What have Red Ladybirds been up to this half term? In Red Ladybirds, our most recent topic has focused on a story called 'The Magic Paintbrush' and we have been learning all about China. We have loved trying Chinese food, including noodles with soy sauce and prawn crackers and playing in our Chinese restaurant! We have enjoyed acting out this story and writing about our favourite part. It's good fun in Red Ladybirds Class! #EYFS #earlyyears

KS1 have been very busy this week creating rockets! Through PSHE the children set a shared goal and worked as a team to achieve it. They evaluated how successful they were based on their teamwork. #ks1 #junkmodelling #rockets #pshe #teamwork #ks1learning

What have Yellow Ladybirds been up to so far this half term? We have been enjoying our new topic The Magic Paintbrush and learning all about China! We have loved trying Chinese food, including noodles with soy sauce and a hoisin-flavoured prawn cracker accompaniment. We have listened to Chinese music and created drawings in response to it, exploring fast and slow, sharp and stilted sounds. In maths, we have been working on stamping patterns of 4 and 5. During Creative Arts Week, we had a great time making our own versions of the painting Window Plants by John Nash. We also followed two tutorials to draw a cat and a pot of flowers, which we then stuck onto our framed window artwork made using collage and finished with tissue paper curtains. We have had a wonderful and creative half term so far!

Showcasing our 'Window Plants by John Nash' inspired art work! #johnnash #art #ks1artdisplay #windowplants

On Monday the KS1 children found something very strange! What could it be?! We asked Mr Lawton to check the CCTV and he saw an image of a very strange creature - we aren't sure what it is but we believe this must be it's spaceship! We are going to be asking lots of questions and writing about our findings of this mysterious creature linked to our topic 'Let's explore' all about space!