Team R:
Year R have been busy exploring winter art inspired by Stephanie Dee’s beautiful tree paintings. After studying how she shows winter scenes, the children created their own winter trees. They used black paint with no water, carefully pulling the brush upwards to make thick, strong lines for the tree trunks and branches. Once the paint had dried, the magic really began! Using pom poms dipped in white paint, the children gently dabbed snow onto their pictures. The finished artworks are full of texture and contrast, perfectly capturing the feeling of a calm, snowy winter day and celebrating creativity, focus, and skills.
Team 1 / 2:
Over the past few weeks in Design & Technology, our Year 1 and Year 2 children have been taking part in an exciting hands-on project: designing and making wind-powered cars. So far, as part of the DT curriculum, the children have been learning how to design purposeful products. They explored how wind can make objects move and used this knowledge to design simple cars that could travel when pushed by air. The children shared their ideas through talking, drawing, and simple planning, and then began turning these ideas into real models. An important focus of the project has been developing basic making skills. With adult support, the children have been learning how to measure axles and use simple sawing techniques to cut them to the correct length. This has helped them understand the importance of accuracy and safety when working with tools, as well as how different parts work together to make a moving vehicle. Throughout the project, the children have been encouraged to select tools and materials, follow simple steps, and watch this space for their final designs!
Team 3 / 4:
During their recent music lessons, Team 3/4 has been learning to play the ukulele. They have been busy mastering the basics of both strumming for rhythm and plucking for melody. The group has already begun practicing a couple of catchy songs and exploring chords, like the C chord, to get their sound just right. The children even learned a clever mnemonic to help them remember the names of the strings. It has been fantastic to see everyone dive in with such enthusiasm, and the students found the whole experience to be lots of fun.
Team 5 / 6:
This week, Year 5/6 have been investigating craters. As part of a mini-project on space, the children learnt the differences between an asteroid, meteoroid, meteorite, and a meteor.
The class carried out an investigation to discover the effect mass has on the diameter of a crater. Children dropped spheres of increasingly large masses from a specific height into a box of flour covered with cocoa powder. The diameter of the crater was then measured and recorded.
Scatter graphs were then drawn to see the overall effect that mass had. The children discovered that as the mass increased, so did the width of the crater. There were significant differences, but a linear line could be drawn between the various points on the graph.
Wicked Sing-along
Last Thursday, children in our Musical Theatre Group and KS2 Choir joined an International Online ‘Wicked’ sing-a-long.
With around 300,000 children from around the world, we logged in and virtually joined the Young Voices choirs at the O2, including a special appearance from Emma Kingston who is currently playing Elphaba in London’s West End, to sing a medley of songs from the musical, Wicked, including ‘One Short Day’, ‘For Good’ and of course, ‘Defying Gravity’.
The children really enjoyed singing these amazing songs which have messages of friendship, belief and determination. Enjoying it, perhaps even more, was Mrs. Poulter, who sang her heart out!!!!
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