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Arts Week Day 4 and 5, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 28th May 2021 @ 1:48pm

The Koalas have had another couple of busy days. Yesterday children finished their pastel and ink wor, some did some sewing and we used words and symbols to creare graffitti style art .

Today we have painted our clay pots , created super heroes , videoed us singing and finished our time capsule books

Arts Week Thursday, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 27th May 2021 @ 6:05pm

Today we were printing. Earlier in the week we focused on the work of Henri Rousseau- the tiger in the jungle. 

We have thought a lot about our outdoor environment and nature during lockdowns with many of us enjoying our country walks. In class we have been learning about the importance of the rainforest so we linked these 2 ideas together to create our own, multi coloured prints.  

I only have a 1 photos I’m afraid as my hands have been covered in printing ink most of the day!  Final pieces will be photographed tomorrow when they are dry. 

This afternoon we took a bit of time out to enjoy some reading in the sunshine, tennis and finished off with a ice pop. 

On Monday we make our own art shirts, take a look, can you find inspirational messages or try and spot a rainbow or 2! 

Arts Week Wednesday, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 27th May 2021 @ 5:55pm

Here are our final canvases. They look amazing, the children selected the design they wanted and used rainbow colours. 

We also made a group fluid art painting.

 

Arts week day 4, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 27th May 2021 @ 3:59pm

Today we have been thinking about what life has been like during covid. We are making a time capsule of our art work and our ideas so it will be interesting to open in a few years and remember what our lives were like!

We also finished off our superhero capes and transformed into superheroes!

This afternoon we made a self portrait with a face mask, which opened to show what we think we are like, this will go in our time capsule too.

Thursday Art, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 27th May 2021 @ 3:32pm

This week we have focused on two artists, Norman Adams a British artist who used a lot of water colour to paint rainbows and today we have looked at Gaudi and visited Barcelona!

We looked at the tiles and mosaics that enhance the buildings in Barcelona and we have had a go at tiling the toadstools that live in the garden and then making Gaudi style minibeasts using egg shells. Plus lots of other fun too, take another sneaky peek x x x 

Wednesday Art, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 26th May 2021 @ 4:13pm

Here is  alittle bit more of what we are up to.....

Arts week 3, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 26th May 2021 @ 3:40pm

Today we designed our own Superhero, we thought about what it meant, what powers they would have.

Then we designed a cape and made it using fabric paints, next the mask and then the wris5 band.Tomorrow we transform!!

Digi art fun this afternoon in the style of Mondrian?

Arts Week Day 3, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 26th May 2021 @ 1:49pm

Another wonderful day of Art in Year 2.

This morning the children's morning task was to draw a heart and write words in and around it to depict what thoughts it eveoked in them. We then went on to look at some Covid window art by looking at a window of Hope in Rochester. We used this as a stimulus and created a page of hearts ready to put onto acetate sheets to make our own window. The children traced round their shapes using permanent markers and then added colour and some patterns. They are now on display on our classroom windows. Whilst this was going on we made a start with our rainbow weaving and sewing birds of hope.

This afternoon the children have used pixel art in computing, have done French and then some more art with a visiting teacher.

 

Arts Week Day 2, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 25th May 2021 @ 7:21pm

Today started with an activity they asked to do as their morning starter. As the children came in Sing, the song we started to learn yesterday was playing. The children got out their art books and began to use symbols to show what they could hear and feel,using a technique from ealier in the year when they had Mrs May for Art.

Work then continued making clay pots, completing weaving boards and finishing work based on Claire Baxter's Rainbow of Hope. Whilst all of this was giing on the children used fabric pens to decorate their arts week t shirts.

After play we watched an online art lesson to learn how to use dip pens and ink to draw. We used the ink and pens to have a go at creating different types of lines and shapes. Next we looked at the book The Boy the Mole the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy. As we looked at the pictures we discussed the techniques he had used. We then looked at his work Hope in readiness to create our own Hope pictures in his style.

We finished the morning by singing Sing and listening to the story A Child's Garden - a story of hope by Michael Foreman.

After luch some of us began to draw what we thought a covid germ might look like whilst groups of children worked with Mrs Richards to use pastels and ink to create their own Hope pieces in the style of Charlie Mackesy. 

Our last activity was to begin filling in our covid booklets to put in our time capsule.

We spent some time makung a list of everything we have done so far this week. We were amazed by how much we have done and the new skills we are learning.

 

Arts Week Tuesday, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 25th May 2021 @ 6:26pm

Today we have been preparing for our printing day on Thursday and using acrylic paint to create a rainbow themed canvas.  Here are a few photos.  We will post our final creations later in the week.  

Art week, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 25th May 2021 @ 4:37pm

We are reading the book, 'When the World Made a Rainbow.' From this book we are doing all of our art work. We are making and creating rainbows. Take a little sneak peek so far.....

Windmill fun!, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 25th May 2021 @ 3:27pm

Busy busy!

Arts week day 2, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 25th May 2021 @ 3:24pm

Today we have been painting rainbows but we had to mix some colours using red, yellow and blue.Then we had to paint our rainbows in shades, making them darker or lighter.This afternoon we designed our windows of hope - they look amazingly!

A big thank you  to Robin who came in today to help us make our windmills for our planter at the front of school. We loved drilling , hammering and sawing.

Rainbow trees, by Mr Pearson

Date: 25th May 2021 @ 10:36am

We have been using pointillism style to draw our rainbows.

Royal Mail Hero stamp design competition, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 24th May 2021 @ 9:41pm

All competition entries ready to post off.

Can  you see who the hero is?

P.E., by Mrs Catterall

Date: 24th May 2021 @ 9:10pm

Although it’s Arts week the children still wanted their P.E. Lesson. Who can blame them -starting the day with physical exercise -perfect.

hop, skip and jump

balancing a bean bag on your head

throwing a bean bag into buckets.

skipping ropes.

Class compliment, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 24th May 2021 @ 9:04pm

We had a lovely afternoon despite the rain.  We played games inside, built Lego models and some children opted for making fairy cakes and chocolate cornflake cakes which they shared with everyone at the end of the day.   Well done Elephants, fingers crossed we can earn some more stars and have an outdoor afternoon before the end of the year. Keep shining brightly and I know we will. 

Arts Week Day 1, by Mrs Fletcher

Date: 24th May 2021 @ 7:24pm

It has been a wonderful opening day to Ats Week. The children started by creating a stamp for The Royal Mail Covid Hero competition. There are some amazing entries. Next job was to design a template using the word HOPE to put on the front of their Arts Week T shirts tomorrow. Work also began on the sky background for our rainbow weaving.

This afternoon  we looked at a piece of art called Rainbow of Hope by the artist Claire Baxter and the children then worked hard to work in her style to create their own Rainbows of Hope.

To tie in with our theme hope and the Big Ask we have started to learn the song written by Garry Barlow for the Queen's Diamond Jubiilee, Sing. Look out for a video performance later in the week.

Keep your eye on Twitter tomorrow for action shots as they happen. 

Arts week , day 1, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 24th May 2021 @ 4:21pm

A great start to Arts week, we designed our own pattern to print onto our T-shirts, they look brilliant!This afternoon we used clay to make a rainbow, harder than we thought! We are going to let them dry out and then mix the colours to paint them .

First day of Arts Week 2021, by Mr Pearson

Date: 24th May 2021 @ 11:52am

First task in Arts Week, design and paint the T- shirt

Swimming, by Mr Pearson

Date: 23rd May 2021 @ 3:07pm

Meerkats don't forget your swimming kit tomorrow morning, try to get into school for 8.30.

Compliment fun., by Mrs Pratten

Date: 21st May 2021 @ 4:20pm

Despite the rain the Pandas had an amazing afternoon scooting around the playground and track. We had a drink and some treats (thanks Emma??) and a little bit of Tom and Jerry.

Exploring materials, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 21st May 2021 @ 4:14pm

Yesterday we enjoyed being scientists again, exploring and sorting materials. We worked in teams to sort the materials into 2 groups.After a few goes we set up one and all the groups visited and had to guess how we had sorted them. Some of them were tricky!!

Another new instrument, by Mr Pearson

Date: 21st May 2021 @ 3:02pm

Summer Week Five, by Mr Kennedy

Date: 18th May 2021 @ 8:20am

Week 5 Summer term

 

Maths: in maths this week we were using protractors to measure accurate angles. Earlier in the week, we were learning what statistics are and working on our reasoning.

 

English: In English, we did our big write on our story gorilla and then practised some SPaG (Spelling, Punctuation and grammar) and our comprehension skills.

 

History: In history, we have been studying the English civil war when Oliver Cromwell was alive and his impact on the war and how some of the events were much local than we first thought! Like The Battle of Preston which took place in the now known, Walton-Le-Dale.

PE: In PE this week we were learning how to improve our accuracy in Tennis and rallies.

 

Drama: In drama this week we tried to make a piece based on the Victorian ages.

 

Art: In art, we were starting to start the process of making our own mindfulness robots.

 

Computing: In computing, we were finishing off our coding game code monkey.

 

Oliver

Emilio

The Penguins