At Morningside, we aim to instil a life-long love of reading in all our children. As a result, we ask children to read at home every night for 20 minutes. This week we learnt how to complete our reading records. We will endeavour to complete...
This term, our key text we will be reading and using for our writing inspiration is Floella Benjamin’s, ‘Coming to England’. In our first writing unit we will be focusing on the genre: biographies. We have been learning that biographies are written in chronological order....
Year 4 have been enjoying their mindfulness each day. They have been learning about the zones of regulation and different emotions we may feel at different times. They have been learning different mindfulness techniques to help regulate their emotions. [gallery ids="9590"]...
In art, we have started to create our own portraits inspired by the artist Kehinde Wiley. We looked at one of his artworks and identified the different shapes and lines we see in his work. We then looked at photos of ourselves and used these...
This week, we have been exploring the works of the artist Paul Klee. Today, the children listened to various instrumental pieces and used pencils to ‘take their line for a walk’, letting the music guide their drawing based on how it made them feel. [gallery ids="9576,9577,9578,9579"]...
We have had a fantastic start to the new year in year 1. We have begun our first art topic, portraits. We are creating portraits inspired by the artist Paul Klee. We know his artwork is abstract which means not realistic. Our portraits will be...