Year 4 visit to Selly Manor
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008Year 4 will be visiting Selly Manor in Birmingham on 27th February 2008. You can visit the Selly Manor website.
Archive for the ‘Art’ Category
Country and Townscape
Monday, April 30th, 2007As part of our art project, Class 4 have looked at Country and Townscape by the American painter Megan Lloyd-Thompson. If you liked that one, Community at Work is another painting by the same artist in a similar style.
New in Espresso this week
Monday, July 3rd, 2006Book Club
The Book Club is updated each term to introduce three authors talking about a book that they have written. Alongside the video clips is a biography of each author. This term the following authors talk about their books:
- Chris d’Lacey introduces Icefire
- Cliff McNish introduces The Silver Child
- Jacqueline Wilson introduces The Diamond Girls
Find it: English 1 > Book Club
TV News
Find this week’s stories: News 2
Food packaging campaign
The Women’s Institute are campaigning to reduce food packaging.
Find it: Geography > Environmental issues > Taking action
Millennium Bridge sound art
A live feed of the sound of the Millennium Bridge is being piped into the Tate Modern Gallery.
Find it: Art > Galleries > Tate Gallery
News Bites
A news round-up of events in the form of four short video clips. The video clips are reporter-led pieces using language aimed at Key Stage 2 pupils.
- Queen’s children’s party
- Mummies help doctors
- Model insects on display
- Michelangelo exhibition
Find it: English 2 > News Bites
Newspaper articles this week include..
Find this week’s stories: News 2
Chalk drawing helps wildlife
The National Trust yesterday began the first wildlife survey of the Cerne Abbas Giant - a 180ft chalk figure of a man carved into the hillside near the Dorset village.
Find it: Geography > Environmental issues > Wildlife
New emblem for Red Cross
The Red Cross are changing their emblem into an internationally recognised humanitarian emblem.
Find it: PSHE & Citizenship > Politics > World Politics
World Cup 2006 data [Data]
Data handling exercises using recent results from the group stages of the World Cup.
Find it: PE > Football > World Cup and Maths > Handling data > Data
Charles Darwin [Profile]
A profile of Charles Darwin that explores important events in his life.
Find it: History > People in history > More
Bizzikid
Saturday, July 1st, 2006
Bizzikid is a great site for children. It has lots of interesting pages collected together, with info about PSHCE, sport and almost all of the school subjects.
CBBC Art Website
Saturday, July 1st, 2006Like Art ? You’ll love the CBBC Art Website. There are lots of activities to do as well as lots of interesting pictures and info about artists.