On Friday Art Club were lucky enough to go on a trip to London to visit The Tate Britain. https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-britain The children and teachers got on the train at Folkestone Central and we spotted some art work before we even boarded the train, the art installation ‘Like the Back of My Hand’. We had fun seeing … Continue reading
On Thursday afternoon Year 2 were lucky enough to have a workshop in Folkestone Museum on The Victorians. We learnt all about the arrival of the railway in Folkestone in the 1840s and how it led to a boom in tourism, marking the beginning of the town as a fashionable seaside resort. We explored the … Continue reading
On Wednesday afternoon in Year 2 we created our own art work titled ‘Seascapes’. We began looking at artwork created by Piet Mondrian. We had already seen some of his work a couple of terms ago and recreated it using the computers. This time though we were using an unusual method of recreating a similar … Continue reading
On Monday 6th June 2022 we got together as a whole school to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. We all dressed up in red, white and blue clothes and some classes made crowns to wear for the occasion. Everybody brought in very tasty looking packed lunches to take along and we all went outside to … Continue reading
On Monday Year 2 celebrated the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee by talking about the Queen and the other countries she is queen of. We read a funny book called ‘The Queen’s Knickers’ by Nicholas Allan, then we designed our own knickers for the queen to wear. We made some very cute Corgis and Queens from recycled … Continue reading
Today Eagles got to take part in some sport activities with Venture Sports. We learnt some great football skills and even managed to have some mini games at the end where we tried to score goals for our teams.
On Tuesday afternoon Eagles class took advantage of the sunshine and went out of school to explore the plants that grow in our immediate local area. We thought about what we already knew about plants before we left, then whilst we were out on the walk we sketched some of the plants we saw and … Continue reading
The whole school has taken part in an RE World Religions Focus Week- and the spotlight this term was on Judaism. Every class had a special lesson each day focusing on different aspects of Jewish beliefs, history and festivals. We learnt about the lives of Jews both in the past and in modern times and … Continue reading
On Tuesday afternoon it was time for Eagles class to perform our family worship. We started off by singing Hosanna Rock as it’s one of our class favorites. We watched a video Mr O’Neon managed to capture of The St Eanswythe Dragon and we performed the ‘Talk For Writing’ actions we had learnt. Some of … Continue reading
After a delay because of bad weather last term, on Friday 22nd April 2022 we all finally got to take part in our Holi/Holy Fun Run. If this had gone ahead on the planned date it would have tied in with both Holy week and the Hindu Festival of Holi so we combined the two … Continue reading
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