Nursery - Art - Christmas Trees!
To kick off our Christmas preparations this week, the children accessed the craft table for our first festive project: creating Christmas trees! Each child was given a green triangle template to decorate. They used multicoloured glue and various Christmas sequins, carefully selecting which sparkly additions they wanted to use on their tree. This activity provided excellent practice in fine motor control and encouraged intentional design as they chose and placed each small sequin. The children particularly enjoyed the sense of community when they saw all of their completed trees standing up together, proudly spotting their own creation within the "magical forest" they had collectively created.
Nursery - Children In Need Day
Nursery class had a fantastic day celebrating Children in Need with a variety of engaging, spotty-themed activities across the provision. We kicked off the fun with a dance session alongside Pudsey Bear, where the children practiced their gross motor skills by copying his movements and challenging themselves to improve their jumping skills on the floor spots. For our fine motor activities, they worked on mark-making by creating spotty Pudsey pictures using dabbers and circle stickers, and they also practiced drawing circles on the blackboards with chalk. To end the day, the children enjoyed a special treat, sitting down together for a focused story time with Pudsey on the interactive screen. The entire day was a huge hit and a wonderful way to teach the children about helping others!
Nursery - Art - History - Poppy Creations
Today's lesson provided a meaningful introduction to the concept of Remembrance through a creative and collaborative Art activity, linking to an important moment in history. The children accessed the craft area to explore the poppy, a key symbol of remembrance. They used simple, sensory resources—red glue and red tissue paper—to create their own beautiful poppies. To mark the occasion, the children also participated in a challenging exercise during snack time: observing and taking part in a two-minute silence. While this was tricky for our youngest learners, they made a fantastic effort to maintain quiet and stillness. To further extend the theme of community and remembrance, we collaborated with the preschool children to create a handprint wreath. This collective piece of art will be placed at our school's adopted war memorial grave, providing a tangible way for the children to contribute to an important tradition of respect and memory.
Pre-School-Expressive Art And Design-Making Skeletons
On the workshop table, the children have been busy creating their own skeletons. They used cotton buds to represent the bones and practised their gluing and sticking skills to assemble their designs. This activity was a fun way to help them see what our bodies look like beneath the skin and to understand that everyone has a skeleton.
Year 4 DT - Evaluating Biscuits
Year 4 have begun their new DT topic this half term and we started by evaluating existing biscuits. As you can imagine, this lesson was a winner with the pupils as they got to try lots of different types of biscuits!
Year 2 - Art - Autumn Leaves
Year 2 have successfully wrapped up their Explore and Draw art unit! To finish, the children created stunning pictures of autumn leaves using an exciting technique. They first drew the detailed leaf shapes and veins with wax crayons and then painted over the entire piece with watercolors. The magic happened when the paint didn't stick to the crayon, creating a beautiful wax-resist effect that makes the vibrant crayon drawings pop against the watercolor background. The finished artwork looks absolutely amazing and truly captures the beauty of the season!
Year 4 - Storytelling Through Art
Year 4 have worked so hard during this unit of art; firstly creating their own scrapbook, then looking at line, colour and textile to represent different images in their final book creation. The results are absolutely amazing! Hard work and patience has shown what can be achieved and all of Year 4 are rather impressed with their versions!
Year 6: Art - Packaging Designs
In Art, Year 6 have been completing their research and designs before making their own packaging for a food product.
Pre-School-Literacy-Painting A Monkey
In literacy this week our story is HUG. The story is about a monkey that can't find his mum and needs a hug. The children used their skills to create a monkey by painting their hands to print for the monkey body and painting the head to create their monkey. Painting is a wonderful way to support literacy development in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS). The connection is primarily through mark making, communication, fine motor skill development, and storytelling.
Reception- Science- Colour Mixing
Our little scientists have been diving into the world of colour mixing! Today, Reception children explored the magic of primary colours—red, yellow, and blue. We used the paint on our cauldrons to combine the base colours and see what amazing secondary colours we could create. It was a hands-on, exciting lesson that sparked curiosity and introduced early concepts of scientific investigation and observation. Watch as they discover how just three colours can make so many more!
Nursery - R.E - Diwali Celebrations
Today, the children were introduced to a new cultural and religious celebration: Diwali, the Festival of Lights. We began by exploring the concept of celebrating good over bad and the spreading of light in the world. To enhance their understanding of this vibrant celebration, we looked at several inspirational images. The children then engaged in two wonderful, hands-on activities: in the water tray, they explored colour and pattern, mirroring the beautiful Rangoli designs by carefully using pipettes and watered-down paint to create circles of colour. Simultaneously, they accessed the craft area to make festive Diwali lights, using a variation of glittery shapes in many bright colours to decorate their creations. This provided a rich, sensory, and visual introduction to a new religious and cultural tradition.
Reception – Art and Design: Printing
This week in Reception, we’ve been reading Winnie the Witch! The children loved exploring Winnie’s magical world and created their own potions bubbling away in cauldrons. Using finger dabbers, they carefully printed and mixed colours to bring their potions to life. It was a brilliant way to develop fine motor skills while having lots of creative fun.
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