Image of Reception - Computing - Colouring Christmas Pictures
16 Dec

Reception - Computing - Colouring Christmas Pictures

Reception Class have been using 2 Paint a Picture to create their own festive pictures. They were able to select different patterns and textures to decorate their pictures.

Image of Reception Class - Art and Design - Painting and Decorating Christmas Trees
16 Dec

Reception Class - Art and Design - Painting and Decorating Christmas Trees

Reception used paint for the base of their Christmas tree. Once it had dried the children used different media, such as ribbon, glitter, pom-poms and sequins to decorate them. They used PVA glue to make sure all of their decorations were secure.q

Image of Year 2 Art and Design - Sketching Natural Objects By the Way They Feel
16 Dec

Year 2 Art and Design - Sketching Natural Objects By the Way They Feel

Today in art we collected some more natural objects and made drawings thinking about the way they feel.

Image of Year 1 - Art and Design - Using Water Soluble Felt Tips and Water To Enhance A Drawing.
13 Dec

Year 1 - Art and Design - Using Water Soluble Felt Tips and Water To Enhance A Drawing.

Year 1 built on their drawings of shells from last week by using felt tips and water. They drew their shell in their books and then chose two complimentary colours. They used the felt tips to highlight dark and light on their shell and then applied water with a brush.

Image of Reception Class -Stick Man
4 Dec

Reception Class -Stick Man

This week, Reception Class have been reading the story of Stick Man. The children have really enjoyed the book, joining in with repeated words and phrases. The children have been collecting and decorating sticks, making their own stick person. They have also used playough to represent the Stick Man and different characters from the story.

Image of Year 3 Art - Drawing By Torchlight
3 Dec

Year 3 Art - Drawing By Torchlight

In their art lesson Year 3 continued their work on using charcoal. Today they drew a still life of toys lit by torches, creating atmospheric drawings with a strong narrative content.

Image of Pre-School-Literacy-Penguin Making
27 Nov

Pre-School-Literacy-Penguin Making

The Pre-School children have been developing their fine motor skills this week. They have used the play dough to roll, press and shape into a penguin. The children rolled the body and splatted the dough to shape eyes, a nose or used the enhancements to create wings and feet. The children have been building up muscle strength in their fingers.

Image of Year 3 - Art - Using Charcoal
26 Nov

Year 3 - Art - Using Charcoal

In Art, Year 3 have continued looking at the different ways they can use charcoal. They drew around their hands using light and dark lines then used their fingers to smudge the charcoal to form a shadow. After smudging the charcoal they drew a picture of an animal using the charcoal on their fingers.

Image of Year 4 Christmas Card Competition
20 Nov

Year 4 Christmas Card Competition

We had great fun completing our cards for the Christmas Card competition this week! We showed some real creativity and there were some fabulous outcomes!

Image of Year 1 - Art and Design - Looking Carefully and Drawing Accurately
20 Nov

Year 1 - Art and Design - Looking Carefully and Drawing Accurately

Year 1 experienced looking very closely at objects and noticing the light and dark on images. They used pencil to draw using a continuous line and using criss cross movements to create shadow.

Image of Year 3  Art - Discovering What I Can Do With Charcoal
19 Nov

Year 3 Art - Discovering What I Can Do With Charcoal

In Art, Year 3 has been learning about Chiaroscuro, an Italian word meaning 'light-dark' and we looked at three pictures including Leonardo da Vinci's 'Saint John the Baptist'. They looked at how Cave people created pictures using burnt wood then created their own pictures with charcoal using light and dark marks.

Image of Pre-School - Expressive Arts And Design- Creating Bug Houses
14 Nov

Pre-School - Expressive Arts And Design- Creating Bug Houses

The children are creating bug houses for the bugs to keep warm over winter, selecting from different materials to create their own bug house.