Author: Mr Wheatley

Year 2 have been inspired by David Hockney’s ‘Garrowby Hill’.  They used oil pastels to create a field landscape.

We are delighted to to welcome new friends, and members of our School community, back to Stay and Play. We held our first session on Wednesday this week and what a lovely time we had playing together! Stay and Play is for 0 – 3 year olds and is open to anyone in the area. Please contact us at stayandplay@heddon-school.co.uk should you be interested in joining us, that way we can let you know what is coming up!

Here we are exploring and having fun together!

 

 

Year 3 have loved being archaeologists and discovering artefacts from within our trench.  They have cleaned the items, sketched the items and tomorrow will begin to catalogue their artefacts.  Great work, Year 3!

Here is a sneak peak at us using our natural pigments to create animal pictures…

We also wrote some emotive text messages from Ug to his parents. Just look at how we can change our writing to suit this informal style! Did you notice how we can use emotive language; include repetition for effect; and even change our font to emphasise certain words?

Today in Art we mixed our own paints using natural pigments, thickened by flour and water.

We thought about the natural pigments that pre-historic people could have had access to such as mud, charcoal, clay, berries and roots.

Our own pigments included ginger, mustard seeds, paprika, turmeric and blackberries.

Today The Owls have been practising their maths skills by baking ‘balance cakes’. They had to put an egg on one side of the scales and balance it with flour, sugar, then butter. They then had to crack the egg, mix it altogether and share it into cupcake cases …. delicious! Well done everyone!

 

The children in the Reception class love being active!

Here we are climbing, jumping, manoeuvring and balancing along the obstacle course we designed all by ourselves!

Year 6 parents and children don’t miss this great opportunity to visit the High School, meet Mr. McElwee (the Headteacher), look around and find out about what the School can offer.

As part of our Plants topic in Science, Year 2 have been monitoring their broad beans that are growing hydroponically – a few have tiny shoots already!

We’ve been thinking about the best growing conditions for our cress seeds too.