After around two years of planning we finally have our new Outdoor Area for Reception and Nursery children. We have created areas for play and learning which include a dry river bed and water feature, a workshop, an outdoor kitchen, sandpit and even a Hobbit Hole! Cool Canvas who designed and built the area for us have made a video of the build to show you how it grew.
CLICK HERE to watch the Video of the EYFS area build
Watch out for our grand opening event coming soon!
To celebrate Prince Harry & Meghan Markle’s wedding we held a playground tea party for the whole school. The children made flags, crowns and placemats for the party. Each class decorated a cake and everyone wore red, white and blue and we all stood for the National Anthem showing our commitment to the British Values.
We have continued to work on our aims for Year 5. We have been working in different groups showing we can collaborate with people we don’t normally work with.
We visited the Time and Tide Museum and spent half of the day exploring what it was like to be an Anglo-Saxon. We learnt so much as we took part in many different activities such as an Anglo-Saxon burial, making a brooches, being a soldier, axe/ spear throwing and listening to old tales.
We looked at stories from Aesop’s Fable and discussed story telling. In light of this, we thought about the animals and how they were portrayed in the story and how we could bring them to life in an imaginative way.
We were inspired by the Tortoise and the Hare and the second story; the Ant and the Grasshopper.
Feeling inspired by the works of Jen Buckley, we painted animals from the tales using water colours. During the morning, we learnt how to draw, sketch and then use water colours.
Fantastic art by Jen Buckley
Our amazing art work!
Well done to everyone who dressed up in character.
Congratulations to all of you who entered- there were lots of amazing entries making it very hard to select winners.
Early Years entries:
The winner was Alex:
Key Stage 1 entries:
The winner was Layla:
Lower Key Stage 2 entries:
The winner was Lola:
Upper Key Stage 2 entries:
The winner was Trinity:
The children performed the first few scenes of Macbeth today. Some have also performed in front of the school during assembly on Wednesday.
Year 3 and Year 4 visited the Time and Tide museum today to act out one of the Swashbuckle Lil stories and meet the author, Elli Woollard. We got really involved in acting out the story going around the museum hiding from Stinkbeard! We also met the author who talked to us about writing in rhyme, highlighting the importance of writing and telling us how fantastic it is being a writer.
It was a great opportunity for the children to learn new literary devices and interact with the characters.
Congratulations to all the children who took part in the Opera project culminating in 4 shows over two days at the Open theatre in Norwich.
