Year: 2021

Turner skies mindfulness

20th January 2021

We all benefit from mindfulness – time to be kind to yourself.  Mindfulness helps children to focus on what’s happening now and to keep their thoughts from drifting.  This week’s mindfulness task was to take a mindful moment to look at the view from Turner Contemporary.  Then to use it as an anchor to pull them back to…

Could Reception & Year 1 become the next Andy Goldsworthy?

20th January 2021

Andy Goldsworthy is a key artist in the “Land Art” movement – creating temporary art by working with nature. His art is often temporary, so photography plays a key role in his artwork – capturing the art, before it decays, falls apart or floats away.  Reception & Year 1 have been using stones and pebbles to…

We all love a good Pantomime! Why?

20th January 2021

There is the music and songs from pop and rock songs, and even the odd novelty song.  Even better: the audience always get at least one opportunity to sing along. There is always a fairy on hand to guide the hero or heroine on their way, stepping in with a little magic.  And of course,…