This half term, Year 1 were focussing on ‘Woven Wonders’. We discussed Is it art? Thinking about how art is not just something we draw or paint but can be something made from different materials and patterns. We explored thread and had a try at plaiting, threading and knotting wool Read more
Year 5 have finished our architecture art unit by designing our own monuments. The children looked at famous monument examples and thought about how they would like to be represented. We then brought our ideas to life, annotating them to show what our monument means. We have also studied a Read more
This week and next week, we are reading the story, ‘The Gingerbread Man’. Reception have been designing their own gingerbread person this week. They have been creating their own life size gingerbread outside with chalk. They drew around themselves with a partner and then designed them on the floor.
This week in Year 5 Juniper, we started our new topic called Craft and Design: Architecture. The children this week learned all about observational drawing, scaling, sketching and accuracy. The children enjoyed drawing items from their memory to practice, before they went ahead to draw a house using the techniques Read more
This half term we will be looking at architecture as part of our art topic. Today the children learnt about observational drawing and effective ways to draw the size of an object accurately. We used pencils and rulers as visual markers for the size of a house. We spent time Read more
Year 2 had so much fun dressing up with the theme ‘careers’ and they all looked amazing. They worked really hard to write a set of instructions on how to make the perfect… nurse, vet, firefighter, game designer, policer officer or astronaut, then completed a step by step drawing of Read more
As part of our art topic, we have been looking at structures and how to create the perfect playground. We have had to ensure that our playgrounds are fun, safe, have something to climb on, something that moves and something to hide inside. We planned and sketched the equipment, giving Read more
We have been practising using clay this half term and have made a clay pinch pot and this week a clay tile. We created three different designs then picked our favourite to make using clay. We used different techniques like score and slip to create our designs. We have also Read more
As a reward for earning so many dojos this half-term, Year 1 had a treat today. We completed colourings, crafts and created valentines bear biscuits. Have a lovely half-term Year 1
Year 5 have had an explosive end to our installation artwork unit by creating artist research pages about the artist Cai Guo-Qiang. We modelled our backgrounds on the explosive style used by Cai and his love of creating artwork using fireworks and gunpowder. The children used paint and straws to Read more