Pupil News: Excellent Eston Hills Expedition!

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. 

Pupil News: Painted Playgrounds!

Year 6 - Exotic Animals

Year 6 have children have been planning and creating their very own creature! They have considered the animal's natural habitat, diet, behaviour and unique characteristics.  They have then used their plan to write: 

• a report on how to care for their exotic animal;
• a balanced argument on whether or not it should be kept in captivity;
• a first person diary entry being kept in captivity;
• a first person diary entry living in the wild.

Throughout the pieces, the children have had chance to plan, edit and refine their work.  They have also enjoyed self and peer assessing their work, clearly identifying strengths and next steps.

Pupil News: Sport Relief!

Year 5 - Michael Morpurgo Biography

In Y5, the children have been studying the life of Michael Morpurgo. They read biographies and autobiographies about his childhood, personal life and professional life and collected their own notes about him, which they used to write their own biographies. The children have been learning how to stretch their sentences, using relative clauses, and also how to make links between their paragraphs to create flow in their writing.