Art: Blog items
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!
Date: 12th Nov 2024 @ 8:16pm
Nursery learnt all about Remembrance Day and spent time thinking about members of the Armed Forces. The children planted poppies and then took apart in the whole school Remembrance Service. They also painted some beautiful poppies for the soldiers.
Date: 12th Nov 2024 @ 1:32pm
As part of our Remembrance service, Year 5 made and planted poppies in our remembrance garden. Each of the children wrote names of soldiers and we thought about their sacrifice when we planted them. The children also took part in our whole school act of remembrance.
Date: 11th Nov 2024 @ 4:37pm
Today, Year Two celebrated Remembrance Day by participating in our whole school service thinking about why we conduct a minutes silence and why we remember those who have/are fighting in battles around the world. We also drew and painted our own poppies and planted some poppies in our Remembrance Garden- each poppy had a soldiers name on it to remember those who lost their lives in WW1.
Year 4 - Remembrance Day Celebration
Date: 11th Nov 2024 @ 3:51pm
Today we were part of our annual Remembrance Day Celebration. Last week, we used our art skills to make poppies out of clay and paint them with acrylic paint.
Acorns - Funnybones and Fireworks
Date: 11th Nov 2024 @ 11:02am
Acorns have been reading Funnybones this week. We have enjoyed our sensory story and learning the skeleton dance, exploring how the bones make up our bodies.
Acorns also engaged in a variety of activities to explore bonfire night. We enjoyed our sensory tuff trays and painting fireworks.
Date: 11th Nov 2024 @ 10:44am
Acorns have been exploring Remembrance Day in class through video and art experiences. We planted our poppies this morning to remember those who have passed.
Date: 7th Nov 2024 @ 2:58pm
The children loved using some open ended resources to create their own rocks, They had to select the pieces they wanted and decide how they would attach them together. They also had to chat to their friends about the resources and share and take turns.
Nursery Go Up with a Whizz, Bang, Pop
Date: 7th Nov 2024 @ 2:43pm
Nursery have been learning all about fireworks and have got very sparkly in the process! We have been practising our mark making skills to create some wonderful firework pictures, made some star soup outside and created some firework sparklers.
Reception- Remember, remember the 5th of November
Date: 5th Nov 2024 @ 8:22pm
Today the children in Reception have been participating in lots of different 'Bonfire Night' themed activities. Firstly we learnt about why many people celebrate Bonfire Night including learning about the story of the Gunpowder Plot. We talked about the different traditions we have with our families including going to a firework display, lighting sparklers and enjoying a bonfire. The children enjoyed making their own Bonfire Night pictures using a range of different meduims and materials. collaging rockets and using loose parts to make transient art pictures. Outside the children were practising their fine motor and physical skills by making firework pictures in our mark making area.
As a class we also discussed the importance of keeping ourselves safe during these exciting celebrations.
"Wear gloves when you have sparklers so you don't burn' Emily
"Only adults touch fireworks" Oakley
Stand far away from bonfires and fireworks so you don't get hurt" Lilah
"Keep your pet inside so they aren't scared" Freyja
