Over the past few week the children have been working with salt dough to make their own Chinese inspired dragons.

The children started by mixing flour, salt and water to make a dough. They then use tools to shape and sculpt the dough into the dragon shapes. We then carved different patterns and shapes into our dough to add detail to our dragons.

After leaving them to air dry and then baking them they were then solid enough to paint and add further detail.

We looked at the Neolithic art style of the Ancient Chinese using the colours and patterns our dragons were ready to be decorated.

Monday morning the children in Year 4 and 5 went for a rehearsal of their Sing-fest at Eaton Bank. The children put all their effort and experience from their practice in school into their rehearsal. We began to practice the movements and dances that will accompany our singing.

This week in Early Years we have been looking at the story of The Naughty Bus. The children have been developing storylines in their pretend play with our role play bus station and bus.

Then today we have had a very exciting Welly Walk to find buses in our local town. We even found red buses just like The Naughty Bus.

Year 3 planned a comparative test to measure the frictional force between shoes and different surfaces. Children measured force in ‘Newtons’

This afternoon Year 2 have been busy in their computing and art sessions.

The children began the afternoon working on their copy and paste skills on the laptop creating their very own poetry books using poetry from the internet.

The children then continued their artwork on the Mona Lisa. They used watercolours to mix and blend to create their own backgrounds.

This half term we have begun to look at ‘celebration’, what it means to celebrate and why it is so significantly important.
We look at the celebration of Passover and why it is so important to religious communities.

They children were able to recall the Seder Plate which we look at back in Year 3 and how we were to remember the past.

Today we looked back at the story of where it all began and role played the Exodus from Egypt and the 10 Plagues of Egypt.

Year 5 had a great playtime playing on the field in the snow.

The children have had a great day in Early Years experiencing the snow.

Calla joined us this year from South Africa. Today is the first time she has ever experienced snow!

Today we have learnt to use loops when coding in Logo to create different patterns.