The Arts

In Year 5, we have been experimenting with colour. We have learned that if you mix complementary colours, you can create a muted palette. We have looked at how and why artists use muted colours. Article 29

Year 5 have been working on their dance skills in P.E. This means thinking about working as a team, and matching our movements to the music. Can you guess the style of music we are dancing to? Articles 24 and 29

On Thursday (12th July), Year 1 travelled to The Baltic to look at some amazing art work! They created their own masterpiece using a variety of different coloured paints; cutting up the painted paper to make a collage of fruit. We all had a lovely day! A huge thank you to all of our parent-helpers.

In Music, we have looked at how music can be represented visually. We worked in groups to design our own score for a piece of music. Articles 28 & 29  

What an amazing day! The children from Year Six and the choir have love taking part in this year’s Angels of the North Concert. They sang. They danced. They ate lots of pizza! And, we are all extremely proud of them! Well done everyone!

Today Brian Rankin came in to do our assembly. Brian is the owner of an art gallery in Gateshead called ‘ Come view my art’ He has discovered a local artist called Charlie Roger. Brian talked to us about a new art trail in Saltwell park discovering where Charlie liked to go for inspiration for h

The nursery children have really enjoyed making their own artwork inspired by Kazimir Malevich. We loved looking at the different shapes and sizes in his work. We then chose the shapes we wanted in our own artwork. It was so exciting seeing them all on display in the hall. Article 28,29

Nursery have been learning about the artwork of Jackson Pollock. We then had a go at his ‘drip style’ of painting. The cleaning up was fun too! Article 27, 28, 31

Inspired by Vincent Bal, we used torches to create shadows, then turned the shadows into art.   Article 29  

Our art club session today was painting circles using watercolours to blend and create delicate bubble like shapes.