Reception - Art -Finger Painting 11th Mar 2025
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The children have been exploring different paint techniques. The children have enjoyed using their fingers to mix, spread and manipulate the paints in different ways.

Year 4 - Art - Different brush techniques 30th Jan 2025
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We have been trying out different brush techniques and even using sponges and cotton buds to explore different textures.

Year 4 - Art - Tinting and shading 15th Jan 2025
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In art we are experimenting with colouring mixing. We experimented with making colours lighter and darker by adding black and white paint.

Year 1 - Art & Design - Painting - Colour Mixing 14th Jan 2025
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Having learned about mixing primary colours to create secondary colours, we had a go at mixing different amounts of the primary colours to make different shades of the secondary ones.

Year 1 - Art & Design - Painting - Primary Colours 8th Jan 2025
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We learned about the primary colours and how to mix them to make the three secondary colours. We started exploring this idea of colour mixing in our sketch books. We loved being creative!

Year 5 - Remembrance 2024 11th Nov 2024
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We decided to create reflective artwork as a focus for Remembrance this year.

Year 1 - Art & Design - Drawing - Final Pieces 23rd Oct 2024
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The children chose their paper and materials to create the final pieces for their drawing unit. They discussed what inspired them with an adult and talked about what they liked about their final pieces.

Year 4 - Art - Power prints 18th Oct 2024
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We completed our unit on creating prints with different methods by creating a group project of printing onto fabric. We used lots of different printing techniques and made sure the colours we used were contrasting. It was great fun!

Year 4 - Art - Wax resist art 7th Oct 2024
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We used our brightly coloured wax pictures, painted them with black paint and then scratched some pictures using out drawing with scissors designs.

Year 5 - Art - Using a collograph 4th Oct 2024
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As part of our Art for this half term we are using different techniques to create a background for our final piece. We had already created a collograph (a print plate using different textures to create patterns), today's task was using our collograph to print our background.

Year 4 - Art - drawing with scissors 27th Sep 2024
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We studied the work of Henry Matisse and created our own 'drawings with scissors' in his style.

Reception - Art 25th Sep 2024
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The children have been expressing themselves through a variety of art activities, using loose parts and understand lines using chalks

Year 4 - Art - proportion drawing 19th Sep 2024
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We learnt how to use depth and shadow to create images in proportion

Y4 - Art - Shading 12th Sep 2024
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We have been learning how to use shading to create and depth to create 3D images

Year 1 - Science / Art - Plants - Trees 5th Jun 2024
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We have been learning all about plants. We have spent a lot of time outside finding common wild and garden plants. We have also been learning about trees. We learned the words deciduous and evergreen and what they meant. We have been looking at the leaves and the bark of trees to help us identify them. We had a lovely calm time drawing some trees on the field, making sure we could identify the trunk, branches and leaves.

Year 2 - Art - Clay house tiles 17th May 2024
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We have designed and made our clay tile houses. We used all the skills we have learnt across the half term to design and make our final pieces. Can you spot the techniques we have used?

Year 3 - Art - Abstract 3d structural shapes 17th May 2024
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Year 3 have begun exploring abstract sculpture. Our first session focused on using cardboard 2d shapes to create 3d abstract sculptures of playground equipment.

Year 5 - Art - Architecture (sketching/block printing) 8th May 2024
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This term we are looking at architecture and the first couple of lessons saw us creating observational drawings of the houses the other side of our field! We made the most of some good weather! Then using a frame we adapted and enlarged a part of our sketch to create a block print. As you can see from the photos, the concentration was palpable!

Reception - Art - Collage 7th May 2024
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The children made collages using mixed media and used loose parts to make transient art

Year 1 - Art & Design - Sculptures - Tree Of Life Inspired Final Pieces 3rd May 2024
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The children explored the many ways in which artists have represented the idea of a 'tree of life'. We used this idea to explore our own ideas about how we could base a sculpture on this idea. The children used all they had learned during this unit of work to create their own sculptures.

Reception - Art - Musical Painting 30th Apr 2024
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The children listened to different types of music and thought about how it made them feel, we then talked about the possible colours they could use. The children looked at different strokes they could make according to the rhythm or beat, slow, fast. They then used paints to express themselves while listening to a piece of music.

Year 2 - Art - Clay pinch pots 26th Apr 2024
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We have been practising our pottery skills. We have learnt how to use the 'score and slip' method to attach pieces of clay together.

Reception - Art - Outdoor Painting 26th Apr 2024
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The children collected natural materials to make a paintbrush, we then had a go at mixing up different consistencies of mud to do some mud painting. Some children then want on to make mud sculptures.

Year 1 - Art & Design - Sculpture - Paper Sculptures 24th Apr 2024
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Following on from our lesson on cylinders, we learned how to make different 3D shapes using paper and card to create sculptures. We made spirals, tables, rainbows, zig zags and loops. We then used what we had learned to create our own sculptures. We then had a gallery exhibition of our creations!

Year 1 - Art & Design - Sculptures - Cylinders 17th Apr 2024
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The children were introduced to 3D art and we learned that it was called sculpture. The children had a go at creating their own paper sculptures using different kinds of cylinders.

Year 1 - R.E. & Art - Lent & Easter 27th Mar 2024
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Year 1 have been learning about Easter and its importance to Christianity. The children have explored the events we remember in Holy Week and enjoyed linking this to what they see and hear in Mass. We used colour mixing to create some paintings of the crucifixion.

Year 5 - Art - Portrait Evolution 20th Feb 2024
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We have been evolving our self-portraits, initially using mixed media and lastly onto creating a 'Wanted' style poster for The Highwayman. (End of term update: we assessed our work and they will now be taking turns for a place in our rogues gallery!)

Year 2 - Art - Owl collage 16th Feb 2024
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We created our images of owls using different textures of paper and card and used our knowledge of painting to create textures with paint

Year 1 - Art & Design - Painting - Final Pieces 13th Feb 2024
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The children took inspiration from Clarice Cliff's plate designs to paint their own plates. They mixed their own colours using primary colours. The final pieces were stunning. Well done, Year 1!

Y4 - Art - Making ancient Egyptian style papyrus paper - attempt 2. 13th Feb 2024
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Y4 - Art - Making ancient Egyptian style papyrus paper - attempt 1. 9th Feb 2024
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Year 1 - Art & Design - Painting - Printing With Paints 31st Jan 2024
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We have been exploring the use of paint this half term in art. We have used paints, our fingers and our hands. This week, we looked at printing. We collected interesting items from around the room that we thought we could use. We explored this in our sketch books and then we applied this in a Great Fire of London themed piece of art. We had great fun!

Reception-Art- 3D sculptures Clay 30th Jan 2024
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The children designed their own animal sculptures then made them out of clay

Year 2 - Art - Creating textures with paint 19th Jan 2024
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We have been creating textures with paint to represent nature

Y4 - Art 19th Jan 2024
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Creating different textures and surfaces to draw and sketch on to.

Year 1 - Art & Design - Painting - Jasper Johns Inspired Piece 17th Jan 2024
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We looked at the piece 'Numbers in Colour' by Jasper Johns and used this as inspiration for our own pieces. We liked how our primary colours mixed on the page!

Reception-Art- 3D Landscape pictures 16th Jan 2024
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The children collected lots of natural materials found in our outside areas around the school. We then used these materials to make our own landscape artwork.

Year 1 - Art - Painting - Primary & Secondary Colour Mixing 10th Jan 2024
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We have been looking at the primary colours and how we can mix them to make the secondary colours. We looked at how many different shades of the secondary colours we could make just from using red, yellow and blue. Year 1 did a great job!

Reception - Art - Finger Painting 9th Jan 2024
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The children used their fingers to explore the paint. We discussed the different colours they had made and the texture of the paint.

Year 5 - Art - Poem portraits 5th Jan 2024
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Today we have created poem portraits from one-line self-portraits, and we were rather impressed by the effect! This is only the first lesson of our new Portraits topic - so this is a work in progress gallery!

Year 1 - Art & Design - Painting - Exploring Watercolours 12th Dec 2023
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Next half term, we are going to be using paints so we thought we would explore watercolours and see how we could make the colours darker or brighter. We really enjoyed exploring what this type of paint felt like and created some lovely paintings to take home!

Year 6 - Art - Hear My Voice 22nd Nov 2023
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We have been working on creating personalised art, based on Mexican street art and Myan culture.

Reception-Art- Squiglet 20th Nov 2023
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The children love our Squiglet sessions and have fun trying to draw all the characters. It is great practise for our focus on lines and drawing in our artwork

Year 1 - Art - Remembrance Day Art - Collage And Mixed Media 14th Nov 2023
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We learnt about Remembrance Day and why it is so important for us to remember it each year. The children held a lovely collective worship with very thoughtful responses. The children then responded to this by creating their own pieces of 'Poppy Art' for our class wreath - We hope you were able to see it in the window!

Year 3 - Art - Flower abstract art (Georgia O'Keeffe) 13th Nov 2023
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For the final piece of our 'Growing Artists' unit, we looked at the work of Georgia O’Keeffe, known for her abstract paintings of flowers. We looked at pictures of flowers and used a view finder to focus in on one part of the flower. We then painted just this part of the flower.

Year 1 - Art & Design - Drawing - Final Pieces 2nd Nov 2023
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Our creative juices were flowing in Year 1 this week! We were creating our final pieces of art to finish off our unit of work based on drawing. The children looked back at what they had done and made their own choices about the paper, materials and stimuli that they wanted to use. Some children were inspired by the oceans and beaches, some by autumn, some by observational drawing and some by shapes! What great artists we are!

Year 3 - Art - Frottage 20th Oct 2023
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Reception - Art - Printing and exploring texture using clay 17th Oct 2023
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The children have been using our autumnal resources to print and explore the different textures they make using clay. They also made their own creations.

Year 2 - Art - Observational Drawing - Teddies 6th Oct 2023
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In year 2 we did some observational drawing showing texture of our teddies

Year 1 - Art - Drawing - Line 6th Oct 2023
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We have been learning about different types of line in art. We listened to some classical music (Debussey's La Mer) and thought about the types of line that it made us want to draw. Once we learned that it was about the ocean, we worked together to use different types of line to create an ocean themed piece of art!

Year 4 - Art/History - Roman Mosaics 21st Sep 2023
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We have been learning about ancient Rome and in response to seeing some of their mosaics we made our own with paper and card squares.

Year 1 - Science / Art - Seasons - Autumn 13th Sep 2023
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The children found out that artists use a lot of reds, yellows, browns and oranges when they create autumn art. We decided that they are warm colours because they are like a fire. The children selected from a range of coloured paper and materials to create some beautiful autumn art! We will display these in our window when they are dry for you to see! We hope you like them!