welly Walk

Y1 PK went on a Welly Walk to Crown Street Park. We followed directions – North, South, East, West and spotted what we could see. We also looked for signs of Autumn and that Autumn is changing into Winter.

Space workshop

On Friday we learned so much about space and how Neil Armstrong explored the moon. We also used teamwork and communication skills to recreate images about space .

Amazing theatre set designs!

In Year 5, we have been designing our sets for Goodnight Mr Tom, either based in Little Weirwold or London. The children did a fantastic job of thinking of the different dimensions and what props they will be designing.

Comparing the climate between the UK and Rome

Little Weirwold

Last week, Y5 created art work using setting descriptions from our class text ‘Goodnight Mr Tom’. We highlighted key phrases then accurately tried to recreate the wonderful village from WW2.

Script writing and performing

We have written scripts for two characters in our book. We have used our inference skills to create a conversation that might have happened between them. Then we had some children perform their scripts to the class.

Year 2 Poppy Art

Year 2 worked so hard on their carbon printed poppy art for Remembrance Day

Just a few of our amazing art work from Year 5. using layering to create an effect for Remembrance Day.  

Poppy Art

A couple of samples of the poppy art we created in Y6 for Remembrance Day.