This half term we have been doing all about animals and minibeasts. Last week we looked at ladybirds, we learnt about the life cycle of a ladybird and read some lovely stories. One of the stories that we read was ‘What the ladybird heard’, in the story, the bad guys Read more…
This week was arts week, we used material to make minibeasts with an artist, we listened to steps and instructions about how to make the minibeasts and did a fantastic job. We also discussed how art is not just about drawing/painting/making, it is how we express ourselves, we then did Read more…
We had the artist Hugh Templeton join us in school today. He worked with us to help us create a piece of art work using water colours. We tried to recreate the picture of the Earth that Apollo 11 took when they landed on the moon. We really enjoyed the Read more…
Last week was art week at St Luke’s. In class we learnt about careers that involve art, learnt more about mark making and about the artist ‘Mr Doodle’. We also created our own landscape art using mark making. On Wednesday and Friday afternoon, we were very lucky to have a Read more…
We’ve had such a busy week and finished with a fun art day. We were very lucky to have the artist Justin Eagleton come into class to share some of his amazing art work. He then helped us to draw some birds and lions. Afterwards we looked at doodling and Read more…
Year 5 Juniper were very lucky this morning to have Islamic artist Razwan Ul Haq visit. Razwan is an award winning Arabic Calligrapher and has spent his life creating visual art out of distilling traditional Arabic Calligraphy techniques. Razwan showed the children lots of examples of his work, including a Read more…
This week is Art week at St Luke’s and one of our tasks in Year 5 was digital mark making. The children looked at the different careers that digital mark making can lead to and discussed what they would like to be in the future. We watched an example of Read more…
This afternoon, Hawthorn have worked so hard to create their slingshot cars focusing on the cars body work! they created two side panels and the over head panel and then attached them together to create their car! Super work.
We had lots of fun collecting ideas and patterns from the Ancient Greek pottery we have researched. We put these ideas onto a mood board in our art books, thinking about colour patterns and mythical creatures. They look really effective!
This afternoon, year 4 began their DT create and design project with the Royal Opera House. for our first lesson, we looked at -what is opera? – what is a set designer? – our design brief – items we will need our focus is the magic flute! we also thought Read more…