Self portraits in Nursery 2025
Our Nursery children have been creating their own self portraits in class. They chose how they wanted to do them with colours or on the iPad. Every half term the children will create another one to add to their star on the wall.
Being creative in Nursery
Nursery have been getting creative by gluing and sticking to make collage pictures and printing with paint and corks. We have lots of creative children, who are always very proud of their artwork.
Year 3 Painting techniques
Year 3 have been practicing their painting techniques and learning about how Vincent Van Gogh used impasto paint, line and blue shades to create “A Starry Night”.
They used flour to thicken their paint and then painted in the style of Van Gogh.
Art in Year 5
Year 5 studied the famous painting Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh.
They looked carefully at the colours and how the flowers were drawn. They then created their own versions, using oil pastels to produce deep, vibrant colours. Everyone was very pleased with the end result.
Florence Mine 2025
- Year 6 had a lovely morning learning at Florence Mine learning about the mining industry , how it has been a huge part of the development of Egremont and inspiration to local artists.
Y2 Making Marks in Art
Year 2 have been studying the artwork of Beth Krommes in their art lessons. They have been looking carefully at how she uses a range of marks to create images from nature including waves. They thoroughly enjoyed using paint and oil pastels to create their worn version of the artwork…
Year 6 Drawing 092025
Year 6 have been learning how to draw a self-portrait. They had to consider scale and proportion then used different sketching techniques to create areas of light and dark. A great effort by everyone!
Nursery Outdoor Artwork 2025
Over the last few weeks, Nursery have enjoyed being out in all kinds of weather and have been working very hard at creating some outdoor artwork like the artist Andy Goldsworthy. We collected all sorts of different natural materials like leaves, sticks, pebbles and flowers to use to create our…
Aboriginal Patterns in Year 2
In Art, Year 2 has been learning about Aboriginal patterns. They have been finding out the colours the Aboriginals used to represent different elements and emotions. In the r artwork they used these colours along with some of the traditional symbols the Aboriginals used in their artwork to…
Collage Painting in Year 2
Year 2 finished their art unit by creating a reconstructed collage painting in a similar style to those created by the artist Kate Vernon. They combined a paint background and images of people and nature to give their work a textural quality. They had great fun selecting the right images for their…
Environment Day and Ocean Day Y6 2025
- Year 6 have been reflecting on the impact of human activity on the environment. We began by exploring all the amazing technologies that have improved the quality of our lives - things like washing machines, cars, aeroplanes and even plastic containers. However, we also acknowledged that these…
World Ocean Day - Reception Class
Reception Class have enjoyed creating their own ocean scene, which depicts the environmental issue of plastic entering our oceans. They listened to the story ‘Clean Up!’ to support their learning and they thought carefully about how they can help care and look after our oceans.
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