This week, Year 4 studied Faith Ringgold’s painted quilts to make our own relief prints. We made mind maps about Ringgold before making our own Black History Month art. [gallery ids="10483,10484"] ...
Year 2 have been weaving in art which have been inspired by the amazing Kente cloth from Ghana. We explored different materials and described how they felt before putting them in different categories. We also looked at different patterns used for African materials. [gallery ids="10487,10488,10489"]...
The children have been working incredibly hard on their art this week. They have used an age old technique called weaving to produce this colourful, inspiring art in the style of the Kente Cloth. You can see the beautiful colours and patterns are reminiscent of...
This week in Reception we have been looking at the amazing art form of Kente cloth weaving from Ghana. We studied the different patterns and learned key words to describe the patterns like 'zigzag' 'dot' 'lines' and 'stripes' As a class we made individual pieces to...
Year 4 visited the Hackney Museum for the workshop ‘Movers, Shakers and Community Makers’. Alicia-Pearl Cato shared her artwork with us and we were even able to make our own symbols to represent ourselves! [gallery ids="10227,10228"]...
Year 2 had an amazing time acting out their character descriptions of Guy Fawkes and the four men for our Immersion lesson. We thought of some interesting adjectives and adverbs to describe our characters and we used freeze frame to capture our characters feelings. [gallery ids="10181,10182,10183,10184"]...
This week in Nursery, we looked at a British artist 'Gary Hume' and created a self portrait using mirrors to identify our facial features. [gallery ids="10072,10073,10074"]...
Year 2 have created some amazing posters and sculptures following their research about The Great Fire of London. Have a look at their master pieces. ...
Year 5 have loved learning about the 'Pop art' movement, with a focus on the artist Andy Warhol. They created self-portraits taking inspiration from his work. All the children in Year five used bright, contrasting colours to paint their portrait and they look amazing. Well...
Year 2 have had an amazing time painting their self portraits this week! They have taken inspiration from the artist Frida Kahlo and enjoyed learning about how she became an amazing artist even though she had a disability. We think she was one of the...