We are delighted to have been awarded the Artsmark Silver Award from Arts Council England. Children and staff throughout the school have been working hard as well as having lots of fun celebrating the arts in many different ways across the last two years which has...
Music
The Three Little Pigs
This week in Nursery we have been reading the story of ‘The Three Little Pigs’. On the Art table, we created pig faces with paper plates, card and paints. We also practised our fine motor skills by cutting out clothes for the three little pigs to wear. In Maths, we...
Chinese New Year
On Saturday it will be Chinese New Year. We have been learning about this celebration in Reception class. We learnt that people clean their houses in preparation to welcome in all of the goodness in the New Year. We created lanterns using red card, we used our cutting...
Riverside Routes Project Year 5 have had the privilege of working on a project called Riverside Routes. This project is part of a larger programme of work by a consortium of partners. The children have been working with two community musicians (Ken Masters and Adam...
Blues Music
At the start of today’s lesson, Stuart told the children that they would be looking at ‘Blues’ music this half term. He started playing a blues song, which was ‘Why I sing the blues’ by BB King, where after listening to it, the children had to appraise the music and...
Music from the Caribbean
Stuart started today’s lesson by telling the children they were going to be appraising some music. The song played was ‘Jump in the line’ by Lord Kitchener, which had people using steel pans from Trinidad, which are made out of old oil barrels. The music is known as...





