Blossoming Almond Tree is one of Vincent Van Gogh's best known paintings. He painted it for his brother Theo when his son was born.

Van Gogh's life was full of new starts, changes of scenery and ideas of things getting better- hope and new life

We created our own blossom pictures to celebrate Spring and shared our hopes.

I hope....

all children in India have enough clean water. (William)

everyone in the world is happy. (Josh)

my family will always be kind to each other.(Jake)

everyone is healthy and fit.(Josh)

I can go on a bike ride with my cousins.(Lauren) 

the rain stops so I can take my dog out for a walk.(Brodie)

nobody will be poorly.(Olivia)

I will be the fastest swimmer in the world. (Ryan)

I can get rid of my stabilisers.(Archie)

everyone likes me. (Scarlet)

Eve is my friend for ever.(Amelia)

I can go on a bike ride with my friends.(Benjamin)

We wanted to find out what life was like before we were born so we asked the experts... our parents and grandparents!

We made scones and gave them refreshments then asked them lots of questions. We used mind maps to remind us what to say and to jot down facts and ideas.

We found out lots of interesting things and made a new memory with our families and friends.

Thank you to everyone who came along to share and we hope you had fun!

Please enjoy our sunshine messages and sunflowers...

"They were fantastic- we tried hard to read the English."  Connor.

"You are getting good at learning English and the cartoons are cool!" Cameron.

"I like the pictures because they are very colourful." Eve.

"Absolutely brilliant, there were some really funny parts!" Thomas.

"I liked the comics because they had good words and were colourful." Josh.

"I thought the colouring was nice and neat." Lauren.

"The writing and drawings were absolutely brilliant!" Brodie.

"The tree house story was fantastic, it was my favourite!" Olivia.

"They were good because they have good detail in the pictures and excellent writing skills." Oscar. 

"I looked at the dog one and it was good." Ben.

"They were really neat, brilliant and colourful." Scarlet.

"I liked the colours cos you are good drawers!" Letia.

"They are really colourful." Chloe. 

Inspired by the work of Roy Lichtenstein who created blown up comic strips in primary colours.

We used paint and collage skills to create our own dynamic style callouts.