Working in the style of William Morris, a Victorian designer, children have experimented with press prints and monoprints. They have analysed their prints and considered their likes and dislikes about the prints.
Category Archives: Art
Remembrance in Reception
This week we read a beautiful story about Remembrance Day that helped us to understand why we have this special day. We learned about why we wear poppies and who it is to remember. We made our own Remembrance cards, artwork, and play dough poppies amongst lots of other exciting activities.
Bonfire Night in Nursery
This week we have been learning about bonfire night and fireworks, we have found out a little bit about Guy Fawkes and that he was not a very nice man and learned a bit of the poem ‘Remember, Remember ‘. We have been using our phonics to listen to the different sounds we might hear […]
Autumn Art in Nursery
Over the past few weeks we have been learning about Autumn. We have completed lots of different art activities including creating our own Autumn wreaths. We thought carefully about the different colours that we can see in the Autumn and used these to design the wreaths. We think they are beautiful!
Observational drawings in Year Three
In Art, the children have been completing observational drawings on frogs. This links to the work we have been looking at created by Nick Gustafson. When completing their drawings, the children thought carefully about the details they wanted to include and some began to add shading to their pictures.
Reception are zooming off into space
This week Reception have been reading the story ‘Whatever Next’ about a little bear that makes his own rocket and flies into space. As well as acting out the story, we have been recreating some of the objects that you might see in space, such as the planets. We used marbling ink to create the […]
Welcome back Reception
What a fantastic first week Reception have had. We have been so busy making new friends, exploring our classroom and outside area, enjoying new activities, investigating, building, drawing, making, dancing, meditating and so much more. We can’t wait to see what next week has in store. 😀
Press printing in Year Four
After learning about Andy Warhol, the Year Four children have had a go at press printing. They created designs and then used polystyrene tiles to etch in their final design. After producing their art, they evaluated their work and enjoyed sharing their work with each other.
Creative Year Two
Year two have been very creative over the last few weeks. In art, we have been learning about William Turner and completed observational drawing of boats. In DT, we have designed, made and evaluated Moon Buggys, to further our learning of Neil Armstrong in history.
Nursery’s trip to France 🇫🇷
This week we have pretended we have been on holiday to France. We have been writing postcards to say what we have been doing on holiday, creating French flags, building our own Eiffel Tower models and enjoying a visit to the French market! Tres bien Nursery!