Image of Year 3 Painting Skills
17 May 2024

Year 3 Painting Skills

Year 3 have been developing their skills in using different techniques with paint. They have used blotting, change of hue to alter the shade and sgraffito, where they scratched off thick paint to reveal another colour. They have recreated Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” using impasto painting in swirly…

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3 May 2024

Caterpillar art

Reception have been learning about the life cycle of a butterfly and reading the story, ‘The Hungry Caterpillar’. We then created our own art using pegs, cotton wool and paint to make a colourful caterpillar. The children added legs and they are now proudly displayed on our ‘Growing’ display. 

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Year 4 Tinting and Shading
2 May 2024

Year 4 Tinting and Shading

Year 4 have enjoyed experimenting with colour using tinting and shading techniques to create an ombré effect. They have used paints and oil pastels to try out their art skills. They did a wonderful job!

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21 March 2024

Nursery: Inspired by Piet Mondrian

This week we have been inspired by the artist Piet Mondrian. We had a go at decorating some Easter eggs using the colours and patterns that he used too! We loved using lots of different tools to paint with!

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13 March 2024

Year 2 Explore Painting with Natural Materials

Our Year 2 children are currently focusing on painting in their Art and Design lessons. They went in the outdoor area of the school to find some natural materials that they could use to paint with. The children found many different items and talked about which parts of the materials they would use…

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6 March 2024

Stations of the Cross Artwork 06.03.24

Year 6 are using their sketching skills to create posters of the Stations of the Cross in preparation for our Easter

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23 February 2024

Year 5 Visit Lowry Exhibition At The Beacon

Year 5 were very excited to visit the Beacon this morning to see their work on display. Last term they took part in a workshop in school and created a diorama of  Lowry’s painting ‘The Mill Scene’. This is now part of the exhibition which has Lowry paintings on loan from Salford Art Museum. We…

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8 February 2024

Celebrating Chinese New Year in Nursery

This week we have been learning all about Chinese New Year. 
We know that this year is the year of the dragon, and to decide this there was ‘The Great Race’ between the animals. 
To celebrate we have been creating our very own dragon pictures, uncovering different Chinese symbols and having a go…

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4 February 2024

Henri Matisse Art in Reception

In Reception we were learning about the life of the famous artist Henri Matisse. The children then created their own art work using their imagination linked to this week’s story of ‘The Wonder’. They created some fabulous art using all their own ideas. 
 

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31 January 2024

Nursery: ‘Tiddler’

Last week our Nursery children enjoyed reading the story ‘Tiddler’ by Julia Donaldson, as part of our ‘All about Julia’ topic. 

They loved exploring the ‘Tiddler’ inspired messy tray, looking for the sea creatures from the story in the jelly. 

Other children enjoyed creating some tangram…

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11 January 2024

Rockets from outer Space

In Reception the children have been making rockets using different 3D shapes and joining them together. We talked about what things we might see in space and how a rocket would get there. We have been reading the story, William Bee’s Wonderful world of things that go! We looked at how a space…

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8 January 2024

Calendars in the style of Hundertwasser

Year 5 have been studying the artist Hundertwasser and how he created abstract paintings. They learnt that abstract painting is to represent people or things not in a realistic way but to express their ideas about them in their own way. Using this method they created their own Hundertwasser…

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