Purple Class

Autumn Term 2024 

Art

We love our art lessons and have been inspired by Claude Monet's artwork and style to create our own oil pastel and water paint art using small, thin strokes and learning how to blend and smudge. As we looked at some of his famous artwork we noticed how the images appeared almost blurry.

We have also been thinking about sculptures and using paper in different ways to create a range of shapes- curves, spirals, zig-zags...and created our own 3D forests and group collages linked to the 'Tree of Life'

 Outdoor Learning 

We love our weekly forest school session in our Enchanted Forest area. We love exploring and making cakes in the mud kitchen, learning how to whittle using willow, digging and having fun playing outside with our friends. We enjoyed creating our reindeer art and decorating pine cones to hang in the trees for the birds at Christmas and we absolutely love making S'mores on the campfire.

 Our School trip to the Sea Life Centre

This term we were lucky enough to enjoy a day  exploring  and discovering a whole host of wonderful sea creatures. We were particularly fascinated by the Gentoo penguins, stingrays, the unusual jellyfish, gigantic Green turtles and seahorses. We got to touch a starfish and walk through a tunnel that made us feel like we were actually in the ocean. What a fantastic day we had!

Maths

Purple class really do enjoy their maths lessons and love to reach the star challenges. In addition to our daily maths lesson we have a morning mini maths session and an afternoon 'Mastering Number' where we can consolidate our learning and develop our fluency in counting and recall of number facts.

At home, we can access 'Doodle maths which is a fun way to keep practising our learning...we are very good at winning the doodle maths trophy during Friday's Celebration assembly.

Spring Term 2025

Science

We have enjoyed being curious in science this term and have loved all our science investigations. We have been challenged to protect a golden egg before it was dropped down a chute, using our knowledge of the properties of materials. We investigated how ink made a leaf propel, just like a squid and experienced the effect of blubber on conserving heat using our lard and ice experiment which was fascinating! We even experimented with objects in forest school to predict and observe whether they floated or sunk!

Gymnastics..

This term we have enjoyed working with the apparatus to create sequences using our spins and twists. We have worked hard to develop our gymnastic stances and perform balances with control on our own and with partners- counter balances. Some children performed their sequences in our Shine Assembly to our parents.

Music

This term we have been learning to play the recorder. We have mastered notes B, A and G and learned to play a few tunes like Traffic Jam,  Caterpillar Bye Bye, Kites and the trickiest of all Gobstopper Waltz. The children really impressed us with how they could follow the notes remembering how many beats to hold each for and learned some technical terms like quavers, semi breve and crotchet. At the end of our recorder lessons we performed a little concert to our parents, some of us even played a solo.