Darwin’s finches and his theory of evolution
Drawing inspiration from Darwin’s book, On the Origin of Species, Year 6 pupils have been exploring collagraph and mono-printing techniques within their art lessons in term 3.
Altogether, before the copyright of his book expired in 1901, the publishers had printed 56,000 copies in the…
Year 3 learn about Palm Oil
For a Christmas present, the adults in Year 3 adopted an orangutan for the children. Since then, they have wanted to help to stop the production of unsustainable palm oil in order to save the orangutans in Borneo becoming extinct.
They began their learning journey by looking at how…
Tutu Trouble
On Wednesday 12th February year 4 had the opportunity to go to the Gulbenkian Theatre to see a performance called Tutu Trouble. The story, told mainly through dance, was about a dog and a girl who find a magical tutu in a box in the woods. When the dog (called Scruff ) puts the tutu on he just…
What Makes You Unique?
Mrs Smith and a number of pupils in Year 6 have been working extremely hard during lunchtimes, art lessons and at home to create some truly unique and personal art pieces. Each piece of art aims to express each pupil’s personality and can be seen in the gallery below.
The artwork is mixed-media…
Year 4 Get Creative
This week the children in year 4 have been learning to set out their sketch books. Today they have had great fun with drawing each other in ‘flying’ poses.
Tigers!
Year One have read ‘The tiger who came to tea’ and used this as a stimulus for English, Science and Art lessons this week. In art we are exploring different media starting with oil pastel and chalk pastels. After we tried out the materials and explored the effects that we could create we used them…
The Human Figure in Motion
Throughout Term 2, Year 6 explored different ways of exploring different ways of depicting the moving body in their artwork. We looked at and analysed the work of several artists, including those involved in the Futurist art movement.
Pupils considered the proportions of the human figure…
Romans lend me your ears (and the rest of your face)
This week Year 4 have been painting our Roman legionnaires that we made during our visit to the Dover Roman Museum.
We are continuing to learn about the Roman legacy.
Year 4
New Artwork takes Pride of Place
Inspired by our school environment and the work of artists Patrick Caulfield and Michael Craig-Martin, this magnificent art work was designed and created by Gifted & Talent Bridge Pupils and St. Edmunds Art Department in the summer term of 2019.
We took delivery of this in September and now…
