Minnie Vinnie’s Club
Tonight in MInnie Vinnie’s, we focused on the importance of kindness, appreciation and making others feel special. The children created their own Mini Vinnie bracelets for a friend or someone they appreciate. Each child carefully chose coloured bead, with each colour representing a different…
Fine Motor Skills
Every day we practise our motor skills by doing different activities. This week we are threading small beads onto pipe cleaners, this takes a lot of concentration and dexterity.
CAFOD Build a Brighter World Club
This week the children in CAFOD club have been designing posters to promote Fairtrade Fortnight. Buying fairtrade products means that producers are guaranteed a fair price for their produce. Fairtrade Fortnight runs from 21st September to 4th October. We are encouraging children to look out for…
Learning to Play and Share in Nursery
As we continue to settle in Nursery, the children are getting to know one another and have been learning to play, share, wait and take turns. Together they are building, painting, exploring and having lots of fun.
Debate
Today in class we discussed whether Annie should or shouldn’t go over the falls in a barrel.
The children had to justify why they made their choice.
Year 2 Art & Design
The children looked at images of waves and then listened to Fingal’s Cave by Mendelssohn. They used a range of tools to create their own waves picture using curves, curls, dots, specks and flecks.
Viewfinders
Today the children have been using viewfinders to recreate parts of Hundertwasser’s artwork.
They looked at a range of his paintings and selected parts of each to copy into their sketchbooks.
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Exploring our Forest School Area
Nursery A and B children came together this morning in our forest school area for a wonderful time of friendship and exploring. For many it was their first visit to our forest school area.
There will be some happy, tired and muddy children this evening!
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Learning the Sign of the Cross
We have spent time learning the sign of the cross prayer in nursery as part of our prayers and learning in RE. The children have also been very busy learning their morning, lunchtime and home time prayers both in school and at home.
Scratch Soundtrack
Today the children built on their skills using Scratch. We started by discussing different genres and the type of music associated with them. We then created our own soundtracks, adjusting the tempo and the notes used.
Glockenspiel Compositions
This afternoon, the children continued their music topic on composition inspired by nature. Today we created our own melodies inspired by Dark and stormy clouds.