We have been working so hard to develop our gross and fine motor skills over the last few weeks. Outside we have been climbing, running, dancing and negotiating obstacles. We have also been using scarves, dough disco, cutting, drawing tutorials and so much more to develop our fine motor skills.
This week Year 5 have been creating some amazing artwork using pastels. We analysed different planets and looked at the colours, textures, patterns and tones within. The children used their sketchbooks to practice various techniques before producing their own pastel planet for our display. We definitely have some amazing and exceptionally talented artists in Year 5!
Welcome to the first post showcasing the amazing work completed by year 1. The children have all settled back into school life with ease and are taking on their new challenges with excitement and creativity. We have been looking at sorting objects in various ways in our maths lessons and ‘The Colour Monster’ has been our book of choice in English where we have been talking about our feelings. Our PE sessions this term are with our sports coach and we are focussing on different ways to move and jump. Our Learning Means the World lessons have been around safe playing with our friends and looking at habitats and life cycles of animals. As you can see we have been really busy but have had so much fun and can’t wait to share more of our experiences with you throughout the year!
This half term, Year 5 Navigators are embarking on a new Learning Means The World theme, titled ‘The Rescuers’.
Focusing on the catastrophic tragedy of The Titanic, we have delved into our research about this, once majestic ship, nicknamed ‘Queen of the Sea’ and ‘Unsinkable’… to name a few.
We have thoroughly enjoyed learning about The Titanic… so much so, that no sooner had our home learning menu been taken home, we had some of our 5 Blue Navigators use their research, to create phenomenal, scaled-down models of the majestic vessel, just as an engineer or designer would have done, back in 1912!
In Year 2’s Going Wild theme we have been focusing our art skills on animal prints.
We used things like pencil, oil pastel, chalk pastel and paint, along with some more unusual media such as shaving foam, netting, sponges and cutlery to recreate different animal patterns. We took inspiration from these patterns to create our very own, unique animal print.
This week as part of our Picture Our Planet Theme, the children in 4 Red have been learning all about Romero Britto, a Brazilian pop artist.
First we looked at Romero Britto and his work. We had a class critique, saying what we thought about his pieces of art. Then we looked at other famous Pop Artists and their work and compared their different styles.
After coming up with some different designs in our sketch books, it was time to recreate some of his work using textiles and creating a collage.
Here’s how it turned out.
Isn’t it fantastic?
This week we have been learning about pop art. We explored the work of Romero Britto, who is Brazilian born pop artist. His artwork inspired us to create our very own pop art.
We have had an amazing time celebrating the Coronation. We made nature crowns and decorated tiles.
To celebrate the King’s Coronation we made celebration tiles as a keepsake to mark the occasion. Aren’t our designs beautiful?
What an amazing week we have had celebrating the Coronation. We made ‘natural crowns’, decorated tiles, created loose part crowns, red white and blue patterns, built palaces and so much more! Today we had a party outside and it was sunny!
