This week, we found out about the continent South America. The biggest country in South America is Brazil. We celebrated the Rio Carnival by designing and decorating amazing masks! We listened to the sounds of the carnival so we could pretend we were there.
He’s back! After a three month road and aeroplane trip around Europe, Toffee 2 is pleased to be back home. He’s had plenty of adventures and received lots of care from the pupils in Spain, Italy, Portugal, Poland, Turkey and Manchester. His special book which travelled with him, contains details of what he has been up to.The ‘Our Cute Mascots’ project has been a great way to connect with lots of school children across Europe.
La Belgique, la Suisse, et Mali! Just some of the countries represented by les animaux in our theatre workshop, run by TSF theatre group. Le lion, le lapin et la baleine were a few of the animals the Year 4 children had to perform as. They learned a lot of new language, as well as improving their ability to perform. The icing on the cake was when Year 4 got to perform alongside the actors. Year 4 and 5 were amazed at how much of the story they could follow, considering it was spoken in French!
Salvador Dali, a well-known Spanish surrealist painter, was our artist of choice on Art Day. We read about his life, looked at his most popular works of art, and tried to work out the symbolism and meaning in his paintings. One of his paintings, ‘Los Elefantes’, showed the elephants having extremely long, thin legs, attached to regular shaped bodies. Very surreal!
Our own pastel and felt tip designs had a bird theme because we had been to Washington Wetlands on a visit, and were making information booklets about birds in Literacy.
The results were impressive, and we had a lovely day.
In Y4S today, we have been celebrating Art day.
We focused on a very unusual painter called Salvador Dali and in particular we looked at one of his famous pieces of work ‘The Elephant’. As our new topic in Literacy is ‘ Endangered Birds’, we decided to take Dali’s work ‘ The Elephant’ and make it our own by making a bird version.
The children designed their drawing and then presented it on card and on a canvas. We also carried out research on Salvador Dali to find out about his other art work and his life.
Fantastic art work today 4S, Well done!
This year, our school has been involved in a number of exciting projects overseen by the British Council. Once two or more schools decide on a topic for a joint project, the fun can begin! There are different aims and outcomes depending on the project, but all of the projects are run in friendship, with great communication, and much collaboration. Hopefully, this will inspire and broaden the horizons of our pupils.
Our Tour de France Day across the school was a great success. Year 4 sang a song in French… ‘Je voyage partout sur mon velo, sur mes pedales je fait la danse.’ Their French unit had been to learn more about the Tour de France, which they most certainly did!
Mr Bird has been teaching Samba drums to Year 1 children, playing them in an African style.
Perhaps the children will use their new skills in their performance this Easter.
The French artist Matisse was the inspiration for the Year 6 pupils during their Henri Matisse topic.
We have some very talented pupils in Year 6!
Year 5 were learning about Chinese culture in the past through listening to horoscopes, finding out about animals which are held sacred in China, and listening to traditional stories. They then 
wrote their own stories based upon Chinese culture.
