Art & Design
Year 3 Birch – observational drawings
We loved looking at our beautiful flowers today and recreating the shapes from the petals and stems. There were some wonderful drawings and the children took their time to create these.
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The Good Samaritan
In forest school this week, we have been on a hunt around the forest. We found lots of pictures from the story, The Good Samaritan. The children discussed the different parts of the story and then they worked together to put the pictures in the correct order. Once they had Read more…
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Shared Learning
Year 6 Sycamore welcomed parents and family into our shared learning this morning. We were able to discuss our latest geography topic, Local Fieldwork, as well as the persuasive letters we wrote as part of our English unit. The letters and fieldwork, a traffic survey we conducted outside of school, Read more…
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Remembrance Day
Bluebells have been learning about Remembrance Day. We have been making our own Poppies using different materials and we have completed our two minute silence.
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Year 3 Birch – looking for textures in art
Year 3 have had such a fun afternoon looking for different textures to create rubbings from. We looked indoors and outdoors to find contrasting textures to use in our art work. We then came in and created a picture with the rubbings by tearing shapes out of them. They looked Read more…
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Printing with paint
The children had fun this afternoon in art printing with paint. We looked at how we could use Lego bricks to create prints by painting and stamping the blocks. The children experiment with pattern, shape and colour. Some children challenged themselves to make their initials using the blocks.
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Year 3 Birch Cave Art
We loved our cave art lesson today! We got under our tables (like we were in a cave) and used paints to create positive and negative prints with our hands. We really enjoyed this and loved being in our “caves”.
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Oaks Shared Learning and lunch
This week we were very excited to have some parents and carers come and join us. The children showed off their writing that they have been doing about seasons. We then talked about the signs of autumn, winter, spring and summer. The children then worked with their parents to create Read more…
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Gassed – John Singer Sargent
Year 6 looked at answering questions on the painting ‘Gassed’ by John Singer Sargent. We looked at the story behind the image and looked at who the people were, where they were and what they could be thinking and feeling at that moment. We then looked at a specific aspect Read more…
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David Hockney
Year 6 looked at how we can best analyse a famous painting. We looked at how artists tell stories or show feelings through their artwork. We interpreted the painting by trying to suggest its meaning, and looked closely to try and identify and notice small details, describing them after sketching.