Year 5 Greek Warrior relief prints
While half the pupils in Year 5 were at the Open Golf Championship or taking part in a cricket match, the other lucky half had a day of art with me!
Pupils made Greek Warrior themed reduction relief prints. They carved their Ancient Greek design into a sheet of polystyrene and printed with…
Cricket Champions
On Wednesday, Year 5 took part in a Kwik Cricket tournament. When we arrived, Mrs Pearson walked us down to the playing fields where we waited with the other schools who were participating. We began by warming up, practising our bowling, throwing and catching.
Bridge 1 played Blean 1 in their…
Art and Music collaboration with CoMA Manchester
If you have been following our blogs, you know all about our Art and Music project with Year 3. If not, here is a recap:
In term 5, Year 3 pupils worked with Mr Miles and Mrs Smith to compose and interpret their own graphic scores. Graphic notation (or graphic score) is the representation of…
Bugs, Science and a great day at Creed
We all enjoyed a wonderful trip to Creed Outdoors on15th June and we also enjoyed our recent walk in our local environment to survey the insect life and habitats in connection with our science topic. We have created a display of these outdoor learning experiences.
More portraits by 4ST
I really hope that all finished portraits have been shared with you. If not please let me know. Mrs T.
Portraits
At last, after a few weeks worth of work, we have been able to display the portraits by 4ST. The children have worked really hard in their sketch books learning about proportion and colour mixing to be able to produce such fantastic pieces of work inspired by Frida Karol.
Yr R Animal creations
This week, pupils in Year R created some crazy new animals. This art task was inspired by Axel Scheffler’s book, Flip Flap Jungle. Within the book, heads of animals are attached to the bodies of others and new names are created. For example, a leopard’s head attached to the body of an armadillo…
Visit to Waterstones - Save the Orangutans
In 2020 Year 3 wrote letters to different companies asking them to stop using palm oil to help to save Orangutans. The two classes received lots of replies and one of the children, Lily, received a reply from the Compass group stating that they were going to complete company review of the products…
Trees - Year 1
Year 1 have continued to explore plants and nature this term. Within their art lessons pupils have been painting trees. They started by drawing a simple trunk and branches while carefully observing a photograph of a tree. Pupils were asked to try and keep their pencil on the A3 paper (as best they…
Year R - texture
Today Year R were exploring texture and printing. Pupils first learnt about texture; they felt and described various textured materials and objects before printing from them. They applied the paint with sponges, laid the textured materials on their paper (ink down) and then applied pressure with a…
Year 6 relief printing
This term in art, Year 6 pupils have been exploring relief printing. Using inspiration from female artist Georgia O’Keefe, pupils began the project practising their observational skills and drawing real skulls in class. Pupils learnt how to transfer their drawing onto card with tracing paper; they…
