Monday was the start of this years Art Week and the children enjoyed meeting Helena Harris -a local artist, who explained that any of our ideas can be turned into artwork. During the week each of us will be making a bird using a variety of techniques and we are looking forward to seeing them on display along the corridor very soon.

This year each class is looking at a period of Art History and Artists that lived during this time. Lime N are looking at Pop Art and how this type of art differs to other periods in history.

The Twelve Labours of Hercules

Can you guess which characters they are in the story?

After lunch, the children enjoyed watching Lime C’s production and The year 3s doing the Greek Dancing before tasting the Greek delights that each class had made.

Wow- the Greeks have arrived !

The day has begun finding out lots about the Greeks- all of KS2 joined together in the hall to find out about voting, laws and medicine.

The children learnt about the voting system and the girls were outraged that they didn’t get a vote!

Deciding on the next Prime Minister…

 Dressing up as a Greek Soldier

 Marching as an army!

Getting rid of a headache was cured by cutting off your head!

The year 4s then returned to class to make laurel crowns.. I think you’ll agree they look very authentic!

The children have returned fully refreshed after their long weekend excited about their Greek day tomorrow.

They have been continuing with their comic strips about Heracles (now known as Hurcules) and working hard on written methods in maths.

Many thanks to Mrs Bluff and Mrs Packham for working with the children this afternoon to make Hummus and Tzatziki- apparently it is very tasty (having licked out the bowls!)

They have also been busy making Greek Theatre masks thinking carefully about facial expressions.

We are looking forward to having a proper taste of the food tomorrow and also meeting our visiting story teller.

These were just some of the things children in Lime N have included in their plans… along with numerous fast food retailers, teacher’s swimming pools and vending machines.

More unusual items from the cricket fans in the room included scale models of Lords Cricket ground, White Hart Lane and St Mary’s Stadium!

We’ve started our last term looking at the Ancient Greeks and have already enjoyed finding out a bit about them by watching some class clips. in Art on Monday we made some amazing Greek Vases and are looking forward to making some later this term in clay.

We’re looking forward to our Greek Day on Friday 24th June- a letter has gone home today about this.

We’ve been looking at Area in maths. To help us with this we have designed our ideal classroom  and had to calculate the are of everything we’ve put in- including the swimming pools and helter skelter slides!