In preparation for Halloween, the Senior Classroom engaged in lots of seasonal activities!
Heritage Expert, Orla Bates, visited in October and engaged the children in a Monoprint Workshop on Moths!
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Didn’t they do a magnificent job making their monoprint moths!
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In English, the children created their own Halloween Wordsearch for a member of their class to complete.
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They also read the poem, The Marrog, by R.C. Scriven and drew a picture of what they imagined this creature would look like!
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In Art, the children created some very creative pumpkin drawing entries for the Folens Halloween Competition!
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Some Spooky Skeletons were also created to decorate our classroom for Halloween!
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In S.E.S.E. we did a scavenger hunt in the Discovery Park and had great fun using Ipads to take photographs of the aspects of nature we found!
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Finally, we all dressed up “Spooktacularly” on the day of our holidays and …
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to end a busy day, we enjoyed creating our own Haunting Halloween Cupcakes!
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Happy Halloween everybody! Stay safe and enjoy your Mid Term Break!
Lovely work Seniors!! I think your pumpkins and skeletons are brilliant! I hope you are all enjoying the well deserved break after a busy term ☺️
The Autumn nature walk looks like great fun! Well done on all your hard work this term Seniors ??