Class 2 have been studying French artist Rosseau, known for his richly coloured and detailed
paintings of jungles, animals and exotic flowers. He never went to the
rainforest, but took his inspiration from books - like us. His paintings often
have over sized flowers, so some of us recreated this feature, while others
wanted to keep it 'real'!
Class 2 discussed background and
foreground and talked about what colours they wanted for the 'wash' as the
background. They mixed their own colours, using primary colours and then used
black and white for shades and tints of different colours. They also experimented
with different ways of using our paintbrushes to create leaves and other
features.
Class 3 had some very special visitors to help them with their writing today. Willow from Class 3, brought in two pythons for her classmates to feel and observe. Class 3 will use this experience to help them with their descriptive writing. As part of our Rainforest topic, they will be able to describe the movement and appearance of the snakes within their writing.
Over the last few months, children in Class 2 have been working to write a song about climate change. To achieve this, they were visited by some guest speakers to help them to think about what climate change means to them and how they might be able to spread the message and do their own small things to help. They were given time with a professional musician to write the music for a song. Last week, it all came together at St. Martin's Church in Liskeard where the schools in our Trust came together to share their songs. Singing has a strong tradition at Duloe and we were delighted to be part of this project. Well done to all of the children and we look forward to the final part of the process at The Eden Project in September!
Class 1 have been very busy learners this week: Wild Tribe has seen the children working together to make rain sticks; there has been a bread-making workshop led by a professional chef, balance-ability has seen the children developing their cycling skills with the help from one of our Arena coaches and they have been making bird food to help encourage wildlife into our school garden. .
A huge congratulations to Lawrence, Toby and Perran who have been crowned winners of the Liskeard and Looe Youth Speaks competition. The boys decided to base their presentation on their school topic, answering the question, 'Why save the rain-forest?'
The boys are pictured with Mandy Clarke, who did a fantastic job in preparing the children for the competition.
We look forward to seeing how the children get on in the next round of the competition in March.
Well done boys!
As part of Class 3's topic, 'Why save the rain-forest?' they have been learning songs related to indigenous rain-forest tribes and created their own composition based on the sounds of the rain-forest. Class 3 then presented their composition to the whole of the school during Collective Worship.
As part of Duloe's link with Looe secondary school, PE teacher, Mr Webster, visited Duloe to provide a PE lesson for Class 2. The children really enjoyed the lesson, where they got to develop their throwing and catching skills - as well as making an awful lot of noise! Thank you Mr Webster!
Year 3 took part in Bikeability training, provided by instructor Jenny Nash, where they learned how to ensure their bike is in good condition to use on the road and key skills for keeping safe.
As part of Collective Worship, children at Duloe also have the opportunity to write their own prayers and leave them in a prayer box. Prayers that are written on green paper will be prayed for by Rev. Chloe and displayed in St Cuby's Church, while prayers on red paper are private prayers and will be prayed for by Rev Chloe, but not displayed.
To re-launch this initiative, the whole school took part in a prayer writing activity, where children from different classes worked together to support each other with the writing of their prayers.
As part of Class 3's topic, 'Why save the Rain-forest?' they were lucky enough to have had a visit from author Ellie Jackson who read her book, 'Buddy's Rain-forest Adventure'.
The story is about an orangutan from Borneo who has his habitat destroyed and his primary rain-forest cleared to develop palm oil plantations.
The children were truly inspired by the visit and are currently writing a sequel to Buddy's Adventure, which they will enter into BBC Radio 2's 500 words competition.
The children have also been investigating what they can do to support orangutans in Borneo...
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