Blog by Tag: Art

Reception listened to different pieces of music and used paint to record their emotional responses, creating exciting and expressive paintings. 

Reception class collected materials and objects from nature to make painting tools; the children used these tool with mud to create abstract and figurative art. 

Year 2 have been creating their own clay tiles by rolling, impressing and joining pieces of clay to embellish it.

Knowledge: to use impressing and joining techniques to decorate a clay tile.

Skills: 

• I can describe my ideas about the work of artist Rachel Whiteread

• I can…

We finished our Clarice Cliff pottery in art club. We will continue club in the Spring term. 

Ms Smith, our Subject Leader for Art, assesses the impact of our Art curriculum by speaking to pupils in Year 4 to see what they could tell her about the knowledge, skills and vocab they have been acquiring.  Well done Y4!

We wanted to get our voices heard by expressing our thoughts through words and images.

KNOWLEDGE

Applying our understanding of light and dark, we created 3D word art.

SKILLS

Light and dark shading to create tonal…

Year have been exploring clay in order to create their own 3d model.  Eden wants to add some details by using her crafting knife to create some patterns.  

Knowledge: To shape a pinch pot and join clay shapes as decoration

Skills: 

• I can use the pinching technique to shape a…

Children in Year 4 have been using charcoal to represent light and dark; as well as comparing objects of different sizes. 

Year 2 have been using the language of flattening, rolling, pinching and scoring to manipulate clay.  They have also created their own clay pot using the "pinch" technique.

Knowledge: to shape a pinch pot and join clays shapes as decoration

Skills: 

• I can use the pinching technique…

Each class has been promoting and developing our pupils' knowledge and understanding of new vocabulary.  In Literacy, pupils have explored tier 1, 2 and 3 words linked to their topic, Read, Write Inc. or Pathways to Write.  In other subject areas such as Geography and IT, pupils are investigating…

In Year 4, the children have been learning how to create a 3D drawing.  We have experimented with shading to create different tones and how to make an object look 3D..