Author: Mrs Latham

We said goodbye to Mr Goodwin before Christmas but we’re now saying Hello to Miss Gilliland, who will be with us until July

We would like to wish all our families a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from all the staff in Key Stage 1. We’re also wishing Mr Goodwin good luck on his next placement at one of our sister schools. We will miss him!

We had a lovely lunchtime yesterday. We visited the ‘Mrs Pennock inflatable display Christmas grotto’ and then had a lovely Christmas lunch together in the hall!

Thank you if you came along to our topic review session today. If you didn’t make it, the quiz is here if you’d like to have a go at home!

You can always help at home by talking to your child about what they have learnt at school.

All the year 1 and 2 classes have been exploring line, pattern and shapes in our Arty Ideas books. Some of the inspiration has come from our visit to The Hepworth Wakefield and from looking at the work of Paul Klee.

We used pencils, pens and lots of other things around the classroom to make the marks on our polystyrene printing plates.

We also enjoyed our trip yesterday. The galleries were inspiring and we made our own artwork and prints too. It really brought our art topic to life!

 

As part of our art topic, we have been learning about primary and secondary colours.  After identifying colours in paintings, we had a go at mixing them ourselves.

We had a wonderful virtual visit with author, James Mayhew, who wrote the Katie and … books. In the stories, Katie visits art galleries and has amazing adventures inside famous paintings. We are reading Katie and the Mona Lisa as part of our topic learning.

James told us some stories while he was demonstrating how he illustrates. It was very inspiring.

Help at home by talking about your favourite pieces of art or sharing some of the Katie books together.

All the year 1 and 2 classes will be or have been using their food preparation skills to create their latest product, a banana sandwich.

This forms part of our Design and Technology food learning which involves following a recipe to make something each term.

Help at home by encouraging your child to be involved in food preparation at home.

We are really enjoying our art topic – learning about the work of Paul Klee and Leonardo da Vinci. We have looked closely at their paintings and found similarities and differences. We are learning to share our opinions about the colours, shapes and patterns they use.

REMEMBER our school trip to The Hepworth Wakefield gallery is next Tuesday, 21 November.