Art & Design

Henry Moore inspired Art Year 6

by | 10 Oct 2025 | Art & Design, Swans

The Swans have been experimenting with adding contour lines to their work to create a sense of  form , focusing on how they can create a sense of weightiness and gravity. They used a potato to draw contour lines on, placed it on a piece of white paper, observed the shadow that formed and then […]

Henry Moore study – Year 6

by | 9 Sep 2025 | Art & Design, Swans

The children have been learning about the artist Henry Moore. We are focusing our art work this term on his WW2 Shelter Drawings. This week, the children practised some of the techniques he used in preparation for their final piece.

Colour Mixing Detectives

by | 9 Sep 2025 | Art & Design, Kingfishers

The Year One children became ‘artists’ and started a new unit of work – Painting and Mixed Media. The children thought about the question – Can we investigate how to mix secondary colours. The children listened to the Sesame Street Lego Three Primary Colours. Miss Jones asked the children some questions- What are the primary […]

Stone Age Art

by | 9 Sep 2025 | Art & Design, Forest Schools, History, Woodpeckers

This term in art we are looking at Prehistoric Art, focusing on the Stone Age! We are linking this in through forest school where we will eventually be creating our own cave art paintings using natural resources from the forest area!    

Batik prints

by | 6 Jun 2025 | Art & Design, History, Owls, PE

For our Art last half term, Owls made batik prints using colours and patterns inspired by the ancient Maya.

Forest Fun

by | 4 Apr 2025 | Art & Design, Forest Schools, Woodpeckers

This week in the forest,  we were very busy planting sunflower seeds, recapping our clay skills from Autumn term, building ships and checking the progress of the frogspawn!    

Easter Wishes

by | 4 Apr 2025 | Art & Design, Community, Environment, Kingfishers

Miss Jones made an Easter display for the residents at BlackBrook Residential Home with the Easter Eggs the children had coloured. Mrs Cousins will deliver the Easter cards the children have made to the older residents in the village. Well done Kingfishers.

Icebergs in Watercolour

by | 3 Mar 2025 | Art & Design, News, Swans

In Year 6, we have been learning different watercolour techniques. We then tried to use some of the techniques in our iceberg paintings.

Using shade to create a sense of form

by | 3 Mar 2025 | Art & Design, News, Swans

In Year 6, the children have been looking at the artists Aurelie Bouquet and David McEown and their paintings of icebergs. They used shading techniques to try and give a sense of form to their work.

Flatford Visit

by | 2 Feb 2025 | Art & Design, Geography, History, Trips, Woodpeckers

On our trip to Flatford, we had a wonderful tour guide who spoke about John Constable and the history of Flatford. We created our own drawings, discussed the use of the river in the past and learnt about John Constable’s life. Here are some of the pictures from that day.

Kingfishers Sharing Session – Dinosaurs

by | 2 Feb 2025 | Art & Design, Design Technology, Kingfishers, Parents

This afternoon the children in Kingfishers Class took part in their sharing session with their adult/s. The children and adults were challenged to work together to create a dinosaur using recycled materials. The children and adults had lots of fun! The dinosaurs were fantastic. Well done everyone! A big ‘thank you’ to all the adults!

Art – Body Form

by | 2 Feb 2025 | Art & Design, Woodpeckers

This term in Art we have been exploring the human body form! Across two lessons the children traced an image of a skull and photocopied it before creating their own day of the dead skulls! They are all so fabulous and now on display for all to see! Well done Woodpeckers!