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This week the children have had Art Week. We have looked at Sir Frank Bowling , talked about his paintings and experimented with some of the techniques he used. We also talked about The Windrush generation , read the book Coming To England and compared the colours, foods and buildings of the Caribbean with England. Have a super weekend everyone .

This week has been art week and we have had a great time learning all about Dezil Forrester and creating some art work inspired by him. We started off by looking at some of his pictures and talking about how he in turn was inspired by Caribbean music. We then listened to some dub and reggae and drew our own pieces. The children especially loved a bit of Bob Marley and some of the children were singing along to every word of the songs! We looked at how Denzil used bright block

It's been art week 🎨 and for it, we've been studying the works of Hurvin Anderson. He's an artist who uses his parents' experiences of the Caribbean to paint images of somewhere he only knows through imagination. As a result, his paintings are not based on reality but his blurred interpretationss. Below is an example of his style We found out about his style, experimented with colour making and researched images of places special to us. We wanted to keep the image identifiab

On Tuesday Class 2 took part in a very exciting dodgeball tournament at Outwood school in Ripon. The children had been really looking forward to it and couldn't wait to get there. Overall we played five games and at times the scores were extremely close with only a few points in it. With some excellent dodging and throwing skills on show, the children did very well and came in the top halves of their groups, which meant that they went forward to the playoffs. After an amazing

It has been another busy week in Class 1, with lots of wonderful learning taking place. On Thursday we held our first ever Be Safe day at school, where we were joined by our friends from North Stainley to learn about all sorts of different ways to keep ourselves safe. In the afternoon we especially enjoyed having a visit from Mr Exelby to talk about farm safety and a PCSO who answered lots of our questions, helped us to understand how to stay safe on the roads and then, the

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zqtf34j/articles/z9j4kqt#z9q6dnb We've been discovering about the Roman Empire in our history studies, focusing on the reasons behind the Roman's attempts to invade Britain. We looked at the ways in which the Celts lived during the years before the invasion and on Wednesday, we visited Murton Park to experience the ways in which the Romans lived. We were met by a Roman citizen called Flava who gave us some basic training before being perm

Every Tuesday we have PE with Mr Whitford who is our expert sports coach. He works with the children on everything from football to dance and also runs our after school sports clubs too. This week the children have been working on their moving and dodging skills, as well as catching and throwing. Mr W is really good at making the sessions fun and engaging and the children have a great time. I just hope he doesn't teach them how to dodge the maths test too!

This week we have been really busy in Maths finding 1 more and 1 less than different numbers and making 2 digit numbers using base ten apparatus. We have also been thinking about Harvest and have written some Harvest themed list poems as well as using observational skills to paint watercolour pictures of fruits in Years 1 and 2, and printing with fruits in Early Years. What a busy week!

This week we were so lucky, especially with the weather which turned gloriously sunny as soon as we arrived, to explore Roseberry Topping. We've been studying mountainous areas and looking at the impact they have as well as the features around them, both human and physical. We noticed that at a certain point on the hill, there appeared to be no trees and just moorland whereas below it was mostly farmland. We could also see Middlesbrough very clearly (thankfully not the footb