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Year 1 - Manor Farm post 1 of 2

Today Year 1 visited Manor Farm to learn about the ‘Victorian Age’ and experience what it would have been like attending a Victorian school, living in a house without ‘modern conveniences’ and working on a traditional farm. The children were all a bit shocked at how strict the school teacher was (or at least pretended to be) and how little freedom children had back then. The teacher inspected our fingernails, made us stand to attention and even threatened to make us wear a ‘dunce cap’ if we were being silly! We all agreed that we much prefer present schools as children have much more freedom and can enjoy learning! We also had a look around a home that was over 600 years old and noticed how different things were that far back in the past. For example, there was no electricity and so modern household items like washing machines were of course not available. We had a go at doing some laundry by hand and found it to be very hard work! Phew, time for a break! Cue the picnics! Photos to follow of us pond dipping and bug hunting.

Maya Portals to the Past Visitor

 Our children loved learning about the Ancient Maya from our expert visitor. They learned about Hunting, Trade, Religion, Sacrifice, Sport and Games, Weapons and Warfare, Everyday Life, Technology, Writing, Maths. They even sacrificed one of their teachers! 

We have also included photos of them presenting their understanding of Mayan artefacts earlier in the week. 

Minstead

Getting stuck in at Minstead!

Year 2 Nurses Home Learning Projects

We have been learning about Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole. We have also be comparing hospitals today with hospitals from the past (Crimean War). We asked children to produce a piece of work about our topic and present it to the class.

Year 2 Easter

Year 2 have made some amazing Easter Bonnets at Home and had an Easter Egg Hunt at school!

Year 1 - Willow Class- Junk Modelling

We have been busy collecting old boxes and other bits to reuse for our junk-modelling project! We carefully designed our animals first in our art sketch books and then got to work! We used scissors to cut pieces to the right size and then masking tape to attach.

Year 1 - Cedar class junk-modelling

We have been busy planning and creating animals using old boxes! We carefully planned our animals in our art sketch books and then got to work! We used masking tape to attach the pieces together and scissors to cut.

6FL Forest School

Here are a few photos from our last two weeks of Forest School.

Year 2 Art - The Human Form

Year 2 have come to the end of their Human Form art topic where we have learned lots of new skills and techniques. We strated with digital art and creating letter body shapes, then we designed skulls like Damien Hirst, then we moved onto collaging faces. After that we looked at Julian Opie and Edwina Bridgeman's creations and recreated their work. Take a look and see which human form creation you like the best!