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…
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.
This week we have been reading the story ‘The tiger who came to tea’. We have also been investigating and making our own tigers. We have all worked very hard!
We looked more into cave art from the prehistoric times. They loved seeing the simplicity of them. We see last weeks picture that we drew and recreated it on a larger scale, using charcoal.
Today we have been using charcoal like our ancestors would have done to create some Stone Age artwork. Here are some pictures of our learning.
Last we used paint and different materials to create different textures. This week we then used this textured work to create a collage of a seaside. We had to chose collage materials based on the colour and texture and try out different arrangements of materials, including overlapping. Once complete, we Read more…
We looked at some simple shapes to help us draw animals! We first sketched these shapes out, then added detail to create the more complex shapes and then, turn it into our animal! Can you guess what animal we had drawn?
This week we have been exploring our new topic Prehistoric Britain. We became archaeologists and student ancient artefacts. We have also used our arts and craft skills to create art work inspired by Stone henge. Here are some pictures of our learning.
Year 4 Maple have settled in brilliantly! Our class text for our English lessons this half term is The BFG By Roald Dahl so we started the school Year off with some fun BFG activities. We created dream catchers, drew pictures of the BFG and we also looked at some Read more…
A huge welcome back to everybody. We’ve had a busy week getting to know each other and Mrs Graham has been really impressed with how well we have all settled back into school. We have started learning about The Great Fire of London and the children have all showed fantastic Read more…