This week has been a sea of red in our class. The children have been making beautiful poppies for our Remembrance board using plastic bottle bottoms and handprints as well as practicing their fine motor skills by cutting poppies out and mark making in red and black. Bilal and Max have been doing some really good standing at the table this week to do their work. Mehvish and Sabina have been improving their skills using a paintbrush and produced some lovely paintings of poppies.

In our class this week we have also been learning about the Artist Clet Abrahams and we have started work on planning our Road Sign based on his work for our new ‘Caterpillar Street’ in school! The children made stop signs by painting really neatly using brushes and sticking a favourite Disney character of their choice on them in a funny position.

They have also celebrated Diwali this week by making Coconut Ladoos (which the children just ate most of the condensed milk when making!) and learning the story of Rama and Sita. In cookery the children made ‘Mermaid Soup’ as part of their English story ‘The Singing Mermaid’. It was VERY smelly! They used prawns, spinach, Ramen spice, sweetcorn and garlic!

Today has been Children in Need and the children have been for a Pudsey Bear treasure hunt in the mud kitchen. They also wore Pudsey clothes and jamas and raised lots of money for the charity.

This week our star was Nelson who received the class certificate for his excellent work choosing his name from a choice of names and for settling in really well into our school!

Have a lovely weekend!