Year 5 Pine have been learning all about mixed media and the different ways in which an artist may create a self portrait. Today we have been experimenting with different materials and techniques to create our own self portraits. The results are amazing! Next week the children will evaluate their Read more…
As part of our art topic, we created artwork with a meaning, inspired by our Christian Values. We looked at our values, and words and phrases associated with them. We used charcoal to create light and shadow after taping our message with masking tape.
Year 2 Ash have had lots of fun during our first week back after the Summer. They have settled really well into Year 2. We have completed lots of art lessons, an introduction to the Great Fire of London, a lesson about online safety and a lesson about light where Read more…
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…