Greta Thunberg & Roald Dahl Classes

To end our inquiry, both Year 2 classes decided to take action and have a peaceful protest on the playground during lunchtime. The children made posters and shouted their slogans to encourage the rest of the school to help save the environment. The children had lots of fun.

We then thought about ways to get our message across to the wider community so we collaborated to create posters explaining how to help save our planet. Keep an eye out for our posters on the school gates.

Captain Sir Tom Moore

We started our inquiry this term by looking at the level of commitment Sikh’s show towards their religion and the dedication they show to their faith. We continued to follow the theme of commitment to look at how people are committed to the thought of bettering their life and how this can drive them to move from one place to another. This meant we were able to cover history by looking at invaders and settlers over time and how they were motivated to move across the world. This finally took our learning journey to refugees and how they endure devastating experiences in order to pursue a better and safer future for themselves and their families.

From this, we decided to convey the idea of an endless journey by creating a piece of art known as a Myriorama. Each child created a piece of art showing a journey, these will then be put together to symbolise the ongoing journey. Year 5 had complete agency to choose the journey they imagined the refugees to be taking. I am sure you will agree, they did a fantastic job!

Marcus Rashford Class

Year 3 has had a fantastic start to the year and we cannot believe how quickly the first module has gone. We’ve had a really fantastic inquiry and all the children seemed to have engaged really well with this at home. Have a look at some of the things we have been working on this module.

We’ve been exploring blending techniques in Art this term and have experimented with pastels, chalk and paint and created our own piece of Stonehenge Art.

Year 3 has also been exploring healthy eating and what we need to stay healthy so the children decided for their action that they want to inform the school how to stay healthy by filming an exercise video in PE.

The children have had a fantastic talk from Mr Ian Bett from Upper Stoke and he spoke to the children about farming in 2021 and what he used to do on the farm. Did you know, there are some tractors which use satellites to drive instead of petrol? We found that amazing!

Alan Turing Class

In year 6 this term, we have learned about equality for different groups of people. Recently, we were able to consider the work of Andy Warhol and his pop art technique. We created our own artworks of Rosa Parks, a historical figure we have studied, using a pop art style. We also made products with electrical components for science that were designed to consider the message of equality. Some great work to finish off our inquiry.