90 combined their knowledge of different types of poems along with nouns and adjectives linked to their English book ‘Butterfly Lion’. They recalled key words from the text and also chose words of their own to write limericks, acrostic, and narrative poems. Cameron wrote this beautiful acrostic poem entirely independently which blew us all away.
Pupils learnt about our native endangered species as part of their Art lessons today in Key stage 3. They all began designing a mural for the Grantham Climate Art Prize in conjunction with the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow this November. Some amazing drawings already ahead of the deadline.
Since starting our recycling schemes in school at the end of April, we have collected 200 plastic bread bags, over ten weeks, from our morning breakfasts which will be sent off for specialist recycling in the holidays. Wow, can you imagine if every school and household did this in the UK ? Well done to…
Great news, we are now officially registered as an eco-school, which is a step forward in empowering our pupils to help the environment. Since we began our paper recycling programme approximately one month ago we have more than doubled our weekly output. The last collection was 8 1/2 bin liners of scrap paper. We have…
This afternoon we went for a walk to see a local sculpture called ‘The Men of Steel’ also known locally as ‘The Transformers’. We learnt all about the sculpture for Art and this visit also combined our RRS topic of National Walking Month with our English topic of Non-Fiction Texts. In English we have been…
Today our home learning stars from each class had the opportunity to design their own glass star decoration as a keepsake to remind them of their home learning success this term. Pupils got to choose the colours they wanted to include in their star and also learnt about the glass fusing process. Due to the…
80 have linked their Maths learning of angles to their Art topic of pattern, by choosing the number of lines of symmetry and reflection within their design which they created on the computer. Promoting creative decision making based around angles, colours and line thickness they all created beautiful mandala imagery which has a striking similarity…
What an amazing day we have had across school today. Every class was busy creating artwork based around the British Values in each curriculum area. We have lots more photos to upload but here is a mosaic of our pupils wearing the colours of the Union Jack flag.
Our year 7 textile work is inspired by Chinese New Year, so pupils went to see some Oriental artefacts for inspiration. Pupils were fascinated by the age of some of these ancient objects and enjoyed the interactive elements of the gallery. We also found 3 objects which the BBC had used in the making of…
P8 have been making worry dolls today and learning about how it is important to talk about our worries and concerns.