Year 3/4 Sketching Skills
All great art starts with a sketch – Da Vinci owned 100’s sketchbooks filled with ideas. Pencils are a great way to sketch ideas quickly or make beautiful, detailed drawings. Y3/4, with an artist eye looked closely at objects that are important to them. Fab team!
Gong Hei Fat Choy – Happy Lunar New Year!
Our FS2 children have been celebrating and learning all about the Lunar New Year this week, leading up to the start of the new year on Saturday. They participated in various themed activities such as writing cards, making money purses, creating fans and decorations in the workshop, building dragons in construction, and cooking Chinese food […]
LKS2 Chinese Music Topic
In LKS2, we have been learning to use pentatonic scales through Chinese music. We enjoyed using the instruments and sharing our learning with each other. 🎼🎹
Y1AP Novel Studies
Y1AP have been working hard in novel study lessons. We have written stories and diaries so far this term. The children LOVED The Tunnel by Anthony Brown and enjoyed writing alternate endings. We then looked at diary’s including Anne Fine’s The Diary of a Killer Cat book. This inspired some hilarious writing! We then wrote […]
Aston Hall Valentines Disco 💘
On Tuesday evening, Aston Hall hosted their termly disco. The disco had a valentines theme and had a wonderful balloon arch made by All Blooming Events. The children had a wonderful time dancing with DJ Aidrian and we managed to raise over £650 for the school. A big thank you to everyone that helped so the […]
SEND Roundup
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Student Council World Book Day Meeting
Our Aston Hall student council met as a group, discussed World Book Day and decided on a theme for this year through a vote. This will be announced soon! 🌎📚 Children returned to class to promote reading and World Book Day which is quickly approaching…watch this space!
Aston Hall cares about Climate Change
On Monday, Aston Hall welcomed James from Energy Sparks to come and speak to us about climate change and how we use electricity and gas in school. He held an assembly which focused on the story of Robert Falcon Scott and Robert Swann. He explained how both these men reached the North and South Poles and […]
U11 Hockey South Yorkshire Finals
Last week, some of our Y5 & 6 boys represented our school at the U11 South Yorkshire Hockey Finals, held at Hill House school in Doncaster. A huge well done to the Y5&6 boys who represented our school so brilliantly. Against very tough opposition after progressing from the Rotherham finals, the boys worked together amazingly […]
LKS2 Link Learning Music Workshops
LKS2 have had music workshops with Zeb at Link Learning Education, who has composed music for films and adverts! He guided us through how to create a rap about a local landmark/attraction using rhyme and syllables to fit a beat. 🎶
