Art: Blog items
Date: 21st Jun 2024 @ 2:17pm
A theme of identity! We've had a great day exploring mark making and then creating our own self-portraits.
Date: 21st Jun 2024 @ 1:33pm
Today we enjoyed Art and Music Day! We learnt about the theme for the day and what the word 'identity' means. We then talked about the different things that make us individual and that contribute towards our identity. We completed different activities to explore our own identities before creating our own self portrait. We looked carefully at our own individual features and the shapes we can use to create our features using pastels and pencils.
Date: 20th Jun 2024 @ 4:37pm
There are lots of opportunites for the children to work collaboratively in nursery as its a great way to develop communication and language skills and PSED skills. This week we have been reading story "The Singing Mermaid" By Juila Donaldson and the chidlren worlked togerher the create a beautiful tail for the mermaid.
Date: 13th Jun 2024 @ 3:58pm
This week children in year 5 have begun their art journey into fashion design. In this lesson, pupils were inspired by three British designers and created an in fluences page in their sketchbooks.
Date: 13th Jun 2024 @ 12:15pm
Nursery have been busy making Sharks this week and were brilliant at following instructions. They carefully placed all the pieces in the correct place and the results were fabulous!
Reception Clay Bog Baby Models and Habitats
Date: 11th Jun 2024 @ 11:21am
Reception have been reading the story 'Bog Baby'. As part of our art work all the children made their own clay model of the Bog Baby. the children looked carefully at the different features of the Bog Baby including his big googley eyes, long spikey tail and little mouse like ears. The children explored the clay using their hands to manipulate the shape and size. They used the teachniques of slip, score and blend to successfully attach the different parts to their model. When the models had dried the child painted them carefully. Every child made their own home for the Bog Baby which they used a range of different materials from the create area.
"The water helped the clay to stick together" Mathew.
"Yo have to blend it properly or the tail will fall off" Elisha.
Date: 11th Jun 2024 @ 11:03am
In Art, Year Three have started a new pathway of telling stories through Art. We have started looking at inspirational artists Quentin Blake and Inbal Leitner and created double page spread that included key facts, images and our own sketches! On our journey we are going to use these artists to inspire our artwork, we are going to use modelling clay to create our own creatures!
Boundary recieve Arts Mark Gold Award
Date: 10th Jun 2024 @ 4:02pm
Boundary recieve Arts Mark Gold Award
We are proud to share that once again we have been awarded the Arts Mark Gold award which recognises schools that deliver a high
quality arts and cultural education program!
Acorns - Sam plants a sunflower
Date: 17th May 2024 @ 4:42pm
This week Acorns have been reading Sam plants a Sunflower, as our class story.
We have enjoyed learning about how plants grow and what they need, including soil, water and sunlight.
We have been developing our focus and attention, taking part in small adult led group activities based around our story.
Acorns have enjoyed the immersive sensory story, especially being sprayed with the water spray when Sam plants his seeds and waters them.
Acorns have experienced planting their very own sunflowers and can't wait to see them grow.
Acorns - Ben plants a Butterfly Garden
Date: 12th May 2024 @ 6:25pm
This week Acorns have been exploring the story Ben plants a Butterfly Garden.
We are continuing to develop our understanding of the butterfly life cycle.
We have enjoyed a variety of sensory tuff tray experiences as well as the sensory story.
We have also noticed the change in our caterpillars, which a now chrysalis.
We have engaged well in lots of different literacy and numeracy activities, developing our overwriting skills and number knowledge. We are continuing to develop our engagement in adult-led activities alongside our peers.
What a busy week.
Date: 12th May 2024 @ 5:48pm
Acorns have been listening to our adults talk about new life spring brings and this week we went on a spring walk.
Acorns had lots of fun exploring our forest school area and looking at all the different flora and fauna around us.
We enjoyed using visuals to find different plants and tick them of our checklist.
Acorns were excited to see tadpoles from our little pond and enjoyed watching them swim in the bucket.
We are curious to see what they grow up to become and are looking forward to learn about their life cycle next term.
We were excited to spot some butterflies and collected some natural materials to create our very own natural art butterflies after learning about the butterfly lifecycle this term.
Reception- The very Hungry Caterpillar
Date: 10th May 2024 @ 12:16pm
We have been reading the story The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
It is about a very hungry caterpillar that consumes a variety of foods before making a cocoon and becoming a butterfly.
We have had lots of fun retelling the story with our friends using stick puppets, painting a caterpillar, creating our own caterpillar using art resources and making a paper plate butterfly.
Finally, we wrote about our favourite part of the story.
Take a look at our photos!
Acorns - The Hungry Caterpillar
Date: 3rd May 2024 @ 9:36pm
This week Acorns have been reading the Hungry Caterpillar. We have engaged in a variety of learning activities and experiences to support our understanding of the world around us and the life cycles of butterflies. We have enjoyed making hungry caterpillars in Art and even feeding our very own hungry caterpillar. We found caterpillars and butterflies everywhere, including in our tuff tray and our 'Bucket'. We even had our very own caterpillars come to live in Acorns! We can't wait to see what happens.
Date: 3rd May 2024 @ 9:00pm
We have enjoyed our sensory story this week all about Jaspers Beanstalk. We have been engaging in small adult led activities to support our understanding, learning and developing our focus and concentration. We have loved copying the actions from the book, planting, digging, watering and watching to see what grows. We have enjoyed exploring a variety of vegetables through touch, smell and taste if we were brave enough. We also enjoyed counting vegetables and trying to order beanstalks from smallest to biggest. For some of us we counted to 10 and others showed great listening skills and engagement. What a busy week.
Year 2- Continuous line drawing
Date: 26th Apr 2024 @ 4:12pm
This week, we moved on from creating patterns with nature to exploring different drawing techniques. We focused on continuous line drawings and after some careful modelling, the children had a go at creating some continuous line drawings of objects from nature including flowers, sticks, acorns and leaves. The children really tried to focus on the shapes they could see, lines and paid attention to the smaller details of dealing with natural resources. They were all incredibly proud of their drawings and couldn't believe how fantastic they were!
Nursery and The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Date: 25th Apr 2024 @ 11:25am
We have been reading the story "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle. The story is brilliant for teaching the children the days of the week, counting and exploring the life cycle of the butterfly. The children have been busy outside looking for caterpillars - we haven't found any yet! We have leanrt the caterpillar starts with a "C" and thought of other things that start with a "c". The children have also enjoyed leanring a new song that teaches us about the liec cycle of a butterfly.
Date: 19th Apr 2024 @ 2:30pm
This term Acorns topic is Let's Grow. We will be looking at the growth of plants, flowers, fruit and vegetables as well as the life cycles of butterflies and frogs. We will be exploring spring as we see the new growth all around us. This week we have incorportated the story Jack and the Beanstalk and Jasper's Beanstalk in our learning and learnt about planting and growing. We planted our very own beans and are excited to watch them grow.
Year 2- Making Patterns with Nature
Date: 19th Apr 2024 @ 7:09am
Yesterday, Year Two created pieces of art by thinking about patterns they could create using different types of lines, shapes, overlapping, layering and filling taking inspiration from our artist Alice Fox who collects things in her allotment and uses them to create her art. The children had time to explore the materials we were using and then experimented with creating different pieces of art. Once we had our final piece we evaluated it for it's effectiveness thinking about what we liked about it and reflected on the techniques we had used.
Date: 18th Apr 2024 @ 10:14pm
Nursery continue to learn about growth and change and this week we have been reading the story "Ben Plants a Butterfly Garden". In the story, Ben plants some wild flower seeds in his garden to encourage butterflies to come and visit - he even finds some caterpillars! We planted our own wild flower seeds and are looking forward to watching them grow. The children have also spent time exploring flowers and looking at their individual parts, sequenced how to grow and seed and created some collage flowers and some transient art flowers.
Date: 26th Mar 2024 @ 5:16pm
The last couple of weeks we have been making our clay sculptures. We have made tinned food or jars of food. The children showed lots of perseverance sculpting their tins/jars and then again when painting them.
Date: 12th Mar 2024 @ 10:24am
What a great session this morning. We virtually met with five vounteers who all told us about their jobs in the art industry. We had a variety of virtual visitors from a tattoo artist, to a photographer to a painting conservator.
Date: 29th Feb 2024 @ 10:30pm
The children have been very busy listening to superhero stories and even getting in to a few rescue missions themselves! They have made their own masks and designed a cape. The masks came in very handy as they role played superhero missions outside. We also looked at the "s" sound in phonics and found other objects that began with a "s". The children then created their own super "S".
Date: 29th Feb 2024 @ 10:12pm
Nursery never run out of ways to have fun outdside. Amongst all the fun, there is a lot of learning going on! This week, the slide has created lots of learning opportunites - all led by the children. They worked together to move a crate to use as an extra step and then moved the giant spinning top to the bottom of the slide. The chidlren then discovered it was great fun to slide down the slide and land in the spinning top! They children have also been exploring colours and colour mixing all through painting a large cardboard box!
Date: 26th Feb 2024 @ 5:56pm
Reception have been learning about the celebration- Chinese New Year- the year of the dragon.
They made Chinese lanterns and dragons, painted Chinese dragons, talked about Chinese food and how similar it is to other celebrations, such as Christmas and birthdays.
"You clean the house ready to celebrate and eat special food" Mathew.
"You get presents and treats" Lucy.
"It is the year of the dragon" Loui-Tony.
"i like Chinese food- I eat rice and noodles and chicken" Mireya.
"You eat Chinese food with chopsticks" Myah.
Nursey - Exploring Puffy Paint
Date: 19th Jan 2024 @ 7:03am
With all the snow this week and discovering how it starts to melt when the temperture warms up, the children have been making some melted snowman pictures! We used shaving foam and PVA glue to create our snowman pictures. We talked about what had made the snowmen melt. Here are some of the things the children said "It melted becasue of the rain"."He got too hot". "The sun did it".
