Theme of trees.

Class 1 collected leaves from the wildlife area and arranged them, photographed them, took rubbings from them and made paint prints with them. They then cut out all of the impressions of their leaves, painted a tree trunk and branches and stuck their multimedia leaves on to them!

Class 2 used natural materials (mostly twigs) to print tree trunks and leaves. They went to the wildlife area and looked at the trees for inspiration then printed outdoors!

Class 3 learnt a poem about conkers, made artwork in the wildlife area inspired by Andy Goldsworthy and took part in a series of music workshops led by Roman River Music. They will perform their pieces of music to the whole school at the end of term.

Class 4 learnt about Thomas Gainsborough’s life and how he was an inspiration for John Constable. They then painted a landscape piece of art in the style of Gainsborough and created a Pop-up book, to include their artwork and his biography. They went to the wildlife area to learn and recite our poem The walk through the woods by Rudyard Kipling, as our wildlife area reflects what was described in the poem.

Class 5 continued rehearsals for their production “Robin and the Sherwood Hoodies” which included singing, dancing and acting elements of art. They also created abstract artwork based on trees, focusing on the use of geometric shapes and using contrasting warm and cool tones for the background.

The whole school took part in a poetry recital at the end of the week.

Some of our D & T activities happened between 6th to 8th June as part of our Jubilee celebration activities with Class 5 making scones and Class 4 making cheese and cucumber bread rolls to celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee.

Class 1 enjoyed making edible lifecycles. They made batter for butterfly cakes learning 3 key baking techniques: creaming, beating and folding. Whilst they were cooking, they prepared leaves by rolling out icing and cutting out shapes. They then learnt how to carefully cut grapes to make caterpillars, using the bridge technique with their hands so that fingers kept safe, which they threaded on to a cocktail stick.

Class 3 made their own individual Victoria Sponge Cakes linked to their instruction text that they’re studying this half term ‘How To Make A Sponge Cake’.

Class 2 made shortbread biscuits and fruit salad.

We spent the day celebrating Science at Langenhoe. Children brought in their Science Homework Projects to share their learning and hard work, with parents visiting from 2pm to join in the fun too! The whole school was throbbing with enthusiasm and energy all day!

Class 1 made moving dragons using levers. Class 2 made a lever mechanism using both fixed and loose pivots. They turned it into part of our class story ‘How Rabbit Stole the Fire’. Their animal and tribe person bent low to the fire using the lever mechanism, just as they do in the story! Year 4 made 3D moving animals using cranks and Years 5 & 6 made electric vehicles. Class 3 are taking part in the D & T activities at a later date.

All the children had great fun creating and constructing. Class 5 created a cauldron and tree for their Macbeth Class Assembly, Class 4 designed masks inspired by Ancient Greece, Class 3 created boxes to keep dragon’s eggs in after discovering one in our Wildlife area, Class 2 explored materials and construction across the curriculum and Class 1 created houses for their Class 1 Elves.

We enjoyed exploring music, art and poetry with the theme of “Green” this week.  We made Rainforest Boxes – each class creating a layer of the rainforest. We all created our own poems and recited them to each other, with classes sharing their best poems with each other in the afternoon at the end of the week.

We enjoyed exploring different European Countries: Italy (Class 1), The United Kingdom (Class 2), Hungary (Class 3), Greece (Class 4) & France (Class 5).  We made food from these countries, looked at human & physical Geography & explored the languages.

We enjoyed learning some basic code and algorithms, practising typing on computer keyboards, using computers for cross-curricular research and taking part in the O-Generator music workshop online.  We also learnt about Internet safety.

We loved having a planetarium in our school during science week.  You can see what else we got up to in our video.