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Year 1 Printmaking 

We have been learning about printmaking in Art this afternoon. We have been using over printing and relief printing to produce some wonderful artwork. 

This half term the children are exploring finger painting. They are talking about the different colours and describing textures and shapes. Some children are creating their own images such as "my mummy", "a rainbow" and "hearts". 

We have enjoyed using our gross motor skills on the climbing frame today.  We have seen some brilliant climbing and balancing.

In Reception we have been investigating germs.  We used pepper in water to illustrate how germs cling to our skin and talked about how they can make us sick.  We then washed our hands with soap and were astonished at how the germs did not stay on our hands! We discussed how important it is to make…

We enjoyed improving our basic skills in the sunshine.

We have been collecting natural things to use in our sculptures next week. We are looking at the artist Louise Bourgeois.

Today we talked about God loving us and Jesus’ teaching to love one another.  We made a list of all the people we love in our lives.  Each of the children and staff members in nursery contributed by passing a wooden heart to each other so that we could say who we loved. We then thought about how…

Our pirate adventure in nursery began on Monday afternoon when we went on a treasure hunt outside and followed clues to find hidden treasure.  We used a treasure map of our outdoor area and listened to clues using positional and directional language and following a route.  On our journey we found…

Not content with simply building a wall for Humpty Dumpty, two of our creative learners in nursery decided to work together to make a bed for him, using some blocks as a blanket to keep him warm.  Look at those smiles! 

In pairs, the children answered a range of calculations.

Once they were solved, the children sorted them into different groups. They focused on any patterns they could see and different ways they could be grouped together.

Luca 5A - ‘I found the activity fun as we got to work in…

The children in Reception have enjoyed mark making in the sunshine using chalk, pencils and whiteboard pens. We have been practising writing super sentences!

As a year group we started our time learning by creating a horizontal number line from 0-12 and transferring this to a circular number line to represent a clock face. The children then used their 5 times table knowledge to add the minutes to the clock. We recapped over their Year 1 learning of…