In Art this week, the children had to identify the features of a face to create a self portrait. Have a look at how fabulous they are!
In Art this week, the children in Maples have been looking at mixing primary colours in order to make secondary colours. The children have enjoyed creating their own artwork using the primary colours: red, yellow and blue. They have also created addition sentences showing what secondary colours can be made by mixing two primary colours.
Have a look at their amazing work!
In Art, Sycamores have been learning all about how to make tints, tones and shades using paints. We have added white to a base colour to create a tint, exploring what happens as we add a small amount of white paint each time. We then looked at shades and added a small amount of black each time to our base colour. As we added the black, we realised we didn’t need to add that much! Finally, we learnt about tones and added grey by mixing black and white together to our base colour. It created a muter colour palette. Well done Sycamores!
Today we used watercolour paints to mix colours by freely exploring the properties of watercolours. We compared findings, shared tips with each other and created some amazing colours.
This week we had great fun getting out the bikes, trikes and scooters and working together to make them shiny and clean!
We filled our buckets with soapy water and used sponges, cloths and wipers to clean the vehicles.
We read the story ‘Wow Said the Owl’ and explored our favourite colours. Everyone contributed to a beautiful display on our classroom wall. In the story there was a rainbow, so we discussed how rainbows appear and even sang a French song ‘Arc-en-Ciel’, which taught us how to say the names of colours in French.
Collage
Painting and colour mixing
We had lots of fun outdoors, including investigating water, developing our number skills with the giant dominoes, and learning how to use tools safely and competently.
We’ve also enjoyed some delicious school meals, and joined in with our daily ‘Wake up Shake up’ sessions.
Willows invited their adults in to share their learning about the Romans.
The children designed and made their own Roman shields…
… and mosaic tiles. Don’t their creations all look brilliant!
In Chestnuts, we have had an Ancient Egyptian afternoon where we invited parents to see what we have been up to.
We tasted lots of typical Ancient Egyptian food such as bread, honey, figs and cheese. We also made jewellery and Tutankhamen style headdresses.
Birches class have been learning about significant monarchs and their roles and responsibilities. The children have enjoyed learning lots of facts and being able to create their own portraits of significant monarchs.
Birches class listened to Ed Vere, an author and illustrator. We discussed his book ‘The artist’. The children were able to discuss the story, answer questions and make predictions. We also discussed the characters thoughts and feelings and how we can relate. Birches also looked at and discussed the illustrations in the story and even had a go at doing their own pictures.
This week in Rowans the children have explored pictures of themselves at the beach and explained what they like to do at the beach. The children have also sorted beach pictures from the past to present day. In science the children learnt all about rainbows and how they occur. The children were able to name the colours of a rainbow and then made their own rainbow. In geography the children used google maps to look at places of interest in the local area. The children had lots of fun finding our school, the nearest metro station, park and then they identified their own house.
