Art: Blog items
Year 1 How We Treat The Natural World
Date: 12th Feb 2025 @ 7:02pm
Today we brought all our learning for this half term together to reflect on how we each treat the natural world. We recapped on the key vocabulary associated with Islam and used it accurately to contribute to our whole class learning today. Throughout today lesson we thought about rules that we could implement in our local area to make the environment better in our community. We also painted a picture to show our own beliefs and values about how the natural world should be.
Date: 10th Feb 2025 @ 11:26am
Today we enjoyed celebrating our 100th day at school! We began our day with learning about our theme for the day, before completing lots of different 100 related activities. We practised subtracting with jelly beans, did 100 warm up activities in PE, created 100 monsters and counted different objects up to 100!
Date: 30th Jan 2025 @ 1:33pm
Reception has been celebrating the Chinese New Year. We read the book The Chinese New Year Race and learned how every animal earned their place in the Chinese zodiac, made Chinese dragons, Chinese lanterns and took part in our very own Chinese dragon dance.
"The rat won the race- he climbed on the ox's back" Kayden.
"This year it is the year of the snake" Kevin.
"I like rice and sweet and sour sauce... that's Chinese food" Matilda
Acorns - Artic animals and habitats
Date: 24th Jan 2025 @ 12:55pm
This week Acorns have continued their learning about Arctic animals with a focus on polar bears. We have enjoyed listening to 'What the polar bear heard' and enjoying multisensory activities about their habitat.
We have loved engaging in the sensory tuff trays with snow and ice, especially making snow storms! We also rescued animals and numbers from frozen ice.
During art we made our own polar bears using different materials and tools. We've had a great week.
Date: 23rd Jan 2025 @ 2:41pm
Nursery explored a different way to paint when they were provided with blocks of ice, paint and paint brushes. We talked about the texture of the ice, how it was hard to paint on it because the ice was slippy and obserevd how the ice began to melt the more we painted on it. The children also enjoyed discovering what happened to the colours as they mixed together and water was added.
Date: 17th Jan 2025 @ 4:50pm
Acorns have enjoyed learning the story of Goldilocks and the theee bears this week. We have engaged for short periods of time listening to the story and taking turns with the puppets. We loved the voices of the bears and it made us giggle when Miss Richardson said " who's been sitting in my chair". We enjoyed learning the Goldilocks song and signs and dancing along to it.
In maths we have been exploring the number 3 and big and small, linking with our story.
We have been busy creating bear during arts and crafts and developing ball skills during PE.
Date: 16th Jan 2025 @ 4:31pm
Nursery have been learnig all about Winter and as part of our topic the chidlren made 3D snowmen. They had to manipulate the dough to create balls, then attach them together and then add some special features to to make the snowmen their own!
Date: 16th Jan 2025 @ 9:01am
Today, we used lots of different things we would find in nature such as leaves, flowers and rocks to create our own patterns. We thought carefully about lines we wanted to create and different shapes we could make by pulling things apart and changing them.
Date: 9th Jan 2025 @ 9:11am
Today we started our new Art journey by looking at Alice Fox and thinking about how she uses nature to influence her work. We then created a page dedicated to Alice Fox in our sketchbooks. We were inspred by her work, information about her, nature and colours that she would use.
Date: 19th Dec 2024 @ 11:14am
As the culminaton of our short journey looking at Christianity, we sketched, planned and finished a piece of topographical art linked to the Nativty. We used skills we have learnt in art and geography to create a nativity scene using a map of the Jerusalem and Bethlehem as a centre image.
Date: 19th Dec 2024 @ 10:59am
Acorns have enjoyed learning about Christmas celebrations and the Nativity over the last few weeks.
Acorns have explored a variety of multisensory activities and experiences to develop their skills and understanding, including turn taking and social skills.
We have enjoyed a Christmas themed 'Bucket' to support our focus and concentration.
In art we have enjoyed recreating the Nativity scene and making Christmas ornaments to take home for our families.
We loved our singalong with our families during stay and play, and exploring signing during our singing.
A highlight was dancing during the Christmas party and a visit from Santa.
Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and all the best for the new year.
Acorns team.
Date: 19th Dec 2024 @ 8:17am
Year 6 have produced some wonderful Christmas artwork this week based on the story of the nativity. We used watercolour paint to create stained glass effects.
Date: 18th Dec 2024 @ 9:52am
This week we completed some RE art to show an important event in the story – the birth of baby Jesus. We used pastels and black paper to create our own art work showing the stable, the manger, baby Jesus and other important characters in the story.
Date: 17th Dec 2024 @ 4:12pm
Today, we have created art based around Nativity. The children used watercolours to create a stained glass window effect. After, we reflected on the Nativity story and the true meaning behind Christmas for Christians.
Date: 17th Dec 2024 @ 1:31pm
Linking into our R.E learning we looked at the Nativity story. In RE, We created a silhouette to show the nativity art scene using pastels, thinking about the characters and the setting.
Date: 17th Dec 2024 @ 1:02pm
This half term we have been looking at architecture. We began our Art journey by exploring what architecture is and we looked at the work of Hunderwasser. We learnt that he liked bright, colourful buildings and would often use topsy turvy designs. We then designedour own buildings and chose a colour palette for our building. Over the last couple of days, we have been building, painting and decorating our houses ready to evaluate.
Date: 17th Dec 2024 @ 8:51am
We absolutely loved using watercolours to create our RE Christmas Art this year. Our Art journey has been about telling a story through drawings using watercolours so we used these skills for our Christmas Art too.
Nursery Christmas Stay and Play
Date: 12th Dec 2024 @ 2:23pm
We had a super time this week when our Mums and Dads joined us for a special Christmas Stay and Play. Everyone made some Christmas Crafts and Iced a tasty Christmas biscuit. Stay and Play sessions are a great opportunity for our parents and carers to spend time with their children in the nursery environment and build realtionships with the nursery staff.
Year 3- Artists exploring chiaroscuro!
Date: 9th Dec 2024 @ 10:56am
In this lesson, the children explored the work of Heather Hansen. She is an artist who explores art through movement. She performs along with music and we re-created this in our dance studio. The children loved this expressive opportunity!
Reception- Little Red Riding Hood
Date: 29th Nov 2024 @ 11:57am
This week Reception have been reading the story Little Red Riding Hood. They have been busy acting out the story at the story telling table and in the home corner, writng lists of food for Granny, making 'Get Well Soon' cards for Granny and collaging a paper plate wolf.
"I made a card to make Granny feel better" Lily-Mae.
"The wolf was bad and wanted to eat Little Red Red Riding Hood" Kevin.
"My wolf has got big teeth" Myla- Gray.
Date: 21st Nov 2024 @ 2:33pm
This week nursery have been talking about the changes we can see outside in the Autumn. We have been looking at different coloured leaves and talked about why they change colour and have explored these colours through painting. The children have had lots of opportunites to look at autumnal objects and have also created some fabulous leaf people.
Date: 20th Nov 2024 @ 6:36pm
Year 1 enjoyed using pastels to create our poppy drawings. We talked about the different shapes we needed to use, the colours on a poppy and how to use pastels effectively.
Date: 19th Nov 2024 @ 3:28pm
Today we were introduce to the focus of our 'Storytelling through drawing' unit with the poem 'A Day in Autumn'. We will look at the poem in more detail in the weeks to come, but this week the focus was autumnal colours. We went down to EYFS and hunted for some leave, twigs etc which would show good autumnal colours. Then back in class, we had a go at recreating some of the colours in our sketchbooks.
Date: 14th Nov 2024 @ 3:51pm
To link in with 'Remembrance' week, we have produced pieces of art linked to poppies. We began the session looking at different way to shade and add depth with art pencils and pencil crayons. We then looked at a range of different poppies and sketched our own. Finally, we added colour to our poppies using the shading techniques we looked at.
Date: 13th Nov 2024 @ 5:12pm
Pupils explored how they can build and share a story through a series of images. They used charcoal and chalk to produce an illustration of a setting and description. The children then displayed their work on their tables and admired other pieces of art work in class similar to an art gallery!
