Creatures, creatures everywhere!
This week in Nursery we have been learning about the miraculous transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly. We’ve looked carefully at butterfly wings and made butterfly prints.
We’ve also been learning about how worms are our friends and really good for our gardens. We found out some…
Titanic Art
Year 4 have produce some wonderful sketches based on the sinking of the Titanic.We studied the drawings of Henry Reuterdahl who was inspired by the accounts of the survivors. It was good opportunity to develop our sketching skills to portray the tragic nature of the event. We are very impressed…
Campout
What a great turn out for the Y2 campout tonight.
It’s gone quiet now (just before midnight!) – sleep tight – let’ s have more fun in the morning…
Mrs W.
Oriental Museum
What a fantastic day we had learning about China at the Oriental Museum in Durham!
We made Terracotta Warriors, learnt a dragon dance, acted out a story all about how the animals got their place in the Zodiac and learnt about what each animal represented in Chinese culture. As well as getting…
We are Artists
Last week we created the background for our seaside picture using water colours.
First we created the sand using different shades of yellow and brown.
After that we used blues and purples to create the sea.
Finally we coloured in the sky using pale blue water colours and lots of water to…
More adventures for Team Yarm!
Y3 pupils had a forest adventure on Friday evening ending in the discovery of a magical door with a very strange rusty key – what a mystery!
Unlike Y6, earlier in the week we managed to keep dry until our last activity on Saturday – dam building – when things got a bit messy!
The group…
The Great Wall of China
This afternoon we have been learning about why they built the Great Wall of China and we then had a go at making our own sections!
It had to be wide enough for a cart to travel along and they were even challenged to build a watchtower just like they built on the real wall.
Caterpillars!
Nursery have been learning all about Caterpillars this week. They have learned about their life cycle – how they start off as an egg paid by a butterfly, from the egg a caterpillar hatches, the caterpillar grows and then turns into a pupa. Inside the pupa a butterfly is forming. When its is…
Football Success for our Y3 and 4 girls
It is not only the England women’s football team that are doing well. Our Year 3 and Year 4 girls proudly celebrated their success when they brought home their first cup this week.Well done, girls, Who knows, we may be watching you in the World Cup matches in the future!
World Cup Fever!
Our current topic in Year 5 is the Women’s World Cup. This week, we split into groups to learn about one of the countries where the teams come from. We researched the history, language, currency, food, religion, climate, terrain and presented our findings to the class.
The children aren’t the only ‘mini beasts’ in Nursery this week!
We have had a really exciting start to our new topic – mini beasts!
Earlier this week, Zoolab came to visit us and we had the opportunity to ask questions, look at and handle different types of mini beasts – including cockroaches, giant snails, millipedes, tarantulas and scorpions.
The…