Beechwood Dental Care, Woodlesford

This term the Artclub has been commissioned to make some artwork to be displayed in the entrance hallway at Beechwood Dental Care in Woodlesford.

It is Reception's Artclub and we were delighted to accept this exciting challenge from Mr and Mrs Reid to create some lovely big paintings to brighten up this fabulous plain long wall.  

We will be producing three collaborative paintings all inspired by children's stories about losing teeth.

"Bear's Loose Tooth", "Tooth Fairy" and "Titus's Troublesome Tooth" are the books which are our inspiration for the artwork.

We have already painted all the parts for our first painting "Titus's Troublesome Tooth", in which Titus the goat gets a poorly tooth and all his farmyard friends suggest some interesting, but rather peculiar ways to help him get his tooth out!

 Next week we will enjoy reading "Tooth Fairy" and drawing our favourite part of the story.

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Pom Pom Day - Monday 30th April

The day started with an assembly given by Sarah Barton, Educational Officer from Armley Mills / Leeds Industrial Museum.  She talked to the children about the Museum, where wool comes from  and it's manufacture.  She explained that the Industrial Museum wanted to show how important British wool is and that they are over the year going to fill their museum full of sheep.  These are not real sheep, but sheep made from pom poms!

We then went back to our classes where we all set out to make a pom - pom each. 

The whole school worked on this project at the same time from Nursery to Year 6.  We are fortunate at Robin Hood to have had enough wool for all pupils to take part.  This was kindly donated by the school community and Edward Hill & Co, a textile mill who produces yarns and wool, based in Bradford.

As it was a sunny afternoon, some enthusiastic Reception children took advantage of the warm sunshine and wound their pom-poms in the sun.





After school the hall doors were opened for our community afternoon where  children came with their families and carers to make even more pom - poms.  It was a lovely afternoon!

Refreshments were served as it's very thirsty work and the Rothwell Record came down to see what was going on.

Many people took wool away to make even more pom-poms at home and I've already started having them back in.  Thankyou Amber and Jacob.



Friendly Faces were winding pom - poms out in the late afternoon sun. 

It was a truly great day.  We finished up with 237 completed pom - poms and if you add to that at least another 100 at least that need to be finished, I think you will agree we will have probably made the most pom - poms out of all the groups taking part in the exhibition. 

Watch this space for news on the making of the sheep!