Pom Pom Day - Monday 30th April

On Monday 30th April (this coming Monday), there will be a community afternoon for which the school hall will be open to all children, parents / carers and grandparents, uncles and aunties to help make as many pom-poms as we can.

The event will be led by Sarah Barton, Educational Officer for the Leeds Industrial Museum, who will be helping us create enough pom-poms to make our very own life-sized sheep!  The Robin Hood Primary School sheep will be part of an exhibition celebrating British wool and will feature in the Museum over the coming year. 

Sarah will be holding an Assembly first thing in the morning for children.  We will be making our first pom-pom during the day.  Please help us to make the most pom-poms... and to make the biggest pom-pom sheep we can. 

The school doors will open at 3pm so please do try to come along with your child after you have collected them at their normal finishing time.  Refreshments are available.

As you can see we have had some busy, busy people already making pom-poms!  Can I say a huge thankyou to Harry's Grandma (Harry in Year 1) who has been so generous in her donation of wool and pom-poms she has made.  Also thankyou to Eleni, Amber, Harry, Lyla, Jack B, Jack and Ross who have been busy making too.  If I have not mentioned you and you have given me a pom-pom, then please come and tell me!

Thankyou to all of you who have donated wool for this event and to Edward Hill & Co, textile manufacturers and yarn suppliers at Hollings Mill, Bradford who have been incredibly generous in their donation of wool to this event.  I look forward to sending them photos of the day and of the completed Robin Hood Primary School Sheep.

We look forward to seeing you on Monday.....

Artforms - The West Park Centre

ArtForms is the music and arts team within Children's Services at Leeds
City Council. It is based at the West Park Centre, on Spen Lane (near
Headingley), Leeds.

On a visit to Artforms, Mrs. Dale thought some of our artwork would
brighten up their walls!
Here it is…………..







At last we have been able to exhibit the three Reception Artclub 2011
paintings together!

This wall is six and a half metres long and is one of the meeting rooms up
there. The books “Why is the Sky Blue?” “Rumble in the Jungle”, and
“A-Z of Dinosaurs" were the visual inspiration behind the paintings.
Each pupil drew a picture about the story and the best bits from all the
drawings were used to design the finished pieces.
The masks were made by pupils in the Reception class as part of the Jungle topic.

In one of the other meeting rooms we have displayed “Animals on Ice”
This painting was created by the Key Stage 1 Artclub 2011. It is an imaginary
world of animals that live on ice – a combination of the North and South
Pole.

The children painted the background with brushes and sponges and added

details by sticking fabrics, papers and sequins.

At the time this was the largest painting the Artclub had attempted and

this is the first time it has been on display. We hope you enjoy it!

As soon as you enter the building you see the display of “The Very Hungry

Caterpillar made by KS1 to celebrate Harvest Festival which took place at

Robin Hood Primary School.

Approximately 2000 people will pass this display a week!