Last week, Year 5 celebrated the end of term with a trip to London Zoo! This tied in to our geography unit 'Let's Go On Safari!' as we got to see many African animals including hippos, zebras, giraffes, hunting dogs and colobus monkeys. We were...
This week, Year 3 wanted to celebrate the amazing pieces of homework produced over the weekend. Their homework task was to go outdoors and find 5 natural items that can be used to create a piece of art. The children put a lot of time and effort...
Linked to our topic country compassion, Nursery have been exploring amazing Africa. We have been exploring traditional instruments such as the Djembe Drum and created an observational drawing. Children looked closely at the shapes, patterns and colours of the drum and created an observational drawing. ...
This week Nursery have been exploring amazing Africa and the country Ghana. We compared the Ghanaian flag and the United Kingdom flag and discussed the differences in the flags. Using our shape knowledge, we drew a rectangle with a ruler then painted the flag red,...
This week, Year 6 have been taking part in a variety of art-based activities to prepare some artwork to be displayed at this year's Primary Advantage Art Exhibition. The theme of this year's exhibition is voice. This has been carefully considered in both projects completed...
It is Art Week! We have been creating contemporary sculptures, inspired by our focus artist Damien Hirst. Hirst is a British artist and one of the Young British Artists of the 1990s, well-known for his modern sculptures, and he is thought to be one of the...
This week, Year 1 have really been getting stuck into art week! We have been furthering our understanding of the discipline 'sculpture' and have been looking at a British Artist, Magdalene Odundo and her work. We have explored her pots and used adjectives to describe...
This week in Reception, our highlight was delving into Yinka Shonibare as an artist. He is a British Nigerian artist, who works with wax fabrics to make incredible costumes and statues. We were inspired by his work to make our own elaborate costumes. We carefully chose...
This week in Nursery, children started their art project inspired by the work of artist Chris Ofili. Nursery took inspiration from Chris' painting ‘Affrodizzia’ and created a mixed media artwork. Ofili was also heavily inspired by music, therefore the children listened to jazz music whilst...