Team Morris (Yr1)

Our project for STEAM Week is all about puppets, and we have absolutely loved it! We enjoyed watching different types of puppet shows, including shadow puppets, hand puppets and marionettes. It was so exciting to see how each type of puppet moves in a different way.

After that, we had the chance to explore puppets ourselves and put on our own puppet shows! We had so much fun giving our puppets silly voices, dramatic voices and even whispery voices, and making them move in funny and creative ways.

We have now designed our very own puppets and can’t wait to start making them on Thursday.

Parents and carers are very welcome to come in and help us on Thursday between 1pm and 3pm — we’d love to see you there!

We really enjoyed our emotional regulation workshop and our special Come Dine With Me session with our grown-ups. During the workshop, we learned 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.

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 learnt 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.

On Monday, we wrote letters to our elves, telling them all about our favourite cheeky things they had been getting up to in our classroom. We loved remembering all the silly surprises they had left for us!

We couldn’t believe it when we got a reply — the elves sent us a video of their favourite cheeky moments! We were so excited and laughed so much while watching it together.

The elves must have seen how much we loved it because they surprised us again by sending us another video! What a magical and exciting surprise it was.

https://vimeo.com/1147331761/3b42272358?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci