Year 6 have had an amazing first week back and they have enjoyed creating their self portraits inspired by the work of Gustav Klimt. [gallery ids="23266,23267,23268,23269,23270"]...
What a wonderful start the year we have had. During our establishment phase we have focused heavily on art. We have been learning about the life and work of Andy Warhol and his influence in Pop Art. We studied and critique his work and discovered...
This week, Year 6 have thoroughly enjoyed their afternoon swimming lessons at King’s Hall. The pupils have been working hard to refine their Key Stage 2 swimming skills, including confident strokes across a range of distances, safe self-rescue techniques, and developing their stamina in the...
This week in year 5, we completed our skulls based on 'For the Love of Money' by Damien Hirst. This week, we decorated our skulls with jewels to resemble Hirst's artwork. Here are some examples of our finished pieces...
This week in year 1, our highlight was finishing our art project inspired by Magdalene Odundo. We made pinch pots out of clays, applying a range of skills such as pinching, pulling and smoothing. When our pots were dried, we painted them with different earth...
This week in Year 5, we have been painting our paper mache skulls, inspired by Damien Hirst’s "Love of Money." Damien Hirst is a famous artist from England who makes very unusual and eye-catching art. He’s known for using real animals, diamonds, and even medicine...
This week in Year 1 our highlight was developing our sculpture skills in art. We have been learning about the artist Magdalene Odundo and her work creating elegant clay pots. We have worked with playdough before, but this was most of our first time using...
This week in Year 5, we have been learning all about the contemporary artist, Damien Hirst. We have been researching his work, focusing on “The Love of Money.” This week we worked on skills we will use to create our own adaptation of Damien Hirst’s work. We...
In Nursery this week, the children loved creating The Very Hungry Caterpillar necklaces. They worked on their fine motor skills, whilst using the push and pull threading technique to thread green pasta and red circles onto a piece of string. Children practiced repeating patterns and...
This week in Nursery, children created a painting of a ‘hog’ by using handprints and paintbrushes. We chose to create a ‘hog’ (an adult pig) as it is one of the characters from our core text ‘What the Ladybird Heard’ by Julia Donaldson and Lydia...