We have had a busy week in Reception learning all about Minibeasts.In Art we have had lots of fun printing with our bodies to create different minibeasts.During DT we used the clay the roll, pinch and mold different minibeasts. We have also been able to...
This week in our lunchtime Art Club, the children used a range of materials and made their very own Paddington Bear, complete with his own briefcase and marmalade sandwiches![gallery ess_grid_gal="homepage" ids="19130,19131"]...
Our focus in Art this week was to explore texture when printing. We used our collagraph plates made from different materials to investigate the different textures it would create when printed.We used rollers to apply the paint to our collagraph plates and create a print....
This week at Nursery, we have been making model farm animals using playdough, feathers, strong and eyes.We used different techniques such as rolling, squeezing, pinching and twisting to create the right shapes. We made some amazing animals and developed our fine motor skills![gallery ess_grid_gal="homepage" ids="18484,18485,18486,18487,18488"]...
This term we are reading The Enormous Turnip and looking at different fruit and vegetables.In Art we are learning how to print. This week we cut up a variety of green vegetables, mixed paint to make different shades of green and made some beautiful vegetable...
Year Two have been on a very exciting trip this week to the National Portrait Gallery. We saw lots of portraits and self-portraits. In Art, we are learning different techniques to help us draw our own self-portraits.some of the portraits we saw were of different...
This week, Year 2 have been applying all of the skills we have learned this half term to sculpt a rainforest creature using plasticine.We used tools to help us add texture and effects to our sculpture.[gallery ess_grid_gal="homepage" ids="17904,17905,17906,17907,17908,17909,17910,17911,17912,17913,17914,17915,17916,17917,17918,17919,17920,17921,17922,17923,17924,17925,17926,17927,17928,17929,17930,17931,17932"]...
This half term we have been exploring shades and tones and creating a gradient of colour. We added white and black paint to make colours lighter and darker. We have used the techniques we have learnt to make Christmas cards for our families.We also enjoyed...
This week at Nursery, we have been getting very messy! We combined different ingredients together to make slime and watched how it changed the more we nixed it. The children learnt and used new words to describe the slime such as,"sticky", "gloopy" and "gooey".[gallery ess_grid_gal="homepage"...
In Year 2 this week, we created a gentle gradient picture using two colours of paint.[gallery ess_grid_gal="homepage" ids="17257,17258,17259,17260"]...