We’ve been learning about Henri Matisse and how his art evolved from earlier artists before becoming one of the most original and influential artists of the 20th century. Matisse was influenced by the Mediterranean Sea and we recreated an early painting before exploring his use of paper cut-outs later in his life.

Open Window, Collioure (1905)

Icarus (1944)

Les Bêtes De La Mer (1950)

Today in DT  we  made rainbow bags, with a little pot of gold hidden away ! We enjoyed using shading techniques to colour some shamrocks too.

Today in science we thought about animals that might live in our school garden.We talked about what they might need to survive. We learnt that a habitat needs to provide an animal with food and shelter. So we went into the garden and with our partners created these wonderful homes. We are looking forward to going back to see if anyone has moved it !

” I hope a crocodile moves in “

We made homes for hedgehogs, ants, birds, ladybirds and worms. Mrs Green had great fun trying to catch the frogs and newts so we could look at them more closely.

Nursery have had lots of maths fun this week. We have been counting different things as well as objects and recognising when different groups of objects have the same value. In addition we have been exploring shapes, solving problems and developing our mathematical language.

Nursery enjoyed wearing our favourite pyjama’s and having lots of stories as part of our world book day celebrations. We also chose to learn all about the Gruffalo as one of our all time favourites.

Have a look at some of our maths badges!

We have been busy this week  taking part in lots of maths challenges. We began maths week with the first challenge, ‘How many children linking hands would it take to get all the way round the playground?’ We used our counting skills to count to find the total.  Other challenges included, telling the o’clock time, creating repeated patterns with bottle tops and finding shapes in the environment.

You may have noticed the ‘model pupil’ on Old Birmingham Road this was something arranged by Councillor Peter McDonald. The models, to encourage safer driving, appear around the locality and outside other local schools. Bromsgrove Safer Neighbourhood Team have been looking at ways of improving the parking situation outside LHPSN particularly on Old Birmingham Road, by working in partnership with key stakeholders within the community including our school.

We are really enjoying our exciting maths lessons in maths week this week! Today we used our maths skills to help us make pizza. We weighed out the ingredients first, rolled our base into a circle, a square or a triangle and then chopped some toppings to go on top. We also spent the morning playing maths games. We had lots of fun playing bingo and completing lots of maths challenges with our friends in 1MH.