Today is World Book Day and the children are having a wonderful day. Everyone is excited to share their favourite stories and talk about their outfits. 

We had a super workshop with West End in Schools, where we retold elements of the story. Here you can see the chocolate river, squirrel sorting, bubblegum machine and TV ray machine. It was brilliant fun and the children were very inventive.

This half term we have been learning about the use of graphic line in art to show movement and texture,  inspired by cave art and Vincent Van Gogh’s use of thick paint (impasto). We have learned how to use sgraffito painting, where a layer of thick paint is applied over a layer of colour and then marks created with impasto over the top. We also tried out tonking, which is applying paint then dabbing and blotting with scrunched paper. It was lots of fun! The final piece was to design an imaginary creature using these techniques.

In year three we’ve been enjoying finding out how electronic devices work by input, process and output. This includes computers so we have explored paint programs and how the output is different to non-digital artwork.

We learned  that computers link in a network, and to understand this better thought about what a network is in our own lives before finding out how computers do this.  

We practised being a computer network in class, passing many messages to different computers at the same time. It was fun but hard work until we discovered the network switch (a bit like a postman) speeds things up. 

Thanks to the Friends of the school for organising the disco! Year 4 and 5 enjoyed the work of DJ Neil and his accomplice who kept the children boogeying and singing.