Author: Emily Hood

This week for Skills Academy, Outdoor Creations made the most of the wonderful weather and collected some natural resources on a walk around the school field. In pairs or small groups, they chose a ‘masterpiece’ to recreate, from Van Gogh to Edvard Munch, and made an artist copy using the resources they collected. All of the children worked superbly well

This year, Ernesford Grange’s Art Exhibition was focused on ‘Celebrations Around the World’, teaming with RE to explore a range of different cultural celebrations through art. Every year group had a different celebration to explore and learn about, before creating pieces that were put up in our art exhibition, which our children visited in year groups. Everyone also took part

Year 6 have worked incredibly hard to showcase their incredible soap sculptures, inspired by Inuit art! They used different tools, such as clay tools, paperclips and carving knives to create their animal sculptures, whether it was a polar bear, narwhal or even an Arctic tern. Below are some examples of what they looked like at the end!

Year 4 had an exciting visit from Binley Fire Service. We learnt all about how to protect ourselves from a fire and what happens when a fire may occur at home.

Today, Year 4 had a special guest in from Warwickshire Wildlife Trust, and we learnt all about pollution that occurs in rivers and drains. Year 3 joined us for our assembly, and we had a workshop to follow! We found the drains around our school and decorated around them to raise awareness for looking after our environment through what we

Year 4 put their ‘mountainous’ knowledge to the test in an active geography lesson. After talking about what we thought we knew already, we ventured around the classroom to build on our knowledge.

Thank you to all of the budding artists who have joined in this year’s Go Ape competition! We have seen some lovely skills shown in the wonderful Christmas card designs. We are sending the entries off and keeping our fingers crossed. Stay tuned to see if we have one lucky winner! In the meantime, please enjoy our entries.

On Thursday 7th December, it was Christmas Jumper Day. We enjoyed seeing everyone in their wonderful jumpers, thank you to everyone who participated and donated!

The girls have been having a lovely (if not cold) time this half term in skills academy! We have been practising our skills, and putting them together in our games. We have already made so much progress!

Year 4 have enjoyed getting into the Anglo-Saxon spirit by practising their weaving. Here are some in-action shots and final pieces!