Art & Design

Art Painting

by | 5 May 2022 | Art & Design, Kingfishers

This half tem in Art, Kingfishers Class are focusing on painting. The Year One children responded to a story as a staring point for developing painting techniques. The Reception children used thick and thin paintbrushes to write letters. The children were able to apply paint by using selected brush strokes. Great art work Kingfishers.

Exploring Texture

by | 5 May 2022 | Art & Design, History, Owls

This half term, the Owls art focus is painting. For our first lesson, we explored using and creating different textures and then painting over them. Later in the term, the children will be creating their own textured versions of some of John Constable’s masterpieces, which will link together our learning in Art and History.

Lunar New Year

by | 2 Feb 2022 | Art & Design, Kingfishers

This week the children celebrated the Lunar New Year. Miss Jones shared a PowerPoint and a story about the Lunar New Year. The children learned that red envelopes with coins are presented as gifts at family gatherings such as weddings or holidays such as Lunar New Year. The children created their own red envelope and […]

Artistic responses to a story

by | 2 Feb 2022 | Art & Design, English, News, Woodpeckers

For our Art topic this half term we have been exploring different types of marks and using them to respond to different stimuli. Today we listened to the story of Pattan’s Pumpkin and applied our learning of different mark making. As artists, we used paint to create different types of mark in our paintings. We […]

Mark Making in Art

by | 2 Feb 2022 | Art & Design, News, Woodpeckers

On Tuesday 11th January the children in Woodpecker class were tasked with using different tools to create particular types of mark. The children used straws, thick and thin paint brushes, glue spreaders, sticks, pipe cleaners and cutlery to experiment with creating different types of mark such as ‘thick’, ‘thin’, ‘wavy’, ‘jagged’ , shiny’ etc. The […]

Winter

by | 1 Jan 2022 | Art & Design, Kingfishers

This week the reception children have been learning about the season Winter . They have been finding wintery objects outside while completing Maths challenges. They have been on a winter hunt looking for different items and completing a checklist. They have also been painting snowmen. Great work Kingfishers.

Observational Drawings

by | 11 Nov 2021 | Art & Design, Science, Swans

The Swans have being doing observational drawings of migratory birds. This week we used magnifying glasses to look closely at the colour and texture of the feathers. We then used watercolour paints to paint over our sketches. The children used a variety of drawing media such as biros, sketching pencils and handwriting pens.  

3D Art

by | 11 Nov 2021 | Art & Design, Kingfishers

This half term, the children are creating 3D Art. The children have investigated the possibilities of working with clay. The children were introduced to the story of Henry the Pebble and his Family. Miss Jones told the story and the children followed the story manipulating a small piece of clay. The forceps of each part […]

Clay Pebbles

by | 11 Nov 2021 | Art & Design, Kingfishers

The year one children continued being artists this week, focusing on 3D art. The children used different coloured clays to decorate 3D forms. They manipulated clay to produce balls and coils. Great work Kingfishers.

Firework Fun

by | 11 Nov 2021 | Art & Design, Kingfishers

The children have been very busy creating fireworks. The children chose the colours they wanted and dripped the paint on to the circle tapping it on the side of the spinner. When they had selected the colours they put the lid on top and spun the spinner. When they took the top off they were […]

Amazing Art

by | 10 Oct 2021 | Art & Design, Kingfishers

This half term the children in Kingfishers Class have be investigating different textiles and learning new skills. The children have learnt to weave, mark – make, knot, take rubbings and fabric peg. The children have also enjoyed working with Brusho and seeing the effect it has when paining over oil pastels. The photographs show the […]

Stone Age Pottery

by | 10 Oct 2021 | Art & Design, History, News, Woodpeckers

This half term, the children in Woodpeckers class have enjoyed learning about The Stone Age. In Art we have looked at Stone Age cave art, drawings and pottery. This week we made our own Stone Age pots and bowls and used natural objects to help make patterns on them. We used our finger nails, sticks, […]