Art work across school in September 2023

We are only in our 4th week of term and already there has been some wonderful art work taking place across the school. This term our theme is drawing.

Our thanks go to Miss Daniel for her efforts in leading Art and Design & Technology across the school and in raising the profile and standard of our output!

Have a look below to see what our wonderful children have been producing.

Nursery's Marvellous Marks

L1 - mark making with crayons.

The children have been busy mark making with wax crayons and exploring textures in the classroom environment by taking wax rubbings and collecting patterns.

  

L2 - mark making with felt-tips

In this lesson, Nursery investigated using felt-tips as a tool for mark making and developing their fine motor skills as they created patterns.

  

Year 2  - Tell a story

L3 - My toy story

Y2 pupils drew a favourite soft toy from observation, adding texture by applying mark-making skills.

  

Year 3 - Growing Artists

L1 - Seeing like an artist

Y3 used simple shapes to draw objects, developing observation skills to draw natural and manmade objects.

Y3 pupils have learned how to shade (Four rules of shading), understanding how it is used to create light and dark tones in drawings.

 

L2 - Drawing Decisions

Y5 explored and created art using different processes and considering artist decisions; using sketchbooks to explore drawing through line, tone, shape and textures; experimenting with materials and tools.

Year 6 - Make my voice heard

L2 - Symbolic imagery

Using the Maya belief that everyone has a spirit animal companion, Y6 discovered their own and recorded it as a drawing. Using combined inspiration from the Maya and the style of modern artist Dan Fenelon, they developed their symbols to represent themselves, creating a drawn tile of line, pattern and colour.

L3 - Chiaroscuro

Y6 learned about the drawing and painting technique of chiaroscuro through diverse examples. They applied understanding of using light and dark to create form and impact to create Maya-inspired word art.

World Book Day 2023

This year we celebrated World Book Day at Christ Church on 3rd March.

The children came dressed as their favourite book characters... can you guess who these people are as they enter the school hall?

We began the day with our world famous "Reading Breakfast".

Parents and children gathered together in the hall to share food and, more importantly, stories. This was a very well-attended event, which all enjoyed thoroughly.

After lunch we had our Costume Competition. 

Well done to all of those children (and parents...) who dreamed up this year's fantastic costumes.

At the end of the competition, a winner from each year group was awarded the prize of a new book.

Also, the winning staff member - the wonderful Mr. Holness - was awarded a special shopping voucher to buy himself some books.

Police visit to EYFS

On Wednesday 1st March, our EYFS children were happy to receive a visit from our local Police officers.

The children have been dressing up and acting as Police officers over the past few weeks and they have used this to help with their learning - especially in mark-making as they write down accident reports and make wanted posters.

They were all so excited to meet 3 serving Police officers for the morning.

Scholastic Book Fair 2023

During the week of 20th February, we hosted the Scholastic Book Fair once again. The children really enjoyed browsing the fantastic selection of books available and persuaded their parents to part with some money...

Thank you everyone who bought a book, or some stationery... this year we raised a fantastic total of £786.73

Our share of this total will help bring more books and reading to our school. Look below for photos of our children having a great time browsing...

Christmas Carol Service
14th December 2022

What a lovely carol service we had today at St. Anne's Church.

Many thanks to Mother Christine and Mother Natasha for hosting us and to all of the parents who came along to join in. 

But mostly, thanks and well done to all of the children from Year 1 to Year 6 who sang and read beautifully. What a great way to celebrate Christmas.

Y3 Carol Service Readers

EYFS - Christmas songs 
December 2022

Today our EYFS children entertained their parents with Christmas songs and rhymes.

Pictures of their performance are below... and short videos can be seen by clicking here.

Christmas Lunch 2022

Today we had our annual Christmas lunch in the hall with the children. The photos below show just how excited they were and how much fun they had.

Thank you to Chef Diane and her team for providing us with such a lovely Christmas lunch!

Getting the tables ready...

Let the feasting begin!

Christmas Jumper Day 2022

What a wonderful sight to see our children and staff turn out in their Christmas jumpers today. It certainly brightens the school up and makes the place feel even more Christmassy... 

Reception Poetry recital

Earlier in Autumn Term, our children from Reception Class learned and recited Nursery Rhymes to the school and to their parents.

This was a big step for the children as they needed to show great confidence in speaking in front of a crowd. The photos below show just how well our fantastic children coped.

Thank you to Miss Butler and Miss Ayub for helping the children to prepare for this and to the parents who came along to support them. (I'm sure you are as proud as we are here at school.)

International Day 2022

Thank you to all of our families and children who dressed in their traditional costumes for International Day 2022. 

What a fantastic display of colour and style!

It was also lovely to see our families cooking and sharing food together after school - what a way to bring the community together, around the tables!