Team Merry (Yr1)

We worked really hard during Shadow Hour to create our very own toilet roll torch shadows. First, we drew a small picture onto clear tape and carefully attached it to the end of our decorated toilet roll tubes. Then came the exciting part!

Using torches, we shone light through our tubes and projected our drawings onto the wall. It was amazing to see our tiny pictures turn into big shadows! We were very sensible when using the torches and took turns to share our creations with our friends.

We had so much fun exploring light and shadow and loved seeing our designs come to life in such a creative way.

We took part in Hour of Code and became real-life programmers! We used a computing game called Rodocodo, where we learnt how to program movement, rotation, and grabbing to complete different challenges.

We had to think really carefully about the instructions we gave. If something didn’t work, we didn’t give up — we debugged our code, fixed our mistakes, and tried again. It felt amazing when our character finally did exactly what we told it to do!

We showed brilliant problem-solving, perseverance, and logical thinking skills. Some of the challenges were tricky, but we kept going and helped each other like a team of expert coders.

We really enjoyed our emotional regulation workshop and our special Come Dine With Me session with our grown-ups. During the workshop, we learnt different strategies to help us understand and manage our feelings. We practised calming techniques like playing with playdough, blowing bubbles, making breathing octopuses, and doing mindfulness colouring.

These activities help us slow down our bodies and minds when we feel overwhelmed, cross, worried or over-excited. Learning how to manage our emotions is an important skill because it helps us focus on our learning, build friendships, and feel safe and confident in school. We are beginning to understand that all feelings are okay — it’s what we do with those feelings that matters.

We loved sharing these strategies with our grown-ups and showing them how we use them in school. Afterwards, we proudly showed them where we eat our lunch and how lunchtime works, including where our food comes from. It was such a lovely experience to learn and share together.

STEAM Week at Ramsgate Arts – Week Beginning 2nd February

We are very excited to share that during the week beginning Monday 2nd February, Ramsgate Arts Primary School will be celebrating a whole-school STEAM Week.

STEAM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics. This special week is designed to bring learning to life by combining creativity, problem-solving and real-world thinking across these subject areas.

Throughout the week, children will be completely off their normal timetable and immersed in a range of exciting projects, workshops and trips. These experiences are carefully planned to enrich their learning, spark curiosity and encourage collaboration, creativity and resilience – all key values at Ramsgate Arts.

As part of STEAM Week, we will also be holding a Number Day, where children will work in groups and move around different classrooms taking part in a variety of fun and challenging maths activities. This will give pupils the opportunity to apply their mathematical thinking in new and engaging ways.

It promises to be a fantastic and inspiring week for all our children, so please keep an eye on the class blogs for updates, photos and stories about what they have been getting up to.

Parent Workshop Invitations

We are delighted to invite parents and carers to come into school to support some of our exciting STEAM workshops during the week. You are very welcome to stay for the whole session or pop in whenever you are able.

Date and times:

• Thursday 5th Feb 2026- join us to support puppet making between 1 and 3pm on Thursday 5^th Feb

Thank you, as always, for your continued support. We are really looking forward to sharing this exciting week with our school community!

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.