Recycled 3D art

This term, Year 1’s topic is ‘Under the Sea and Plastic Pollution’. In art today, we made 3D models of fish using plastic bottles and scraps of tissue paper. Everyone worked well as part of a team, to create the beautiful models.

Year 6: Art

We have created our own Montague and Capulet masks using tissue paper and sequins. We then, using our knowledge of Romeo & Juliet, thought of emotions/themes to depict through photography.

Small or far away? Year 3 explore perspective

We’ve looked at monochromatic watercolours of mountain scenes and are using them to inspire our own work. We went out into the playground to explore perspectives – are our classmates smaller, or just further away? We have begun to plan our paintings and look forward to sharing the final pieces.

Year 6: Shakespeare Collage

Under the Sea

Today Year 1 have been learning about jellyfish and how the seasons can change their habits. We watched some captivating clips of jellyfish and how they move together, we then used crayon and paint to make our own jellyfish pictures.

Drawing in Year 2

Year 2 have been inspired by the artist Richard Deacon this week. They have had fun linking their Maths objective to their Art lesson by using shapes to create their masterpieces with the wonderful Miss Stringer.

Geometric Abstract Art in Year 5

This afternoon Year 5 started to learn about geometric abstract art. They thought about the impact of using different shapes in their artwork and over the next few weeks will be designing their own pieces.

Monochromatic painting in Year 3

Year 3 have been experimenting with colour this afternoon – we have looked at mainly monochromatic paintings by Klee, Picasso and Van Gogh and have used tints and shades to create a graduated monochromatic colourscape.

Christmas Haikus

A haiku is a three lined poem with a very special pattern. The first and third lines contain 5 syllables, and the second contains 7. We had a go at writing some Haikus in year 4 on the theme of …. CHRISTMAS! Afterwards, we used water colours to add even more pizzazz to our poems. […]

Collage self-portraits

Giuseppe Arcimboldo is an Italian artist who used collage to create fantastic portraits using fruits and vegetables. Year 4 have combined their art topic (collage) and their RE topic (Christmas symbolism) to create some intriguing pieces of art work inspired by Arcimboldo. We used only Christmas symbols to make a self-portrait, using our imagination and […]