Beech Remember
Beech class have discussed remembrance day this week. We have been around the school site putting up some poppies for anyone who drives past us. We also spent some time making poppies and they looked lovley!
Remembrance Day in our thoughts from 9R
Over the last week pupils in 9R have been completing a range of activities and discussions around the topic and events of what happened after the wars. They have embedded knowledge and skills from History and English to produce a brilliant Art piece for to Display in school and share in the Remembrance assembly. The group decided to finish off their display with colouring their own poppies and inserting their profile pictures onto them to create the poppy wreath around the display.
Bricklaying
We have all been very busy in Bricklaying this term. Pupils have been using new tools, ratios for cement and how to mix cement, techniques when using certain equipment, laying foundations, laying bricks in the correct formation and the importance of keeping a clean work area and cleaning down of tools. Keep your eyes and ears open for some future whole school development from this talented group.
Local Mural Artist
Durham born, community mural artist, Lewis came into school on Tuesday to finish his first art piece. Lewis and a couple of pupils worked on the art in the Vocational area. We are delighted with the end product and looking forward to some VERY exciting projects coming this year with Lewis. If you would like to see some more of the amazing work Lewis does around the villages locally please search on Facebook or Instagram @durhamspraypaint.
Motor Vehicle
Vocational – Motor Vehicle.
It’s been a very busy and exciting time at Croft. We now have two cars to support the learning in Mr. Bolton’s Motor vehicle lessons. A big thank you to Kevin Brunton at www.kbautospares.co.uk for sending two excellent cars which our pupils love working and learning with on site.
Earth building for Birch
We got given some instructions and some yellow, orange, brown and blue play dough. We had to follow the instructions in a group and we had to squash the play dough as thin as possible to wrap around the yellow ball of play dough. We created our own earth and could identify the different layers of the earth!
Baking fun in Birch
We had a baking lesson where Mrs Convery showed us how to bake her famous brownies! We measured the ingredients, mixed them up and placed the mixture into a baking tray. We had lots of fun making sure that all the ingredients we measured where right. Obviously we had even more fun eating them!