In Oaks we had a great time creating our Easter eggs for the school Smelly egg competition.
It was amazing to see so many creative and unique ideas. Can you believe that even after teaching so long I am still seeing new designs and even new egg puns?
We hope you all have a great Easter.
Mr Graham
In art, Chestnuts have been looking at animal skin and the different patterns they have.
We made printing blocks with strong cardboard and sponges. Then, we dipped them in paint and created similar patterns to look like animal skin.
Finally, we cut out silhouettes and stuck them on our animal printing.
Blossoms had a fantastic time creating some masterpieces for our whole school ‘smelly egg’ competition. The children had some wonderful, carefully thought out ideas and brought them to life through using paste eggs, polystyrene eggs and a collection of resources. As well as some super designs from Pokémon to an Arsenal player, every member of Blossoms worked extremely well as a team and shared the resources as well as helping each other out with their designs. Well done Blossoms – it was extremely difficult for Helen to choose a winner!
As part of our Easter celebrations, we took part in our “Smelly Egg” competition where we all designed and made amazing Easter eggs.
Look at our fantastic efforts…
Willows had a cracking afternoon creating some wonderful designs for our Smelly Egg Competition.
We all think they are egg-cellent!!!!
In Chestnuts, we have designed and made spring themed cross-stitch bookmarks. This is part of our Design Technology work.
Cross stitching isn’t as easy as it looks!
We have worked hard to make our bookmarks look amazing! Don’t you agree?
As part of their RE topic this half term, Willows have been thinking about the importance of Palm Sunday.
They have been asking and answering questions such as:
Why do Christians call Jesus a king?
Why is Palm Sunday an important day?
How do Christians celebrate Palm Sunday?
For their final lesson they made some lovely Palm Crosses.
Blossoms had a fantastic time celebrating World Maths Day. We linked Maths with English by solving Maths puzzles involving Roald Dahl characters and then we created some of our own. In Maths, we budgeted the price of different items by working out which chores we’d need to do for a specific cost to be able to buy the items. This is an excellent real life skill. Finally, we completed some Art through Maths by using our measuring skills to create Celtic knots and Curves of Pursuit. Excellent enthusiasm and resilience from all of Blossoms. Well done!
On Thursday, Chestnuts celebrated World Maths Day.
In English, we solved measurement questions about George’s Marvellous Medicine related to our work on Roald Dahl.
In maths, we improved our money skills by solving riddles. This helped us to find totals and give change.
During art, we created curves of pursuit patterns.
Some of our excellent work is shown below.
On Thursday 23rd March, Willows celebrated World Maths Day… even the date read the same backwards as it did forwards (23.03.23)!
In English we used one of Roald Dahl’s famous stories, Esio Trot, to base our tasks upon. The children worked hard to estimate the amount of tortoises Mr. Hoppy had and then used that number in many different ways. For example, they had to represent the number pictorially, partition it and then write a maths problem using it.
In maths, they brushed up on their money skills using ‘Topmarks toy shop game’ and then went on to calculate people’s orders at The Beach Cafe.
To explore maths in art, the children created some wonderful symmetrical insect drawings.
