Blog Author: Sue Wardell

In Autumn 2, children in Larwood Class learned how musical instruments can represent natural sounds. Inspired by mountains, children used percussion instruments to create the sense of a stormy ascent. 

This week, Sid the Cygnet remembered...

...and supported our Head Pupils to sell poppies, too!

In Larwood Class this week, we have been looking at old maps, reports and aerial photographs to observe how Earith has changed over time. It has been incredible to see how much the village has grown, and nice to link the name of our school houses to the Geography curriculum.

In Art this half-term, we have been looking at how light and shadow can be used to create drama and depth in our artwork. Here, the children have been practising using acrylic paint to layer tones of colour, showing how light hits our still life subjects.

A creepy collection of literature to wet the appetites of our ghastly mob!

This week, Sid The Cygnet had a fright – lucky he was surrounded by some great books to take the edge off it!

As part of our studies of Jewish traditions, children learned about the festivals of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Children discovered how Jewish people celebrate these holidays, and even sampled some Challah bread (thank you Mrs Watson!)

Children in Larwood have been using knowledge of bridging 100 and 1000 to work out the heights of their classmates using only a meter stick. Some where able to convert their results between cm, m and mm!

Once again, this week,  Sid the Cygnet has been proving himself useful.  This time,  with Challah bread (Larwood: Judaism).

This week, Sid the Cygnet's been proving himself useful!  (Baking bread rolls in Antony Class)

In DT we baked our own bread rolls.  We mixed the ingredients, kneaded the dough and shaped it into rolls.  After leaving them to prove, we baked the rolls and then finally got to taste them.

In English, Larwood Class have been practising persuasive techniques. Children used tools such as exaggeration and emotive language as they entered the 'Dragon's Den'.