FS2 - Visit to Minfika

Last week, FS2 visited our local café, Minfika. FS2 children walked to Normanby and visited the café where they enjoyed a gorgeous homemade cupcake and a drink of juice! It was a valuable learning  opportunity for our children and they were so excited to write about their experience. Here are some examples of just a few of our fantastic writers!

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Year 5 - Norman Cornish

The children in Y5 have been learning about the artist Norman Cornish, who grew up in the coal-mining community of Spennymoor (County Durham). In English, the children wrote biographies about his life as a child and his professional career.  In Art, they studied his work and used green screening to take photographs of scenes similar to those he is famous for drawing.  As whippets and greyhounds feature in many of Cornish's pieces, Miss Alderson's whippet came into school for a modelling shoot and featured in the children's photographs.  The children are now using the photographs they took to create their own pieces, using oil pastels, in the style of Norman Cornish! 

FS1 - Growth

FS1 this term, are looking at growing things. So this week we have planted lots of seeds. We are hoping to grow vegetables and flowers. We have had such fun! Inside FS1, we decided to paint some sunflowers and label correctly the parts of a flower. We have learnt the words stem, roots, leaves and petals and we know where each part is on a plant.  We hope if we look after our seeds we will soon have a beautiful garden and some homegrown vegetables to eat. 

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