by Kerri Sellens | Dec 7, 2021 | After School Club, Art
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...
by Kerri Sellens | Oct 19, 2021 | Art, Arts Council, Drama, Drama, Music
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....
by Neil Daley | Oct 11, 2021 | Art, Design Technology, Hepworth Class 2021/22, Hokusai Class 2021/22
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...
by Kerri Sellens | Oct 4, 2021 | Art, Hamilton class 2021/22, Shireen Class 2021/22
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...
by Lansbury | Sep 10, 2021 | Art, Goldsworthy class 2021/22, Kapoor Class 2021/22, O'Keeffe Class 2021/22
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...
by Lansbury | Jun 30, 2021 | Art, Design Technology, Lichtenstein Class 20/21
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!...