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Through high standards, ambition and harnessing the joy of education:

We inspire and explore

We support and grow

We create and achieve

Preparing for life in the wider world, with the skills, knowledge and character to succeed.

To find out more about our curriculum, please visit the ‘Curriculum’ page where you can access our Curriculum Frameworks.

On each class page, you can find what the current focuses for learning are.

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21 January

Trinity Methodist Church

We enjoyed our walk to Trinity Methodist Church to learn about the Christian baptism service. We got to ask lots of questions and role play a baptism service.

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10 June

Collage

This half term we have been inspired by the amazing artworks created by Henri Matisse. He was known for his collage artwork. We learnt that Matisse has large pieces of paper prepared for him by his helpers, who would work hard to paint interesting colours. He would then cut out the sha[es he wanted and collaged them to create his artwork. We first learnt how to collage, practising with different materials to create our own pieces. We focused on cutting, snipping, ripping and tearing to create different effects. We considered the placement of the papers and layered different materials. We then considered which adhesive would work best. We decided PVA glue and glue sticks would work as we didn't want to see bits of tape on top of our artwork. For our final piece, we were inspired by our 'Plants' topic from our Science lesson. We enjoyed learning about different plants and decided to create some collaged botnatical leaves. We practised sketching different leaves, focusing on adding detail. We enjoyed exploring different leaves outside and skecthing in the sunshine. Next, we prepared our collage paper. We mixed all our own paint. We knew from prrevious art lessons that blue and yellow make green. We added white for lighter shades and black for darker shades. We also experimented with mixing different amounts of blue and yellow to acheieve different tones of green. We then selected our collage paper materials. We found lots of old wallpapers with interesting textures and got busy covering them with green paint. We practised holding the paintbrushes and painting with different amounts of paint on the brush in order to achieve a variety of brushstrokes. Finally, we got to rip, tear and cut our green paper. We sorted our papers from light green to dark green, and got busy collaging our leaves. We then used a really dark green to add finer detail. We had to practise cutting and snipping carefully to create thing strips.

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15 April

Reciting Poetry - People Need People!

We have started out half term with a focus on poetry. We've read and listened to a range of poems and have worked hard to write our own poems. We enjoyed listening to Benjamin Zephaniah's poem called 'People Need People'. We thought about what would make a good poetry perfromance and worked hard to recite his poem.

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