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8 October 2025

Leaf man!

After listening to the story ‘Leaf Man’, we used our Autumn collection to create our very own Leaf Men! What brilliant creations!

 

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7 October 2025

Creating using Natural Materials

Today the children in Nursery A learned about the soft wood inside an elder branch and using a metal tent peg, they created holes in the wooden pieces.  Next they used threading skills to push a piece of wool through the holes to create bracelets. Finally, they further exercised their fine motor…

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1 October 2025

Andy Goldsworthy Inspired Natural Art

We have been inspired to make some art with nature by finding out about the work of artist and sculptor Andy Goldsworthy.  After collecting Autumn treasures at home, we have used these to create.  We have made faces, patterns and even our own trees.  We have been developing our vocabulary around…

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26 September 2025

Year 6 Sketching Unit

This afternoon, the children started their first lesson in our new art unit. We will be looking at drawing self-portraits but today we focussed on during small details - using images of fruit. 

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26 September 2025

Year 2 Art & Design

The children looked at the illustration ‘Waves’ by American artist Beth Krommes and listened to Fingal’s Cave by Mendelssohn. They then responded to these stimuli by choosing their own materials to make a range of marks to create their own version of…

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18 September 2025

Nursery A - Beautiful Me!

We haven’t just been finding out about our new friends in nursery, we have been thinking about ourselves and asking what makes us special.  We used mirrors to look carefully at our faces and draw our own self portrrait.  Thinking about the shape of our faces, eyes, nose, mouth and ears.  We then…

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12 September 2025

Giorgio Morandi

This week we started our new art topic, drawing. We looked at the artist Giorgio Morandi who was famous for his still life drawings. We were inspired by his work and completed our own simple line contour drawings, using objects from around our classrooms. We were so pleased with our work and even…

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12 September 2025

Art and Design: Drawing

The children experimented with ripping different types of paper and explored making marks with black paint.

 

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11 September 2025

Let’s Play in Nursery A!

This week has been all about new experiences for our nursery children.  They have been discovering the nursery environment and all it has to offer, whilst making new friends.  

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8 July 2025

Construction in Design Technology

We have been learning about bridge construction in DT. We worked with our partners to build strong, sturdy bridges using technical vocabulary.

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7 July 2025

Reflections of our time in Reception

This week the children are reflecting on our time in Reception. We have talked about what we have enjoyed, what we found tricky and all the activities we have loved. We then made dream catchers, threading wool, beads and feathers together thinking about our dreams and hopes for year 1. 

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20 June 2025

Magic Rubbish

In response to a text called ‘Magic Trash’ about an artist who uses recycled items to create his artwork, we decided to create our own ‘Magic Wall’ using recycled items that we have been collecting.  Throughout the week, the children have been colour mixing, collaborating, creating and adapting…

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