Year 6 have started their new unit of Art this week. We are looking at Yinka Shonibare, a prominent artist whose work encapsulates being a 'citizen of the world'. He creates a range of paintings, and photographs, but we are looking particularly at his textile...
This week in Reception, the children learned about British artist, Gary Hume. They looked carefully at the facial features that were similar in all of Hume’s portrait paintings and then discussed some of the differences. Hume likes to use bright and bold colours to bring...
This week, Nursery looked at the Artist Gary Hume and took inspiration of how he painted people’s faces. We looked at the colour of our skin and used bright colours for our facial features and hair. The children used mirrors to look at our face...
Year 6 have had a fantastic start to the year. We have been working hard on being the best role models for the school and ensuring our work is presented beautifully so that we are proud of our learning. We have also been toiling away in...
In Year 3 this week we have been very focused on producing our best Matisse style portraits. We painted them using bright colours and we then critiqued and evaluated our work. We have also been learning how to partition numbers up to 1000 which we have...
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,...