The Book Parade

Last week it was Book Week. There were lots of exciting activities at school-Nina Rycroft came to talk to us about being an illustrator, lots of different teachers read stories in the library at lunchtimes, and on Friday we had the Book Parade. You could dress up as a book character for the day, and at 12pm the whole school gathered together down on the bottom court to watch all the characters parade along the red carpet. In Room 16 we had three Lief characters (from the Deltora books), 2 Judy Moody's-one saving the world and one getting famous, Pippi Longstockings and her friend Anneke, Limelight Larry, Professor McGonagall, Matilda, Badjelly, Little Bo Peep, a cat, a pirate, and the Grand High Witch from The Witches by Roald Dahl. Everybody cheered and clapped as the characters walked along the carpet!

Sculpture, sculpture and more sculpture

By Alexandra and Laura

We have been looking at all sorts of sculpture by artists such as Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore and mostly by Andy Goldsworthy. We have talked about the lines, shapes and materials they use in their work, and we really loved how the sculptures could look abstract, but sometimes represented real things like Barbara Hepworth's three stones that represent her children.This week we went and tried to do some of our own environmental sculpture out on the bank. We collected leaves, twigs, branches and  some stones. We had a lot of fun, but also discovered it is much harder than it looks to make something amazing.

                                                                     By Lara

                                                                 By Geraldine and Josef

                                                              By Setoga and Joakim

                                                              By Madison and Culburnia

                                                                        By Caitlin

                                                               By Harry P and Mack

                                                                 By Harry M and Matthew

                                                   By Kaia, Sophie, Hannah and Natalie B

                                                             By Archie and Oscar

                                                              By Toby and Oliver

 Then, this morning before school, this gorgeous creature arrived:

The children drew around Oscar with chalk, then used the fallen leaves to create Shadowman-

they then came and got the camera and took a series of photos of Shadowman with all sorts of different hairstyles, beards and walking sticks. It looked like wonderful fun!