Today the children in Year One have been ‘drawing with scissors’, just like the famous artist Henri Matisse. We read the story ‘Henry’s Scissors’, about Matisse and his love of cutting... and then had a try ourselves! The children loved the freedom this allowed them...
We were delighted to hear from one of our Rosemary Works School alumni who is currently reading Art at Leeds University. She asked us if she could develop a project with primary aged children under certain headings. Having collected a batch of work yesterday, we were...
Year 6 have been looking at Ukiko-e style of Japanese art in our topic lessons. These style of paintings became popular when they became available in woodblock prints. They looked at the artist Hokusai and his work entitled Thirty Six Views of Mount Fuji, then...
Greek Monster Puppets In order to wind down after a busy week we've also been finishing off our Greek monster puppets, using plaster of paris, and sewing skills to be really creative when making our hand puppets. We can't wait to see the finished product and...
This half term Craft Club designed and made Christmas decorations. I lovely snowman, Christmas tree, Christmas pudding and no tree would be complete without a dumpling and a Santa dinosaur!
This week Year 3 have been busy writing instructions for magic potions, cakes and soups with some brilliant outcomes. They applied all the features of instructional texts to their writing and even drew some beautiful diagrams alongside them. In Maths we have started...
Today saw the first Democratic Time where, instead of before, children sign up for a 5 or 6 week programme with the same group every Friday afternoon. Alison, our Year 2 teacher is focusing on Amazing Artists this half term, and has kindly shared some of the amazing...
In today’s art lesson, the Year One children learnt about artist Alma Thomas. Alma Thomas was the first African-American woman to hold an exhibition of her work at the Whitney Museum of American Art and she liked to focus on beauty and happiness in her paintings. The...
In Years 5 and 6 this half term we have been learning all about keeping our minds and bodies healthy. Today in Year 5 J we focused on the importance of a healthy diet and learning about the constituents of the main food groups. We then got creative and made models of...
This year, International Women's Day fell on a Sunday, so we decided to celebrate last Friday after a super World Book Day the day before. This year, we focused on women artists and classes learnt all about their chosen artists and their work. We had talked in...
