Team Merry (Yr1)

We studied an artist called Alan Innman who creates fantasy worlds by using a toy or figure and bringing a toy to life with bright and vibrant colours. We created our own imaginary backgrounds around a picture of our favourite toys. We added lots of details to our drawings, just like Alan Innman. After drawing the fantasy world around our toy with a pencil, we choose bold colours to make our creations bright and vibrant.

We have been learning all about worries and how it is okay to feel worried sometimes. We talked about how being worried is a normal feeling, and that there are things we can do to help ourselves when we feel this way.

We also learned about who can help us if we are worried, such as trusted adults at home and at school. To help us remember, we made lolly stick people showing someone we could talk to if we were feeling worried.

After that, we role-played what we might say to these people to share our worries. This helped us practise using our words and feel more confident about asking for help when we need it.

It was a thoughtful and important lesson, and we were so proud of how kind, open, and caring everyone was during our learning.