Year 5 - Installation Art
Year 5 began exploring installation art, using everyday classroom items in unusual ways to communicate a message. They also analysed the installation art of others and the feelings it provoked.
Year 5 - Junior Jam
Year 5 learned how to communicate their likes and dislikes in French, used sampling to make audio jingles for adverts in Computing and explored the emotions produced by different songs in Music.
Year 6 - Darwen Art Project
Year 6 had the amazing opportunity to take part in the Darwen Art Project. As part of this, our class worked together to design and create a stunning autumn-themed window display, showcasing our creativity and teamwork. Afterwards, we took part in a fascinating heritage walk around Darwen, where we explored the town’s past, discovered important landmarks and learned more about the history that has shaped our community. It was a wonderful experience that allowed us to celebrate both art and local heritage.
Year 1 Construction Area: building a boat
This week in the Construction Area, the children have been trying to build a boat for the penguin and the boy to sail to the South Pole. The different ideas have been amazing. We have had some smaller sailboats and some huge yachts. Well done Year 1!
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Year 6 R.E
Year 6's R.E unit this half term is "Life is a Journey." Last week we went on a spirituality walk to Jacks Key, thinking about how the natural and man-made features there could represent our life's journey, for example: bumps in the path, deciding whether to take the long road or the short cut, using a bridge to help us traverse tricky conditions, uphill struggles, etc. This week we looked at how scripture teaches us about how to tackle life's journey and live life in all its fullness.
Reception- PSHE- Creating our unique name labels
During our PSHE lesson we discussed how we are the same and how we are different and even if we like different things that’s still fine, we can still be friends and play together because we are all unique.
Reception- Literacy- creating our own houses for the colour monster
This week the children have been learning all about the colour monster and that each monster represents a different feeling. The children created their own house for a colour monster of their choice and created a special key which unlocked the colour monsters house and realised that feeling.
Reception- The Colour Monster
This week we have been reading the book ‘the colour monster’ the children have been super busy enjoying this weeks activities in our areas. The children have been using their fine motor skills to create a mosaic colour monster on the light board, they have been painting their own monster in the painting area, collaging a colour monster of their choice using different materials in the creative area and traced the outline of a monster and decorated their own monster using different writing techniques in the writing area. We have had a super busy week so far!
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Year 4 - RE: What is Prayer?
This half term, the Year 4s are on a RE quest to discover what prayer is. We began by studying images of people around the world from different faiths praying. We recorded our best ideas and also posed questions for Sally the Social Scientist about how the people were behaving. We then studied some quotes from the New Testament and tried to uncover Jesus’ teachings about prayer. The children will be choosing where they want their quest to go in next week’s lesson.
Year 4 - Times Tables
Look at those proud faces! Our rockin’ Year 4s have had a fantastic start to their TT Rock Stars journey. They trialled some of the single player games and earned coins to spend on their rockstar avatars. We talked about the benefits of doing our times tables little and often, but I think it’s going to be more hardworking keeping some of the class off this app!
Year 5&6 - Football Club
Today Years 5 & 6 took part in their very first football training club. The children practised key skills such as dribbling, passing and teamwork before finishing with some friendly matches.