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16 May 2025

Fruit lollies

Fruit lollies were a perfect choice to make on our warm week in nursery A.  The children used cutting skills to prepare the soft fruit and distributed them into ice lolly moulds, after calculating how much fruit we would need.  After that the children practised their pouring by adding water before…

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16 May 2025

Creating and making using natural materials

Our children love using natural materials to enhance their play dough learning experiences. This week they made some wonderful creations using buttercups. 
 

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15 May 2025

Painting techniques using foreground and backgounds.

In this term we have been learning about different painting techniques and blending colours. 

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13 May 2025

Dinosaur Footprints in Nursery B

This week the children are exploring colour and colour mixing using paints and dinosaurs to create footprint patterns. When they have finished their patterns, they are bathing the dinosaurs in warm soapy water.  

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2 May 2025

Painting

Today we have been investigating the effects that can be achieved by adding salt to a surface painted with watercolour.

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4 April 2025

Colourful Painting in Nursery

Today the children used paints, brushes, string and teabags to create colourful firework paintings. They worked together and shared their ideas while exploring paint using different tools. 

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28 March 2025

Large scale artwork in Nursery A

The children in Nursery A have been combining their drawing, painting and collage skills over the past few weeks to create amazing joint pieces of artwork. 

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27 March 2025

Nursery’s Good Shepherd Day

Today the children are having a fancy-dress day to raise money for the Good Shepherd Appeal. They are having lots of fun playing and painting together.

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14 March 2025

Painting in Different Ways in Nursery A

This term in nursery we have been exploring painting in different ways and different context.  Last week we painted outside on tinfoil and took part in finger paining.  This week the children painted to different pieces of music and they absolutely loved it.  

 

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14 March 2025

Year 2 Peg Dolls

As part of our ‘Major Glad, Major Dizzy’ work in English, the children designed their own peg doll character and then made it using a range of materials.

 

 

 

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14 March 2025

Nursery Painting and Dancing to Music

This week the children have been exploring painting whilst listening to music. Today they asked to listen to the music again so they could dance together. We talked about the music saying if it was fast, slow, high, low, calming or energetic. 

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3 March 2025

Year 1 Printmaking

Year 1 Printmaking 

We have been learning about printmaking in Art this afternoon. We have been using over printing and relief printing to produce some wonderful artwork. 

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