This week we have been looking at the artist ‘ Raewyn Harris.’ Raewyn is famous for creating Koru art. The Koru is a spiral shaped plant. To people of New Zealand, the Koru represents the unfolding of new life or renewal. First we looked at and discussed Raewyn’s art work. Read more
This week we have been learning all about Pablo Picasso! We looked at his style and then watched a video on how someone else did a picture that was similar to one of his. We decided we would do one like Picasso using Primary colours. We now know that the Read more
Well this weeks been a super busy week, parties, a visit from Father Christmas, Christmas dinners, making calendars, Christmas cards: so busy in fact, Mrs Graham didn’t take a lot of photographs 🙈 Here’s just a few: From everyone in Year 2 we’d like to wish everyone a very Read more
Year 5 had an amazing day out at Manchester Art Gallery today. We are extremely lucky to have been chosen to take part in this project. Today was one of the workshop days, which build up to a performance at the Bridgewater Hall. Year 5 are working with musicians from Read more
Maple have been busy designing and making their own mountain ranges. Excellent teamwork and a super effort to produce some amazing work. Ask the children at home if they know some of the mountain ranges of the world and which continents they are in!
This week we are reading Stickman. To start off our week we spent the afternoon outside looking for sticks that would make perfect stickmen, we found lots of different shapes and sizes! We then used our sticks to make our own stick people on the ground, some were big, Read more
This week we have be learning what primary colours are and how to make secondary colours. First, we created a colour wheel making our own secondary colours by mixing . We then used our knowledge of colours and took inspiration from Andy Warhol, to create a piece of art split Read more
For RE today we looked at Islamic art and how it is used to decorate everything from clothing to mosques. We then went outside to write some special words that are important to us. We used colourful chalk to write our important word then used patterns to decorate it. We Read more
Wow, What a lovely week we have had! This week we were reading ‘What the Ladybird Heard’ and did lots of activities surrounding the story. We painted rocks to make them look like ladybirds, made farms and maps and did some Maths sorting activities in the classroom. In the story Read more
As part of creating an information booklet on food chains and webs of the Arctic regions, Year 6 looked at how artists use accurate guidelines and proportions when sketching. They looked at how to use simple shapes to help guide them to sketching an accurate outline, as well as Read more