The children in nursery have had a lovely week learning all about the Queen and celebrating the platinum jubilee. We have decorated crowns for our own parade, decorated flags and bunting for our classroom and made some delicious cakes for our Jubilee celebration with...
Each week we love our forest sessions. We explore the principle of plan-do-review where we decide what we are going to do and write a list of equipment we need to help us to prepare for our session.
The children are now fledged electronic engineers. They have loved designing and creating their light up boxes for DT. They made their own circuits using wires, resistors, LEDs and powered it all using a Raspberry Pi. Fantastic work from all.
We have been learning how a moving picture is made and experimenting with making their own. We used a sliding mechanism and decided whether we wanted it to be a horizontal, vertical or diagonal lever.
As part of our Design Technology, we are going to be designing and making an Anglo Saxon purse. To get us started with some ideas, we had a look at a range of different money containers. We looked at the fastenings, the materials, how many pieces of material were used...
In Art we have been learning about an aboriginal artist called Emily Kame Kngwarreye and her famous abstract paintings. We then looked at boomerangs and how aboriginal people used them to hunt animals. We can even name all the parts of a boomerang! We enjoyed...
During our DT this term the children have been creating a light box. They had to create a circuit including LEDs and resisitors. It was very tricky. They learned how to strip the wires and join them to create a circuit with the LEDs and resistors. Attaching the wires...
