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Y1 - Care of the Environment - St Francis of Assisi

Date: 22nd Oct 2026 @ 1:47pm

We reflected on how well our school has done over the past three years in achieving our Live Simply award from Cafod. To celebrate this, we used water colours to paint a picture of St Francis of Assisi.

Y1 - Care of the Environment - Cheshire Wildlife Trust

Date: 21st Oct 2026 @ 3:12pm

We learned all about the wildlife that the Cheshire Wildlife Trust help and how they do it. We looked at some of the animals that they support like kingfishers, squirrels and grass snakes. We then collaged Some of these animals to display in school. 

Y1 Care of the Environment Day - Butterflies

Date: 21st Oct 2026 @ 11:30am

As part of our Care of the Enrivonment days, we learned about butterflies and why they matter so much. We learned they were pollinators and without them, we would have less food. We didn't realise that butterflies were so important.

We used leaves to print the wings of butterflies into our sketchbooks. We loved how they turned out!

Year 6 Printing

Date: 20th Oct 2026 @ 8:22am

We prepared our tiles for printing our floral designs which we created based on the work of William Morris. 

Y2 Art - Sketching Portraits

Date: 6th Oct 2026 @ 3:28pm

We have been working on our drawing and sketching skills to work on Portraits. 

Y3 Art

Date: 2nd Oct 2026 @ 1:13pm

Year 3 had a great lesson turning some of their leaf drawings into mono prints. They used different colours and different textured/designed rollers to create their final designers.

Y2 Computing Painting Pictures.

Date: 24th Sep 2026 @ 2:53pm

So far we have learnt to use 2Paint to focus on impressionist art and pointillism. Today we looked at the work or Piet Mondrian and created our own style of Mondrian painting. 

Y3 Creation Artwork

Date: 24th Sep 2026 @ 1:18pm

As a part of their creation and covenant unit, year 3 have used their artistic skills to draw a representation of one of the days from the creation story and colour it in using oil pastels.

Y6 Colour theory

Date: 18th Sep 2026 @ 2:47pm

Today, we experimented with colour in our art lesson. We used watercolours to try out different colours so that we can choose our favourite combinations for our final piece at the end of the half term. 

Y6 Sketching of flowers

Date: 18th Sep 2026 @ 2:45pm

In art, we sketched flowers. We concentrated on small details and pressed lightly with our pencils. We were all proud of our excellent drawings. 

Y2 Noah’s Ark

Date: 11th Sep 2026 @ 3:46pm

As our first focus in our RE branch Creation and Covenant we have heard the story of Noah's Ark and God's promise to the world. We represented this with two different Art craft activities 

Road Safety Week Assembly

Date: 17th Nov 2025 @ 3:36pm

We learnt about road safety in today's assembly and the importance of keeping safe on and around roads. 

Jubilee Year launch - Pilgrims of Hope - January 24th 2025

Date: 26th Jan 2025 @ 11:42am

Our school community came together for an amazing launch for the very special Jubilee Year.

 A Jubilee is celebrated within the Catholic church every 25 years. This year the theme will be 'Pilgrims of Hope'.

We are called together to experience joy and strength as we embarkon a journey to be 'agents of change,' working together for justice, love and peace, locally and globally.

After learning about the importance and theme of the Jubilee, the children across school have Celebrated the Word and written their own pledges.

We gathered together to reflect and share pledges before displaying them all around the hall.

We are excited for more events to come during the Jubilee Year and are filled with hope for the difference we can make in fulfilling our pledges!

Y3 - RE - The Miracle of the Centurion's servant artwork

Date: 21st Jan 2025 @ 7:38am

Today in Year 3 we interpreted different artwork based on the Centurion's servant. We spoke about how artists might show the same piece of scripture in different ways, we noticed what were the key parts of the scripture that we could notice and then we researched some other artistic versions of the story in pairs to share with the class.

"In my artwork Jesus is in colours that are lots paler than the centurion, I think that this shows he is kind" - Alice

"The centurion is begging on his knees, he is asking Jesus for help" - Patrick

"I found a version of the scripture that was a stained glass window, it showed Jesus and the centurion was kneeling down" - Zoe 

Y6 Visit to Walker Art Gallery

Date: 13th Dec 2024 @ 11:33am

Year 6 enjoyed their trip to the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. 

We travelled on the train to Liverpool and then walked to the art gallery. 

We loved looking at all of the amazing art in the gallery with our resident art expert - Mrs Sheppard. 

We found out lots about the famous pieces of art including Holbein's portrait of Henry VIII. 

Y5 & Y6 - End of Autumn 1 Celebration Activities

Date: 13th Dec 2024 @ 11:15am

To celebrate all of our hard work and good behaviour in the first half term, we enjoyed a day of fun activities. 

The activities included painting, clay modelling and reading for pleasure. 

We had a really nice day and had some lovely artwork to take home with us at the end of the day. 

Y6 - Observational Drawing

Date: 10th Sep 2024 @ 3:07pm

Year 6 have been learning about observational drawing. We have been drawing fruit, focussing on the details and shadows. 

We learnt how to start with the rough shape of the fruit and then add the detail. 

We also learnt how important it is to look and then draw and keep doing this throughout the process. 

EYFS - Easter Craft

Date: 2nd Jul 2024 @ 7:07pm

We have had some time with our prayer partners to celebrate Easter. We have made some Easter crafts to take home!

EYFS & Y6 - Christmas Craft Afternoon

Date: 2nd Jul 2024 @ 6:01pm

Today with their prayer partners, Reception and Y6 had a Christmas Craft Afternoon. The children made hats, stockings, Father Christmas models and more! 

"I loved working with my brother" - Kit

 

"I got to sit with my prayer partner and make my own Father Christmas" - Oliver 

 

"Best afternoon ever!" - Harry

Y4 - Visit to the Walker Art Gallery and World Museum

Date: 2nd Jul 2024 @ 1:22pm

Year 4 had a wonderful opportunity to visit the Walker Art Gallery and World Museum. In the gallery the children observed various sculptures from different periods of time. During their time in the World Museum, they had the opportunity to look in the aquarium and the floor on Ancient Egypt. 

Y3 - Parent Collective Worship - Building Bridges

Date: 1st Jul 2024 @ 5:01pm

At the end of our current topic 'Building Bridges' we gathered our parents for a Collective Worship.

Our theme was all about reconciliation, with God, each other and ourselves.

We performed a dance to 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' and showed some of our art work that we had produced in lessons. This showed a friend that we were close to, and a way that we could make our friendship bridge stronger.

 

Y5 - Tie Dye

Date: 27th Jun 2024 @ 9:44am

This week, Year 5 tye dyed an item of clothing each. We started by watching a video of how to create different patterns by tying our material with bands. The most popular design were bullseye and spiral. 

I loved tye dying because it was fun to do and we got to choose our own colours and patterns- Hollie

I had never done tye dying before. I really enjoted it because it was something different - Lukie

I liked tye dying because I liked the fact I had a new tshirt at the end of the process- Cody

 

Y3 & Y4 - Textile Artwork

Date: 10th Jun 2024 @ 11:35am

As part of our textiles topic we focused on an underwater theme and the work of two artists.

First we made some still life sketches, focused on curves and movement in material.

Then we explored the work of Hannah Rae a textile artist.

We made some sketches from different marine creatures and added to them using different medium; chalk, pastels and crayon.

Then we chose our final sketch and enlarged this to A3 size.

Finally we have cut and added fabric to our sketch to create pattern, before adding stitching for detail. 

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