Year 2: Art & Design
The children used a range of media to express their emotions to different pieces of classical music, through mark- making.
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Subtractive Drawing
Today we have been exploring subtractive drawing. A technique where something is taken away from the surface of a painting to reveal marks.
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A Busy Week
We have had such a busy first week in Reception. We have been exploring all the areas in our classrooms and garden. The children have been learning all about our routines, listening to stories and practising some mindfulness techniques. We have had a brilliant start to Reception and the children…
Collective worship - pray with colouring
The children enjoyed their daily collective worship today by gathering together and taking part in tactile prayer. Tactile prayer such as gentle colouring has a soothing quality that promotes a sense of stillness, creating the conditions for a more reflective and receptive prayer experience.…
Building Friendships in Nursery
Well done to our new children in Nursery who are quickly settling into new routines and making friends. We are learning to share and take turns whilst having lots of fun.
Tinkering with Scratch
We have used Scratch to explore the capabilities of different musical elements.
The children tinkered with different sprites to create different sounds.
Numbers to 10,000
The children worked in pairs to identify and represent numbers up to 10,000.
The numbers were presented in word form, part-whole models, place value counters and base ten blocks.
Tallulah 5B, “I enjoyed exploring the classroom and figuring out the range of…
Holy Family Taster Day
Children in year 6 enjoyed participating in drama, dance and music lessons today at Holy Family. They learned songs and dances from their upcoming show Shrek. The children were an absolute credit to themselves with their positive attitudes and exemplary behaviour.
Mini Vinnies’s After school club
Our first Mini Vinnies after school club got off to a wonderful start as the children made their very own Kindness Cubes. They have been challenged to take their cubes home and complete a random act of kindness each day this week: helping others at home; at school; in their community; in prayer;…
Making new Friends
The children are meeting lots of new people and playing games together to learn each others names.
First Day
Just a snapshot of the children exploring all our classrooms have to offer. Don’t worry if you cannot find your child. We will be posting lots over the coming weeks.