NEWS & EVENTS BLOG

<p>Today we had lots of fun producing our own collage in the style of contemporary British artist, Carl Warner. We discussed Warner’s work, where he uses fruit and vegetables to make landscape pictures. We adapted his ideas with our own to make fruit and vegetable art inspired by our local landscapes and landmarks. We really [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Year 2 have enjoyed a fabulous day today linking lots of areas of the curriculum together around the theme of Autumn. We started the day going for a nature walk around our school grounds and looking for signs of Autumn. We then came back to class and thought of lots of adjectives to describe Autumn. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Today Year 2 invited parents to take part in  an art workshop as part of our art work this term on portraits. We learnt how to draw facial features and we drew self portraits. We also learnt about the artist Picasso and we made portraits in the style of Picasso using pastels. In the afternoon [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Today Year 2 visited The Shipley Art Gallery to take part in a workshop about portraits as part of our Art work this term. We talked about feelings and the meaning of the portraits. We made our own masterpieces around the story of Jack and the Beanstalk! What a fabulous day! We look forward to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Year 3 had a wonderful time today at Broxfield farm in Northumberland. We started the day by going on a tractor ride into a field of cows, we saw mother cows feeding their baby calves! We then ventured into the fields and saw learnt how a combine harvester cuts the ears of wheat ready to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Year 3 had a wonderful time today at Broxfield farm in Northumberland. We started the day by going on a tractor ride into a field of cows, we saw mother cows feeding their baby calves! We then ventured into the fields and saw learnt how a combine harvester cuts the ears of wheat ready to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Today in Key Stage 2, we celebrated Languages Day. Our theme this year was Fete de la Musique or World Music Day; a celebration of music which started in France. We learnt about music from around the French speaking world, we watched a film in French, we learnt a French song and we had our [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Today in Key Stage 2, we celebrated Languages Day. Our theme this year was Fete de la Musique or World Music Day; a celebration of music which started in France. We learnt about music from around the French speaking world, we watched a film in French, we learnt a French song and we had our [&hellip;]</p>

<p>We have really enjoyed learning all about the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in Year 3. We have took part in lots of activities to learn about this special event. We looked at the Queen’s reign so far since 1952 and we learnt about the immediate Royal Family. We also zoomed in on the Queen’s reign during [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In Year 1 this term we have been learning about sculpture. The children wanted to find out more so we booked a trip to Shipley Art gallery and had so much fun! &nbsp; The children spent the morning finding out about the famous sculpture, &#8216;The Angel of the North&#8217; by the artist, Antony Gormley. They [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Reception enjoyed learning about Easter which is a very special time in the Church&#8217;s calendar! They created repeating patterns on Easter eggs: The Easter egg hunt was lots of fun: The children and families created wonderful egg designs for the school competition: Look at the wonderful cards we made in the creative area for our [&hellip;]</p>

<p>We really enjoyed designing and making Easter baskets! We will use them to carry home our Easter chocolate treats. We used basket cut outs as a base and used tissue paper and coloured pencils to decorate our baskets. In addition to this, we added paper flower buds, pearls, diamantes, buttons, ribbons and Easter shapes. We [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Thank you to everyone who entered our Easter Egg competition &#8211; a tradition which returned today after a two year break. As ever, all of your entries were colourful, creative and fun! Well done to everyone who took part! We wish you a very happy and prayerful Easter.  </p>

<p>Today we had an Easter egg decorating competition in school. We all enjoyed looking at the different egg creations. We were able to award prizes to everyone and a first, second and third prizes for the overall winners. After our egg competition we took part in an Easter egg hunt What a fantastic day we [&hellip;]</p>

<p>This morning choir and orchestra performed our concert, ‘Friendship,’ for the whole school but also for our adults. A very well done to all members of Choir and Orchestra from Years 4, 5 and 6! We performed the following pieces:You’ve Got A friend in me, R.Newman from Toy StoryYou’ve Got A Friend, C.King and J. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>This morning choir and orchestra performed our concert, ‘Friendship,’ for the whole school but also for our adults. A very well done to all members of Choir and Orchestra from Years 4, 5 and 6! We performed the following pieces:You’ve Got A friend in me, R.Newman from Toy StoryYou’ve Got A Friend, C.King and J. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Last week it was lovely to be able to welcome our parents back into Nursery for our first Stay and Play session since Covid began!  We decided to also make it a celebration for Mother&#8217;s Day. The children loved having their mams and dads come to play with them at Nursery and they enjoyed showing [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Last week it was lovely to be able to welcome our parents back into Nursery for our first Stay and Play session since Covid began!  We decided to also make it a celebration for Mother&#8217;s Day. The children loved having their mams and dads come to play with them at Nursery and they enjoyed showing [&hellip;]</p>

<p>What an exciting afternoon we had! We visited East End Library on Shields Road. Our lovely librarian read a fantastic picture book to us, ‘One Button Benny,’ by Alan Windram. We then decorated our own robots like Benny. We then got the opportunity to look around the children’s section and to choose our own library [&hellip;]</p>

<p>What an exciting afternoon we had! We visited East End Library on Shields Road. Our lovely librarian read a fantastic picture book to us, ‘One Button Benny,’ by Alan Windram. We then decorated our own robots like Benny. We then got the opportunity to look around the children’s section and to choose our own library [&hellip;]</p>