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…
Last half term, year 4 created some wonderful batik art work inspired by William Morris. they took their time to create their art work from their own mood boards using pictures from the rainforest. We spoke a lot about careers work like this could lead too as we have lots Read more…
During this half-term, Year 1 have been learning the craft of weaving. We have learnt: wrapping, warp and weft, tying knots and plaiting. The children then added all their crafts to their individual loom boxes.
During our Art lesson this week, we used our mood boards as inspiration to create new patterns using our rain forest sketching. We created the lines, shaded over them to transfer onto card and then used glue to create a batik effect. Next week we will use paint to complete Read more…
This week in ART Year 6 have commenced and new topic called Craft and design. Our first lesson was focusing on Photomontage. First, the children discussed key vocabulary linked to the new topic and explored different artists who used photomontage. We focused on one artist in particular, Hannah Hoch, who Read more…
Over the past couple of weeks, we have been focusing on art created from the inspiration of the Rainforest. first we created mood boards based on rainforest images. We have then use view finders to zoom in on features of different rainforest animals and creatures.
In Art this half-term, Year 1 are looking at different forms of art including various types of crafts. Today, the children were very lucky to have a special visit from Alice’s mum, who is an artist(Kpink). She designs and creates beautiful bespoke bags and many other items. Read more…
This half term Year 5 will be studying architecture. This week our focus was was observational drawing. We used our observational skills to sketch basic house shapes. We had to look closely at the details and we learnt how to use our pencils to help as a guide for size Read more…