The Arts

Today we talked about symmetry in Nursery. We enjoyed creating our own symmetrical butterflies using a simple printing technique. We think our butterflies look gorgeous! Article 28, 29

This week we looked at the artwork of Wassily Kandinsky. We talked about the shapes, lines and patterns. We all had different favourites! We then explored water colour paints and biro pens as we created our own artwork. We were inspired by Kandinsky’s ‘Squares with concentric circles’ and crea

We had a very happy and proud little girl in Year One today when she won the KS1 prize for the best artwork in the Diversity in Art Competition. Article 8, 28, 29

In Art, we have been exploring how to make a mono print and a string print design. Article 28,29

We have loved looking at the work by Kazimir Malevich. We talked about the colours and shapes and whether we liked his paintings or not. We all had different favourites.  Then we created our own art work based using his work as our inspiration. A HUGE thank you to HS’s family who donated the canv

In Art, we looked at how to make mono prints. (Mono prints are prints you can only make once.) We chose different mark making tools. Can you work out what we used?   Article 29

Year 2 have had an amazing time today! They had a visit from Shipley Art Gallery; they read a story The Extraordinary Garden to the children, then the children used a variety of different materials to create their own colourful street scene and made their own beautiful flowers! Look at our fantastic

5H visited Whickham School for an afternoon of art. We made pinch pot creatures. We thought about form and texture. Our pots will be fired in the kiln, then we can paint them. Article 29

Something new for Year 1- printing with plasticine! We made impressions in the plasticine to explore the prints we could make with ink. Although we ended up very inky we also ended up with big smiles 😀😀😀 Article 29

Year Six have been inspired by the work of two artists.  We have looked at a painting by Peter Bruegel (1565) called Hunters in the Snow.   We also looked at the painting Going to Work (1945) by L.S. Lowry.   Although these artists lived almost four hundred years apart, we spotted some si