Fruit Art in Acorns

15th March 2024A Malone

This week we have been learning about healthy lifestyles, and exploring what we need to do to stay healthy and strong. We discussed exercise, a balanced diet, sleep, brushing our teeth and keeping ourselves clean. Everyone agreed to try a new fruit or vegetable this week, and we have almost completed that challenge!

We also looked at some art work by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, who created faces out of fruit. We looked closely at one of his paintings, and then painted our own still life baskets of fruit.

 

A Wonderful World Book Day in Rowans

8th March 2024A Barnes

The children in Rowans looked amazing in their costumes for World Book Day!! The children listened to the story of The Enormous Turnip, they then retold the story using colourful semantics and answered comprehension questions about the story. In the afternoon the children selected animals from books and created paper plate animals. The children finished the day sharing stories with the children from Acorns. A super duper day!!

World Book Day in Cherries

8th March 2024G Mills

Cherries had a fantastic World Book Day! The children (and staff) dressed as book characters  and we used paper plates to make them into a wide range of characters from Harry Potter to SpongeBob SquarePants.

Polar Bear Art

9th February 2024l Mitchinson

We used our sketching skills to draw polar bears. We had to look really carefully at the example picture and recreate what we could see.

Inuit Art

26th January 2024l Mitchinson

Birches have been looking at different examples of Inuit art. This week we used ‘The Enchanted Owl’ by Kenojuak Ashevak to inspire our own owl prints.

Fun in Mindfulness Club

23rd November 2023A Malone

This week in Mindfulness Club we enjoyed using the new ‘balance snake’. We had to remove our shoes and focus on staying balanced as we walked along the snake. We had great fun but it was quite tricky!

 

We also did some mindful colouring, concentrated on solving wordsearches, and listened to some lovely relaxing music with beautiful underwater images.

Amazing Artists

17th November 2023A Barnes

In Art this week the children have used a variety of techniques to create Jackson Pollock style artwork. Firstly, the children created digital art using 2paint to select the wet paint tool to give the effect of the paint dripping. Then the children used paint and marbles to also create the drip and splash effect. Well done everyone!

Poured Paintings

16th November 2023l Mitchinson

This week in art the children in Birches class have been looking at artwork by Sir Frank Bowling. They looked at examples of his ‘poured paintings’ and experimented by creating their own versions. The children really enjoyed watching the paint run down their pieces of paper!