Newport Primary School

1 week ago

Newport works on lots of exciting projects with many different partners! Over the past few years we have been working on art projects with Dr Julian Lawrence, an award-winning Canadian cartoonist who is the Senior Lecturer in Graphic Novels and Sequential Arts at Teesside University.

Julian has worked with our children to explore ideas around telling stories and narratives in pictures in various different forms and has now used his experiences at Newport to produce a report on the subject. This has now been published in an international academic journal which will be seen across the whole world!

When Julian realised that Mr. Murray in Year 5 also used to be a cartoonist and illustrator before his teaching days he invited him to collaborate on the research project to give his perspective on how using comic books and graphical narratives can help develop children's abilities in literacy.

Both of them contributed their findings in a visual format which you can see in the examples here. Newport is very excited to be inviting Dr Lawrence back to school again in the summer term where he will again be working with 5M on another project! ... See MoreSee Less

Newport Primary School

2 weeks ago

Year 6 have made a fantastic start to their Computing work this term by starting to learn about Computer Programming! They are all really excited about finding out how the programs they use every time they log on to a computer actually work and to be able to create programs of their own! ... See MoreSee Less