Passionate about our poka dot pumpkins
After using our observational skills we have drawn our own interpretations of Kusama's works and used paint to embellish our designs using the key design principles of contrast light/dark spots/stripes.
Christingle Service Preparation and invitation
Our annual Christingle Service is nearly upon us and as such we would like your help and support creating enough Christingle for not only our school community but our church community as well. Christingle kits were sent home last Friday with all the embellishments for you and your child to create…
Introducing our Artist of the Year... Yayoi Kusama
Throughout the year we will be exploring the works of Yayoi Kusama who is a prolific artist and despite still being in her 90's produces awe inspiring immersive artworks. She is talented in many fields but her work is insrtantly recognisable through her use of poka dots. She considers herself to…
A terrifying banquet ...the sketch
After exploring the original Shakespearean text the children prepared their own version of the events at the infamous banquet when Banquo's ghost appears to Macbeth during his celebratory banquet after his coronation. The children even added lines from the original text, I think most of the school…
JESSE Tree assembly
A wonderful moment in our Christian calendar as we place our star on the Jesse Tree showing we are all part of one family and share in the start of Advent together as a whole school and reflect in the silence.
Conscience Alley...should Macbeth kill Banquo?
The children loved debating the idea off a conscience taking on the different roles. We explored the key themes of conscience through a range of clips from Pinocchio to Donald Duck before taking part in our conscience alley. We will then use these key themes to complete learning based around…
Creating a synagogue in Year 5
After our hands on session with the facilitator we got to work using our creative juices to create a synagogue worship space within the Year 5 classroom.
Synagogue in a box
Today we will be exploring the Jewish faith and recognising similarities to that of our own, showing tolerance, respect and acceptance of the unique country that we live in and the community that makes us who we are. The session will be led by an expert facilitator from the Jewish Museum who will…
Our bottle to bottle tombola needs your help
Tomorrow we will be hosting a non school uniform day in support of the Church Christmas Fayre which is held within our school hall for all the community. We like to support this by running our traditional bottle stall however for this to happen we do really on your generosity and ask that if your…
Murderous Maths
This week the children have been working incredibly hard to solve the murder using and applying many different strands of the maths curriculum. The children have loved applying their skills especially through the use of a mathematical jeopardy game that can be found at www.math-play.com and…