The Arts

In Nursery today we celebrated World Music Day. We listened to some music by ‘The Beatles’. Then we went on a sound hunt. First we lay down and listened to what sounds we could hear outside. Then we looked for things that made different sounds and put them into our sound box. We sang songs and t

We have had the chance to experiment with clay this week. We needed strong little fingers at times! We squeezed, poked, squashed, rolled and sliced the clay with our hands and tools. As always we made a creative mess and learnt lots! Article 28, 29, 31

Our first art lesson was discovering the world of pointillism. Gorgeous canvases with a selection of our favourite things!

Year 5 have explored shape through portrait drawing in the style of Paul Klee.  

After using mono printing techniques to create an image, the children in Year 5  explored creating string print designs.  

Year 2 have been introduced to classical music, Brahms, Mozart and Tchaikovsky. They listened to the music and drew the sound patterns. This linked to our music lesson all about animal sounds.

Our second artist this half term was Picasso. We discussed his style and created our own portraits using his paper art as a background.

Year 3 took part in an art workshop, where we explored shape and colour and how this can be used to show emotions. We worked in groups to create big art pictures to represent a story.         

In our Art workshop, we explored how shape and colour can be used to express emotions and record memories. We worked together to create collaborative pieces of art, and shared the stories behind them.   Article 29

Our art expert, from the Shipley Art Gallery,  gave us great insight into creating ’emotion’ with line and colour. Have a look at our fabulous abstract pieces.