Scissor skills

13th November 2025Elizabeth Frost

This week in crew Frost the children have been learning how to use scissors. The children first discussed how to use the scissors safety and what items we cut. We then practiced how we hold the scissors for moving around the classroom and when we are ready to cut. We then challenged the children to follow the patterned lines on the sheets. The children astonished us how they were able to maneuver their way around the task following the patterned sheets. We can’t wait to keep practicing this fine motor task.

Colour mixing and creating artwork like Paul Klee

11th November 2025Lauren Marsh

In Crew Barber, we have been looking at the artist Paul Klee and looking at how he uses colours in his artwork. We have learnt how to mix primary colours (red, blue and yellow) to make secondary colours (orange, purple and green). We have also learnt about hot and cold colours and how that creates mood in our artwork. Look at our fab Florence Nightingale in the style of Paul Klee.

Autumn slice.

6th November 2025Elizabeth Frost

Crew Frost has had so much fun returning back this week! We have been learning all about autumn and the changes we see outside and the events we might celebrate. This week the children have enjoyed using pumpkins and colored golf pins to create their own patterns and arrangements, this really pushed our fine motor development by having to use hammers to secure our pins. We also enjoyed building our social and emotional skills by sharing with our friends and using our listening skills to recall how we use the tools safely.

The role of a nurse in Crew Ramsay

3rd October 2025Natasha Holdsworth

In today’s expedition lesson, the children spoke about the role of a nurse to which they were shocked a nurse can be either male or female as many of them thought all nurses were female. The children were given scenarios and used their acting skills alongside a few props to recreate the scenario with their partner. Lots of discussions were happening alongside lots of great acting!

Designing our own birthday invitations

21st September 2025Sarah Mcglone

This week we have been looking at the features of a birthday invitation. We talked about their purpose and how they communicate information to people. At the end of our expedition, we will need to send out information regarding our Celebration of Learning to our parents so we decided to create our own invitation designs that we will send out to our grown ups.

Painting our self-portraits

21st September 2025Sarah Mcglone

To continue our work for our final product, we have been looking at creating self-portraits with paint. We focused on how to make different shapes using a paintbrush, and we talked about how we can use different shades of paint to show skin colour. We also continued to use mirrors to recognise our features so that we could use the correct colours for our eyes and hair. We are really pleased with how they have turned out and cannot wait to see them feature in our final product!