In the film adaptation of the book ‘War Horse’ there are some stunning sunset scenes with silhouettes of the horses. Today Yr.6 creates their own sunsets using a water colour wash and added silhouettes to these. We’re sure you’ll agree that they have created some beautiful scenes.
Today, half of Class 5 were give the wonderful opportunity to spend the morning at Minnis Moor Stables. The trip complimented this term’s study of War Horse by Michael Morpurgo. The children spent time learning the basics of riding and even progressed onto a rising trot by the end of the lesson. We took turns … Continue reading
Today we celebrated the end of our Topic, ‘Famous Women in History’, by coming to school dressed up as a famous person. This morning we wrote diary entries based on the lives of these people. Then, this afternoon we had a party to recognise what these people did in history and how they advanced the … Continue reading
Today was the first of our amazing ‘War Horse’ based trips. Half of Yr.6 went to the Alkham Valley Community Project where they were able to participate in workshops which brought the book to life. Everyone was able to ride a horse, ride in a carriage and give commands to the horse, look at collars, … Continue reading
After finishing studying the book version of War Horse, Yr.6 watched the film this morning. They then held a debate discussing which version was better. They were very passionate and had very good reasons for their opinions.
Years 4,3,2,1 and Ducklings all went to the Quarterhouse today as part of Folkestone Book Festival. The workshop that we went to was ‘Creating a Robotic World’. Leading the session were Joseph Coelho, a writer and poet, and Sheena Dempsey, an illustrator. During the workshop the children were asked to help make up parts of … Continue reading
Yr.4, Yr.5 and Yr.6 we’re lucky enough to go and see the author Ali Sparkes today at The Quarterhouse. Ali shared a very interactive and interesting talk about how she started writing and what inspired her to write. She also shared with us some extracts from her stories and amazingly we even got to hear … Continue reading
This term in Literacy we have been researching and writing about nurses in history. We have learnt about Mary Seacole, Florence Nightingale and today we read about Edith Cavell. All these women were remembered for the amazing things they brought to nursing. We thought it would be good to do a bit of role play … Continue reading
Yr.6 created some art based on artist Rae Smith’s work. In her illustrated version of War Horse she uses simple black and white patterns to create amazing scenes from WWI. Her work was also used in the backdrop to the musical version of War Horse that lots of the children went to see. The red … Continue reading
We have been reading The Hundred Mile An Hour Dog, by Jeremy Strong. We have made puppets of the characters and have performed sketches about some funny moments in the story. Here are some examples of our puppets:
This afternoon Eagles and Year 4 got together with their buddies for a joint creative…
This week Year 1 and Year and 6 got creative! They made Rudolph Christmas gift…
In the film adaptation of the book ‘War Horse’ there are some stunning sunset scenes…
Today, half of Class 5 were give the wonderful opportunity to spend the morning at…
