Year 4 vs Vincent van Gogh

7th March 2024L Davison

This week, Year 4 have been studying the works of Dutch post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh. First we found out a little about him, then we had a class critique of some of his art work. We looked at the style of his work and the way that he used lines to create different moods and images.

Finally, after practising different techniques, we tried to recreate one of van Gogh’s more famous pieces ‘Starry Night’. Van Gogh painted it from memory during the day, as he was not able to paint from his bedroom. But he was able to create sketches in ink and charcoal and it was these sketches that we recreated. Have a look at some of our fabulous sketchbook and art work.

 

Cesar Manrique is creating a twirl in 1 Red

1st March 2024L Chisholm

As part of our ‘Unity In The Community’ theme we have been looking at the work of Cesar Manrique.  We looked his influence in Lanzarote, his art and his wind sculptures.  We decided to make our own wind sculpture and created our very own Whirlygig! We think you’ll agree they look fantastic!

Jungle landscape artists in the making

9th February 2024ashleigh clark

Today in English, 3 Blue have been creating their own jungle landscapes using paint. Our class book (which we don’t yet know the name of as Miss Clark won’t tell us) describes an old man dreaming about “a jungle full of wild forest animals” so we decided to have a go and create our own jungle landscapes. We looked at two jungle landscape artists: Henri Rousseau and Paul Gaugin for inspiration. We were so proud of out work and had so much fun!

 

 

Reception’s Ticket To Ride!

28th January 2024K Richardson

Our current Learning Means The World theme is ‘Ticket To Ride!’  We have been using this throughout our learning.  In maths we have looked at numbers, 1 more and 1 less, number bonds, shape and positional language.  We have gone on magical train rides telling our friends where we would go and why.  We used our sounds and made transport words such as van, bus, truck, sub etc And of course some snowy fun!

 

Nursery Christmas Stay and Play

21st December 2023Hayley Tampin

The children loved welcoming their grown ups into nursery today for some festive fun! We decorated wreath photo frames and some collage stockings. The children have prepared their own reindeer dust, ready to sprinkle on Christmas Eve to make sure Santa and his reindeer find them!

We even enjoyed a festive sing-along of some of our favourite Christmas songs! What a great time we all had!

 

Nursery AM

Nursery PM

1 Red love the Northern Lights!

8th December 2023L Chisholm

This week we have been learning about the Northern Lights and the amazing patterns they create across the sky.  We have created some beautiful Northern Light pictures using pastels and the ‘blending’ technique.  We then decided that we would use the computers to create the same picture and compared the two.  We enjoyed using the computers but the majority thought that the pastels looked better.  What do you think?