Spooky Poetry

Using the language we have been learning in Oral Language lesson about Halloween, the children in Mr Smyth’s Class wrote this lovely acrostic poem- that spells out the word Halloween. Enjoy!

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A Splash of Colour with Henri Matisse

The Cut-Out art of Henri Matisse (1869-1954)

This months Art theme is Paint and Colour and 1st Class have being studying the art of French Artist Henri Matisse, who loved colour. When he was old and no longer able to hold a paint brush he began his famous cut-out art, where he cut and arranged pieces of coloured paper in wonderful arrangements. Check out the children’s Matisse inspired creations below.

First Class have their Maths Eyes on this Week

It has been a busy week in First Class and around the entire school with Maths Week. In Mr Smyth’s 1st Class it has been all about Maths. We measured our heights this week, had Maths games in class and a mega Maths Games morning in the hall with parents. In Maths Class we have been looking at categorising and sorting objects and in PE we even had our Maths eyes on with an Orientation activity. Its been Maths all round. Check out the pictures below! Later in the week we will survey another class about how they get to school for our geography lesson and make graphs of the results.