School Blog

This term, Year 6 have been learning to play Ultimate Frisbee as part of their PE lessons. Over the past few weeks, they have developed a range of new skills, including throwing techniques such as the forehand and backhand, and different ways of catching the frisbee — from the clap catch to one-handed and two-handed catches. They’ve also been practising throwing accurately to moving targets and learning the key rules and strategies of the game.

Yesterday, the class put all their hard work into action with a mini-tournament, giving everyone the chance to showcase the skills they’ve been working on. As you can see from the photos below, it was a fantastic afternoon full of teamwork, energy, and plenty of smiles!

Next week, Year 6 will be taking on a new challenge — a game of Frisbee Golf — where they can continue to develop their accuracy and control in a fun and competitive way.

In Computing this term, Year 2 are learning to become photographers. So far, they have been exploring how to take photos using a range of devices, including iPads, compact cameras, and bridge cameras.

The children have also learnt about the difference between portrait and landscape photographs, and have been practising how to take pictures in both formats. They are beginning to think carefully about when it might be best to use each one, and it’s been great to see the excitement as they put their new skills into practice.

The children had a fantastic morning learning about our local area as well as art and animation on our visit to Spirit Bridge Art Studio at the Canal Basin, Coventry.

We discovered many listed buildings and local landmarks on our walk to the studios such as the Weaver’s House, medieval Spon Street, St John the Baptist Church, Coventry Cathedral, the Belgrade Theatre and the old Coventry Telegraph building,

On arrival to the Canal Basin the Creative Directors, Ben and Pritpal, kindly gave us a tour of the area and their studio. They explained how their building had been repurposed from a boat-repair industrial unit into a state-of-the-art creative studio.

We were treated to an exclusive preview of the animation team’s audio-book and TV series – Bucky the Unicorn Bear. The children learnt all about the entire process of creating an animated film from initial sketching to story-boarding to full digital production!

We had a live drawing tutorial and created our very own sketches of the main characters from the animated series.

The Spirit Bridge team were so welcoming and we even got a special visit from Bucky The Unicorn Bear!

We cant wait for the official book launch of Bucky The Unicorn Bear and The Elves of Christmas Eve, this coming Saturday! Get your copy before it sells out!