The Arts

The Art Ambassadors came to Early Years to help teach some of the children about colour mixing.

Today we had visitors from the Laing and Shipley art gallery. We looked at paintings with vibrant colours and matched an emotion to the painting. We worked in groups to produce warm and cool colour paintings.

The nursery class has been learning about Chinese New Year. We loved making puppets, decorations and our own huge dragon! We had our own small parade through school into the hall to show the rest of the school children and staff. It was lots of fun and we were very proud of our dragon. Some of us we

Year 5 have been exploring light and dark through the work of Vincent Bal. He adds doodles to the shadows of everyday objects to create imaginative pieces of art.  

Year 5 have been looking at how artists like Banksy and Barbara Hepworth use light and dark in their work. We used torches to create our own ‘shadow art’. Article 29

The nursery children have been creating their own artwork inspired by Jackson Pollock’s famous ‘drip technique’ paintings. We looked at examples of his paintings online and then enjoyed dripping and splatting paint onto our own canvases. It was lots of fun! The children were very excited and p

Kevin from the Laing Art Gallery visited us today. We talked about colours, found our favourite colours around the classroom and talked about the feelings that different colours can represent. We read The Colour Monster and then looked at images of some artworks. It was great fun using some paint pe

Jaswinder Singh from the North East Sikh Service visited our school. He spent time with Years 3, 4 and 5. He explained about what Sikhs believe and how they live their lives, including the 5 Ks. He even played traditional musical instruments, like the harmonium, and sang for us! We really enjoyed hi

We took part in a workshop with Durham University, learning all about Ancient Greece. We became archaeologists and investigated different artefacts. We learned about Ancient Greek architectural styles and city states. We even performed Euripedes’ ‘Medea’, a play that is over 2000 years old!

Year 2 have started looking at their new artist Henri Matisse. The children did a warm up first, creating darker and lighter shades with their pencils. They then chose  one of his paintings that they liked and thought about words to describe them.