Our annual Stone Age workshop is one of the highlights of our Stone Age topic and a chance for the children to show off some of the skills and knowledge they have been learning about. This year was no exception and I would like to say a huge thank you to all the parents who were able to attend and make the sessions so enjoyable.
The excitement at being able to draw cave paintings on the wall of our building was palpable and the conversations I overheard between children and grown ups showed how much they have learnt in the past few weeks.

This week we went on our termly visit to the local library at the Moor Allerton Centre. We had a lovely time browsing the books and discussing our favourite and recent reads. As a bonus, we were given our very own class library card to borrow books to use in our classroom at school. The children chose a few books they wanted adding to our book corner. Many of our class already have a library card from Moor Allerton – if your child would like one they are completely free and the library staff are very excited to help as many children as possible sign up to start their reading journey with the library.

This week we have been ACE artists and developed the techniques we learnt last week using pastels and blending different colours. We experimented with line drawing to sketch an initial then added compute using different style skills of shading, blending and altering the pressure we use to create different effects.

We started our new writing unit this week learning a short story called ‘The Box’. It centres around a character called Aaliyah who discovers a mysterious, glowing box. As her curiosity takes over, she returns to find the box and take it home with dire consequences…

We explore different writing skills used to create this story and used drama techniques to think about how Aaliyah is feeling and different points in the story. We inferred information from the sentences to help us understand her as a character and predict what she might be thinking.

In our first set lesson we learnt a new technique of blending with pastels to mix different colours gradually. In the coming weeks we will be using this technique to create more complex images and landscapes.

I have really enjoyed welcoming 3VL back to school and getting to know them a bit better. We have settled in to our new routines and started off our learning with a book called Tell Me a Dragon by Jackie Morris.

In our art lesson we looked at dragons and their various body parts then designed our own dragons.

We then used our dragons to create sentence with adjectives to describe them.