European Languages Day

Each class chose an artist from a European country and focused on a collaborative piece of art focusing on this.  During the creativity time, the classes found out more about the artists along with some information about the relevant European country.  Several classes linked their artists to the whole school literacy book -  ‘Flower Block’.

·   Class VW recreated a collaborative version of ‘The Last Supper’ by Leonardo da Vince with each child being given a section to paint to create a new picture.

·    Class SB Netherlands – Ambrosius Bosschart linked to Flower Block.

·    Class MS  Netherlands – Vincent van Gogh “The Starry Night” adapted with a silhouette of Framlingham Castle.

·    Class MBu – Norway – Edvard Munch “The Scream”  which was adapted to create their own feelings picture.

·    Class KN – Spain – Joan Miro  the class designed their own mathematical drawings using 2D shapes

·    Class RJ – Spain Picasso enjoyed recreating self-portraits

·    Class KHLH – France – Henri Rousseau linked to Flower Block.

·    Class JT – Netherlands – Piet Mondrian the class recreated their own masterpieces using simple colours and simple designs

·    Class DR – Spain – Juan Jose Garay enjoyed “Splatting” their piece to replicate the style

·    Class KM and Class MB were inspired by the German artist,  Paul Klee, and produced their masterpieces using different 2D shapes.

·    Nursery – Netherlands – Van Gogh – ‘Sunflowers’  where the children created observational drawings and decorated them around the nursery tree. A

Further learning in Class VW

Over the course of the last couple of weeks, in addition to enjoying a fabulous week at camp, Class VW have been settling into being in Year 6 and working hard. 

Here are some pictures of time in class, including enjoying some Croissants for European Day of Languages, engaging with our RE Christianity unit based on 'Incarnation' and the questions a Christian might ask God, and some maths learning. 

The Netherlands - Class CRMBr

 To celebrate European lang day class CRMBr had a visit from Mrs Jenkins who told us all about what it was like growing up in the Netherlands.

We found Holland and its capital, Amsterdam, on a map of Europe. It’s very small.

We learnt about Holland being famous for cheese, waffles, tulips, liquorice and windmills. We looked at the wooden clogs the children would have worn and some of us tried them on – they were very comfortable.

Mrs Jenkins taught us to sing head, shoulders, knees and toes in Dutch- that made us laugh. We learnt to count to 5 – een, twee ,drie, vier, vyf.

Finally we got to try the lovely cheeses, biscuit waffles and liquorice sweets.

Thank you Mrs Jenkins.

Exciting European Learning

Wow! - what a morning we have all had. 

We started off with an assembly to celebrate our special day.  Thank you  to Mrs Jones' class for sharing a Spanish prayer through song which was fantastic.  Mrs Jenkins then treated us to a rendition of The Hungry Caterpillar which she read in Dutch as she was born in the Netherlands.  We were all able to follow this well known story and some of the words like, 'lollypop' were the same in English and Dutch.

There has been a real buzz of excitement around the school and it has been marvellous to hear so many European languages being spoken, to taste European food from churros and tapas to croissants and Italian style food.  The teachers and children have been so creative in their approach to the learning. 

During playtime, we heard comments from the children about the fun way that they were learning and how much they enjoyed learning new information through dance, art, music, maps and spoken language. 

The countries studied were: France, Holland, Italy, Poland, Malta, Denmark and Spain and the teachers all had special reasons why they thought their class would love to learn about their chosen country. One of the teachers reminded us that Denmark was the birthplace of Lego......... Need we say More ?!

Thank you to the catering team for their special, European inspired lunch. The smell of the meal being prepared was delicious as it wafted around the school.