Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Art, craft and design embody some of the highest forms of human creativity. A high-quality art and design education should engage, inspire and challenge pupils, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own works of art, craft and design. As pupils progress, they should be able to think critically and develop a more rigorous understanding of art and design. They should also know how art and design both reflect and shape our history, and contribute to the culture, creativity and wealth of our nation. National Curriculum for Art & Design, purpose of study
Here is a short film we made for ArtUK about the sculpture, Draped Seated Woman (Old Flo) by Henry Moore. The sculpture is particularly important to our community within Tower Hamlets.
Sew Amazing!
Over the past few weeks, year 6 have been focussing on developing their textile skills. They practised running stitch, back stitch, cross stitch and satin stitch. They also challenged themselves creatively, to think of a design incorporating embroidery and...
Picasso inspired birds by Art Club
Art Club has been working on sculptures inspired by Picasso's birds for the past few weeks. They made plaster maquette's before painting them using acrylic. The whole process has taken time and allowed reflection between each session. Today they named their sculptures...
The arts at Lansbury Lawrence
We were very pleased to have been asked to take part in a Researching Arts in Primary Schools research project led by the University of Nottingham. We were selected because we offer an exceptional arts education to our children. This is something we are very proud of....
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Recently, year 3 have been using some of their wider curriculum lessons to hone their art and design skills. They've been getting stuck in - and their hands dirty - as they created a piece of furniture for the Festival of Britain. Our works in progress: "First we...
Which Way Now?
Reception are embarking on a creative fieldwork project to explore our local community. Small groups of children are going out with adults and are being asked, Which Way Now? We are going on journeys around school that are led by the children. We are stopping to look...
Exploring paint in Year 1
This term Year 1 are exploring paint. Today they learnt how to hold a paintbrush and practised different kinds of mark-making in our beautiful new sketchbooks. We had such a lovely time and enjoyed looking at each other's work at the end of the lesson and talking...
Mechanical Madness!
Hello everyone! We have been having yet another great week over here in Lichtenstein class. In particular, we have been having a lot of fun getting both our creative and engineering brains thinking as we tackled a fascinating Design and Technology Workshop in style!...
Mechanisms and Machines
Today, Kahlo Class took part in a Design and Technology workshop with Stephen Guy where we learnt about different mechanisms and machines. Exploring mechanisms We looked at different inventions which use mechanisms. They were made from wood, cardboard and other...
Making our own paper airplanes – following step by step instructions.
Last week our children were really excited about making paper airplanes, so this week we learnt how to make them independently. First we looked at the shape of a plane and talked about the insignias we might find on them. Then we followed step by step instructions and...
The End of Our Journey Through Space!
It has been another fantastic half-term here at Lansbury Lawrence and everyone in Lichtenstein class has been having great fun and learning a lot along the way. First to English, this term we have be doing some amazing creative writing for the Tower Hamlets creative...