Today we have had Louise from Sandwell Road Safety Education Team visit. She has delivered assemblies to KS1 and Year 4 & 5. Then class workshops with Year 3 and 6. The children learnt all about crossing safely, car safety and a catchy little song for a reminder. We all thoroughly enjoyed the day.
In Year 1, we learned about the Hindu festival of Holi - the festival of colour - which celebrates the coming of Spring. We watched a video about what happens at Holi. Then we looked at images of Holi patterns and recreated them with coloured chalk on the playground....
After sketching and resketching our landscape images, today we have added colour. We attempted to create the foreground, middle ground and back depth and used our previous skills of shade to alter our paint tones. We are very pleased we our results.
For anti-bullying week we completed many activities and learnt about the 'bullies network'. On Thursday afternoon we had a theatre company visit us who performed a production called 'Hope'. It was about a girl who had been bullied at her school and then she came face...