Learning Photo Gallery
Hawks' Easter Gardens
Hawks have recently looked at the Stations of the Cross, which told the Easter story. For their Easter activity, the children created their own Easter Gardens in the Forest School area. A couple of groups also made more traditional Easter Garden in a tray. There was some great use of natural materials and interpretations along with team work to create them. Mrs. Feeley and Mr. Eaton were very impressed!
Hawks' Easter Cards
Hawks used pastels to do the sunrise and hills. They then looked at words associated with Easter to write on the cross. Wishing you all a very happy Easter, from Hawks Class.
Hawks' Mothers Day Cards
Hawks class created these beautiful blossom cards for their mothers for Mothers Day - 17/03/2021. We hope our mum's enjoyed them!
Yellow Day 26/02/2021
As part of our annual charitable fundraising, we took part in the St Michael's Hospice Yellow Week - 22nd to 28th February.
We designating Friday as our school-wide 'Yellow Day' and all children (and staff) were invited to take part by wearing something yellow on Friday - either to School or to their Google Classroom Meet. We also also asked the children to make something yellow throughout the week - food, drink, craft etc - or be creative with 'Yellow'. These are some of their contributions.
Hawks Christmas Decorations
16/12/20. Hawks have had a busy day. We have been making Christmas decorations for our trees. First, we drilled a hole in our wooden disc with a palm drill, using our Forest School skills! Then, we used acrylic paints to paint a picture onto the wooden disc. Finally, we used Christmas coloured wool to make a hanger. We had great fun doing this, along with having our Christmas dinner and watching a pantomime by Bexhill College students.
Hawks class DT project
Starfish Malawi have launched a new project - Clean Hands. Following a presentation on the Clean Hands project, Hawks class wanted to make their own wash stations so, we made it our DT project. The children researched different types of wash stations around the world and then, in pairs, designed their own. After sourcing their materials, they built their design, which involved some problem solving and team work. We tested each design and scored their stability, look, usability, water capacity and hygiene. The children then evaluated their own wash stand, writing what was good about it, what wasn't so good about it and what they would do different next time. Thank you to parents for your help in sourcing materials! We all had great fun doing this.
Year 4 Buzzards Forest School
Buzzards Forest School sessions were unfortunately cut short, but we still had lots of fun! The children loved the new mud kitchen and made cup cakes and Viking stew - yum! They also enjoyed making Viking braids, which required team work and concentration. There was so much resilience when fire striking and all children managed to light their cotton wool ball in the end! Then there was the rope swing, making things with clay, playing games, cloth dying with natural materials (onion skins, blueberries and sloes) and some gardening. We had so much fun!
During the October half term the cabin (or pod!) was purchased with funds from a nurture grant and is part of a project to develop nurture provision and provide Emotional Literacy support sessions. We will be creating a sensory garden around the cabin which will be a great space for children to work in small groups to develop their emotional literacy and resilience. Children are learning about the importance of looking after their mental health and this area will provide a special place to enhance wellbeing across the whole school. Once the space is set up there will be a rota so that each class will have a time to use it (only in small groups so all children will get to use the space but they might have to wait a while for their turn :) ).
