Wow, Year 6 have been extremely busy over the last few days creating artwork based on the Commonwealth, celebrating the Queen's 90th birthday.  

We would love to share this with you but that would spoil the surprise..... so we look forward to seeing you at our art exhibition on 7th June…

Smithills Open Day Farm

Nursery and Reception have been learning all about the farm. To end the topic we went to Smithills Open Day Farm. We were very excited as we climbed aboard the coach. We took part in lots of activities at the farm. The tractor ride was very bumpy.......

but we…

Foundation Stage have enjoyed celebrating Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution Day. 

We began the day by talking about foods that we can make and eat for breakfast that are good for our bodies. The children came up with lots of ideas such as toast, fruit and porridge!

We then selected a variety of…

On Tuesday 17^th May 2016 Year 3 Seahorses visited Parish Church in Middleton. We arrived in the morning and were warmly greeted by Margaret who would be showing us around. The trip was to kick start our RE topic of the Wider Church. We spent time taking a tour of the inside and outside of the…

This week Year 3 Seahorses have re-created black and white graffiti artwork. We found a variety of images which use only black and white colours and discussed the affect this has on the viewer.

We thought of reasons why artists would choose to use only these two colours and then used…

Year 3 went to visit our local church, St Leonard's.  It was a great experience for the children.  During lessons they had been learning about churches, the layout and all the different special places within the church.  When they went on their visit they were able to spot all the different things…

Year 3 Seahorses have been looking at the work of Banksy this week. We explored the infamous, anonymous artist’s work, saying what we liked and disliked about his most prolific work. We described how the art made us feel and which was our favourite piece of artwork.

We decided to…

On Friday 6^th May, Year 3 Seahorses found out about VE Day. We discovered that VE Day stands for Victory in Europe Day, which marked the end of World War Two. We found out which countries were involved and why the 8^th May 1945 was such a day for celebration. We looked at how people celebrated the…

This Sunday is VE day, the day we celebrate World War II ending.  The children today were shown a YouTube clip of a street celebration taking place when it was announced that the war was over.  The children had lots of questions about WW II.  We discussed and shared information about this war and…

Year 3 Seahorses have been using the iPad and digital camera to experiment with taking a variety of pictures around school this week.

We used the zoom feature to get close up shots and also looked for distinctive and unique patterns from the local environment. We wanted to take…

This week Year 3 Seahorses created their own fantasy towns. We thought carefully about what a town needs and where those places should be located. We worked in pairs to design our fantasy towns in our books and label the main places using a key. Then we set to work and created our fantasy towns…

Y1 have learnt about lots of famous landmarks in London. As part of our DT work we collected cardboard boxes and turned them into something quite amazing! 

TAKE A LOOK!

First we looked at the shapes and sizes and decided which building each box could represent. 

Then we painted it a base…