by Kerri Sellens | Jan 28, 2020 | Art
A group of children visited Tate Modern today, to take part in a brilliant artist-led session exploring our senses. Jess took us in to the old oil tanks first of all. It has art in, but it is also an excellent place to explore our voices and listening to them echo...
by Kerri Sellens | Jan 27, 2020 | Art, Riley Class 2019/20, Van Gogh Class 2019/20
Year 4 visited Tate Britain to view a very special exhibition. Last year, we had a photogrpaher come in to school to take class photographs as part of the Year 3 project by the artist, Steve McQueen. McQueen had hundreds of school photographs taken of year 3 children...
by Kerri Sellens | Nov 26, 2019 | Art, Hepworth Class 2019/20, Hokusai Class 2019/20
Hepworth and Hokusai Classes have had lots of fun learning about Stone Age art this half term. Maybe cave paintings are the very first form of visual art? We have made handprints, like those found in the Lascaux caves, and have made our paints using natural materials,...
by Rebekah Burren | Nov 20, 2019 | Art, Hepworth Class 2019/20, P4C
Hepoworth class had a really interesting discussion in P4C today about art. First, we looked at some pictures of ‘Flotsam sculptures’, statues that were made from objects washed up by the sea. We decided that the two ‘big ideas’ the pictures...
by Jacob McDonald | Nov 17, 2019 | Art, Design Technology, Drama, Drama, Hokusai Class 2019/20
Mysha reports: I saw an amazing play! The play was called “Rumpelstiltskin”. They used puppets for the characters they also used magnets to keep everything on. Other schools came to see the play. If you don’t know about “Rumpelstiltskin” it’s about a girl who has to...
by Esme Hopkins | Nov 8, 2019 | Art, Delaunay Class 2019/20, Learning Theme
In year 2 we have had a lovely afternoon painting with watercolours and using autumn leaves as fire. We painted the Tudor buildings of London in 1666 and then created the great fire with our leaves we had collected. We were all so proud of our work we asked for...
