Blog by Tag: Art

Our theme for Art week centred round marine preservation, particularly the dangers of plastic in the ocean.

We discussed how art can have a purpose and is often quite poignant.

In our sketch book we planned our piece of art and began collecting plastic recycling to add to the art.

We…

What a wonderfully creative time we’ve had during Art Week! This week, our classroom was full of imagination as we explored the work of pebble artist Erzsebet Szilajka.

Inspired by her beautiful creations, the children became artists themselves, using pebbles as the main feature of their…

This week for Art Week, Maple Class have been getting creative outdoors by making beautiful minibeast nature suncatchers – and what a wonderful link to our new Science topic on micro-habitats and minibeasts!

The children began by exploring our outdoor area, carefully collecting natural…

As part of our art topic on paper sculptures, Maple Class have been busy working collaboratively to create a giant spider sculpture.

We began by looking closely at spiders, exploring their structure and key characteristics. The children noticed important features such as the number of legs, the…

In Maple Class, the children have been exploring how paper can be transformed from something flat into something fantastically three-dimensional!

Using simple paper strips, the children experimented with bending, folding, twisting, spiralling and zigzagging to create exciting shapes and…

Willow class had a very enjoyable art lesson today, messy but fun.

We have been creating Papyrus paper using strips of sugar paper dipped into glue mixed with water, and layered over wax paper.

It has been a busy two weeks of Science! We have been learning how to group and identify different animals.

In KS1, we moved from sorting animals to identifying why they belong in a specific group. We looked for clues like:

• Mammals: Do they have fur or hair?
• Birds: Do they have feathers…

This week in Maple Class, we spent time reflecting on the nativity story during our RE lessons. The children explored the key events of the Christmas story and talked about why it is important to Christians.

We then looked closely at a range of Christmas cards and discussed the different themes…

In Art we have been looking at Retrofuturism and creating our own vision of the future,inspired by Teis Albers. We made a collagraph plate to use to print a background for our artwork. Then we sketched our futuristic ideas ready to put onto our background.

What an absolutely captivating and creative art lesson we've had recently, where we let the music be our guide! We explored how different sounds and rhythms can inspire different lines and movements in our drawing.

We began our artistic journey by listening to some truly dynamic pieces of…

This week in Computing, we crossed over into the art world and took inspiration from the famous Dutch artist, Piet Mondrian!

Mondrian's style is simple but striking: he used only straight lines, squares, and rectangles, painted with the primary colours (red, yellow, and blue), plus black and…

Today, we officially launched our exciting new art topic: Marvellous Marks! We had an incredible time exploring how simple lines can become spectacular works of art that can even trick our eyes!

We started our journey by looking at the amazing artwork of a famous artist named Bridget Riley. She…