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Art, Y1

Y1 Art

12th June 2023

The children enjoyed using clay to make a sculpture inspired by Andy Goldsworthy. They began the lesson my experimenting with different tools and then worked the clay and moulded it into an egg shape. They did a fantastic job! Well done Y1.
Art, Y6

Year 6 - Creating art illusions.

2nd December 2022

In Year 6, we have been looking at creating art illusions. The children have thought about perspective through their use of lines and shading to create an optical illusion and have created some fantastic pieces of art work. Well done Year 6!
Art, EYFS

EYFS - Autumn Topic

2nd December 2022

In the final week of our Autumn topic in F2 , the children reflected on what they know about that changes that the season brings. They used natural objects to create transient art pictures of Autumn trees.
Art, Y1

Y1 - Art

2nd December 2022

In Year One this week, the children have enjoyed getting creative. They have made a class advent calendar outlining twenty-four things that they can do to show kindness to one another. Some examples that the children came up with was being a good friend, sharing things and using our manners to say 'please' and 'thank you'.
Art, English, Maths, Y5

Posters, poems and comprehension!

14th May 2020

More fantastic work from Year 5 submitted to Class Dojo. Cody has written a wonderful poem about his time in lockdown, how much he misses everyone and his frizzy hair! Amelie has designed an excellent poster encouraging everyone to stay happy and demonstrating social distancing with monsters! Finally, Ella has been hard at work completing extra comprehensions and maths...
Art, Design & Technology, Geography, PE, Y5

Yr 5 Class Dojo protfolios

13th May 2020

Members of Year 5 have begun uploading their work to their portfolio on Class Dojo for Mr Whittle to check, comment and feedback. They have been exceptionally busy with their home learning which is great to see. Cody has been busy with his maths and English and his Amazon research; Anna has been working hard on her grammar and...
Art, Maths, Y1, Y4

Mixing colours and magical maths

11th May 2020

Olly and Faith have both been hard at work at home. Olly has been keeping up with his maths whilst Faith has been mixing colours in her artwork.
Art, History, Science, Y1

Year 1 have been very busy...

4th May 2020

Some more brilliant home learning this time from the children in year 1. They have been finding out Eugenie Clark and the fascinating underwater creatures, producing magnificent artwork in the style of Kadinsky, finding out about old toys by asking Grandparents what they used to play with in the 1960s and getting well under researching everybody's favourite food for their...
Art, Curriculum

Amazing Artwork

1st May 2020

The children in school have been showing off their artistic sides this week. We have some Monet impressionist style paintings by Aiden, Nathan, Tyler and Mr Whittle, a few examples of abstract art and some Manchester skyline sunsets inspired by Mrs Farrell.
Art, Curriculum, Design & Technology, English, History, Maths, Y5

Year 5 Home Learning

1st May 2020

Children from year 5 have been hard at work this on their home learning. Matteo has again been hard at work on his maths, English and keeping up with his times tables. Beth has produced some fantastic art work in the style of impressionist artist Monet. Finally, Amelie has made a model of a Mayan god along with a...
Art, Maths, Science

Even more brilliant home learning

29th April 2020

We have even more fantastic examples of your home learning being sent in. Matteo has been hard at work with his maths and English, whilst Caleb and Luca have bee hard at work planting seeds, drawing sunflower pictures and finding out funfacts. Finally, Bobby and Aria have been producing some fantastic artwork and enjoying their maths. Keep up the...
All Pupils, Art, Curriculum, Design & Technology, English, Maths, Science

Amazing Home Learning!

24th April 2020

Wow! The children of St. Mary's are certainly getting stuck into their home learning and producing some amazing English, maths and lots of other amazing activities. Orlaith and James have been busy getting stuck into their maths and English work whilst the Days have been exceptionally busy making, baking and creating. Meanwhile, Josh has just received his caterpillars in...
Art, Computing, Curriculum, Curriculum Overviews, Design & Technology, English, Enrichment, Geography, History, Maths, Music, PE, PSHE, RE, Science

Being creative in a range of subjects

25th March 2020

Chatterpack; A huge list of free resources and websites, including mental health support; https://chatterpack.net/blogs/blog/list-of-online-resources-for-anyone-who-is-isolated-at-home Powerpoint which includes lots of useful resources for parents to use at home Seneca; https://www.senecalearning.com/ BBC Bitesize; http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize
All Pupils, Art, Computing, Curriculum, Curriculum Overviews, Design & Technology, English, Enrichment, Geography, History, Maths, Music, PE, PSHE, RE, Science

Free education subscriptions

25th March 2020

Below is an entire list of websites offering free subscriptions due to the school closure 2Simple AdmitHub ABCMouse/Adventure Academy ALBERT Alchemie American Chemistry Society Backpack Sciences Boardmaker BookCreator App BrainPop Breakout Edu Buncee Century CheckMath CircleTime Fun CiscoWebex CK-12 Foundation ClassDojo Classroom Secrets ClassHook Classtime CMU CS Academy CommonLit Conjugemos Coursera for Campus Curriki Deck. Toys DeltaMath Discovery Ed Dyslexia Academy Ecoballot EdConnect Edmodo EdPuzzle Education Perfect Eduflow Edulastic Edu-Together Elementari Emile Epraise Epic! EverFi Explain Everything Fiveable Flipgrid Fluency Matters Freckle Free Math Gamilab Genially GoGuardian Good2Learn Google For Edu Gynzy Hapara Hawkes Learning HippoCampus Ideas Roadshow IDEA InThinking i-Ready Izzit.org Kahoot Kami KET’s PBS Learning Media Khan Academy Kids Discover Online Kognity LabsLand Learning Apps Libby App ListenWise Manga High Microsoft Education Minecraft: Education Edition MobyMax Mozi MusicFirst Mystery Science NearPod Newsela Nimbus Capture Outschool Otus Packback Parlay Pear Deck PebbleGo By Capstone Peergrade PenPal Prodigy Pronto Rockalingua Salesforce ScienceWerkz Schoology ScreenCastify Seesaw Seneca Seterra Geography Scholastic Shmoop Sight Reading Suite SmartMusic StoryBoard Tailor-ED TechSmith Tes...
Art, History, Y2

Year 2: The Lowry Art Gallery School Trip

27th February 2020

This week Year Two went to The Lowry Art Gallery. The children particularly enjoyed a special workshop where they studied the famous LS Lowry painting - Going to the Match. They then used Lowry's techniques when drawing buildings and produced some fantastic pieces of Art work! The children also had an opportunity to look around the Art Gallery and...
Art, Design & Technology, English, Enrichment, Geography, Maths, Nursery, PE, PSHE, RE, Science

Winter Topic in F1

14th February 2020

This half term in Nursery we have been very busy learning all about Winter. We have used our senses to look for signs of Winter outside and discuss the changes we have seen. In Literacy we have focussed on the books ‘Say hello to the snowy animals’ and ‘Lost and Found.’ We have been working hard on developing our mark-making...
Art, English, EYFS

Stick Man

13th February 2020

As part of our winter topic, we have been learning all about Stick Man by Julia Donaldson. We retold the story using role play and small world characters. We made maps of all of the places that Stick Man has visited and made our own speech bubbles showing things that Stick Man might say. On our creative table, we...
Art, Design & Technology, Enrichment, EYFS, Maths

Chinese New Year in EYFS

24th January 2020

Today we have been learning all about the Chinese New Year. We found out about the different ways that Chinese people celebrate the New Year and listened to the story about how the different years got their animal names: this is the year of the rat! In our class we have looked carefully at different Chinese artefacts: the children...
Art, News, Y2

Year 2 Self Portraits

6th December 2019

This half term Year 2 have been learning about self portraits. They have used black pens to create the outlines and were introduced to using watercolours. The children really enjoyed experimenting with the colours.