This half-term in Art, Year 5 have been studying the topic ‘Every picture tells a story’, which has involved studying various artists and the meaning behind the art work they have created. During these lessons, we have studied the artist Banksy and created an edited version of one of his pieces Read more…
This afternoon in art, Maple have been discussing the painting ‘Children’s Games’ by Pieter Bruegel, created in 1560. We looked very closely at the painting to see what sort of games children played all that time ago. We then went outside to recreate some of the games ourselves!
This week we have been inspired by Edward Weston (photographer), who lived from 1886 to 1958. He was a American Photographer who focused on details images of various items such as fruits, vegetables and landscapes. We looked at a variety of his images using adjectives to describe them, then we Read more…
This week we have been inspired by Damien Hirst’s skull art works and other examples of decorated skulls in different cultures. We traced over an image of a skull and then decorated it using pastels and patterns of our choice. They look amazing: Once we had finished we walked Read more…
This week when we arrived at school we had a letter at the front office. When we opened the letter it was from The Evil Pea. The Evil Pea had captured all the fruit and vegetables in our classroom and taped them to the floor. It was our job to Read more…
For our new art topic, we are looking at ‘Human form’. Our first lesson was human alphabet. We have been creating letters with our body. We worked with a partner or in a 3 to create the different letters.
Our new topic in Art is Photography. today the children looked at various examples of work from other artists: ‘Peter Kennard’ and Jerry Uelsmann’. The children eventually created a photo montage using secondary source photographs. They did a brilliant job and their personalities really shone through their work.
When we arrived at school we noticed footprints left by Father Christmas, we quickly read the note he had left us. Father Christmas left us a book and this week we have been reading the story ‘Harvey Slumfenburger’s Christmas present’. We found out that Father Christmas travelled in lots of Read more…
This week we have been reading the story ‘The Gruffalo’s child’, we identified the characters in the story and we worked together to Fred talk the sounds. During choosing time we have been able to create our own footprints using paint and played with our very own Gruffalo crumble. We Read more…
Today we have learnt about Diwali and why some people celebrate it in different religions. We spent all morning creating rangoli patterns and making our own mehndi hand designs. We learnt about bonfire night and why we celebrate it on the 5th of November. We took part in creative activities Read more…