Another wonderfully varied offering from our animation club! Music by Fu Manchu just in case you were wondering why your foot was tapping!
Year 8
Blogs for Year 8
Battlefields Trip
The trip to Belgium and France was such a powerful and moving experience for all staff and learners who attended. Each of us took something from it that will stay with us. Here is a little collection of images from the trip.
Animation Club
Animation is a great rainy day activity, and our group got on really well this afternoon.
DC Animators
It was lovely yesterday enjoying the late afternoon sunshine in our temporary home of the library working on our animations. Enjoy!
Darton Animators
I’ve been a bit of a ghost at animation club for the last few Wednesdays, but Miss Maskill has done a wonderful job with the group, and it was great to be able to put together this show reel and see all the fantastic work they’ve produced these last...
Tears in the eyes for Mr Eley’s Y8 English Class
Wednesday afternoon was somewhat more emotional than usual for my Y8 class, as we read the final few pages of John Boyne’s novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Without wishing to ruin the novel for anybody who hasn’t read it, its climax is something of a tear-jerker and it...
A spectrum of learning
Year 8 were very excited to create their own colour spectrums in science this morning. The class used a ray of white light shining it through a prism to refract the light and refract each colour found in white light. The refracted colours are the seven colours of the...
Nurture does the Civil War!
We have been looking at how the issue of slavery led to the American war of Independence in 1861 in Nurture. Here are some of the things we have found out.
Darton Animators
After a few weeks without publishing the wonderful work of our after school animation club, here they are, back with a bang! I love the fluidity of their work, it just gets better and better. Enjoy!
Excellence in Science home learning
My fantastic scientists make me smile on a daily basis but it is wonderful to start your morning marking year 8 homework to find such effort and creativity. Well done Eleanor and Ophelia you really are my...
