The Arts

We’ve been enjoying reading ‘The Creakers’ by Tom Fletcher in year 2. We are loving the Creakers’ houses that some of the children in 2S have made at home. We love seeing creativity like this.

In year 2, we have been learning how to stay in the lines when printing with paint. We were aiming for perfection with the positioning of our paint circles. We are loving art! 

The children wrote short planet based poems and using percussion instruments (including their bodies) created a short piece of accompanying music to play along to their poem.  The aim was to ensure the sound and rhythm matched the mood of their poem and planet.  Their composition was then recited

Year 5 have been exploring how colour and texture can demonstrate mood.  We looked at how one picture can be manipulated by changing the colour which changed the mood of the image. Here we are drawing and painting a flower with a certain mood.  The flowers were put together to create a bouquet of

Year 5 have been studying The Highwayman poem and on Friday we took the Red-Coat soldiers to court to decide on their fate – guilty or not guilty. We had a great time defending and prosecuting and hearing evidence from all sides. The result – guilty on all charges. Article 28, 29, 31.

Wow! The Arts Ambassadors were amazed by the fabulous artwork that was entered into the competition. A huge well done to everyone. It is lovely to see the skills learnt in class being used at home. We all had different favourites but the Arts Ambassadors had the final say in which entries were the w

Just look at all of the amazing art we have created in Art Club. The children have learnt a lot and really enjoyed themselves . Article 31

In music, we’ve been learning about how to accompany music and singing with percussion. We’ve improvised rhythms and developed and performed our ideas in groups.

Thank you to all the children who entered the competition. We had a some lovely entries. The winning designs will be painted onto the Reading shed in the summer term.  

We read the story of Goldilocks. We took on the roles of the characters in the ‘Home Corner’, painted pictures of teddy bears and sequenced the story. It was lots of fun! Article 31