This week has been Art Week, and we’ve taken inspiration from Vincent van Gogh’s famous Sunflowers artwork. We explored different styles of sunflowers through sketching and drawing, and then brought our creations to life using a variety of colouring mediums. These included felt tips, oil pastels, watercolours, and pencil crayons. It’s been a creative, colourful, and inspiring week!
This week, Year 5 have enjoyed learning about the artist Claude Monet. We spent time researching the artist to learn lots about him and understand the importance of his art pieces. We learnt about his life as an artist, how he took up the career, and how he was thought to be one of the founders of impressionist art. Later, we then went on to create our own versions of his famous painting ‘Bridge Over Read more
Year 3 have enjoyed researching and recreating work around the artist Henri Rousseau. A naive French artist who was discovered by Pablo Picasso. He was a great inspiration for the Avant Guard movement. Here are some of our art pieces and artist studies
This week has been arts week and we have learning about Artist David Hockney. We created a fact page about him, drew a picture of his famous Garrowby Hill and then coloured in pictures of his artwork using the computer.
For this year’s art week theme – The Natural World, Year 1 have studied the artist Andy Goldsworthy, we have collected and remembered facts, looked at his artwork, collaged a fact file and then created our own pieces inspired by Andy Goldsworthy. During cool time, some of us practised what we had been learning about, creating pieces of art with pretend flowers, making patterns and collaging. We discussed how art is not just drawing or Read more
This week is art week! Year 4 are studying the artist Vincent Van Gogh. Today we created some artist research pages all about him.
Today, Year 4 Hawthorn came into Year 5 Pine for transition day. We’ve had a great day getting to know each other better. The children spent time in forest school asking questions about Year 5 and making bird feeders. We created our own poems called ‘I am, I wonder’, designed shields and played some getting to know you games. We’re excited for the year ahead!
Today, Year 4 Maple came up to Year 5 Juniper for their Transition Day. We started the morning writing down any questions we had about the year ahead before we wrote our own poems called ‘I am, I wonder.’ The children produced some lovely work! After this, we had a trip down to forest school where we were able to explore and make some bird feeders together. After lunch, we played Person Bingo. The children Read more
This week’s Art Club was inspired by contemporary artist Jen Stark. Jen is best known for creating optical art using bright colours in patterns and drips that mimic the intricate motifs found in nature. The children used the drip detailing to create a beach scene. We focused on creativity and colour exploration as well as adding texture through the use of collage. Well done Art club!
This week Year 5 have been learning about the famous impressionist artist, Claude Monet. We have spent time learning facts about his life and his importance in the art world. We discovered that Monet is considered to be one of the founders of the impressionist art movement and one of the most influential painters of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The children created amazing artist research pages in the style of Monet and recreated Read more