A Very Generous Donation!

This week, we were incredibly lucky to have a special gift from The Dulwich Picture Gallery. We visited the M.C. Escher exhibition at the gallery last term and produced some beautiful artwork.

The Dulwich Picture Gallery have very generously given us a stunning piece of artwork, produced by our local community, which was inspired by the M.C. Escher exhibition. It is a spectacular mosaic metamorphosis made entirely from LEGO!

M.C. Escher, Day and Night, 1938 (Dulwich Picture Gallery)

We all love our new artwork at St. Anthony's and feel very lucky to have it in our school!

During lunchtime on Wednesday, we put up some posters asking all of our children to write the first word that came to mind when they looked at the picture. Later that day, St. Clare's wrote sentences to explain our reaction to, or inspired by, the Lego masterpiece!

Next half term, we will hold a creative project inspired by our new artwork- linking Writing, Maths and Art- alongside other subjects! Hooray!

What a Peculiar Week!

A Guest Post from the Writing Blog

This week has been a strange one at St. Anthony's. On Wednesday night, tiny doors appeared around the school out of nowhere and nobody could explain why! A leading detective was onto the case straightaway, but he needed your help in answering these questions: Who are these visitors? Where did they come from? Why are they here?

After reading a letter from Detective Petitie, you all set out to solve the mysteries, and luckily you also wrote some excellent pieces of writing explaining what had happened. You were a big help to him in finding out what was going on.

We have been very impressed by your super pieces of work, but the mystery remains unsolved as of yet. What do YOU think goes on behind those tiny doors?

Here are some of the highlights of your fantastic writing, remember to click on the pictures to make them larger and easier to read:

Year 1

 Jonas, Year 1

 Annabelle, Year 1

 Amarachi, Year 1

 Siena, Year 1

 Aine and Misty, Year 3

 Klara, Year 4

 Alex, Year 5

 Erhun, Year 5

 Emily, Year 4

Bella and Mia, Year 5

 Natalia, Year 6

Laudine, Reception

Jasper, Reception

We'll add some more fabulous Tiny Door writing next week, when we receive some more submissions! Check out our new display board between the Year 2 classrooms too, to see this work in real life, plus lots more!

A New Blog!

 http://stanthonyswrites.blogspot.co.uk/

St. Anthony's has a new blog! We will be using this exciting new blog to share the very best writing from children throughout the school. There will be lots of exciting writing, competitions and activities there for you to enjoy! Make sure you take a look and leave a comment. St. Clare's, you are experienced bloggers- now it's your time to support those who are new to it- leave them comments, share your top tips and even submit some of your wonderful writing yourselves.

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Here's a post from the editors of 'St. Anthony's Writes':

Do you like writing? When you sit down to write an essay, letter, diary entry- whatever it may be- what is your first reaction? Do you enjoy yourself, or silently groan? Maybe you think you can't do it, or maybe you just get bored.

Whatever it is, our Digital Writing Team are aiming to change that.

Through fun events and competitions, we will work to change your writing experiences for the better. It could be anything from a story, to a poem, to a comic strip, or even a joke- we want to hear from you! You can submit writing that you have done at school, or at home.

Every week, we will update our blog with our favourite samples of writing from St. Anthony's. With the help of our Talent Finders, we will find the best of your work, giving you the chance to have it displayed on the blog for the world to see!

So get informed, get inspired and get involved- because the reality is, everyone can pick up a pen and write! 

School Council

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Congratulations to ERHUN and OWAIN, who were chosen to be our class representatives in the School Council. We are all sure that they will do an excellent job. They were chosen because their classmates thought they were considerate, confident and would set a great example with their behaviour and hard work. Well done!

St. Anthony's Art Exhibition

On Friday we were lucky to be able to visit our school Art Exhibition. We loved seeing our own artwork on display and admiring the wonderful creative work produced by all of the other classes in the school.

Which was your favourite artwork?