Year 4 have continued their work on Harold Riley this week and have created their own piece focussing on perspective. They have sketched their landscape then added water colours using a range of techniques. Well done Year 4 they look fabulous!

Year 2 have been creating Campaign Posters as part of Black History Month, focusing on the particular event of ‘The Bristol Bus Riots.’ Children learnt about the boycott in 1963 and how the lead activists Roy Hackett and Paul Stephenson’s campaign led to the passing of The Race Relations Act. 

This week, Year 5 have been exploring the still life artwork of Georgia O’Keefe and Paul Cezanne. They have been looking at the techniques the artists have used and tried to replicate the techniques themselves. After the half term, Year 5 will be creating their own still life drawings.

Reception have been using different resources to write letters. Some have wrote their names. 

This week in Maths the children have been using a range of equipment to support their learning to find the best method for them. 

This week, Year 6 have been testing the affects of different exercises on their heart rates. We participated in a circuit of exercises and measured our heart rate after each round. 

Year 2 have been taking part in some philosophy today in-line with World Mental Health Day. We listened to a story about a girl and her worries and children then went off in groups and sorted a range of questions into ones we could ‘find out’ and ones that we needed to ‘argue.’ 

We then chose one question, ‘What’s the best way to deal with our worries?’ which children discussed. They shared a wonderful range of responses as to how we could deal with them and who could support us if we have a worry. 

This week Year 4 have started their new writing cycle. They have looked at a non-fiction piece all about Octopuses. They used all of their fabulous knowledge to act out the text. Today they have created their own brilliant (and scary) sea creature ready to create a fact file next week. 

Year 1 have been learning about parts and wholes this week in Maths. We have been solving problems with missing parts and missing wholes. We have learnt that we need to use our addition skills to add parts together to work out the whole and to subtract a part from the whole to solve a missing part.

In Mastery in Number, we have been looking at the number before and the number after a given number. We have made stairs using cubes to tell each other the number before and the number after numbers up to 5.